| 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.
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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1995
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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.
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.
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.
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 71 people,
many of them from other countries, are killed.
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