- Unidentified man was bathing with others in the water at Guardalavaca Beach
- But the 22-year-old then started screaming: ‘Get me, a shark is biting me’
- Onlookers wrestled the man free but he had sustained a gaping wound to the leg
- The victim died in hospital having lost more than a fifth of his blood supply
A swimmer has been mauled to death by a shark just 10ft from the beach at a holiday hotspot in Cuba, it has emerged.
The unidentified 22-year-old was bathing with others in the water at Guardalavaca Beach when he started screaming for help.
Friends hit the shark with a bottle and managed to wrestle the man out of the shark’s jaws after he was heard shouting: ‘Get me, a shark is biting me.’
A swimmer has been mauled to death by a shark just 10ft from Guardalavaca beach (pictured) in Cuba, it has emerged
The unidentified 22-year-old was bathing with others in the water at Guardalavaca Beach when he was attacked by a shark (file picture)
But he had sustained a gaping wound in his left thigh and died after taken to a hospital in the eastern province of Holguin.
Doctor Enrique Remedios told the news site Ahora: ‘Unfortunately, the young man died within a few minutes as his condition was very serious.
‘He had a wide and deep bite of a marine animal on his left thigh which might have affected his femoral artery.’
Onlookers at the beach (file picture) hit the shark with a bottle and managed to wrestle the man out of the shark’s jaws after he was heard shouting: ‘Get me, a shark is biting me’
By the time he arrived at hospital, the swimmer had lost more than a fifth of his blood supply, according to local reports.
The exact species of shark that carried out the attack has not yet been identified.
It is thought that this was the first fatal shark attack in Cuba for 60 years.
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