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20 KILLED IN BANGLADESH DHAKA’S HOSTAGE CRISIS

Bangladesh mapBangladeshi troops said, on Saturday 07/02/2016, they have cleared a cafe in the capital Dhaka, where 9 gunmen on Friday, at about 21:00 local time, the last friday of Ramadan,  took at least 20 hostages, including foreigners. Tuhin… Continue reading

16 KILLED IN IVORY COAST’ TERROR ATTACK

Unidentified gunmen have killed, on Sunday 03/13/2016, about 16 people, including 4 Westerner tourists, at a beach resort in southern Ivory Coast,  a model of stability in West Africa, officials say. The assailants fired on beach-goers in… Continue reading

– NEXT ON LINE – BURKINA FASO HOTEL ATTACK

Burkina Faso’s government said, on Saturday 01/16/2016,  26 people were killed and a further 56 injured after Islamist militants attacked a hotel in the capital, Ouagadougou, popular with foreigners.

MAGHREB al-Qaeda ( AQIM ), led by Mukhtar Bilmukhtar… Continue reading

– 10 KILLED IN ISTANBUL SUICIDE BOMBING

Several dead and wounded, on Tuesday 01/12/2016 at about 10:20 local time, after a powerful  explosion rocked a central Istanbul Sultanahmet square, Turkish television stations reported. Sultanahmet square in Istanbul is, a major tourist attraction.  Turkish police sealed… Continue reading

– ATTACKS ON TOURIST LOCATIONS IN EGYPT

** Three  foreign tourists  at the Bella Vista hotel have been injured in an attack at a hotel in the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Hurghada on Friday 01/08/2016 evening. The attackers. armed with knifes t,… Continue reading

– MALI HOSTAGES CRISIS – 27 HOSTAGES KILLED

* 170 hostages, including 140 guests and 30 employees at the 190 rooms Radisson Blu Hotel in the Malian capital Bamako, were seized by Islamic gunmen.  on Friday 11/20/2015 AT at about 08:30 local time, the hotel said… Continue reading

– 23 KILLED IN TUNIS BARDO MUSEUM ATTACK

 

Armed men have killed, on 03/18/2015, seven tourists and a Tunisian citizen in an attack on a museum in Tunisia’s capital Tunis, according the Interior Ministry spokesperson.

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“There are eight victims”, including “seven foreigners”, Mohamed Ali Aroui, the… Continue reading

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