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16 August 2011
Last updated at 18:59 ET
A Briton has died in the Seychelles following what is understood to have been a shark attack.
The Foreign Office confirmed a British national had died in the Indian Ocean archipelago and it was giving consular assistance to the person's family.
The Daily Telegraph reported the victim was a 30-year-old man on his honeymoon, but this has not been confirmed.
Local police said the man was killed off Anse Lazio beach, on the island of Praslin.
Second attack A French national was reportedly killed by a shark off the same beach just over two weeks ago.
Local restaurant owner Jeanne Vargiolu said she went to the beach on Tuesday after hearing sirens and that police told her the man had lost one arm and had severe leg injuries.
"I saw his wife talking to about five people, I think one was English, that she still had hope he was still alive," she said. "They were trying to help him but they could not get him alive."
Ms Vargiolu said her family had lived on the beach for 36 years and the two shark attacks this month were the first she had seen.
"It must be the same shark that attacked 16 days ago," she said.
Police had said they would close the beach from Wednesday morning and were going "to put out a net to try and catch the shark tomorrow", she said.
An employee at the La Reserve hotel told the Press Association the man and his wife had been guests there.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge honeymooned in the Seychelles on North Island earlier this year.
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The Foreign Office confirmed a British national had died in the Indian Ocean archipelago and it was giving consular assistance to the person's family.
The Daily Telegraph reported the victim was a 30-year-old man on his honeymoon, but this has not been confirmed.
Local police said the man was killed off Anse Lazio beach, on the island of Praslin.
Second attack A French national was reportedly killed by a shark off the same beach just over two weeks ago.
Local restaurant owner Jeanne Vargiolu said she went to the beach on Tuesday after hearing sirens and that police told her the man had lost one arm and had severe leg injuries.
"I saw his wife talking to about five people, I think one was English, that she still had hope he was still alive," she said. "They were trying to help him but they could not get him alive."
Ms Vargiolu said her family had lived on the beach for 36 years and the two shark attacks this month were the first she had seen.
"It must be the same shark that attacked 16 days ago," she said.
Police had said they would close the beach from Wednesday morning and were going "to put out a net to try and catch the shark tomorrow", she said.
An employee at the La Reserve hotel told the Press Association the man and his wife had been guests there.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge honeymooned in the Seychelles on North Island earlier this year.
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