Reporting by Ruth Rilinger After the attack on three tourists in Hurghada on Friday evening, motives of the two attackers remain unclear. Two young men had stormed the hotel Bella Vista in downtown Hurghada through the restaurant at 7:30 p.m. and stabbed one young Swedish man and an elderly Austrian couple with a knife. Security personnel and the police shot one man dead and wounded the other. According to official sources, the three victims are doing well. In a press conference held at the hotel yesterday, Minister of Tourism Hisham Zaazou said that the attack was an “individual act” which “does not belong to any organisation”. Despite the claims communicated in earlier reports of the incident, the attackers did not have a flag of the Islamic State with them, the Minister said in a statement to Egyptian Streets. However, he clarified that one of the attackers was wearing a fake suicide vest made out of plastic, but no explosives were found. “I came down from my room when I heard loud voices and thought it might be a fist fight. People were running away in panic,” 50-year-old Michael G. from Oldenburg, Germany, an eyewitness…
Tourists Recount Details of ‘Terrorist’ Attack on Hotel in Egypt’s Hurghada
January 10, 2016
