Egypt hotel attack: Four killed in el-Arish, Sinai

Two suicide bombers and a gunman have killed four people
in an attack on a hotel in North Sinai, Egyptian officials say.
The attackers, who targeted the Swiss Inn hotel in provincial
capital el-Arish, were all killed, they said.
Guards fired on an explosives-laden car, which blew up. But
two attackers entered the hotel, killing a judge.
So-called Islamic State's local affiliate, Sinai Province, said it
carried out the attack.
Twelve people were also wounded in the incident, a military
statement said.
Election overseers
The three-pronged assault saw a car laden with explosives
approach the entrance. Security guards opened fire and the
vehicle blew up.
Separately two attackers entered the building, One detonated
a suicide vest in the kitchen while the other opened fire in a
room, killing the judge.
Judges who had been overseeing the second round of
parliamentary elections in the area were among the guests in
the heavily guarded hotel.
A military statement read: "This brutal incident is a failed
attempt to hinder the state from building its institution but
we assure all that it will increase the drive and insistence of
the armed forces and the Interior Ministry to weed out the
roots of terrorism in North Sinai."
Last month a Russian A321 airliner crashed in Sinai killing all
224 people on board. Russia said traces of explosives were
found and called it an act of terror.
Sinai Province said in a statement on 31 October that it had
destroyed the plane because of Russian air strikes in Syria.
Militants have been fighting the government for years in Sinai
but the insurgency has increased since the removal of
President Mohammed Morsi in 2013.