bbc.com reported three foreign tourists have been stabbed by two suspected Islamic State militants who stormed into a hotel in Egypt’s Red Sea resort of Hurghada. The attackers, armed with knives, were shot by police at the Bella Vista hotel after they attacked two Austrian guests and a Swede, officials say. One assailant was killed and the other injured, officials say. The attackers were aiming to kidnap tourists, officials told the BBC. Reports say they raised the IS flag. Read Article
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theguardian.com reported…Visitors were said to have been travelling in convoy in an area of desert when they were attacked At least a dozen tourists and their guides have been killed in what is reported to be an accidental attack on their convoy by Egyptian security forces. Some of the tourists are reported to be Mexican […]
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bbc.com reported a German tourist has been killed in a rare shark attack off an Egyptian Red Sea resort, police say. The shark reportedly bit off the 52-year-old man’s leg at the knee. The attack took place on Sunday off the coastal city al-Qusair, the first such incident in five years. Read Article
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Turkishweekly.net reported a bomb blast struck near a courthouse in central Cairo late Tuesday, amid reports about casualties. An explosive device exploded near the courthouse in the central Ramsis Square, eyewitnesses said. Read Article
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alarabiya.net July 2014 reported Egyptian police said Saturday they have arrested a driver for raping a Russian tourist in a resort town, as the government cracks down on an epidemic of sexual harassment and violence. Police said the mini-bus driver raped the woman after pretending the vehicle had broken down, to trick her husband into […]
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imagen.com.mx reported today at least six Mexican tourists died and 25 others were injured to the bus that traveling in the Sinai peninsula, northeast of the Egyptian capital, official sources reported. The accident took place on the route between the monastery of Santa Catarina and the Martyr Ahmed Hamdi tunnel, about 20 kilometers from the […]
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mirror.co.uk reported poor hygiene blamed for sickness bug which swept through the four-star Coral Sea Waterworld complex in Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt, where a British girl drowned last year. Spreading: The Shigella bug has been blamed for a sickness bug sweeping Coral Sea Waterworld in Egypt. Up to 100 British tourists have fallen ill cialis […]
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independent.co.uk reported that the government’s official advice is basically prescribing a lockdown in the main resort of Sharm El Sheikh. The majority of British tourists in Egypt are located in this resort, which is in the south Sinai area – close to where Sunday’s attack took place. The Foreign Office has warned holidaymakers against straying […]
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theguardian.com reported that an clomid in the philippines attack in south Sinai may mark a shift http://cialis7pharmacy-online.com/ in militants’ strategy to attacking kamagra oral jelly strawberry tourists rather than just police and soldiers. A bomb on a tourist bus in Egypt’s Sinai peninsula killed at least two Korean passengers and the Egyptian driver on Sunday, […]
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According to ria.ru, a Russian woman on holiday in Egypt has died from suspected excessive drinking, the Russian consulate in Cairo said Friday. The young woman, who has not been named, was on vacation in the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh. Her body was found on January 1 at a five-star hotel where she had […]
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