At least 36 people were reported killed and 100 more injured in a series of bomb explosions in the popular Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh last night, according to local police.

Details of the explosions were sketchy but witnesses quoted by news agencies reported that four cars had exploded, some of them in the parking lot of a four-star hotel. The blasts were the second assault on resorts in the Red Sea over the past year. Last October, an attack on a hotel popular with Israeli tourists left 24 people dead.