An uproar among the inhabitants was the cause of a shark attack in the city of Hurghada, in Egypt.

A video shows a Russian bather struggling to rid himself of the animal’s attack in the Red Sea, but his efforts were futile.

Egypt’s environment ministry said the person responsible for the man’s death was a tiger shark.

Russian Consul General Viktor Voropayev told the official TASS news agency that Egyptian authorities have 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.

The Egyptian ministry said the animal was captured and that the analysis revealed “abnormal behavior (…) that caused the incident”.

Although the presence of sharks in the Red Sea is not exceptional, they rarely attack swimmers. 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.