A Russian killed in a shark attack on the beach in Egypt

A tiger shark killed a Russian man while swimming at an Egyptian beach crowded with people, including the man’s father, on Thursday, according to Russian media reports.

A video circulating online What appears to be of the attack shows a huge splash and commotion in the water as the man is dragged underneath, while terrified onlookers scream for help.

“Now he’s eating his leftovers,” a 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 in the popular Egyptian resort of Hurghada.

Russia’s consul general in Hurghada, Viktor Voropayev, told the local news agency TASS the victim is a 23-year-old Russian “V. Popov”, he said he was not a tourist, but had been living in Egypt for months. the Daily Beast reported

It was later revealed that his name was Vladimir Popov.

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

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

“It happened in a second. The lifeguards reacted very quickly. For some reason, I immediately felt that it was a shark. I immediately jumped up and started screaming: ‘Sharks, sharks! Save yourself to yourself!’ No one has understood yet,” a witness told the Russian broadcaster REN-TV.

“It’s a terrible thing, the remains of this guy are there. I’m shaking. Right in front of my eyes, the shark ate this guy. I think I need a drink. I feel so bad,” said one woman Base Telegram channel.

Authorities say the shark was captured and taken to a lab “for examination and all information necessary to determine the possible causes of the attack.”

Water activities in the area were restricted until Sunday.

Shark attacks are rare in coastal regions of the Red Sea, although there were two attacks within days of each other last year in Hurghada that killed an Austrian and a Romanian tourist.

In accordance with National GeographicTiger sharks are second only to great whites in attacking humans.

“But since they have an almost indiscriminate palate, they are not likely to swim away after biting a human, as great whites tend to do,” the outlet noted.