[News] Hero mum has leg bitten off by shark and bleeds to death while saving 5-year-old daughter

A young mother swimming off Mexico’s pacific coast was killed while saving her 5-year-old daughter from a shark, which bit off the woman’s leg, causing her to bleed out on the beach.
A distressing video was shared on social media showing the shark attack victim sprawled out on the sand in the town of Melaque on Saturday, Dec. 2,  after being carried from the Pacific Ocean to safety by rescuers.

“She’s lost her leg,” onlookers could be heard saying in the video.

 

The woman has been identified locally as 26-year-old Maria Fernandez Martinez Jimenez, a former marine biology student at the University of Guadalajara, who lived in the area in the western state of Jalisco.
Jimenez was in the ocean with her daughter when she apparently became aware of a shark in the water and rushed to boost the girl onto a floating play platform located 75 feet from the shore, said Rafael Araiza, the head of the local civil defense office.