shark killed a woman at island of Reunion

The victim managed to free himself from pressing jaws, but in the hospital after she died.

Saint-Denis - twenty-year-woman died after she was off the coast of the French island of Réunion bitten in the leg and seriously injured shark. A resident of the island while according to eyewitnesses, swam with my boyfriend for two to three feet from the shore. Informed on the night of Sunday to AFP. Authorities to alert the Coast Guard.

Young couple bathed on Saturday at the beach L'Etang-Salé in the south, where bathing is classified as hazardous and prohibited. The shark grabbed the girl and tried to download it to the depths. The victim, however, resisted and managed to extricate from pressing jaws. The beach was given first aid and was taken to a hospital, where she died of a heart attack but.

Shark attack at Réunion over the past four years, the fourteenth, six of which resulted in the death swimmers. Emotions evoked particularly the case in July 2013. girl of fifteen killed when a shark when she was only five meters from the shore in Saint-Paul in the west of the island.

Réunion is an overseas department while overseas region of France. It lies in the Indian Ocean and its main revenues are dependent on tourism. The island is also one of the outermost regions of the European Union. At approximately 2,500 square kilometers, there are about 840,000 inhabitants.