Horror as woman killed in shark attack after sailing on catamaran from Canary Islands

The woman reportedly had her leg bitten off by a shark (STOCK IMAGE)
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A woman has died after being attacked by a shark on a catamaran that had sailed out into the Atlantic Ocean from the Canary Islands.

The German national, aged 30, tragically lost her life in a Spanish Air Force helicopter as she was being transported to a Gran Canaria hospital.

She was officially pronounced dead after arriving at Doctor Negrin Hospital in the Gran Canaria capital Las Palmas on September 16.

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The woman reportedly had her leg bitten off by the shark as she was on a catamaran in international waters 278 miles south-west of Gran Canaria’s airport and around 110 miles east of the city of Dakhla in the disputed territory of Western Sahara, which is currently occupied by Morocco.'

The catamaran she was a crew member of has been named as British-flagged vessel Dalliance Chichester, which had left the Spanish holiday island on September 14, reports the Mirror.

Spanish Coastguards are said to have informed their Moroccan counterparts as well as UK coastguards because of the origin of the catamaran.

But according to local reports, Moroccan authorities refused to transfer the injured woman to Rabat for emergency medical treatment.

The unnamed woman was pronounced dead yesterday just after 11pm after going into cardiac arrest in the Spanish military chopper. The horror attack is understood to have happened around 4pm the same day.

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