Medics rush an injured tourist at the Zahabia hotel resort, after an Egyptian man stabbed two German tourists to death and wounded four others in Hurghada, south of the capital Cairo, Egypt, July 14, 2017. REUTERS/Mohamed Aly
BERLIN: German officials said on Saturday they had been left "dismayed and furious" by the stabbing of two German women at an Egyptian beach resort, calling it a deliberate attack on foreign tourists.
An Egyptian man stabbed the two German tourists to death and wounded four others on Friday at a popular seaside vacation spot on the Red Sea, officials and witnesses said.
"We now have the sad certainty that two German women were killed in the attack in Hurghada," a foreign ministry spokeswoman said.
"According to what we know, the act was a deliberate attack on foreign tourists - a particularly devious and criminal act that leaves us sad, dismayed and furious," she added.
The lone assailant swam from a nearby beach to reach the hotel in Hurghada, the Interior Ministry said in an emailed statement. He was arrested at the scene and is being questioned. The casualties were taken to the nearby Al Salam Hospital.
Hurghada is popular among foreign tourists and is packed with hotels and restaurants. Militant attacks have delivered a heavy blow to Egypt’s key tourism industry and in turn an economy that has struggled to recover from the years of political turmoil following the 2011 Arab Spring ouster of President Hosni Mubarak.
Visitor numbers have yet to recover since the 2015 downing of a Russian passenger jet after it took off from Sharm El-Sheikh killed all 224 on board.
