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. The Egyptian Sunni jihadist group carried out attacks in the 1990s, some of which targeted tourists.
See also
References
- ^ Greek tourists killed by Egyptian gunmen
- "GUNMEN IN EGYPT KILL 18 IN ATTACK AT TOURIST HOTEL (Published 1996)". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2021-03-08.
External links
- "On This Day: 17 Greek tourists tragically lost their lives in the 1996 Cairo shooting". The Greek Herald. 2020-04-18.
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