Shock in Egyptian knife attacker's home after Germans killed

FILE PHOTO: A security personnel detains the man who stabbed two German tourists to death and wounded four others during an attack at the Zahabia hotel resort in Hurghada, south of the capital Cairo, Egypt, July 14, 2017. REUTERS/Mohamed Aly

KAFR AL-SHEIKH, Egypt (Reuters) - Hours before leaving his northern Egyptian hometown for the Red Sea resort of Hurghada, the man accused of stabbing two German tourists to death ate a simple lunch with his mother and asked her to pray for him.

Security sources say Abdel Rahman Shaban Abokorah, a 28-year-old plumber killed two German women and wounded four other tourists last Friday at the Zahabia hotel and neighbouring Sunny Days Palacio resort, where he was caught by staff and arrested.