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Three tourists injured in Hurghada hotel attack - Egypt's interior ministry
Police officers wait in their vehicle in front of the damaged Cairo Security Directorate building, which includes police and state security, and Museum of Islamic Art building, after a bomb attack in downtown Cairo, January 24, 2014. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh
CAIRO, Jan. 8 (Aswat Masriya) – Two armed men stormed into a hotel in Hurgada leaving injuries among tourists, the Egypt's interior ministry said on Friday.
The attack left two Austrian tourists and a Swedish tourist injured, the ministry added in a statement published on its official Facebook page.
Security forces killed one of the armed men and injured the other.
On Thursday, unidentified gunmen fired birdshot and fireworks at security personnel guarding a hotel in Haram district in Giza, and a tourist bus which happened to be present in front of the hotel at the time of attack, according to the Interior Ministry.
The ministry added that the attack left no casualties.
The attack was later claimed by the ISIS-affiliate group “Sinai Province”.
