Two suspected militants stabbed and wounded three foreign tourists - two Austrians and a Swede - at a hotel in Egypt's Red Sea resort city of Hurghada on Friday, the Interior Ministry said.
Security forces opened fire at the two assailants, killing one and seriously wounding the other, according to a ministry statement.
The ministry said two men armed with knives had entered the outdoor restaurant at the front of the seaside, four-star Bella Vista Hotel and attacked the tourists.
The ministry identified the slain attacker as 21-year-old Mohammed Hassan Mohammed Mahfouz, a student from Cairo's neighborhood of Giza. Both attackers, it said, carried knives and pellet guns.