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20 KILLED IN BANGLADESH DHAKA’S HOSTAGE CRISIS
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Bangladeshi 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
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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
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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
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** 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
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* 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
– DOZENS KILLED IN TUNISIAN RESORT TOWN SOUSSE
At least 27 people were killed after two gunmen attacked, on Friday 06/26/2015, the first Friday of Ramadan, a beach, the Imperial Marhaba hotel and a neighbor hotel in the Tunisian city of Sousse, an interior ministry official told… 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.
“There are eight victims”, including “seven foreigners”, Mohamed Ali Aroui, the… Continue reading