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'Armed men' attack Egypt tourist hotel | |
(35 minutes later) | |
At least two foreign tourists have been injured in an attack at a hotel in the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Hurghada. | |
Egyptian state TV says local security forces repelled the attack and one assailant has been killed. | |
The attack took place at the Bella Vista hotel. Reports vary as to the nationalities of the victims, and whether they were shot or stabbed. | |
A spokesman for the UK Foreign Office said they were "urgently investigating" the reports. | |
He did not know whether any Britons might be affected. | |
Hurghada is on the Red Sea coast, across the water from the resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, from where the Russian passenger plane which crashed in the Sinai peninsula took off on 31 October. | |
After that crash, which killed 224 people and was claimed by so-called Islamic State, the UK and other European countries halted flights to Sharm el-Sheikh, citing security fears. | |
Russia also stopped all flights to Egypt. |