What the records say
- When
- 28 Nov 2002
- Kind
- Terrorist attack
- Coordinates
- 4.05° S, 39.67° E
Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, 2002 Mombasa attacks.
Summary
2002 Mombasa attacks: Suicide bombers blow up an Israeli-owned hotel in Mombasa, Kenya, but their colleagues fail in their attempt to bring down an Arkia Israel Airlines charter flight with surface-to-air-missiles.
2002 Mombasa attacks
Terrorist attacks in Kenya
The 2002 Mombasa attacks were two coordinated terrorist attacks on 28 November 2002 in Mombasa, Kenya, against an Israeli-owned hotel and a plane belonging to Arkia Airlines. An all-terrain vehicle crashed through a barrier outside the Paradise Hotel and blew up, killing 13 and injuring 80. At the same time, attackers fired two surface-to-air missiles at an Israeli charter plane.
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- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “в результате взрыва в гостинице в кенийском городе Момбаса погибли 15 человек”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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