Tourists perform their exercises on the sandy beach at the Egyptian Red Sea resort in Egypt.

Gunmen opened fire at the entrance of a hotel in the Egyptian Red Sea resort city of Hurghada on Friday, wounding two foreign tourists, security sources said.

One of the injured was from Denmark and the other from Germany, the sources said. Security forces repelled the assault after killing one of the gunmen who was wearing a suicide bomb belt.

The attackers had arrived by sea to launch the onslaught on the beachside Bella Vista Hotel, security sources said.

Local media said the security forces shut down entrances leading to Hurghada after the attack.

The violent incident comes after ISIS said on Friday that an attack on Israeli tourists in Cairo on Thursday was carried out by its fighters, in response to a call by the group’s leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, to target Jews “everywhere.”

Three tourists were slightly wounded during the Thursday attack on a hotel at Hurghada, police said, adding one assailant was killed and another seriously wounded.

The assailants were armed with knives when they attacked the Bella Vista hotel but it was not immediately clear how the tourists — two Austrians and a Swedish man — were wounded, police added.

The incident also comes on the backdrop of a Russian passenger plane which crashed in Sinai on Oct. 31, killing all 224 people on board, most of whom were tourists returning home from the Red Sea resort of Sharm al-Sheikh.

Cairo says it has found no evidence of terrorism in the crash. Russia and Western governments have said the airliner was probably brought down by a bomb, and ISIS said it had smuggled explosives on board.

Tourism is a cornerstone of the Egyptian economy but has been badly hit by years of political turmoil.

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