A German tourist who was sailing in a British catamaran off Spain's Canary Islands is dead following a shark attack while she was swimming. CBS News reports the 30-year-old had been in the water next to the catamaran when the shark bit off one of her legs on Monday.

CANARY ISLANDS, Spain (WKRC) - A 30-year-old woman lost a leg from a shark attack and later died. The tourist was sailing off Spain's Canary Islands on Monday when she was bitten by a shark and died of a heart attack in a helicopter while being taken to a hospital, according to CBS News.

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 following a shark attack in the Atlantic Ocean near the Canary Islands, a Spanish archipelago off the northwest coast of Africa. The 31-year-old German national lost a leg in the attack,

A German woman who initially survived a shark attack that ripped off her leg has died in a hospital, according to CNN. The attack occurred on Monday 319 miles south-southwest of Gran Canaria, one of the Canary Islands—a Spanish archipelago close to the northwest coast of Africa.

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,

A woman has died after losing a leg in a shark attack in international waters near Gran Canaria, according to reports.