{"id":6879,"date":"2023-05-29T13:04:09","date_gmt":"2023-05-29T17:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/miaminewsnetwork.com\/?p=6879"},"modified":"2023-05-29T13:04:09","modified_gmt":"2023-05-29T17:04:09","slug":"shark-bites-off-us-womans-leg-in-turks-and-caicos-islands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miaminewsnetwork.com\/?p=6879","title":{"rendered":"Shark bites off US woman&#8217;s leg in Turks and Caicos Islands"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A 22-year-old woman has had her leg bitten off by a shark while snorkeling in the Caribbean.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The woman, who is from Connecticut in the US but has not been named, was taken to hospital in a serious condition on the Turks and Caicos Islands, police said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She and her friend were snorkeling outside the Blue Haven Resort near the Leeward Marina in Providenciales, one of the islands, when the attack happened just after 3pm on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stephanie Mack, a spokeswoman for the resort, said in a statement: &#8220;Our understanding is that she was the guest of another resort and the client of a boat excursion company, neither of which we are affiliated with nor located near.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police have said an employee of a resort near Leeward Marina had called officers about the shark attack and requested an ambulance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 22-year-old woman has had her leg bitten off by a shark while snorkeling in the Caribbean. The woman, who is from Connecticut in the US but has not been named, was taken to hospital in a serious condition on the Turks and Caicos Islands, police said. She and her friend were snorkeling outside the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6880,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[220],"tags":[2696,2698,2697,2699],"class_list":["post-6879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-bites-off","tag-shark","tag-turks-and-caicos-islands","tag-us-womans-leg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miaminewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/miaminewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/miaminewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miaminewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miaminewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6879"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/miaminewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6881,"href":"https:\/\/miaminewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6879\/revisions\/6881"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miaminewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miaminewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miaminewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miaminewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}