3 tourists wounded in attack at Egypt Red Sea hotel

Renata and Wilhelm Weisslein, both 72, and Sammie Olovsson, 27, were in stable condition Saturday, an Egyptian hospital official told the Associated Press.

Three tourists stabbed by suspected Isis terrorists at an Egyptian beach resort are being treated for their injuries after the second attack on hotels in the country in two days.

Security forces opened fire on the assailants, killing one and injuring the other, who was subsequently arrested.

On Thursday a bus of Israeli tourists was attacked near Giza’s pyramids but nobody was injured.

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.

Two Austrians and a Swede were wounded by two men stormed the beachside Bella Vista hotel in Hurghada on Friday night, reportedly raising an Isis flag.

Egypt’s Tourism Minister Hisham Zazou said the assailants appeared to have been acting alone, while the hotel described them as “drugged young men”. “I thought they came from outside”.

Hurghada (pictured above) is a popular destination for Egyptian tourism, located on the seaside coast of the Red Sea.

The assailants used explosives to remotely blow up the pipeline at Al-Midan area, about 15 km from the entrance of Arish city, the source said, expecting the perpetrators belong to the Sinai-based Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis (ABM) militant group, which has changed its name to “Sinai State” and declared loyalty to the regional IS militant group.

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 so-called Islamic State (IS) group said it was behind the attack.

In September, eight Mexican tourists were mistakenly killed by Egyptian security forces in the vast Western Desert.

The country’s tourism industry was dealt several blows in 2015. “Attacks targeting foreigners can’t be ruled out”.

The Egyptian interior ministry again sought to reassure the public over the incident, claiming that security guards, rather than tourists, were the intended target and that at least one attacker was in custody.

The militants have killed hundreds of soldiers and policemen since the military toppled Islamist president Mohamed Morsi in 2013 and cracked down on his followers.