Terrified Brits flee as shark spotted swimming in shallow water in Spain

Terrified tourists fled after a shark was spotted lurking in the waters off a Spanish beach.

"We were just on a family holiday for a few days in Malaga after I had my baby boy.

"A crowd started to gather on the beach whilst we were in the sea and I thought, ‘I don’t like that, I don’t like that’, because whenever a crowd gathers on the beach it usually means something is wrong.

"And then to my right I saw a tail fin. That’s when a lifeguard came out and he sort of went up and down for quite a while."

And despite some people claiming it was actually a turtle, she said it was clear was it was.

"When I saw that shark I thought, 'This can’t be real, like this doesn’t happen. We’re only in Spain and these are really shallow waters. It can’t be possible'," she recalled.

"There was a beach bar as well, the staff were coming down going, ‘Don't worry, it's just a turtle, you don't have to panic’.

"But it didn't really look like a turtle.

"We all saw that fin and everybody came out of the water, like nobody was brave enough to stay in with that."

Adding: "The shark didn't really show any interest towards us while we were in the water, which was good."

And while Emily tried to find out what kind of shark it was she saw, she's been unable to.

Responding to a comment on her video, she suggests it might have been the same one that was also spotted nearby.