Russian man devoured by a tiger shark in Egypt, people watched as the terrible event unfolded

Russian man devoured by a tiger shark in Egypt, people watched as the terrible event unfolded. 

“It’s eating his remains now,” one eyewitness said. It’s eating his remains now,” one witness who filmed the incident can be heard saying. 

Egypt’s environment ministry reported on Facebook that a tiger shark was responsible for the man’s death near the Elysees Dream Beach hotel at the popular Egyptian resort of Hurghada.

Egypt's Environment Ministry said the man was killed after being attacked by a tiger shark in the waters near the city of Hurghada. Authorities closed off a 46-mile stretch of the coastline, announcing it will remain off-limits until Sunday.

The ministry later said it had caught the shark and was examining it in a laboratory to try and determine the reasons for the rare attack.

Popov’s girlfriend reportedly managed to escape the water unscathed.

Bystanders claimed they tried to help Popov — to no avail.

“It happened in a second. Rescuers reacted very quickly. For some reason, I immediately felt that it was a shark. I immediately jumped up and started shouting: ‘Sharks, sharks! Save yourself!’ Nobody understood yet,” a witness told Russia station REN-TV.

A video circulating online, purportedly of the attack, shows a man thrashing about in the water before being attacked by a shark circling around him, before being dragged under.

Shark attacks are rare in the Red Sea coastal regions. However, in 2022 there were two attacks in Hurghada within days that killed an Austrian and a Romanian tourist.

Egypt's Red Sea resorts, including Hurghada and Sharm el-Sheikh, are some of the country's most renowned destinations and are popular with European tourists. Divers are attracted by the steep drop-offs of coral reefs just offshore, which offer rich and colorful sea life.