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Two Ukrainian tourists were killed in Friday’s knife attack in Egypt’s Red Sea resort town of Hurghada, Egypt’s state-run news agency Al-Ahram reported.
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An assailant armed with a knife attacked six female tourists on Friday in the Red Sea resort town of Hurghada, Egypt’s Interior Ministry said.
A suspect has been arrested, and the victims have been taken to a hospital for treatment, the ministry said.
The victims were injured in a beach resort area. Investigators believe the attacker arrived by swimming from a public beach, according to the ministry.
No names were immediately released, and details about the victims’ conditions weren’t available.
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.
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