Three explosions at Egyptian resorts near the border
with Israel have killed at least 21 people, although some reports speak of a
higher death toll.
The main blast happened at the Hilton hotel in Taba on the Sinai peninsula, a resort popular with Israelis. .
October 8th 2004/
At least 22 killed, 170 injured in three big
blasts at Dahab on eastern Sinai coast Monday night. Egyptian officials
reporting this claim the explosions caused by devices activated by
timers – not suicide bombers…April 24, 2006, 9:58
The 2005 Sharm el-Sheikh attacks
were a series of bomb attacks on
July 23,
2005,
targeting the Egyptian
resort city of
Sharm
el-Sheikh, located on the southern tip of the
Sinai
Peninsula. Eighty-eight people were killed and over
150 were wounded by the blasts, making the attack the deadliest
terrorist
action in the country's history. The bombing coincided with Egypt's
Revolution Day,
which commemorates
Nasser's
1952
overthrow of
King Farouk.