A man walks in front of an ambulance arriving at El Salam Hospital after an Egyptian man stabbed two German tourists to death and wounded four others at the beach of the Zahabia hotel, in Hurghada, south of the capital Cairo, Egypt, July 14, 2017. REUTERS/Mohamed Aly

 

CAIRO: An Egyptian man stabbed two German tourists to death and wounded four others on Friday at a popular seaside vacation spot on the Red Sea, after apparently searching out foreigners to attack, officials and witnesses said.

The knifeman killed the two German women and wounded two other tourists at the Zahabia hotel in Hurghada, then swam to a neighbouring beach to attack at least two more people at the Sunny Days El Palacio resort before being caught by staff and arrested, officials and security sources said.

It was the first major attack on foreign tourists since a similar assault on the same resort more than a year ago and comes as Egypt struggles to revive a tourism industry hurt by security threats and years of political upheaval.

"He had a knife with him and stabbed each of them three times in the chest. They died on the beach," Saud Abdelaziz ? the security manager at the El Palacio hotel ? told Reuters.

"He jumped a wall between the hotels and swam to the other beach," he added.