In a horrific development, a Russian tourist was mauled to death at the popular Egyptian resort of Hurghada by a 'man-eating' Shark. The 23-year-old Russian man was eaten alive by a shark in front of his father who desperately screamed and pleaded for help from everyone nearby. Egypt's Environment Ministry confirmed the development and said that the man was killed after being mauled by a tiger shark in the waters near Hurghada on Thursday. Notably, people who were present at the spot started filming the video and now the Russian man shark attack video is breaking the internet. Hurghada shark attack video is spreading like wildfire on social media and sending chills down the spine with netizens drawing a parallel to the famous Hollywood movie Jaws.
In the Hurghada shark attack video, it can be seen the Russian man screamed for his father as he was being pulled underwater by the shark several times. The man, believed to be Vladimir Popov, was killed by a tiger shark in the waters when he was out on a swim. His distraught girlfriend managed to escape. It is pertinent to mention here that 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. It is pertinent to mention here that shark attacks are rare in Red Sea coastal regions, although there were two attacks just days apart last year in Hurghada that killed an Austrian and a Romanian tourist.
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Jaws was just a movie, right?
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Tourists visiting the popular Egyptian resort of Hurghada [Africa] watched a man get eaten alive by a shark just feet away from a crowded beach. pic.twitter.com/CpmaPdQpGC
What is Jaws?
For the unversed, Jaws is a classic Hollywood movie directed by Steven Spielberg, based on the 1974 novel by Peter Benchley. It is a fictional story that revolves around deadly shark attacks. It stars Roy Scheider as police chief Martin Brody, who, with the help of a marine biologist (Richard Dreyfuss) and a professional shark hunter (Robert Shaw), hunts a man-eating great white shark that attacks beachgoers at a summer resort town. Murray Hamilton plays the mayor, and Lorraine Gary portrays Brody's wife. The screenplay is credited to Benchley, who wrote the first drafts, and actor-writer Carl Gottlieb, who rewrote the script during principal photography.