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On 8 May 2022, at least ten soldiers and one officer were killed during an attack at a checkpoint at a water pumping station in El Qantara, [1] Sinai Peninsula, Egypt. Five more were injured. [2] Afterwards, chase continued in a secluded part of the Sinai Peninsula. [citation needed] The Islamic State claimed responsibility. [2]
The next day, Mahmoud Tawfik the Interior Minister of Egypt, said that the car contained explosives and was to be used in a terrorist operation. [2] The explosives-filled car was on its way to commit an attack in another part of the capital. Tawfik accused the Hasm Movement of carrying out the bombing, but the group denied the allegations. [3]
Eighty-eight people were killed by the three bombings, the majority of them Egyptians, and over 200 were injured, making the attack the deadliest terrorist action in the history of Egypt, until it was surpassed by the 2017 Sinai mosque attack. The attack took place on Egypt's Revolution Day, a public holiday, and was part of a strategy of ...
Israel's military blamed an "aerial threat" in the Red Sea region: a possible reference to Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi movement which is known to use drones. Egyptian army spokesperson Colonel ...
The first was at the police headquarters in Cairo, Egypt, which were attacked with a large truck bomb just after 06:30 local time. [3] [4] CCTV caught a white truck stop at 06:29 outside the building, with the driver jumping into another car. [5]
The Hasm Movement claimed this attack. [7] [8] Four days later, militants shot dead a police officer, in Sixth of October city, Giza. [9] [10] Weeks later (29 September), the Hasm movement attempted to kill Zakaria Abdel Aziz, a senior assistant to Egypt's top prosecutor, as he was returning home from his office in eastern Cairo. The bomb ...
A second bomb failed to detonate and was defused. [1] The bombs weighed 1.5 kilograms (3.3 lb) and contained nails and metal fragments. [ 3 ] A 17-year-old French girl, who was among a group of 54 teenagers from Levallois-Perret , near Paris , was killed. 17 French, one German and three Saudi tourists, as well as three Egyptians, were wounded.
The December 2013 Mansoura bombing occurred on the morning of Tuesday, 24 December 2013 in the Nile Delta city of Mansoura in Egypt. [1] The target was the city's security directorate building that was partially collapsed after the attack.