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The following is a list of massacres that have occurred in Egypt (numbers may be approximate):
Name
Date
Location
Deaths
Notes
Alexandria riot (66)
66 CE
Alexandria, Roman Egypt
50,000 (estimated)
An extensive pogrom organized by Roman governor Tiberius Julius Alexander began after the First Jewish–Roman War broke out. Roman troops were responsible for the wholesale slaughter of the city's Jewish population.
Caracalla's massacre in Alexandria
215 CE
Alexandria, Roman Egypt
Unknown
After citizens started mocking emperor Caracalla, he ordered Alexandria's population to be massacred.[1] According to the historian Herodian, Roman soldiers gathered all young men of military age they could find into a nearby plain where they were hacked to death and thrown inside mass graves.[2]
Damanhur massacre[3]
May 10, 1799
Cairo
1,500[4]
The city rebelled against the French, when the French led by General Lanusse recaptured, most of the city inhabitants and rebels were killed and the place was torched.
Mamluke massacre
March 1,
1811
Cairo
470
Heads sent to Istanbul; part of Muhammad Ali's seizure of power
1948 Cairo bombings
June–September, 1948
Cairo
70
200 injured. Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt targeted Jewish areas, killing 70 Jews and wounding nearly 200. Riots claimed many more lives.
Tora Prison massacre
June 1, 1957
Cairo
21
21 members of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt are extrajudicially executed in Tora Prison.[5][6][7]
Ras Sedr massacre
June 8, 1967
Ras Sedr
52
An Israeli paratrooper unit extrajudically executed several Egyptian prisoners of war during the Six-Day War.
Bahr El-Baqar primary school bombing
April 8, 1970
Bahr el-Baqar
46
The Bahr El-Baqar primary school is bombed by the Israeli Air Force, killing 46 children.
1973 War massacres
1973
Suez Canal and Cairo
66
After a contingent of 19 IDF soldiers surrendered, Egyptian troops summarily executed 11 of them as the prisoners of war raised their hands in the air. Further IDF prisoners were executed in Cairo[8][9][10][11][12][13]
Ras Burqa massacre
October 5, 1985
Ras Burqa
8
An Egyptian soldier opened fire on Israeli vacationers, killing 3 adults and 4 children, as well as another Egyptian soldier.
Luxor massacre
November 17, 1997
Luxor
64
killing of mostly tourists, on 17 November 1997, at Deir el-Bahari, an archaeological site and major tourist attraction across the Nile from Luxor, Egypt.
Kosheh massacres
January 2, 2000
Kosheh
21
Over 40 injured; Muslim mob attacked Coptic Christians.
2004 Sinai bombings
October 7, 2004
Sinai Peninsula
34
171 injured; a terrorist group killed 18 Egyptians, 12 Israelis, 2 Italians, 1 Russian, and 1 American.
2005 Sharm el-Sheikh attacks
July 23, 2005
Sharm el-Sheikh
64–88
~150 injured; multiple bombs targeting tourist hotels and the bazaar in the resort city on the southern tip of the Sinai Peninsula.
2006 Dahab bombings
April 24, 2006
Dahab
23
~80 injured; three nails bombs exploded targeting the central tourist area of Dahab on the southern tip of the Sinai Peninsula.
Nag Hammadi massacre
January 7, 2010
Nag Hammadi
11
11 injured; Muslim gunmen opened fire on Coptic Christians as they were leaving church.
2011 Alexandria bombing
January 1, 2011
Alexandria
23
A homemade nail bomb attack on Coptic Christians in Alexandria on Saturday, 1 January 2011. 23 people died and another 97 were injured, which occurred as Christian worshipers were leaving a New Year service.
2011 Imbaba church attacks
7 May 2011
Imbaba
15
A series of attacks that took place in Egypt on 7 May 2011 against Coptic Christian churches in the poor working-class neighborhood of Imbaba in Giza, near Cairo. The attacks were blamed on Salafi Muslims, the attacks began when Muslims attacked the Coptic Orthodox church of Saint Mina. 232 injured.
Maspero demonstrations
9 October 2011
Cairo
24
The Maspero massacre initially started as demonstrations by a group of Egyptian Christians, in reaction to the demolition of a church in Upper Egypt. The peaceful protesters who intended to stage a sit-in in front of the Maspiro television building were attacked by security forces and the army, resulting in 24 deaths and 212 injuries, most of which were sustained by Coptic Christians.
Port Said Stadium riot
February 1, 2012
Port Said
74
After a football match, thugs and hooligans of the local team attacked visiting fans of El Ahly from Cairo with clubs, stones, knives and swords. Policemen refused to open the stadium gates, so the crowd could not escape.[14]
August 2013 Rabaa massacre
August 14, 2013
al-Nahda Square and Rabaa al-Adawiya Square, Cairo, Egypt
1000+[a]
1000+ killed; police and military opened fire on demonstrators opposing the military's ouster of Mohammad Morsi, the first elected president of Egypt who was removed from power following the 2013 Egyptian coup d'état. In addition to thousands of protester casualties, 8 police officers were killed.[15][16]
Kerdasa massacre
August 14, 2013
Kerdasa, Giza Governorate
14
12 policemen and two civilians were killed by an angry mob in return for the August 2013 Rabaa massacre.
2015 Wahat convoy incident[17]
September 12, 2015
Western Desert
12
Egyptian security forces kills eight Mexican tourists and four Egyptian guides in the Western Desert after allegedly mistaking them for terrorists.
Metrojet Flight 9268
October 31, 2015
Sinai Peninsula
224
A Metrojet A321 aircraft carrying mainly Russian tourists was destroyed by a bomb above the northern Sinai following its departure from Sharm El Sheikh International Airport, Egypt, en route to Pulkovo Airport, Saint Petersburg, Russia. All 224 passengers and crew on board were killed. The cause of the crash was an onboard explosive device concealed within a can of soda in passenger luggage. Islamic State claimed responsibility.
Palm Sunday church bombings
April 9, 2017
Tanta & Alexandria
45
On Palm Sunday, 9 April 2017, twin suicide bombings took place at St. George's Church in the northern Egyptian city of Tanta on the Nile delta, and Saint Mark's Coptic Orthodox Cathedral, the principal church in Alexandria, seat of the Coptic papacy. At least 45 people were reported killed and 126 injured. Amaq News Agency said the attacks were carried out by a security detachment of the ISIS.
2017 Sinai mosque attack
November 24, 2017
Al-Rawda
311
40 gunmen attacked the al-Rawda mosque during Friday prayers.
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^"Docu: Egyptians Shot Israeli POWs in 1973". Haaretz. Retrieved 2022-02-12.
^"L'armée égyptienne a tué des prisonniers israéliens en 1973, affirme un documentaire". L'Orient-Le Jour. 2007-03-20. Retrieved 2022-02-12.
^"Eyewitnesses: Police stood idle in Egypt football massacre". CNN. 2021-02-02. Retrieved 2021-12-25.
^"Egypt: Rab'a Killings Likely Crimes against Humanity". hrw.org. 12 August 2014. Retrieved 23 April 2018.
^"All According to Plan - The Rab'a Massacre and Mass Killings of Protesters in Egypt". hrw.org. 12 August 2014. Retrieved 23 April 2018.
^"Egyptian Security Forces Kill Tourists After Mistaking Them for Terrorists". CNN International Edition. September 15, 2015. Retrieved September 19, 2015.
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