Minnesota woman dies following shark attack in U.S. Virgin Islands

(NBC News) A Minnesota woman died in the U.S. Virgin Islands after a shark ripped her arm off on Thursday and a Utah nurse frantically swam to her side to nearly save her, officials said.

First responders on the island of St. Croix were called at about 4:28 p.m. local time with reports of “a female who was suspected to be bitten by a shark at Dorsch Beach,” according to a Virgin Islands Police Department statement.

Firefighters “confirmed that the female lost an arm during the attack” and she “later succumbed to her injures,” police said.

The victim was identified as 56-year-old Arlene Lillis of Detroit Lakes, in northwest Minnesota near the border with North Dakota. ....................(more)

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