A young mother swimming off the coast of Mexico died while saving her 5-year-old daughter from a shark, which bit her leg off, causing her to bleed to death on the beach.
A distressing video was shared on social media over the weekend showing the shark attack victim lying on the sand in the town of Melaque on Saturday after rescuers carried her from the Pacific Ocean to safety.
Horrified onlookers could be heard shouting off-camera: “he’s lost his leg.”
The woman has been identified locally as María Fernández Martínez Jiménez, 26, a former marine biology student at the University of Guadalajara, who lived in the western state of Jalisco.
Jiménez was in the ocean with his daughter when he apparently noticed a shark in the water and rushed the girl to a floating play platform located 75 feet from the shore, said Rafael Araiza, head of the local office. of civil defense.
A young mother died Saturday from a shark bite while saving her 5-year-old daughter from the predator off the coast of Mexico. Twitter
The mother had just managed to get her 5-year-old daughter out of harm’s way when the predator attacked, clamping its jaws around her leg near her hip.
Despite the quick response of rescuers, Jiménez died from blood loss due to the huge wound, Ariaza confirmed. His daughter was unharmed.
It was not immediately known which species of shark was responsible for the fatal attack.
María Fernández Martínez Jiménez, 26, bled to death after the shark bit her leg. family brochure
The heartbreaking incident occurred while a swimming race was taking place nearby, Civil Protection officials from the municipality of Cihuatlán reported.
“Our officials were carrying out support activities during a swimming event in the bay when they received reports of a person having trouble getting out of the sea,” the statement reads. “When they arrived in the area they discovered a woman who was lifeless and had an amputated leg, apparently after a shark attack.”
Authorities closed the beaches of Melaque and the nearby town of Barra de Navidad to swimming as a precaution.
Rescuers brought the victim of the shark attack to shore, but were unable to save her due to severe blood loss. Twitter
Shark attacks are relatively rare in Mexico. In 2019, an American diver survived a shark bite to the forearm in Magdalena Bay off the coast of Baja California Sur.
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