2006 Dahab bombings
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The Dahab Bombings of 24 April 2006 were what appears to have been a terrorist attack on the Egyptian resort city of Dahab. At about 19:15 local time on 24 April 2006 — a public holiday in celebration of Sham Al-Nasseim (Spring festival) — a series of bombs exploded in tourist areas of Dahab, a resort located on the Gulf of Aqaba coast of the Sinai Peninsula. The latest available information suggests that three separate explosions took place: one in or near the Nelson restaurant, one near the Aladdin café (both being on both sides of the bridge), and one near the Ghazala market. Casualties are currently estimated at 23 dead, including a 10 year old boy from Germany, and 160 wounded. [Reuters]
The governor of South Sinai reported that the blasts might have been a suicide attack, but later Habib Adly, the interior minister of Egypt said that the devices were nail bombs set off by timers. Egyptian TV also reported that the bombs were detonated remotely. The resorts are popular with Western tourists and Egyptians alike during the holiday season.
These explosions followed other bombings elsewhere in the Sinai Peninsula in previous years: in Sharm el-Sheikh on 23 July 2005 and in Taba on 6 October 2004.
Egyptian security officials have stated that the attacks were the work of an Islamic terror organisation called Jama'at al-Tawhīd wal-Jihad (Monotheism and Jihad). [Dahab Bombers Inspired by Al-Qaeda], Asharq Al Awsat, April 29, 2006
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- [Triple blasts rock Egypt resort] - BBC
- [Egypt resort blasts kill at least 23] - Al Jazeera
- [At least 21 Killed at Egyptian Resort] - CBC
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