| List of fatal attacks on visitors in Egypt since 1992 |
| 1992 |
| October 21 -- British nurse dies when bus attacked near
Dairut in southern Egypt.
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| 1993 |
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February 26 -- Bomb explodes at popular coffee shop on
Cairo's downtown Tahrir Square, killing a Swede, a Turk and
an Egyptian. Eighteen others are injured, including two
Americans.
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October 26 -- A lone gunman kills two Americans and a
Frenchman and wounds three other international residents
inside a luxury Cairo hotel and later tells police he was avenging the
killing of Muslims in Bosnia. The attacker was sent to a
mental institution.
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| 1994 |
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March 4 -- Machine-gun fire at a Nile cruise ship at Sidfa in
southern Egypt wounds a German woman, who later dies.
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August 26 -- 13-year-old Spanish boy is killed and three
other people are wounded when suspected extremists fire at
tourist bus near Nag Hamadi in southern Egypt.
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September 27 -- A German tourist and two Egyptians are killed
when suspected extremist opens fire in downtown square in
Hurghada, a Red Sea resort city. Second German later dies of
wounds.
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October 23 -- A British man is killed and a British woman,
two British men and their driver are wounded when suspected
extremist opens fire on van near Naqada in southern Egypt.
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| 1996 |
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April 18 -- Gunmen open fire with automatic rifles at Europa
Hotel near the pyramids in Cairo, killing 18 Greek tourists
and wounding 16 others. An Egyptian is also wounded.
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| 1997 |
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September 18 -- Attackers throw firebombs and open fire on a
tourist bus outside the Egyptian Museum in downtown Cairo,
killing 10 people, many of them German tourists. Police say
three international residents and 15 Egyptians are wounded.
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November 18 -- Gunmen burst into the courtyard of the
Hatshepsut Temple in the desert outside Luxor and fire at
tourists who had just disembarked from a bus. At least 63
people, many of them from other countries, are killed.
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