Shark killed two tourist women, one from Austria and the other from Romania, in Egypt on Monday.
Meanwhile, the third woman was injured in another attack by Shark in Egypt.
According to environment ministry of Egypt, Shark attacked tourists off the coast of Egypt. Tourist women were swimming in the sea when a shark attacked them and killed them in the Sahl Hasheesh area south of Hurghada on the Red Sea, the Egyptian ministry said.
The 68-year-old woman from Austria was from the country’s Tyrol region, who was enjoying vacations in Egypt while Romania’s foreign ministry confirmed the death of a Romanian citizen, caused by a “shark attack” off Hurghada.
Red Sea Governor Amr Hanafi had ordered the immediate closure of all beaches in the area for three days after another Austrian tourist had her left arm torn off in a shark attack.
A task force is working to “identify the scientific causes and circumstances of the attack” and determine “the reasons behind the shark’s behaviour that resulted in the incident”, the environment ministry said on Sunday.
The Red Sea is a popular tourist destination, where sharks are common but rarely attack people swimming within authorised limits.
In 2018, a Czech tourist was killed by a shark off a Red Sea beach. A similar attack killed a German tourist in 2015.
In 2010, a spate of five attacks in five days unusually close to the shore of tourist hotspot Sharm el-Sheikh killed one German and injured four other foreign tourists.
