An American woman visiting Turks and Caicos is hospitalized in serious condition after being attacked by a shark while snorkeling, police said. A resort employee said the woman 'had her leg bitten off by a shark.'
An American woman visiting Turks and Caicos is hospitalized in serious condition after being attacked by a shark while snorkeling, police said.on Wednesday night, the Royal Turks and Caicos Islands Police Force said that the unidentified woman, 22, was from Connecticut.
According to additional police reports, she and a friend were snorkeling on Providenciales, the third-largest island in the country, in an area near the Blue Haven Resort. However the resort told CBS News the woman was "staying at another resort, on another boat, nowhere near our resort or marina." It's not clear how the two escaped the shark and returned to shore. Police said that a resort employee called the police around 3:07 p.m. local time to request an ambulance.The woman was transported to the Cheshire Hall Medical Centre, also on Providenciales, where she remains in what police described as serious condition. recording only 57 unprovoked shark bites in the world last year. Of those, five were fatal.
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