2017 Hurghada attack

2017 Hurghada attack
Part of Sinai insurgency
Location of Red Sea Governorate in Egypt
LocationHurghada, Red Sea Governorate, Egypt
Date14 July 2017
Attack type
stabbing
Deaths3
Injured4
PerpetratorsAbdel-Rahman Shaaban
MotiveIslamic extremism

On 14 July 2017 Abdel-Rahman Shaaban, a former university student from the Nile Delta region, swam from a public beach to each of two resort hotel beaches at Hurghada on the Red Sea and stabbed five German, one Armenian and one Czech tourists, all women, killing two German women. The Czech tourist died on 27 July. The perpetrator shouted that the Egyptian hotel personnel who gave pursuit after the stabbings at the second beach should "Stay back, I am not after Egyptians". Nevertheless, hotel personnel pursued and captured the attacker.