2010 Sharm El Sheikh shark attacks

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The 2010 Sharm El Sheikh shark attacks were a series of shark attacks on swimmers in the Red Sea at a tourist resort in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. One Ukrainian and three Russians were seriously injured within minutes of each other on 1 December 2010, before a German woman was killed while wading and snorkeling in the shallows close to the shoreline on 5 December. The attacks were described as "unprecedented" by shark experts. Beaches at the popular tourist resort were closed for over a week, dozens of suspected sharks were caught and killed, and the local government issued bans on shark feeding and restrictions on swimming. A variety of theories were proposed to explain the attacks, including overfishing in the Red Sea causing increased hunger and aggression in the sharks, as well as the illegal, intentional, or inadvertent feeding of fish close to shore which produces scents that attract sharks. Another theory considered that the dumping of sheep carcasses in the Red Sea by a livestock transport...

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