Following a devastating shark attack that claimed the life of a Russian person on Thursday, Egyptian authorities have prohibited swimming near a beach at an Egyptian Red Sea resort, according to Egyptian and Russian officials.
The event happened at Hurghada, a well-liked tourist destination on Egypt’s eastern coast.
A Russian citizen who was born in 1999 “died as a result of a shark attack,” Russian Consul-General Viktor Voropayev told Russia’s state-run TASS news.
TASS, Voropayev stated, “This has been confirmed by Egypt’s competent authorities.”
According to a statement issued by Egypt’s Environment Ministry, Yasmine Fouad, Minister of the Environment, directed a team to look into the event.
She also gave instructions to local officials to “implement the highest levels of safety for those who go to the Red Sea beaches” and to “take all feasible measures to avoid a recurrence of the shark attack incident again,” according to a statement.
Beginning on Friday, the Environment Ministry imposed a two-day ban on swimming, snorkeling, and all other water sports in the region between Gouna, to the north of Hurghada, and Soma Bay, to the south.
In the Egyptian Red Sea, there have been several similar instances during the previous several years.
According to the Egyptian Ministry of Environment, two ladies perished in shark attacks in the Red Sea off Hurghada in 2022.
In shark attacks in 2020, a young Ukrainian child lost an arm and an Egyptian tour guide lost a leg. A Czech visitor was murdered by a shark off a Red Sea beach in 2018, claims the state-run Al-Ahram Online daily.