A 68-year-old woman who was killed in a shark attack at a popular Egyptian tourist beach has been named.
Elisabeth Sauer, from Austria, was seen walking in shallow water while using a snorkel with fins not far from the beach.
She told her partner, an Austrian of Egyptian descent, "I'll go back in for a moment".
Elisabeth, who was a local councillor from 1998 to 2004, is believed to have one daughter.
H orrific 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. And we didn’t realise it was a shark. The attack I filmed [earlier] was here” - he points towards the pier. “And the body of the second woman was pulled out approximately here.”
The Ministry of the Environment announced today that an expert group was investigating the attacks, which are seen as rare in the area.
According to Reuters, the first victim was transferred to a local private hospital where there were attempts to resuscitate her, but she died from her injuries.
Hundreds of tourists had seen the first attack on the Austrian woman who had been snorkelling, wearing flippers when she was attacked in the water.
They complained there were no lifeguards as swimmers fled the sea.
“We ask Russian citizens to remain vigilant when in the water, and strictly follow the bans imposed by the Egyptian authorities on swimming, diving and fishing on the high seas and off the coast,” tourists were told by their consulate-general in Hurghada.
They were told to “strictly observe the signals from hotel employees and the coast guards”.
