A tourist was attacked furiously by a shark of a Caribbean beach, in the midst of reports that the victim lost both hands when her husband tried to fight the beast.
The woman, supposed to be a Canadian subject, had enjoyed a holiday to the Turks and Caicos Islands when the bloody attack took place last Friday.
She was only a few meters from the coast when the predator struck, according to reports.
The 55-year-old waded in the shallow, while she 'tried' to involve the animal and take a picture of it, according to the local authorities.
Witnesses said that the woman's family was in the area at the time and that her husband had bravely tried to prevent the shark from biting her again.
Moving photos show a crowd that gathered around the wounded woman after she came back to the beach, held with cloths on her arms while they apparently try to steal the bleeding.
The beast was estimated at about 6ft long, the local government said, adding that the species is not yet known. Failure reports online have suggested that it was a bull shark.
In the meantime, creepy images taken by a tourist in a villa on the beach, a shark that floods in the shallow waters in the neighborhood.
Shocking photos show people who seem to be the woman's family who help stop blood flow while being injured on the beach
Creepy images taken from a villa on the beach and shared by a tourist shows a shark that pours around in the shallow water nearby
“I was there for 40 minutes and it still persisted,” a witness told a local news site after the bloody attack.
A man who claimed to be a family member of the woman said she could walk back to the coast after she was 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 the shark, said witnesses, circling and tried to bite the woman again.
Police and environmental officials confirmed the attack that took place in the waters of Thompson's Cove Beach in Central Providenciales around 10.30 am on Friday 7 February.
They advised the public to stay out of the ocean until it was completely clear.
The police of Royal Turks and the police of Caicos said that medical staff and police were sent to the scene near the neighborhood of Blue Hills, Providenciales.
They added that the victim was brought ashore and hurried to the Cheshire Hall Medical Center for treatment.
Allegedly the woman had amputated one of her hands at the wrist and the other halfway through her forearm, and is now being said that he received medical care in Canada.
Failure reports online have suggested that it was a bull shark (photo) that the woman attacked on Friday
Shark Bites in the Waters Off The Turks and Caicos Islands are relatively rare, with only one non-laid out attack that was reported last year that was non-Fatal, according to the International Shark Attack File (ISAF) of Florida Museum of Natural History (ISAF ).
In 2023, an American woman let her foot bitten by a shark while he closed the archipelago.
The 22-year-old, from Connecticut, celebrated her graduation at Yale University with her friend on the island when the horror attack took place, a local source told DailyMail.com.
Tragically enough, her foot could not be confirmed again because an emergency plane lasted six hours to arrive.
Royal Turks and the police of Caicos said that medical staff and police officers were sent to the scene in Blue Hills, Providenciales
The habitat around the islands is the home of several types of sharks, including gray reef sharks, nurse sharks, tiger sharks, bull sharks and hammer sharks.
The ISAF said this week in a statement that '2024 was an exceptionally quiet year for shark bites. Worldwide there were only 47 unprecated attacks, 22 of the previous year and far below the average of 10 years of 70. '
Turks and Caicos were a British colonial possession and was controlled at different times as part of Jamaica or the Bahamas.
It has had its own government since 1976 and in 2002 officially received a British overseas territory.
