1996 Cairo shooting

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1996

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30.06° N, 31.25° E

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terrorist incident in Cairo, Egypt

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year in its name

Platziert: town its title names, Cairo.

Terrorist incident in Cairo, Egypt

At 7am on 18 April 1996, four Islamists carried out a mass shooting against a group of 88 Greek tourists outside the Europa Hotel in Cairo, Egypt. Eighteen people were killed: 17 Greek tourists and one Egyptian. The victims were outside the hotel, about to board a bus to Alexandria. Al-Jama'a al-Islamiyya claimed responsibility for the attack, saying that they thought the tourists were Israelis.

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