European Tourists Stabbed at a Beach Resort in Egypt; 2 Die<br />By DECLAN WALSHJULY 14, 2017<br />CAIRO — Two German tourists were killed and four other tourists were wounded at a Red Sea resort on Friday when an assailant swam up to a beach<br />and stabbed them repeatedly with a knife, Egyptian officials and hospital workers said.<br />After stabbing four women at one resort, including two Germans in their 60s who later<br />died, the man swam to an adjacent beach, where he attacked two more women.<br />Hurghada was the scene of a somewhat similar attack in January 2016, when two Islamic State<br />sympathizers attacked European tourists on a hotel terrace, wounding three people.<br />Since then, Russia and Britain have refused to allow their aircraft to fly to Sharm el Sheikh, dealing<br />a heavy blow to the resort despite extensive security improvements by Egyptian officials.<br />The attack, which took place in Hurghada, 250 miles south of Cairo, was the first significant attack on foreigners in Egypt in more than a year.<br />An employee at Sunny Days El Palacio resort, who witnessed the second attack, said the man shouted, "You infidels!" after he struck his victims.
