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Very terrible as two Australian tourist and a Swedish tourist was killed by two assailants

Two assailants have stormed the entrance to a

hotel in the Egyptian city of Hurghada, before
attacking and injuring three tourists with knives,
security sources have said. The assailants
arrived by sea to launch the assault, according
to security sources
The two attackers wounded two Austrian
tourists and a Swedish tourist at the four-star
beachside Bella Vista Hotel in the Red Sea
resort city, according to Egypt’s Interior
Ministry.
Officials say police opened fire at the attackers,
killing at least one.
Egypt's Interior Ministry identified the slain
attacker as 21-year-old Mohammed Hassan
Mohammed Mahfouz, a student from Cairo's
neighborhood of Giza. It said both attackers
carried knives and pellet guns.
All three wounded tourists have been taken to
hospital, where one was treated and
discharged, a ministry state The condition of
the other two tourists was not made clear,
however Health Ministry spokesman, Khaled
Megahed, described the condition of all three as
"not serious".
A member of the hotel's management staff,
who witnessed the incident, said the attackers
entered the Bella Vista from a hotel next door,
accessing the facility from the beach.
He added the slain attacker attempted to take a
female tourist hostage by dragging her into the
hotel's lobby with his knife held against her
neck, before he was shot dead by policement
said.
Security sources previously said the two
attackers were armed with a gun, knife and a
suicide belt, injuring one tourist from Denmark
and one from Germany.
It comes after the militant group Isis said on
Friday that an attack on Israeli tourists in Cairo
on Thursday was carried out by its fighters in
response to a call by the group's leader, Abu
Bakr al-Baghdadi, to target Jews "everywhere".
Security sources said those tourists were Israeli
Arabs. No one was was hurt and Egyptian
authorities said the attack was focused on
security forces.
A Russian passenger plane crashed in Sinai on
31 October, killing all 224 people on board,
most of whom were tourists returning home
from the Red Sea resort of Sharm al-Sheikh.
Cairo says it has found no evidence of terrorism
in the crash. Russia and Western governments
have said the airliner was probably brought
down by a bomb, and Islamic State said it had
smuggled explosives on board.

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