CANARY ISLANDS, Spain (WKRC) - A 30-year-old woman lost a leg from a shark attack and later died. The tourist was sailing off Spain's Canary Islands on Monday when she was bitten by a shark and died of a heart attack in a helicopter while being taken to a hospital, according to CBS News.

A 30-year-old tourist from Germany visiting the Canary Islands died after she was attacked by a shark while swimming next to her catamaran.

A German tourist has died after a shark bit off her leg in the Atlantic south of the Canary Islands, the first death caused by a shark attack in the waters around the islands in history.Spanish authorities dispatched an air force helicopter to rescue the woman,