What we know about the Shark attack in Egypt

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Here is what we know about the Egypt shark attack and how many death cases are recorded.

A team from the ministry and other authorities was able to capture the shark, adding that local authorities had issued a ban on several beaches near the attack site.

A Russian citizen was killed in a shark attack near a beach at the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Hurghada, Russia’s Consulate General in the city and two Egyptian security sources said on Thursday.

• Egypt’s Environment Ministry said in a statement posted on Facebook that a tiger shark was responsible for the death of a beachgoer, without giving details of the victim.

Minister of Environment, Yasmine Fouad, order a team to capture the shark, the statement said, adding that local authorities had issued a two-day ban on swimming, snorkeling and other water sports activities on several beaches near the attack site.

• The team was able to capture the Tiger shark “to examine it to find out the possible reasons for its attack and to indicate whether is it the same fish that has caused previous accidents.”

A diver who arrived on the scene just after the attack said people had rushed to help the victim after a lifeguard from a nearby hotel raised the alarm, but were not able to reach him in time.

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• Russia’s TASS news agency said the person killed was a Russian man born in 1999 who 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 vigilant when in the water and to strictly adhere to any swimming bans imposed by local authorities.

Previous attacks

According to CNN, there have been similar incidents in the Egyptian Red Sea.

In 2022, Egypt’s Red Sea Governorate issued an order to shut down 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.

There were attempts to resuscitate her, but she died due to circulatory failure, which is a sudden drop in blood pressure resulting from her injuries and blood loss, according to a statement that Reuters got from the Red Sea Health Affairs Directorate.

• A second body of a Romanian tourist in her late 40s was discovered hours after the attack on the Austrian woman. Both attacks happened within 600 meters of each other.

Here is an English version from the Ministry of Environment concerning the shark attack in Egypt

Statement No. 2 from the Ministry of Environment

Dr. Yasmine Fouad, Minister of Environment, directed the work team specialized in managing the incident of a shark attack on one of the pioneers of the beaches of Hurghada, to implement all the policies applied globally to achieve the highest levels of safety for visitors to the Red Sea beaches and to take all possible measures to avoid the recurrence of the shark attack incident again. . In light of the observed abnormal behavior of the shark that caused the accident and the fact that previous incidents of attacks on humans by this type of shark had previously occurred, the specialized work team caught the fish that caused the accident to examine it to find out the possible reasons for its attack and to indicate whether it was It is the same fish that caused the previous incidents.

In this regard, the specialized work team at the Ministry of Environment, in cooperation with other competent authorities, succeeded in controlling the fish that caused the accident, and it was transferred to the laboratory for examination and to complete all the required information to determine the possible causes of the attack. This, and the Ministry of Environment will issue a statement on the results of the fish inspection work upon completion. And while the Ministry of Environment extends its sincere thanks and appreciation to the Governor of the Red Sea, Major General Amr Hanafi, the Institute of Marine Sciences, the HEPCA Association, the Fishermen’s Association in the Red Sea Governorate, and the competent state institutions that provided full support to the work team, which greatly reflected in the completion of assignments very efficiently.