CAIRO —
Two women, one Austrian and the other Romanian, were killed in a shark attack
this week off the coast of
Egypt, the country’s environment ministry and the
tourists’ respective foreign ministries said Sunday.
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“Two women were
attacked by a shark while swimming” in the Sahl Hasheesh area south of Hurghada
on the Red Sea, the Egyptian ministry said Sunday on Facebook, reporting that
both died.
Red Sea governor
Amr Hanafi had on Friday ordered the closure of all beaches in the area for
three days after “an Austrian tourist had her left arm torn off, seemingly in a
shark attack”.
Social media
users on Friday shared a video — the authenticity, date, and location of which
AFP could not independently verify — showing a swimmer struggling before what
appeared to be a pool of blood emerged around her.
A task force is
working to “identify the scientific causes and circumstances of the attack” and
determine “the reasons behind the shark’s behavior that resulted in the
incident”, the environment ministry said on Sunday.
In 2018, a Czech
tourist was killed by a shark off a Red Sea beach. A similar attack killed a
German tourist in 2015.
In 2010, a spate
of five attacks in five days unusually close to the shore of tourist hotspot
Sharm El-Sheikh killed one German and injured four other foreign tourists.
Egypt is
currently struggling to overcome rising inflation and currency weakness.
The country
relies heavily on tourism revenues from the Red Sea, which accounts for some 65
percent of tourists visiting the country.
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