Jihadi Gunmen storm hotel and opening fire on European tourists in Red Sea resort in Egypt Friday January 08,2016

 

Jihadis armed with a gun, knives and a suicide belt have wounded three tourists at the entrance of a hotel in an Egyptian Red Sea resort.

 

Security forces said the attackers arrived by sea to launch the onslaught on the beachside Bella Vista Hotel, in the Red Sea resort of Hurghada.

 

They claimed to have killed an attacker wearing a suicide bomb, and have seriously wounded a second armed with a knife.

The two attackers entered the hotel’s outdoor restaurant at the front of the building and attacked the tourists.

The attackers were reportedly carrying black flags with the shahada, the Muslim testament of faith, written it white, commonly used by ISIS

Egyptian authorities today said the dead attacker was a 21-year-old student from the Cairo neighbourhood of Giza as video emerged of his accomplice being questioned as he lay injured in the aftermath

Three foreign tourists have been injured after two suspected Islamic State militants stormed into a hotel in Egypt's Red Sea resort of Hurghada.

The attackers, armed with knives, were killed by police at the Bella Vista hotel after they stabbed two Austrian guests and a Swede