After a shark attack on tourists in Marsa Alam...the environment responds

A tourist died and another was injured on Sunday after a shark attack north of Marsa Alam in Egypt's Red Sea Governorate, forcing authorities to close the area and ban swimming for two days.

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In this context, the Egyptian Ministry of Environment issued a statement announcing the raising of the state of readiness and immediate follow-up in the Red Sea reserves to follow up on the incident of a shark attack in deep waters outside the swimming area in the North Marsa Alam area.

The Ministry received a report that two foreigners were attacked by a shark in the North Marsa Alam area, which resulted in the injury of one of them and the death of the other.

It is worth noting that a medical source in the Red Sea Governorate confirmed that the health condition of the Italian tourist injured in the shark attack incident in the Shaab Satayeh area, north of Marsa Alam, is stable. The source explained that the injured person, who is 69 years old, is receiving the necessary treatment under intensive medical supervision, indicating that his injury is minor and does not pose any danger to his life.

Shark attacks in Egypt Shark attacks in Egypt are fairly rare, but the Red Sea is home to more than 44 species of fish, some of which are deadly.

A French tourist was killed after a shark attack, and she is believed to have bled to death on the beach after being injured in the water in one of her legs, in Marsa Alam, Red Sea Governorate, in June 2009.

A 70-year-old German tourist was killed and 4 Russian tourists were seriously injured in 3 shark attacks in the tourist city of Sharm el-Sheikh, in late 2010.

A German tourist in his fifties was killed after being attacked by a shark while swimming during a sea trip in the tourist city of Quseir, overlooking the Red Sea, in the southeast of the country, in 2015.

The remains of a Czech tourist were found on a beach in Marsa Alam, after an official confirmed that he had decided to swim in an area where there were sharks, in 2018.

Two tourists lost their lives in Hurghada, Red Sea Governorate, after a shark attack while they were swimming, in July 2022.

Naguib Sawiris' comment on the death of a tourist Businessman Naguib Sawiris commented on the death of a tourist and the injury of another due to a shark attack in Marsa Alam

Businessman Naguib Sawiris wrote on his official account on the X platform that the cause of the accident was due to commercial fishing boats that dump their waste into the sea, stressing the need to prevent commercial fishing in this tourist area.

Businessman Naguib Sawiris pointed out that the return from tourism is more important than the boats that destroy coral reefs and target small fish without controls.