The Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut, where the attack took place
45km 30miles
Deir el-Bahari
Location
Dayr al-Bahri, Egypt
Date
17 November 1997; 26 years ago (1997-11-17) 8:45 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. (UTC+02:00)
Target
Tourists
Attack type
Mass shooting
Weapons
Automatic firearms, knives, machetes
Deaths
62 (58 tourists, 4 Egyptians)
Perpetrator
Al-Jama'a al-Islamiyya
Assailants
6 militants (later committed suicide)
Motive
Islamist terrorism
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Terrorism in Egypt
Sadat assassination (1981)
Ras Burqa (1985)
Cairo (1990)
Cairo (1996)
Luxor (1997)
Sinai (2004)
Cairo (2005)
Sharm el-Sheikh (2005)
Dahab (2006)
Cairo (2009)
Khan el-Khalili (2009)
Nag Hammadi (2010)
Alexandria (2011)
Imbaba (2011)
Sinai (2011–2023)
Sinai (2012)
Kerdasa (2013)
Mansoura (2013)
Cairo (2014)
Taba (2014)
Al-Wadi Al-Gedid (2014)
Sinai (2014)
Sinai (Jan 2015)
Barakat assassination (2015)
Sinai (July 2015)
Cairo & Giza (2015)
Metrojet Flight 9268 (2015)
Arish (2015)
Hurghada (2016)
Arish (2016)
Sinai (2016)
Botroseya Church (2016)
Palm Sunday (2017)
Minya (2017)
Rafah (2017)
Hurghada (2017)
Sinai (2017)
Saint Menas Church (2017)
Minya (2018)
Cairo (2019)
El Qantara (2022)
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