Ballet dancer’s legs amputated after Bahamas boat fire

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RUTLAND, Vt. — A Vermont woman who relatives say used to be avid ballet dancer had both her lower legs amputated after suffering serious injuries in a deadly Bahamas tour boat explosion.

Twenty-two-year-old Stephanie Schaffer was among nine people injured when the boat exploded Saturday , killing a U.S. citizen.

Graphic video: A female American tourist is dead and several others are injured after a boat explosion off the coast of the town of Barraterre, off the island of Exuma, Bahamas.

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The Rutland Herald reports she also suffered two broken arms, a fractured spine and internal injuries. Her mother was also injured.

Family and friends are now trying to help the mother and daughter.

Authorities in the Bahamas are working to determine what caused the fire minutes into a day trip around the small islands near Great Exuma.

The U.S. Coast Guard airlifted four Americans to Florida for treatment while six people were treated in Nassau.

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