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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Weekend Edition Africa Europe Latin America Middle East North America Shark attack kills German woman off Egypt's Sharm resort AFP - Monday, December 6 Send IM Story Print Shark attack kills German woman off Egypt's Sharm resort CAIRO (AFP) - – A shark mauled to death a German woman tourist snorkelling off Sharm el-Sheikh on Sunday, in the third shark attack in Egypt's popular Red Sea resort in a week, local officials said. Mohammed Salem, director of South Sinai Conservation, said the woman died after a shark attacked her in Naama Bay, only one day after Sharm el-Sheikh reopened its beaches following two other attacks in which Russians were mauled. "There has been a death unfortunately. She was a German lady. We have taken everyone out of the water," he said. Medical officials said the tourist -- identified as a woman in her 70s but whose name has not yet been released -- was pulled out of the water dead after the shark mauled her thigh and arm. Tourism Minister Zuhair Garana told AFP all the resort's beaches had been closed to swimmers, with the exception of Ras Mohammed, a nature preserve south of the city. The attack took place in waters facing the Hyatt Regency Hotel. "We are getting marine biologists from abroad to assess the situation and why there was this change in biological nature," said Garana, referring to the repeated attacks, which one expert called unprecedented. "This is unnatural. It has never happened before," he said. "We have no explanation." Government conservation experts said on Friday they captured two sharks, an oceanic whitetip and a mako, which they believed had mauled two Russian women swimmers last Tuesday and Wednesday. Government workers had dumped chum in the water to attract the sharks. The resort's mayor, Gamal al-Mahdi, told AFP the beaches were reopened after authorities deemed 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 thought to be behind the attacks was still at large. South Sinai governor Mohammed Shosha has said the sharks could have turned frenzied after a ship transporting livestock dumped dead sheep into the sea, while marine experts said overfishing may have forced them closer to shore. The string of attacks in Sharm el-Sheikh was "unprecedented," according to an shark expert Samuel Gruber, who heads Miami's Bimini Biological Field Station. "The shark in one day bit more than one person. In all my years reading about shark attacks and writing about them you never hear about sharks biting more than one person," he said, apart from feeding sprees on shipwreck survivors. "Then for it to happen the next day is almost like a 'Jaws' scenario," he said, referring to the 1975 iconic Hollywood movie about a killer great white. Gruber said finding the predator or predators would be extremely difficult. Salem said the first shark to have been captured, the oceanic whitetip, was identified as the same one filmed by divers just minutes before it surfaced to attack the snorkellers. The mako believed to have attacked swimmers on Wednesday was also recognised by witnesses, according to the South Sinai Conservation chief. But the Hurghada Environmental Protection and Conservation Association said on Saturday that the captured oceanic whitetip was a different one from the shark caught on tape. Statistics compiled by the International Shark Attack File reported 61 worldwide attacks in 2009, five of them fatal. 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