was a Russian citizen killed in shark attack Russia’s consulate general in the city and two Egyptian security sources said on Thursday near a beach in the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Hurghada.
Egypt’s environment ministry said in a statement posted on Facebook that a tiger the shark was responsible for the death of a beach-goer, without giving details of the victim.
Environment Minister, Yasmine Fouad, orders a team to capture SharkThe statement said that adding local The authorities had issued a two-day ban Swimming, snorkeling and other water sports activities at several beaches near the site of the attack.
The team was able to capture the tiger shark “to examine it to determine possible causes of its attack and to indicate whether it is the same fish that has caused previous accidents.”
A divers who reached immediately after the incident attack People rushed to help the victim after a lifeguard from a nearby hotel raised an alarm, but could not reach him in time, he said.
Russia’s TASS news agency said the person killed was a Russian man born in 1999 who had lived in Egypt full-time and was not a tourist.
In a statement posted on its official channel on the Telegram messaging application, the consulate urged Russian tourists to be cautious in the water and to strictly follow any swimming restrictions imposed by local authorities.
previous attack
According to CNN, similar incidents have happened in the Red Sea of Egypt.
In 2022, Egypt’s Red Sea governor issued an order to close several Red Sea beaches after a 68-year-old Austrian woman was killed in a shark attack off the coast of Sahl Hasheesh, according to two Egyptian security sources. Was.
Efforts were made to revive him, but he died of circulatory failure, a sudden drop in blood pressure as a result of his injuries and blood loss, according to a statement obtained by Reuters the Red Sea Directorate of Health Affairs.
Hours after the attack on the Austrian woman, a second body of a 40-year-old Romanian tourist was found. Both the attacks took place within 600 meters of each other.