- A 23-year-old Russian man was killed by a shark at Egypt's Red Sea resort town of Hurghada.
- His father said he watched helplessly as the "meat grinder" animal killed his son in 20 seconds.
- A video of the attack shows the man shouting "Papa" as the shark circles, close to a tourist beach.
The father of the 23-year-old man killed by a shark in Egypt described the moment he helplessly watched his son being mauled to death.
"We went to the beach to relax," Yury Popov, originally from Russia, told the Telegram news outlet 112. "My son was attacked by a shark. It all happened in seconds."
A video of the attack shows his son, Vladimir, flailing in the water and calling out "Papa!" as the shark circles him. People on the beach can be heard screaming in horror. Another video showed people swimming in the water, racing to escape the horrific scene.
Popov said that the situation was all the more shocking as it happened at what appeared to be a safe beach among ships and yachts.
"What kind of help can you give? This meat grinder happened in 20 seconds. He was just dragged under the water," Popov said.
The Egyptian environment ministry confirmed that a man had been killed by a tiger shark in the Red Sea resort town of Hurghada on Thursday.
Vladimir had moved to Hurghada with his father and bought an apartment a few months prior, according to the Russian outlet Baza.
Some reports claimed that Vladimir's girlfriend escaped the waters and witnessed the attack from the beach, but this has not been confirmed.
Other videos show the animal being captured and taken to shore.
The tiger shark commonly reaches 10-14 feet in length and weighs 850-1,400 pounds.
Egypt's environment ministry said that the shark would be studied as it had displayed "abnormal behavior," and researchers would try to determine whether the animal was linked to previous shark attacks.
There were two deadly shark attacks in Hurghada last year, as a Romanian woman and an Austrian woman were killed within days of each other near the area.
Shark attacks on humans are rare. There were just 57 unprovoked shark bites worldwide last year, of which five were fatal, according to the University of Florida's International Shark Attack File.
Sharks have been known to attack humans when confused or curious, and scientists have said there is no objective evidence that sharks bite humans because they want to eat them.