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    Horror as female tourist’s hands are bitten off by shark yards from Caribbean beach after she ‘tried to engage the 6ft predator to take a picture’

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    By ELENA SALVONI

    Published: 10:17 EST, 14 February 2025 | Updated: 10:24 EST, 14 February 2025

    A tourist has been savagely attacked by a shark off a Caribbean beach, amid reports that the victim lost both her hands as her husband tried to fight the beast off.

    The woman, believed to be a Canadian national, had been enjoying a holiday to the Turks and Caicos islands when the bloody attack happened last Friday.

    She was just a few yards from the shore when the predator struck, according to reports.

    The 55-year-old had been wading in the shallows as she ‘attempted to engage’ with the animal and take a picture of it, according to local authorities. 

    Witnesses said the woman’s family were nearby at the time and that her husband had bravely tried to stop the shark from biting her again.

    Harrowing pictures show a crowd gathered around the injured woman after she made it back to the beach, with cloths being held onto her arms as they apparently try to stem the bleeding. 

    The beast was estimated to be around 6ft in length, the local government said, adding that the species has not yet to be confirmed.

    Meanwhile eerie footage taken by a tourist at a beachside villa show a shark thrashing about in the shallow waters nearby. 

    Horror as female tourist’s hands are bitten off by shark yards from Caribbean beach after she ‘tried to engage the 6ft predator to take a picture’

    Shocking pictures show people who appear to be the woman’s family helping to stem the blood flow as she lies injured on the beach

    Eerie footage taken from a beachside villa and shared by a tourist shows a shark thrashing about in the shallow waters nearby

    Eerie footage taken from a beachside villa and shared by a tourist shows a shark thrashing about in the shallow waters nearby

    ‘I was there for 40 minutes and it was still lingering,’ one witness told a local news site following the bloody attack.

    A man claiming to be a relative of the woman said she was able to walk back to shore after being bitten. She was bitten in the thigh, he added, but did not lose her leg. 

    At the same time her husband desperately tried to fight off the shark, witnesses said, as it continued to circle and tried to bite the woman again.

    Police and environmental officials confirmed the attack which occurred in the waters off Thompson’s Cove Beach in central Providenciales at around 10.30 am on Friday, February 7.

    They advised the public to remain out of the ocean until the all-clear was issued.

    Royal Turks and Caicos Police said that medical personnel and cops were dispatched to the scene near the neighbourhood of Blue Hills, Providenciales.

    They added that the victim was brought ashore and rushed to the Cheshire Hall Medical Centre for treatment.

    The woman reportedly had one of her hands amputated at the wrist and the other mid-way down her forearm, and is now said to be receiving medical care back in Canada.

    Shark bites in the waters off the Turks and Caicos islands are relatively rare, with only one unprovoked attack reported last year which was non-fatal, according to Florida Museum of Natural History’s International Shark Attack File (ISAF).

    The habitat around the islands is home to multiple types of sharks, including grey reef sharks, nurse sharks, tiger sharks, bull sharks, and hammerhead sharks.

    Royal Turks and Caicos Police said that medical personnel and cops were dispatched to the scene in Blue Hills, Providenciales

    Royal Turks and Caicos Police said that medical personnel and cops were dispatched to the scene in Blue Hills, Providenciales

    The ISAF said in a statement this week that ‘2024 was an exceptionally calm year for shark bites. Worldwide, there were only 47 unprovoked attacks, down 22 from the previous year and well below the 10-year average of 70.’

    Turks and Caicos was a British colonial possession and at various times was governed as part of Jamaica or the Bahamas.

    It has had its own government since 1976 and was officially labelled a British Overseas Territory in 2002.

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