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shock on Red SeaIn Egypt. One in front of the Egyptian city of Hurghada shark attacked and killed a 23-year-old Russian citizen. “The victim was not a tourist but a permanent resident of Egypt,” Russian Consul General Viktor Voropayev told the TASS news agency. According to the Egyptian Environment Ministry, the cause of the attack was “abnormal behavior” by the shark, which was later caught.
Video – As the Guardian reports, the shark attack was captured on video and then shared on social media. In the video, the man can be seen swimming to escape the animal and then disappearing underwater.
The water features have been suspended – Local Egyptian authorities announced the death of the Russian. “A man was killed by a shark attack,” Egypt’s Environment Ministry wrote on Facebook, without giving further details. The same Dicastery has announced that swimming and water games will be suspended for at least two days.
previous – Sharks found in the Red Sea very rarely attack swimmers unless they exceed acceptable limits. In July 2022, two tourists died after a shark attack in the same area. One of the two victims was a 68-year-old Austrian who died of a heart attack after being approached by the animal. The other’s general information was not disclosed. In 2018, the same fate befell a Czech tourist on another Egyptian beach. A German was attacked in 2015 and a German five years earlier.