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Foreign Ministry: Armenian citizen injured in attack at Egyptian hotel helps neutralize attacker

Published July 14, 2017 at 9:30 pm

This file photo taken on June 23, 2010 shows Egyptians at a public beach in the Red Sea resort of Hurghada, in southern Egypt. Two foreign women tourists were killed on July 14, and four others were wounded when an assailant stabbed them at an Egyptian beach resort in the Sinai Peninsula, officials said.

Photo by AFP

YEREVAN – Two citizens of Armenia suffered injuries when attacked by a man armed with a knife at a hotel in Hurghada, Egypt, Armenian Foreign Ministry press secretary Tigran Balayan said.

“Two citizens of Armenia suffered injuries in an attack in Hurghada. They have been hospitalized and provided with the necessary aid. The criminal was neutralized with assistance from one of our injured compatriots,” Balayan said.