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Gunmen 'attack Egypt tourist hotel' 'Armed men' attack Egypt tourist hotel
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Gunmen have opened fire on a hotel in the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Hurghada, injuring two foreign tourists, reports say. At least two foreign tourists have been injured in an attack at a hotel in the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Hurghada.
The attackers arrived by sea to carry out the assault, Reuters reported quoting Egyptian security sources. Egyptian state TV says local security forces repelled the attack and one assailant has been killed.
Egyptian state TV says local security forces repelled the attack and one gunman 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.
Local media report that police have sealed off the area and one foreign tourist has been taken to hospital. A spokesman for the UK Foreign Office said they were "urgently investigating" the reports.
The injured tourists are said to be from Denmark and Germany. 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.