A rocket-propelled grenade was fired at Sinai Sun hotel in the North Sinai town of Al-Arish in a midnight attack on Thursday, Al Ahram reported.
There were no casualties from the rocket which struck the rear entrance of the hotel. Eyewitnesses said it left a huge hole in the building.
Ambulances rushed to the scene as thick smoke billowed out from the building, Al Ahram added.
Earlier in the day, a policeman was shot dead in a similar attack on the same hotel. Most of the hotel guests are said to be security personnel.
The lawless Sinai Peninsula, near Egypt’s borders with Israel and the Palestinian Gaza Strip, has been hit with almost daily attacks by hard-line Islamist militants since the army’s ouster of Mohamed Morsi on July 3.
Unknown assailants fired a rocket-propelled grenade at Sinai Sun hotel in the North Sinai town of Al-Arish in a midnight attack on Thursday, Ahram’s Arabic news website reported.
There were no casualties from the rocket which struck the rear entrance of the hotel. Eyewitnesses said the bomb left a huge hole in the building.
Ambulances rushed to the scene as thick smoke billowed out from the building, Ahram added.
Earlier in the day, a policeman was shot dead in a similar attack on the same hotel. Most of the hotel guests are said to be security personnel.
The lawless Sinai Peninsula, near Egypt’s borders with Israel and the Palestinian Gaza Strip, has been hit with almost daily attacks by hard-line Islamist militants since the army’s ouster of Mohamed Morsi, the country’s first freely elected president, on 3 July.