A German tourist died after a severe injury occurred just outside Spain’s Canary Islands. A 30-year-old was swimming next to a British-flagged catamaran on Monday when a shark attacked her and took her leg.

The German woman was traveling as a crew member on the Dalliance Chichester catamaran A German woman died after she was attacked by a shark in the Atlantic Ocean between Spain's Canary Islands and West Africa on Monday,

A WOMAN has died after being attacked by a shark on a British-flagged catamaran as she was rushed to a hospital in the Canary Islands. The 30-year-old German lost her fight for life in a Spanish

A German tourist has died after a shark bit off her leg in the Atlantic south of the Canary Islands, the first death caused by a shark attack in the waters around the islands in history. Spanish authorities dispatched an air force helicopter to rescue the woman, but she died while on board as it travelled to one of the archipelago’s hospitals.

A German tourist died this week after losing her leg in a horrific, rare shark attack near the Canary Islands; the Spanish archipelago off the northwest coast of Africa known for being a popular year-round travel destination.