Two Austrians and a Swede were wounded in an attack on an Egyptian Red Sea resort hotel in Hurghada by two suspected Islamic State (ISIS) militants on Friday, in the second hotel attack in Egypt in as many days.
Renata and Wilhelm Weisslein, both 72, and Sammie Olovsson, 27, were in stable condition Saturday, an Egyptian hospital official told the Associated Press.
Olovsson posted on Facebook that he had four stab wounds but was stable, and had been "lucky."
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The assailants stormed the seaside, four-star Bella Vista Hotel with knives and pellet guns. One was killed by police and the other was seriously wounded, the Interior Ministry said.
The attackers raised the ISIS flag and were aiming to kidnap tourists, officials told the BBC.
The stabbings follow an attack on a bus at a hotel near the Pyramids on Thursday. ISIS claimed that attack, saying it was targeting "a tourist bus carrying Jews."
The father of the Swedish victim in Friday's attack said they were having dinner at the restaurant when the assailants came in. They pointed the gun at him and stabbed his son in the neck.
"I told him to lie still," Jan-Eric Olovsson said, recalling how his son lay in a pool of blood. "I got up a few times and when I saw it was clear, I ran out on the street and tried to get hold of an ambulance."
The attacks are the latest attempts by ISIS-affiliated militants to drive away tourism, an important source of funding for Egypt's economy, according to BBC security correspondent Frank Gardner.
Since bombings in Sharm el-Sheikh in 2005 that killed 88 people, the Red Sea area had remained mostly incident-free until the downing of a Russian plane over the Sinai peninsula in October, which Britain and Russia believe was caused by a bomb.
The downed plane caused flight cancellations and was a major blow to the tourism industry.
The Associated Press contributed to this article.