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Spanish court opens investigation into fatal shark attack off Canary Islands

German woman was travelling on UK-flagged catamaran when incident happened, says Spain’s rescue service

A court in Spain has opened an investigation into the death of a German woman who died after being attacked by a shark while sailing 270 nautical miles (500km) off the Canary Islands on Tuesday.

According to the country’s maritime rescue service, Salvamento Marítimo, the 30-year-old woman was travelling on the British-flagged catamaran Dalliance Chichester about 110 miles west of the Western Saharan city of Dakhla when the attack happened just before 4pm local time.

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