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A tourist has been bitten by a shark while swimming off the popular winter holiday destination of Gran Canaria.  Victim Cristina Ojeda-Thies tweeted a photograph of the tooth-marks scarring her arm after she was treated in a hospital. But authorities are trying to play down the attack for fear that it would impact on tourism.

'Today I've had a face to face meeting with a shark,' tweeted Ms Ojeda-Thies. 'Things that happen when you swim in the Canaries in December.' 

Fernando Frias, President of the Canary Islands Shark Alliance which promotes shark conservation, called the incident a 'one-off'.

He added: 'I doubt something like this will happen again in the next 50 years so people shouldn't be afraid.' But a lot of people have termed the incident dangerous.