A German tourist died after a severe injury occurred just outside Spain’s Canary Islands. A 30-year-old was swimming next to a British-flagged catamaran on Monday when a shark attacked her and took her leg.

A 30-year-old tourist from Germany visiting the Canary Islands died after she was attacked by a shark while swimming next to her catamaran.

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.

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.

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,