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.

And pretty tragically, this woman had her hands bitten off by a shark after she reportedly ‘tried to take a photo of the animal ’. Named in local reports as Nathalie Ross, the Canadian was in the shallow waters off Thompson’s Cove Beach on the Turks and Caicos Island in the morning of 7 February when the attack took place.

A 55-year-old tourist was injured last weekend in Turks and Caicos after "attempt[ing] to engage" with and "take photographs" of a six-foot shark.