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According to Bahamas authorities, a US visitor died on Monday after being attacked by a shark while on vacation there. The woman, 44, was paddle boarding off a resort on the island of New Providence, which is home to Nassau, the capital, and is also where the island of Boston is located.
According to Bahamas authorities, a US visitor died on Monday after being attacked by a shark while on vacation there. The woman, 44, was paddle boarding off a resort on the island of New Providence, which is home to Nassau, the capital, and is also where the island of Boston is located. According to a news release from the Royal Bahamas Police Force, a lifeguard carried the woman and a male relative she was with to shore and administered CPR. As stated in the statement, “the victim suffered significant trauma to the right side of her body,” and medical personnel pronounced her deceased. Police did not name the resort. There is currently an investigation underway. Shark attacks are uncommon both there and elsewhere; according to the International Shark Attack File, a database kept up-to-date by the Florida Museum of Natural History in the The database shows that since 1580, there have been 33 unprovoked attacks in the Bahamas.
