A Russian man was killed in a shark attack Thursday off the Egyptian Red Sea town of Hurghada, authorities said.
“A shark attack on a man (…) caused his death,” the Egyptian Ministry of the Environment said on Facebook, without giving further details.
Russian Consul General Viktor Voropayev told the country’s official TASS news agency that Egyptian authorities confirmed the death of a Russian citizen born in 1999.
“The victim was not a tourist, but a permanent resident of Egypt,” he told the agency.
In a video broadcast on social networks and presented as evidence of the incident, a person is seen struggling to escape the shark.
The Egyptian ministry said the animal was captured and that its analysis revealed “abnormal behavior (…) that caused the incident.”
The Red Sea is a major tourist destination in Egypt. The presence of sharks is not exceptional, but they rarely attack bathers.
Even so, there are similar precedents such as two tourists, an Austrian and a Romanian, who died in July 2022 near Hurghada.
Shark attacks also killed a Czech woman in the Red Sea in 2018 and two Germans in 2010 and 2015.
