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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The interior ministry said in a statement that the assailants tried to enter the hotel room from its restaurant.
An elderly Austrian couple and a young Swedish man were hospitalised after the assault Friday at the Bella Vista hotel in the Red Sea resort of Hurghada.
The men were armed with both knives and guns in the attack and Sammie was repeatedly attacked with a knife.
A local Islamic State affiliate in Egypt has claimed responsibility for an attack that killed two policemen in the country’s Giza province.
Security forces opened fire at the two assailants, killing one and seriously wounding the other, according to the ministry. A group of about 15 attackers fired birdshot and flares at the hotel’s security post. Although no terrorist group has formally claimed responsibility for the attack, according to eyewitnesses the terrorists were carrying the black Islamic State flag bearing white writing reproducing the Islamic creed, or Shahada, and shouting “Allah hu Akbbar”. “I thought they came from outside”.
The latest comments will be warmly welcomed in Egypt, which has been struggling to resume all flights from the United Kingdom back to the country after a Russian passenger plane crashed in North Sinai leaving all 224 passengers dead.
Years of violence in Egypt have been a heavy blow to Egypt’s tourism sector.
Also on Thursday, unknown assailants blew up a main natural gas pipeline near Arish city of Egypt’s restive North Sinai province bordering the Palestinian Gaza Strip and Israel, a security source told Xinhua.
Initial reports claimed there was gunfire, but it’s now believed that the attackers were armed with knives and lashed out at tourists eating in an outdoor restaurant.
“The welfare of the tourists visiting Egypt is of the greatest importance to us and will continue to be so”.
European tourists were wounded in a knife attack at a popular Red Sea resort one day after Israelis were targetted in Cairo.
A police investigator is seen through a smashed window at a hotel where gunmen attacked tourists in front of a hotel in Giza on Thursday. No one was injured in the attack.
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None was hurt and Egyptian authorities said the attack was aimed at security forces.
