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On 26 June 2015, a mass shooting occurred at the tourist resort at Port El Kantaoui, about 10 kilometres north of the city of Sousse, Tunisia. [1] [2] Thirty-eight people, 30 of whom were British, were killed when a gunman, Seifeddine Rezgui, attacked a hotel. [6]
Port El Kantaoui Marina. Port El Kantaoui (Arabic: مرسى القنطاوي) is a tourist complex 10 kilometres north of Sousse city in central Tunisia.It was built in 1979 specifically as a tourist center, [1] around a large artificial harbour that provides mooring with 340 berths for luxury yachts, hosting sporting activities from water skiing to paragliding, and several golf courses.
Ghriba synagogue bombing – On 11 April 2002, a natural gas truck fitted with explosives drove past security barriers at the ancient El Ghriba synagogue on the Tunisian island of Djerba. The truck detonated at the front of the synagogue, killing 14 German tourists, three Tunisians, and two French nationals. More than 30 others were wounded.
On 26 June 2015 an Islamist mass shooting attack occurred at the tourist resort at Port El Kantaoui, about 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) north of the City of Sousse, Tunisia. [31] [36] Thirty-eight people, thirty of whom were Britons, were killed when an armed gunman attacked a hotel. [37]
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A contingent from El Salvador arrived in Haiti on Tuesday to bolster a U.N.-backed mission led by Kenyan police to help fight gangs that killed thousands of people ...
Port El Kantaoui, Sousse, Tunisia: A mass shooting occurred at the tourist resort at Port El Kantaoui, about 10 kilometres north of the city of Sousse, Tunisia. Islamic State: Islamist extremism: July 1–2 30 June and 1 July 2015 Borno massacres: 145 17 Kukawa, Nigeria: Boko Haram militants attacked multiple mosques between July 1 and 2.
June 26 – The Sousse attacks at the resort at Port El Kantaoui killed 39 European tourists, mostly British citizens. [202] July 17 – At least 9 Algerian soldiers were killed in an ambush by AQIM militants in the south of Aïn Defla province, southwest of Algiers. [203] [204]
Mass shooting targeting western tourists at a hotel in Port El Kantaoui 10 kilometres north of Sousse: 38 39: Perpetrator killed by police: Iraq: July 2015: 2015 Khan Bani Saad bombing: Suicide car bombing targeting Shi'a market in the city of Khan Bani Saad: 130 130+ Perpetrator killed in explosion: Turkey: 2015 Suruç bombing