A British tourist is in intensive care on a Caribbean island after being seriously injured in a shark attack.
The man, identified by local officials as a 64-year-old from Hertfordshire, was savaged 10 metres off the shore near the Starfish Hotel in Courland Bay, on the north coast of Tobago on Friday morning.
He sustained injuries to his left hand, left thigh, and stomach following the attack involving a bull shark estimated to be eight to 10 ft long and two ft wide, the Tobago House of Assembly said.
Chief Secretary Farley Augustine said in a Facebook press briefing on Friday evening that the man had been holidaying on the island with his wife and friends and had been due to fly home that day.
He went on: “Some reattachments were done, of fingers for example, and hopefully that will save those fingers.
“We know that there’s significant wounds on one of his legs that cannot be completely closed, but he will require…