US shark experts head to Egypt to probe attacks

A team of top shark experts from the US was heading to Egypt Monday to help determine what is behind an unusual series of shark attacks that have killed one tourist, injured four others and cleared Red Sea beaches of swimmers.

Shark attacks at Egypt's Red Sea resorts, famed for their reef diving, are rare. The attacks on snorkelers and swimmers over the past week at Sharm el-Sheikh, on the southern tip of the Sinai Peninsula, are believed to involve two oceanic white-tip sharks, which normally do not get close to beaches. (AP)