What the records say
- When
- 15 Aug 1999
- Kind
- Massacre
- Deaths
- 29
- Coordinates
- 32.05° N, 1.25° W
- Description
- 1999 terrorist attack in Morocco
Placed at the town its title names, Beni Ounif.
Beni Ounif massacre
1999 terrorist attack in Morocco
The Beni Ounif massacre took place on a desert highway near the Moroccan border at Beni Ounif in Bechar Province on 15 August 1999. The perpetrators flagged down cars at a false roadblock and beheaded 23 men, women and children and shot dead 6 more people as they tried to run away. They also kidnapped two 15-year-old girls and stole the belongings of their victims.
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