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The body parts of a Russian tourist who was videotaped being eaten alive by a shark were recovered from inside the predator’s belly after it was clubbed to death by beachgoers near an Egyptian resort, the New York Post reported on Tuesday.

Vladimir Popov, 23, was caught on bone-chilling footage being attacked by a tiger shark last week and dragged underwater in Hurghada as he screamed for help.

The shark was later caught, and beach-goers beat it to death on the shore, the Post reported.

The shark has since been dissected by specialists, who confirmed that the animal was the one that ate Popov — after finding his remains in its intestines, local outlet Al Arabiya reported.

Officials said the shark attacked Popov while he was swimming in the Red Sea at a resort beach location in Hurghada, as was reported by the Post. Popov’s father Yury said the pair had “gone to the beach to relax” when all of a sudden, his son “was attacked by a shark,” CEN reported.

Popov was killed on Thursday, as was reported by Reuters.

Egypt’s Environment Ministry said in a statement posted on Facebook last week that a tiger shark was responsible for the death of a beachgoer, without giving details of the victim.

Reuters also reported that a team from the ministry and other authorities was able to capture the shark, the statement said, adding that local authorities last Thursday had issued a ban on swimming, snorkelling and other water sports activities on several beaches near the attack site.

Authorities closed off a 74-kilometer (46-mile) stretch of the coastline, announcing it will remain off-limits until Sunday, according to a report on the ABC News web site. The ministry also said that it was examining the shark in a laboratory to try and determine the reasons for the rare attack. Shark attacks are rare in the Red Sea coastal regions. However, in 2022, two fatal attacks in Hughada within days, killing an Austrian and a Romanian tourist, ABC News reported.

A diver who arrived on the scene just after the attack said people had rushed to help the victim after a lifeguard from a nearby hotel raised the alarm, Reuters reported, but were not able to reach him in time.

Russia’s TASS news agency said the person killed was a Russian man born in 1999 who lived in Egypt full-time and was not a tourist, according to the report on the Reuters web site.

In a statement posted on its official channel on the Telegram messaging application, the consulate urged Russian tourists to be vigilant when in the water, Reuters reported,  and to strictly adhere to any swimming bans imposed by local authorities.

A video circulating online, purportedly of the attack, shows a man thrashing about in the water before being repeatedly attacked by a shark circling around him, then being dragged under, ABC News also reported.

Egypt’s Red Sea resorts, including Hurghada and Sharm el-Sheikh, boast some of the country’s most renowned beach destinations and are popular with European tourists, according to the ABC News report. Tiger sharks are large species that reside in tropical and temperate waters and are among sharks most cited by the International Shark Attack File for unprovoked attacks on humans.