The tiger shark which killed a Russian man, Vladimir Popov, in Egypt while he was swimming at a Red Sea resort beach last week, will be mummified and displayed in an Egyptian museum. The 23-year-old Russian national died in the shark attack Thursday, the incident which was caught in a disturbing video and surfaced online.
Specialists at the Institute of Marine Sciences and the Red Sea Reserves said that the embalming process (a surgical process in which the body fluids are replaced with chemical solutions) is underway so that the shark can be placed in the institute’s museum, the Independent reported.
The incident took place in Egypt's Hurghada city. The news agency Reuters confirmed that the person killed was a Russian, however he lived in Egypt full-time and was not a tourist.
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The gruesome attack had forced the Egyptian authorities to close off a 74-kilometre stretch of the coastline till Sunday. The shark was also caught by them and taken to a laboratory to examine the cause of the attack. The country’s environment ministry had also issued a statement in this regard.
Some of the victim's body parts were recovered inside the shark’s stomach, while some recovered from the sea, the Independent reported.
{{/usCountry}}Some of the victim's body parts were recovered inside the shark’s stomach, while some recovered from the sea, the Independent reported.
{{/usCountry}}At the time of the incident, the victim’s father was also present at the spot. The heart-wrenching video had captured the victim’s cry for help, as the witnesses watched the tragic event unfold before their eyes.
A total of 57 confirmed unprovoked cases of shark attacks took place globally in 2022, with the United States reporting the highest number at 41, followed by Australia, a report by Florida Museum of Natural History stated. Of these, five people died in the attacks.