CAIRO: Two foreign women tourists were killed on Friday and four others were wounded when an assailant stabbed them at an Egyptian beach resort in the Sinai Peninsula, officials said.
The governor of Red Sea province, where the resort of Hurghada is located, said two "foreign residents" of the city were killed in the attack, a cabinet statement said.
Egypt´s official Al-Ahram newspaper reported on its website that two Ukrainian female tourists died in the stabbing and that four others were injured.
But Kiev´s ambassador to Cairo told the privately owned Ukrainian broadcaster Channel 112 that no Ukrainians had been killed.
The interior ministry said in a statement that the attacker, who had swum ashore, was arrested and was being questioned.
"We don´t know his motives yet, he could be crazy or perturbed -- it´s too early to tell," a senior interior ministry official told AFP.
Hurghada is one of Egypt´s most popular beach resorts, especially with Ukrainians and European tourists.
Security has been boosted in tourist resorts around the country, as the industry provides Egypt with much needed revenues.