Two Ukrainian tourists were killed and four other people were injured Friday in a knife attack in Egypt’s Red Sea resort town of Hurghada, Egyptian state-run news agency Al-Ahram reported.
An assailant with a knife attacked six female tourists in a beach resort area of the town, Egypt’s Interior Ministry said earlier about the incident.
A suspect has been arrested, and victims were taken to a hospital, the ministry said.
Investigators believe the attacker swam from a public beach, according to the ministry.
No names were immediately released, and details about a motive for the attack or the injured victims’ conditions weren’t available.
Sergii Kulykov, an official at the Ukrainian Embassy in Egypt, told CNN he couldn’t confirm that the dead were Ukrainian. But a liaison with Egypt’s secret service told the embassy that two people were killed, Kulykov said.
The liaison was trying to get copies of the victims’ passports, Kulykov said.
2016 attack in same town
Friday’s attack comes more than a year after a similar attack in the same town. In January 2016, two men injured at least three European tourists in a stabbing at a hotel, authorities said then.
Hurghada is situated along eastern Egypt’s Red Sea coast, about 250 miles southeast of Cairo.
