Female tourist has hands bitten off by a shark in the Caribbean sea

A female tourist is thought to have lost both her hands in a shark - (Shutterstock / Harry Collins Photography)

A woman has reportedly lost both of her hands after she was attacked by a shark off a Caribbean beach.

The Canadian woman, named locally as Nathalie Ross, was attacked in shallow waters off Thompson’s Cove Beach on the Turks and Caicos Islands on February 7.