The injured persons were Danish and German tourists, Ministry of Interior said in a statement.
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Earlier, Reuters reported that gunmen arrived from the sea to carry out the attack at Bella Vista Hotel near the downtown area of Hurghada.
Shoot out… The Bella Vista Hotel and Resort in Hurghada has come under fire. The wounded attacker was arrested, according to security officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media. The Egyptian health ministry said that at least one person had died.
Police officers subsequently chased the assailants, arresting one, Egyptian police told Ma’an.
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 forces are still searching for possible further attackers.
He died at the scene but the second man was wounded and detained at the four-star Red Sea resort.
The attackers penetrated the Hurghada hotel through its restaurant, which had a street entrance, and threatened tourists with a cold weapon.
The country’s Ministry of Interior identified the slain attacker as 21-year-old Mohammed Hassan Mohammed Mahfouz, a student from Cairo’s neighborhood of Giza.
However, Russia and Western governments have said the airliner was probably brought down by a bomb.
The same Islamic State affiliate that is based in the Sinai peninsula, and responsible for the recent attacks on neighboring resorts, is the said group to have downed a Russian plane back in October of 2015, which took the lives of 224 individuals.
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Nine Egyptians were sentenced in November to life in prison for their involvement in that failed attack, while two others were jailed for seven years.
