The woman, who lost both of her hands, was flown off the island to receive medical care, according to the Turks and Caicos government.

A moving story comes from the Caribbean, where a Canadian woman in her 50s who was traveling on the Caribbean island has lost both her hands after being attacked by a shark. The to

Canadian tourist Nathalie Ross, 55, is recovering in Canada after a shark attack in the Turks and Caicos Islands that resulted in the loss of both her hands and a chunk of her thigh.

A tourist is thought to have lost both her hands in a shark attack after trying to ‘engage’ with the animal for a photo. The Canadian woman, named locally as Nathalie Ross, 55, was attacked in shallow waters off Thompson’s Cove Beach on the Turks and Caicos Islands in the Caribbean at around 10.30am on February 7.

The woman was flown off the island to receive medical care, according to the Turks and Caicos government. Read more at straitstimes.com.

A Canadian tourist, Nathalie Ross, suffered a horrific shark attack while trying to take a photo with the animal in

A Canadian woman “attempted to engage with the animal from the shallows in an attempt to take photographs,” the territory’s environmental department said.

While on what was supposed to be a relaxing vacation, my sister-in-law and her husband, my brother, lived what can only be described as a nightmare,” Al Chevarie,said.

A 55-year-old tourist visiting Turks and Caicos lost both hands to a shark attack after reportedly trying to grab the shark to pose with it just off a