[AA.TR] Six female tourists were stabbed Friday on a resort beach in eastern Egypt, the Interior Ministry said in a statement.
"Security authorities of the Red Sea directorate jugged
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a person who attacked a number of tourists with a knife on a beach of one of the hotels in the city of Hurghada," the ministry said.
"The incident resulted in the injury of six female tourists of different nationalities who were transferred to a hospital for treatment," the statement read.
According to preliminary reports, the assailant may have swum from a public beach and snuck into the resort beach.
Security sources in Hurghada security directorate told al-Ahram Arabic's correspondent in the city that the suspect was named as Abdel-Rahman Shams El-Din, 28, an Egyptian from the Nile Delta governorate of Kafr El-Sheikh.
Al-Ahram named the resort where events took place as Sunny Days Palacio.
A security official said the attacker, a man in his 20s dressed in a black T-shirt and jeans, wielded a knife and intentionally sought to attack foreigners.
"Stay away, I don’t want Egyptians," the assailant had said in Arabic during the attack, according to the official. |