Russian tourists were the target of a recent attack on a hotel in the Egyptian resort city of Hurghada, local media reported, citing investigators.

On Friday, two gunmen attacked the Bella Vista Hotel on the Red Sea coast, injuring three foreign tourists, two Austrians and one Swede. Egypt's security forces managed to neutralize the attackers, killing one and injuring another.

The injured assailant told investigators that only citizens of Russia were the target of their attack in response to Moscow's ongoing military campaign in Syria, the Al-Masry Al-Youm newspaper said Monday.

Since September 30, Moscow has been conducting pinpoint airstrikes in Syria on the positions of Islamic State (ISIL, or Daesh), a terrorist group outlawed in Russia and many other countries, at President Bashar Assad's request.

On November 8, a presidential decree prohibited Russian flight operators from flying to Egypt on the grounds of national security and citizen protection following a Russian A321 passenger plane crash in Sinai Peninsula as a result of a terrorist attack in October.