A woman who was killed in a horror shark attack at a popular beach has been named as Elisabeth Sauer. The 68-year-old, from Austria, died following the terrifying encounter at the Egyptian resort Sahl Hasheesh on Friday.
Elisabeth told her partner, an Austrian of Egyptian descent, "I'll go back in for a moment", and was seen walking in shallow water while using a snorkel with fins not far from the beach.The Mirror reports that Elisabeth is believed to have one daughter an she severed as a local councillor between 1998 and 2004.
Horrific footage showed a woman desperately trying to swimming back to a pier after an arm and leg were bitten off.Onlookers tried to distract the predator, which is believed to be either a Mako or a Oceanic whitetip shark, but no one jumped in to help her.
It has been reported that she died from 'painful shock' - most likely a heart attack.Just 650ft away another woman was killed hours earlier.Her identity has not been revealed but she is believed to have been a Romanian tourist who was staying at the adults only five star hotel, Premiere Le Reve.Her lifeless body was pulled out of the sea after being located on a reef, according to eyewitnesses.The same unnamed Russian tourist who filmed the aftermath of the first attack posted a new video showing the location of the second fatal incident.Using his finger to explain, he said: “This is a small lagoon where we saw [the shark] for the first time.
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