A German woman died after she was attacked by a shark while swimming beside her catamaran in high seas between Spain's Canary Islands and West Africa, a police spokesperson said on Wednesday. The woman,

A kayaker in the Canary Islands used his paddle to fight off a hammerhead shark that persistently approached him. Juan José Afonso, from the island of La Palma, was fishing when the predator approached him just days after a fatal shark attack elsewhere in the waters off the Spanish archipelago.