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Daily Mirror
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Will Stewart & Ryan Fahey

Lifeguards 'laughed at shark warnings from tourists minutes before fatal attack'

Lifeguards at a Red Sea resort where two women were killed by sharks laughed when English-speaking tourists told them the killer fish were circling beneath the waves.

One of the women, a Romanian national, went missing from her hotel two days before the attack, according to sources at the upmarket hotel.

If true, this means the authorities were slow to grasp the true peril faced by tourists in the popular Egyptian resort.

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