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Will Stewart & Graeme Murray

Tourist dies after losing arm and leg in horrific shark attack at popular resort

A tourist has died after 'losing arm and leg in horrific shark attack at popular Egyptian resort.

The Austrian woman, 68, later died in an ambulance from “shock” after the Red Sea horror.

Chilling video footage shows her desperately swimming back to shore after “losing an arm and leg” in the attack at the resort popular with British tourists.

Videos were filmed by watching Russian tourists who bemoaned the lack of lifeguards or rescuers.

The woman’s blood was seen in the water as she struggled - wearing a flipper - to make her way back to a pier.

A large crowd watched the drama but no-one was seen entering the water to help the woman.

Onlookers on the beach were shocked at the Red Sea resort (Social media/east2west news)
The woman was seen trying to swim back to shore (Social media/east2west news)

Other reports say tourists rushed out of the water when the woman was attacked and tried to “distract the shark from the victim”.

The incident was at Sahl Hasheesh, a popular bay on the Red Sea coast of Egypt, close to Hurghada.

The victim was evidently married to an Egyptian man and lived with him in the country.

Russian witnesses saw that she had lost an arm but did not mention a severed leg.

One said: “People are rushing out of the sea.

“There's no ambulance, there's no-one helping her.

“She's got no arm - up to her elbow.

“The shark grabbed her and twisted her around.”

On one video watching Russians are heard saying: “Where are the rescuers? F***, she's covered in blood. The shark bit her arm off.

“Where's the rescue team? Where's the shark? Lifeguards? Where are the lifeguards?

“She's going to f***ing die.”

The woman made it to the shore but then died apparently from extreme shock caused by pain from the vicious attack.

"Doctors fought for her life for a long time, giving her cardiopulmonary resuscitation, but she could not be saved," said one account.

In the wake of the Friday attack, swimming, diving, snorkelling and fishing from the Sahl Hasheesh area to Makadi Bay was prohibited for three days, said local reports.

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