A German woman tourist was killed in a shark attack while snorkelling off Sharm el-Sheikh on Sunday, in the third shark attack in the Egyptian Red Sea resort in a week.
Mohammed Salem, director of South Sinai Conservation, said she died after a shark mauled her off Naama Bay, a day after Sharm el-Sheikh re-opened beaches following two other attacks in which Russians and a Ukrainian were mauled.
"There has been a death unfortunately. She was a German lady. We have taken everyone out of the water," he said.
Government conservation experts said on Friday they had captured two sharks, an oceanic whitetip and a mako, which they believed had mauled the Russian and Ukrainian swimmers last Tuesday and Wednesday.
The resort's mayor, Gamal al-Mahdi, told AFP the beaches were re-opened after authorities determined there was no further threat off the coast, which attracts between three and four million tourists a year.
However, an Egyptian NGO warned on Saturday that at least one of the sharks behind the attacks was still at large.
