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Police bosses were alerted after a video clip appeared on social media showing couples using padlocks to profess their love along the corniche of the Red Sea city.

The craze imitates a phenomenon in Europe, which started on Paris’ Pont Des Arts bridge over the Seine, where couples snap padlocks onto bridges.

Angry citizens have taken to social media to express their disgust.