Cairo-Sana
Two women were killed when they were attacked by a shark while they were swimming south of the Egyptian city of Hurghada on the Red Sea.
The Egyptian Ministry of Environment said in a statement today, published on its official Facebook page, that two women were attacked by a shark while practicing surface swimming in the area facing the Sahl Hasheesh resort, south of Hurghada.
The statement indicated that a specialized team is working to determine the causes of the accident.
The decision of the Governor of the Red Sea in the southeast of the country pointed to closing some beaches in the area where the accident occurred and not practicing any marine activities there for a period of three days, after monitoring the appearance of a mako shark in the vicinity of Sahl Hasheesh and the injury of an Austrian tourist with amputation in the left arm, claiming that he was injured by a fish. Shark.
Sharks live in the Red Sea, but they rarely attack tourists unless they exceed the permissible limits in the sea. In 2018, the remains of a Czech tourist's body were found on a beach in the city of Marsa Alam overlooking the Red Sea, after an official confirmed that the tourist decided to swim in an area where they are located. Sharks In 2015, a German tourist in his fifties was killed after a shark attacked him while he was swimming during a cruise in the southeastern tourist city of Qusayr, and in late 2010 a seventy-year-old German tourist was killed and four Russian tourists were seriously injured in three shark attacks in the tourist city of Sharm El-Sheikh.
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