<div><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Egypt's Red Sea Governorate issued an order to shut down several Red Sea beaches on Friday after a 68-year-old Austrian woman was killed in a shark attack earlier that day, off the coast of Sahl Hasheesh, according to two security sources.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The victim was transferred to a local private hospital right after the attack, a source at the Red Sea Health Affairs Directorate told Reuters. </div><div><br></div><div>He added that there were attempts to resuscitate her, but she died due to circulatory failure, which is a sudden drop in blood pressure resulting from her injuries and blood loss.</div><div><br></div><div>A security source also added that the woman had been living in Egypt over the past five years with her Egyptian husband. - Reuters </div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>