Gunmen open fire at hotel in Egyptian resort of Hurghada

Gunmen have stormed a hotel in the Red Sea city of Hurghada, one of Egypt’s most popular tourist resorts, wounding three foreign tourists.

The attack took place at Bella Vista Hotel on Friday, Ahram Online reported. 

The Egyptian Interior Ministry said that three foreign tourists – two Austrians and one Swede – were injured in the attack.

Security sources told Reuters that the assailants arrived by sea to carry out the attack.

State television reported that Egyptian security forces killed one of the gunmen.

There have been no official reports on casualties so far.

The latest assault comes as shortly after Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) claimed responsibility for a Thursday attack on Israeli tourists in Cairo. Last month, IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi called on supporters to target Jews “everywhere.”

There were no further casualties, Egyptian authorities reported, adding that the assailants had been trying to target security forces, not the tourists. Security sources told Reuters that in fact the tourists were Israeli Arabs.

In October last year, a Russian A321 passenger jet was downed by a bomb over the Sinai peninsula, killing 224 people. IS claimed responsibility for the attack.
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