A 46-MILE stretch of shoreline has been shut in Egypt after a vacationer was mauled to loss of life by a 10ft tiger shark within the Purple Sea.
Authorities in Hurghada mentioned the ocean will stay off limits with a ban on swimming, snorkelling and different water sports activities till Sunday.
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Vladimir Popov, 23, from Russia, was dragged below the water and killed by the “meat grinder” shark off the coast of the resort metropolis on Thursday.
Popov’s distraught dad Yury watched from the shore as his son desperately screamed “papa, papa” whereas the predator pounced on him.
Stunning footage later confirmed the beast being hauled out of the ocean on a small boat earlier than being dumped on the seashore and brutally crushed.
Egypt’s atmosphere ministry mentioned a workforce had captured the shark “to examine it” – saying it had displayed “irregular behaviour”.
Following the deadly assault, the ministry introduced a two-day ban on water actions beginning on Friday.
The UK Overseas Workplace recommendation states: “Whereas uncommon, there have been a variety of shark assaults involving vacationers within the Purple Sea area.”
And the Russian consulate urged vacationers to be vigilant within the water and follow any swimming bans imposed by native authorities.
Egypt’s Purple Sea resorts, together with Hurghada and Sharm el-Sheikh, are well-liked with European vacationers.
Sharks are widespread within the space – and there have been a variety of assaults lately.
But in July final 12 months, two ladies had been mauled to loss of life by a shark inside 600 metres of one another close to Hurghada.
A 68-year-old feminine vacationer died after dropping an arm and a leg in an assault whereas swimming within the sea.
Two days later a Romanian lady was additionally discovered lifeless after a shark assault.
Specialists consider the killer shark behind two deadly assaults on swimmers in Egypt was “sex-crazed”.
Specialists from the Purple Sea protectorates and Hurghada Environmental Safety and Conservation Affiliation mentioned the assaults may have been linked to the mating and egg-laying season.
It happens from mid-April to the top of July and may trigger sharks to behave violently.
Male sharks turn into so aggressive that the females will usually keep away from them after mating, whereas alphas are additionally recognized to battle with one another for breeding rights, in accordance with research.
Tiger sharks are among the many sharks most cited by the Worldwide Shark Assault File for unprovoked assaults on people.
In 2018, a Czech vacationer was killed by a shark off a Purple Sea seashore after an analogous assault killed a German vacationer in 2015.
And in 2010, a spate of 5 assaults in 5 days near the shore of vacationer hotspot Sharm el-Sheikh killed one German and injured 4 different overseas vacationers.
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