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Swedish tourist hurt in Egypt hotel attack leaves hospital: medics

Two elderly Austrian tourists were among three foreigners injured in a stabbing at a luxury hotel in Egypt’s Red Sea resort of Hurghada. Both news organizations cited Egyptian security officials.

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The extremist group’s Egypt affiliate is waging an insurgency in the Sinai Peninsula, and dealt a body blow to the country’s tourism industry by claiming to have downed the Russian airliner in October, killing all the holidaymakers on board.

A hotel on Egypt’s Red Sea coast came under attack Friday, leaving three European tourists wounded before the security forces shot dead an assailant and wounded another.

Police colonel Ali Ahmed Fahmy and conscript Ramadan al-Burhami were killed as they made their way to work in Giza’s Shabramant district, the Ministry of Interior said in a statement on Saturday.

The Bella Vista hotel in Hurghada is popular among foreign tourists.

In Jerusalem, Foreign Ministry spokesman Alon Lavi confirmed the bus that was hit was in use by a group of visiting Arab Israelis, but said no one was inside the bus at the time of the incident, and that no Israelis were hurt.

Hundreds of security force members and government personnel have been killed, with attacks creeping closer to the capital Cairo.

It’s not clear how many many people were injured in the attack. 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”.

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.

Egyptian tourism minister Hicham Zazou says he will visit Hurghada on Saturday where gun men attacked tourists on Friday.

Years of violence in Egypt have been a heavy blow to Egypt’s tourism sector.

Since then, important tourist operators have eliminated packages to Sharm el-Sheikh and Hurghada, and Russian Federation itself cancelled all flights to and from Egypt.

The account was in line with statements from the Egyptian Interior Ministry, which reportedly recorded the attack as a criminal offence, rather than terror attack, and said the men carried only knives and a “pellet gun”.

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There was no word on the condition of the other two.

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