The Foreign Ministries of the Czech Republic and Austria have asked their citizens to exercise caution when traveling to Egypt in the wake of the terrorist attack against a hotel in Hurghada, east of Egypt, on Friday which killed at least one person and wounded five tourists including an Austrian couple.
The Czech foreign ministry said on its website yesterday that it had “raised the level of danger that could be posed by traveling to Egypt” and called on citizens wishing to travel there to “take the utmost caution and register their data in the ministry before traveling”.
Meanwhile, the Austria said there was a “real risk of terrorist attacks in Egypt in general and in Hurghada, Sharm El-Sheikh and Marsa Alam in particular.”
In a statement it asked its citizens to “exercise extreme caution when travelling to Egypt.”
On Friday, two men stormed the beachside Bella Vista hotel in Hurghada and stabbed three tourists including two Austrians and a Swede.
Egypt’s health ministry spokesman Khalid Mujahid said in remarks to the Anadolu Agency that the tourists were being treated for their injuries, while a security man was killed and another was seriously injured.
The attack came hours after Daesh claimed responsibility for an attack on a hotel near the Pyramids of Giza on Thursday.
A statement said supporters targeted a “tourist bus carrying Jews” and caused casualties, but no one was injured in the attack.
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