Terrorist attack in Egypt, tourists hurt

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Gunmen opened fire at the entrance of a hotel in the Egyptian Red Sea resort city of Hurghada this evening, wounding two foreign tourists, security sources said.

One of the injured was from Denmark and the other from Germany, the sources said. Security forces repelled the assault after killing one of the gunmen who was wearing a suicide bomb belt.

Gunmen open fire on hotel used by tourists in Egypt

The attackers had arrived by sea to launch the onslaught on the beachside Bella Vista Hotel, security sources said.

No one has claimed the attack yet.

Source

(All info comes from Reuters via local security forces.)

[Benji 20,113]

Is it ongoing?

[Didymus 34,380]

1 minute ago, Benji said:

Is it ongoing?

An Arabic news channel says the gunmen have been shot (dead) and the suicide belt was destroyed. AP says only one gunman was killed and the tourists have been wounded by the men using knives instead of guns, so it's all still a bit confused.

What is fairly certain is that a Danish and a German tourist are wounded (no info about the state they're in) and at least one of the terrorists is killed.

[Didymus 34,380]

Now AFP is saying that the victims are two Austrians and a Swede

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Btw, I saw that no one here posted about the terrorist attack in Egypt yesterday: gunmen fired at Israeli tourists but no one got hurt. IS has claimed the attack.

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According to Al Jazeera both the attackers were killed and one German man and a Danish woman were both stabbed.