Egypt sentences 2 to life for Red Sea hotel attack

Egypt on Sunday (December 25th) sentenced to life two men linked to the "Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant" (ISIL) for plotting a January 2016 attack on a Red Sea resort hotel during which three tourists were hurt, AFP reported.

Armed with knives, the attackers stormed the restaurant of the Bella Vista hotel in Hurghada last January as tourists were having dinner, slightly wounding an elderly Austrian couple and a Swedish tourist.

Police shot dead one of the assailants, Mohamad Hassan Mohamad Mahfouz, and wounded the other, Mohamad Magdy Abul Kheir.

The prosecution said the pair had plotted the attack along with fellow Egyptian Ahmad Abdel Salam Mansour, identified as an ISIL fighter based in Syria.

A court official said Abul Kheir was present in court for the verdict while Mansour was sentenced to life in absentia.

According to the prosecution, Mansour incited the other two to carry out attacks against tourists in Hurghada and to join ISIL.

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