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Africa North
Egypt hotel attack: One attacker killed, other wounded
2016-01-09
(CNN)Two men with knives attacked at least three guests and threatened others at a hotel in the Egyptian coastal city of Hurghada, the country's Ministry of Interior said Friday.

Security forces stationed at the hotel confronted the men as they tried to escape, killing one and seriously wounding the other, according to the ministry's Facebook page.

Previous reporting indicated the men may have had guns, but the Interior Ministry said each man had a knife and a "sound gun," which does not shoot bullets, according to the ministry.

Two Austrian tourists and a Swedish tourist were stabbed as the attackers were fleeing. The maimed were sent to a hospital and one was was treated and released.

There were no details on the conditions of the others.

The attack took place at the Bella Vista Hotel in the city's busy downtown area, state-run news agency
...and if you can't believe the state-run news agency who can you believe?...
al-Ahram reported.

Hurghada is a resort town along Egypt's Red Sea coast, located about 280 miles (451 kilometers) from Cairo.
This is the second hotel attack on the second day in a row. Yesterday 15-20 miscreants shot up and threw flares and molotov cocktails at a tour bus from Israel carrying what Al Ahram politely referrred to as "1948 Arabs", those who stayed rather than fled to become Palestinians. Nobody was hurt, and the Egyptian authorities played down the incident. This morning Ansar Bayt al Maqdis/ISIS in the Sinai claimed to have inspired that attack on what they fondly believed to have been "the Jews".
Ynet adds:
The assailants arrived by sea to carry out the assault, the sources said.
While according to Al Ahram:
Both men were able to enter the hotel through a restaurant facing the street, according to the police statement.
Fog of reporting, I guess.
Posted by:Fred

#2  Shot down within seconds.


Your Hebrew rent-a-cop tends towards efficienct
Posted by: Shipman   2016-01-09 23:16  

#1  Al Ahram has an update today, as follows (it's not important enough to post tomorrow as an independent article):

It is still unclear what motivated the two attackers to stab three European tourists inside the Bella Vista hotel on the Red Sea; authorities have ruled out terror as a reason

A stabbing at a hotel in Egypt's Hurghada on Friday which injured three tourists “didn't take more than four minutes,” Bella Vista hotel's administration said on Saturday, playing down the incident and blaming media outlets for reporting otherwise.
"Two drugged young men attacked one of our hotel restaurants,” read the statement, posted on the hotel's Facebook page.

The attackers carried a "fake gun" and "knives," and one attacker "used his knife trying to stab some of our guests,” the statement added, repeating the same story released by the interior ministry on Friday following the attack.

"Our security and the hotel police man [sic] dealt immediately within seconds with the 2 attackers and shot them down."

One of the guests had left hospital two hours after the attack and the other two were still recovering, Bella Vista said.

The hotel's Saturday account came amid conflicting media and official reports about the details of the incident, with some media outlets reporting the assailants carried firearms and used them at the hotel. It was also reported that one of them wore an explosive belt.

"Any other rumors or news more than the above is nonsense and crap," the hotel statement added. "Most probably is to make propaganda that will affect the tourism in Egypt badly [sic], and that was the main aim."
Posted by: trailing wife   2016-01-09 20:57  

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