Egypt: Machine GUN Attack On Cairo Hotel

Record ID: 3824

  • Title: Egypt: Machine GUN Attack On Cairo Hotel
  • Date: 18th April 1996
  • Summary: Seventeen tourists were killed and another 15 wounded in a machine gun attack at a hotel in Cairo. The attack took place as a group of mostly Greek tourists were stepping off a coach outside the Europa Hotel, having just been picked up from the airport. Witnesses say a group of men armed with machine guns and dressed in long white cloaks, approached on foot and started firing from the street outside the hotel.
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  • Location: EGYPT CAIRO
  • Reuters ID: LDL00124A21XB
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