They said security forces had killed the attacker wearing the suicide bomb, and that one of the injured was from Denmark and the other from Germany.
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Three tourists, a Swedish and two Austrians, were injured in an attack on a hotel in Egypt’s Hurghada city late on Friday, media reports quoted Tourism Minister Hisham Zaazou as saying.
The Islamic State group claimed credit for that attack, which they said targeted “Jewish” tourists.
The attack came within hours after the local affiliate of the Islamic State claimed responsibility for an attack on a hotel in Cairo near the Giza Pyramids, a day earlier. The official says they suffered shallow wounds.
The Sun reports that three men waving a black flag stormed the Bella Vista Hotel in the Egyptian coastal town of Hurghada. Both attackers, it said, carried knives and pellet guns.
The identity of the assailants was not immediately clear but Egypt has been roiled by mainly jihadist violence since the army ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi in 2013.
Security sources said those tourists were Israeli Arabs.
The Islamic State group on Friday claimed responsibility for that attack.
The city of Hurghada is a main tourist center and the third largest city in Egypt, with a population estimated at 250,000, located on the Red Sea coast.
The resorts which Egypt promoted as jewels of its tourism industry have attracted millions of holidaymakers, including Russians, Britons and Italians, and are famed for their pristine beaches and scuba diving. The Egyptian government has also been accused of human rights abuses – including handing down mass death sentences to political rivals, often belonging to the Brotherhood.
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According to the BBC, authorities have gone to great lengths to secure Egypt’s Red Sea resorts ever since bombers attacked the resort of Sharm el-Sheikh in 2005, which sits between the desert of the Sinai Peninsula and the Red Sea.
