The video showed Friday’s gruesome attack on one of the victims, a 68-year-old Austrian woman — with one viewer bluntly admitting, “The king will die,” the Times of Israel reported. The woman and a Romanian woman in her 40s were found separately mutilated less than half a mile from each other near the popular tourist area of Sahl Hasheesh. The older victim was swimming near the resort when the Mako shark struck, ripping off one of her arms and a leg, the outlet reported. The video shows the sick woman swimming away from the shark and towards tourists who threw her a flotation device as the water filled with blood. Tourists complained about the lack of lifeguards during the horror. Once he was brought to safety, resuscitation efforts were made, but he was taken to hospital and died. A 68-year-old tourist from Austria was photographed seconds after a shark attack in Hurghada, Egypt.social media/e2w A source told Reuters the Austrian had been living in Egypt for five years with her Egyptian husband. Austria’s foreign ministry confirmed to AFP “the death of an Austrian citizen in Egypt” without giving further details. The identity of the second victim has not yet been confirmed. Red Sea Governor Amr Hanafi ordered the closure of all beaches in the region for three days after the attacks. Desperate tourists on a pier at a Hurghada hotel in Egypt try to help the woman who was attacked by a shark. social media/e2w The identity of the second victim has not yet been confirmed. social media/e2w Shark attacks are considered rare in the area, but have been occurring more and more in recent years. A 12-year-old Ukrainian tourist lost his arm and leg in an attack in 2020. In 2018, a Czech tourist was killed by a shark on a Red Sea beach. A similar attack killed a German tourist in 2015. In 2010, a series of five attacks in five days unusually close to the coast of the tourist spot of Sharm el-Sheikh killed one German and injured four other foreign tourists. With Post cables
