2 assailants shot, at least 2 others wounded in Egyptian hotel attack

Egyptian officials said no-one was hurt in the attack, near Cairo.

The incident came hours after three foreign tourists were stabbed by suspected IS militants who stormed a hotel in the Red Sea resort of Hurghada on Friday.

According to the Associated Press security forces intervened and shot dead at least one of the attackers.

At this time, various reports have indicated that the tourists, which include two Austrians and one Swede, are stable.

Cairo has said it has found no evidence of terrorism in the crash, but Russian Federation and Western governments have said the airliner was probably brought down by a bomb, and Islamic State said it had smuggled explosives on board.

Mr Tipton said tourism is important to the Egyptian economy and the country goes out of its way to protect holidaymakers.

In the claim of responsibility the group said they carried out the attack because the group’s leader Abu-Bakr al-Baghdadi said that IS must attack the Jews “everywhere”.

The motives of the attackers in the latest attack appears unclear, with some claiming that the men had aimed to kidnap tourists while others stating that the men had been attempting a robbery.

Egypt’s interior ministry on Friday released a statement saying that two perpetrators executed the attack, naming Mohammed Hassan Mohammed Mahfouz – a student born in 1994 and a resident of Giza – as one of the attackers.

Attacks by Islamist militants have intensified since the ouster of Mubarak’s elected successor, Islamist President Mohamed Morsi, in a military takeover in 2013.

However, the IS group claims it killed more than two officers, but did not give an exact number.

The Islamic State affiliate has claimed it downed the aircraft with a bomb to avenge IS fighters and civilians killed in Russian airstrikes in Syria.

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.

The significant tourism sector in Egypt has endangered. The Egyptian Tourism Minister Hisham Zaazou is traveling to Hurghada Saturday to visit the injured tourists. One gunman was arrested at the scene and security forces surrounded the other attacker in another part of Cairo said security sources earlier.