London Gatwick–Hurghada – summer
London Gatwick to Hurghada Hurghada to London Gatwick
Travel Day Flt No. Dep. Arr. Flt No. Dep. Arr.
Fr 88671 11:10 17:30 88681 18:30 23:15
Fr 88672 11:10 18:30 88682 19:30 23:15
1Until 18 April 2008. 2From 25 April 2008. Until 25 April 2008.
A FRENCH tourist has been killed by a shark today while diving in the Red Sea off the Egyptian coast.
The French embassy confirmed the attack saying: "I can confirm that there is one French citizen killed by a shark in the Red Sea south of Marsa Alam."
Egyptian media reported that the woman had bite marks on her leg and had most likely bled to death.
Marsa Alam is a remote southern area on the Red Sea coast. Sharks are common in the area and tourists often take pictures, but attacks are rare.
The last person killed by a shark in Egypt was attacked while snorkelling near the Sinai resort of Sharm el-Sheikh in 2004.
Tourists injured in attack on Hurghada hotel, one assailant killedHealth ministry spokesperson says tourists were stabbed and slashed
Menna Alaa El-Din , Friday 8 Jan 2016
Knifemen stormed a hotel in Egypt's Hurghada on Friday evening, injuring a number of foreign tourists before security forces killed at least one of the assailants and ended the attack.
Speaking to Ahram Online, health ministry spokesperson Khaled Megahed said at least two Swedish tourists and one Austrian were stabbed and slashed. They were sent to the town's Nile Hospital and Red Sea Hospital.
A police statement, however, said that three foreign tourists were wounded, giving their nationalities as two Austrians and one Danish citizen. A final injury toll has yet to be announced.
The attack took place at Bella Vista Hotel in the busy downtown area of Hurghada, a popular tourist resort located on the Red Sea.
Police closed off Sheraton Road where the hotel is located following the attack before re-opening it shortly.
Eyewitnesses at the hotel also told Ahram Online that police were asking bystanders gathered outside the hotel during the attack to leave.
In a statement on Facebook, the police said two assailants were carrying bladed weapons and an imitation pistol.
Meanwhile, an anonymous security source told Al-Ahram Arabic news website the slain armed man wore an explosive belt.
The police said the dead assailant's name was Mohamed Hassan Mahfouz, born in 1994. Security forces severely injured the other armed man as both were attempting to escape.
Both men were able to enter the hotel through a restaurant facing the street, according to the police statement.
Reuters earlier reported security sources as saying that the assailants arrived by sea to carry out the attack.
No group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack, although Ansar Beit Al-Maqdis — now affiliated with the ISIS group — has claimed responsibility for many lethal militant attacks in Egypt in recent months.
The attack comes a few months after Ansar Beit Al-Maqdis claimed responsibility for the downing of a Russian plane over North Sinai, killing all 224 passengers on board. The airliner was heading from the Red Sea resort of Sharm El-Sheikh to Russia's St Petersburg.
Egypt has been battling an Islamist insurgency that has spiked since the 2013 ouster of Islamist president Mohamed Morsi.
The militancy, mostly concentrated in parts of North Sinai, has killed hundreds of police and soldiers. Authorities have also reported that hundreds of militants have been killed in military campaigns in the governorate.
Two German tourists were killed and four other tourists injured at a resort in Hurghada when a man attacked them with a knife, Al-Ahram Arabic reported on Friday afternoon.
The injured include one Czech woman and two Armenian women, a source at Hurghada General Hospital told Ahram Online.
The nationality of the fourth tourist was not immediately clear. All of those attacked are women.
According to a short statement from the Egyptian interior ministry, the assailant, who was arrested after the attack, had swum to the esort from a nearby public beach.
Security sources in Hurghada security directorate told Al-Ahram Arabic's correspondent in the city that the suspect was named as Abdel-Rahman Shams El-Din, 28, an Egyptian from the Nile Delta governorate of Kafr El-Sheikh.
Al-Ahram named the resort where events took place as Sunny Days Palacio.
The German foreign ministry released a statement condemning the attacks, and added that the German nationality of the two slain tourists had not yet been confirmed.
The interior ministry has not issued any more details about the assailant or his motives, nor any details about the injured tourists.
The governor of Red Sea governorate, Ahmed Abdullah, cut short his holiday in Cairo and returned to the governorate, where resort town Hurghada is located, to follow up on the incident, Al-Ahram reported.
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Ahram Online , Saturday 15 Jul 2017
A general view shows the Sunny Days El Palacio resort where a knife attack took place, in Hurghada, Egypt, July 15, 2017. (Reuters)
Germany has confirmed that two tourists killed Friday after being stabbed in the Red Sea resort city of Hurghada were German nationals, a foreign ministry statement said.
Two were killed and four others injured on a beach when a man attacked them with a knife. Earlier reports Friday identified the dead tourists as Ukrainian or German, while the injured include one Czech woman and two Armenian women, a source at Hurghada General Hospital told Ahram Online Friday.
“Based on what we know now, that crime has targeted foreign tourists, a criminal act of the highest degree, which fills our hearts with feelings of sorrow, and anger,” the ministry said in a statement Saturday.
The statement added that officials of the German embassy in Cairo are currently at the scene of the attack and in contact with Egyptian authorities.
The assailant, who was arrested after the attack, had swum to the resort from a nearby public beach, according to a short statement from the Egyptian interior ministry shortly after the incident Friday.
Following the incident, the German foreign ministry released a statement condemning the attack, yet adding that the nationality of the two slain tourists had not been confirmed.
Shark attacks are of rare occurrence in Egypt, but experts say feeding sharks and sport fishing may provoke attacks
Ahram Online , Monday 7 Aug 2017
An Austrian tourist has flown home for further medical treatment after suffering a leg injury in a shark attack in the Red Sea resort of Marsa Alam, Al-Ahram Arabic website reported on Monday.
Christine Schachinger, 20, was bitten by a shark while taking part in water sports in the Red Sea. She was rushed to a private hospital in Marsa Alam and received treatment on her right leg.
She was later transferred to Austria by private jet for further medical treatment.
Shark attacks are very rare in Egypt, with only 34 cases reported since 1827, according to the Shark Research Institute, a US-based scientific research organization.
However, environmentalists say certain actions on the part of divers and swimmers may provoke attacks.
The Society for the Rescue and Protection of the Environment of the Red Sea warns diving guides and tourists against feeding sharks or otherwise provoking them.
The organization says the Austrian tourist was probably attacked in response to such actions.
Last year, Egypt imposed a temporary ban on sport fishing and offshore swimming at Ain Sokhna on the Red Sea after a man was bitten by a shark.
At the time, officials and scientists said the attack was likely caused by a combination of fishing and swimming in the same spot.
In 2010, three shark attacks in the span of one week have left four eastern European tourists seriously injured and one German tourist dead.
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同省は詳細を明らかにしていないが、地元当局によると、１日に発生した。当局は付近の海水浴場を一時閉鎖した。調査を行うとしている。
ロイター通信は、死亡した１人はルーマニア国籍、もう１人はオーストリア国籍だと伝えた。
ハルガダは欧州やロシアなどからの観光客に人気がある。エジプト政府は新型コロナウイルスの感染拡大で激減した外国人観光客の誘致を進めている。tps://www.tokyo-np.co.jp/article/187449
