Time line of attacks on Egypt
2006 April 24: Three nearly simultaneous bombings hit Sinai seaside city of Dahab, killing at least 23 people and wounding more than 60.
2005 July 23: Two car bombs and bomb in knapsack rip through hotel and beach promenade in Sharm el-Sheik, killing 64 people, mainly tourists.
April 7: Suicide bomber kills two French citizens and an American near a market.
2004 October 7: Bombings in Taba and Ras Shitan resorts kill 34 people, including 11 Israelis.
1997 November 17: Islamic terrorists kill 58 foreigners and four Egyptians in attack at the Pharaonic Temple of Hatshepsut outside Luxor. Police kill all six assailants.
September 18: Two gunmen kill nine German tourists and their driver in an attack on a tour bus outside the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.
1996 April 18: Four Islamic terrorists open fire on Greek tourists, killing 18 outside the Europa Hotel in Cairo.
1994 March 4: Terrorists fire on a Nile cruise ship in southern Egypt, killing a German woman.
August 26: A Spanish boy is killed when militants fire at a tourist bus near Nag Hamadi in southern Egypt.
September 27: Terrorists opens fire in Red Sea resort of Hurghada, killing two German tourists and two Egyptians.
October 23: Attack on minibus near Naqada in southern Egypt kills a British man.
1993 February 26: A bomb at a coffee shop in Cairo's central Tahrir Square kills three foreigners, wounds 19, including two Americans.
October 26: A gunman kills two Americans and a Frenchman at a Cairo hotel. |