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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Albert Toth

Bull shark bites off both hands of woman on beach ‘after she tried to take its picture’

The family of a woman who lost both her hands after being bitten by a shark on holiday has shared how the horrifying attack unfolded.

The 55-year-old Canadian woman was on a trip to the Turks and Caicos Islands with her husband when they “lived what can only be described as a nightmare,” brother-in-law Al Chavarie has said.

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