What the records say
- When
- 1996
- Kind
- Shooting
- Coordinates
- 30.06° N, 31.25° E
- Description
- terrorist incident in Cairo, Egypt
- Date from
- year in its name
Placed at the town its title names, Cairo.
1996 Cairo shooting
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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