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The following is a list ofmassacres that have occurred inEgypt (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 governorTiberius Julius Alexander began after theFirst 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 emperorCaracalla, he ordered Alexandria's population to be massacred.[1] According to the historianHerodian, Roman soldiers gathered all young men of military age they could find into a nearby plain where they were hacked to death and thrown insidemass graves.[2] |
| Damanhur massacre[3] | 10 May 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 | 1 March 1811 | Cairo | 470 | Heads sent toIstanbul; part ofMuhammad 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. |
| Israeli bombing of Cairo | 15 July 1948 | Cairo | 30 | TheIsraeli Air Force bombarded a residential neighborhood near Qasr al-Qubba in Cairo killed 30 civilians and destroyed many homes |
| Cairo fire | 26 January 1952 | Cairo | 26 | anti-British riots, 552 injured |
| Tora Prison massacre | 1 June 1957 | Cairo | 21 | 21 members of theMuslim Brotherhood in Egypt were extrajudicially executed inTora Prison.[5][6][7] |
| Ras Sedr massacre | 8 June 1967 | Sinai Peninsula, Ras Sedr | 52 | An Israeli paratrooper unitextrajudicially executed several Egyptianprisoners of war during theSix-Day War. |
| 1967 El Arish massacre | 8 June 1967 | Sinai Peninsula: Arish, theInternational Airport, and the mountains of the Sinai. | 400 | Massacre of Egyptianprisoners of war by theIsraeli Defense Forces during theSix Day War. According to theEgyptian Organization for Human Rights, theIsraeli Defense Forces massacred "hundreds” of Egyptianprisoners of war andwounded soldiers in theSinai peninsula, on 8 June 1967. Survivors alleged that approximately 400 wounded Egyptians wereburied alive outside the capturedEl Arish International Airport, and that 150 prisoners in the mountains of the Sinai were run over by Israeli tanks.[8] Conservative Israeli media denies the massacre.[9] |
| Bahr El-Baqar primary school bombing | 8 April 1970 | Bahr el-Baqar | 46 | The Bahr El-Baqar primary school is bombed by theIsraeli Air Force, killing 46 children. |
| 1973 War massacres | 1973 | Suez Canal andCairo | 66 | After a contingent of 19IDF 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[10][11][12][13][14][15][16] |
| Ras Burqa massacre | 5 October 1985 | Ras Burqa | 8 | An Egyptian soldier opened fire on Israeli vacationers, killing 3 adults and 4 children, as well as another Egyptian soldier. |
| 1986 Egyptian conscripts riot | 25 February 1986 | Cairo | 107 | A three-day riot begins in Cairo, when around 25,000 conscripts of theCentral Security Forces (CSF), staged protests in and around the city. Three luxury hotels, several nightclubs, restaurants and cars were looted and burned in the tourist districts near the Pyramids over several days. An estimated 107 people, mostly conscripts, were killed in total. |
| Luxor massacre | 17 November 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 | 2 January 2000 | Kosheh | 21 | Over 40 injured; Muslim[ambiguous] mob attacked Coptic Christians. |
| 2004 Sinai bombings | 7 October 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 | 23 July 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 | 24 April 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 | 7 January 2010 | Nag Hammadi | 11 | 11 injured; Muslim gunmen opened fire on Coptic Christians as they were leaving church. |
| 2011 Alexandria bombing | 1 January 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 | 1 February 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.[17] |
| August 2013 Rabaa massacre | 14 August 2013 | al-Nahda Square andRabaa al-Adawiya Square,Cairo, Egypt | 1000+[a] | 1000+ killed; police and military opened fire on demonstrators opposing the military's ouster ofMohammad Morsi, the first elected president of Egypt who was removed from power following the2013 Egyptian coup d'état. In addition to thousands of protester casualties, 8 police officers were killed.[18][19] |
| Kerdasa massacre | 14 August 2013 | Kerdasa,Giza Governorate | 14 | 12 policemen and two civilians were killed by an angry mob in return for theAugust 2013 Rabaa massacre. |
| 2015 Wahat convoy incident[20] | 12 September 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 | 31 October 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 | 9 April 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 Minya bus attack | 26 May 2017 | Minya | 33 | Islamic State gunman opened fire on a bus of Egyptian Christians; a similar attack happened near the same place in 2018 |
| 2017 Sinai mosque attack | 24 November 2017 | Al-Rawda | 311 | 40 gunmen attacked the al-Rawda mosque during Friday prayers. |
| 2018 Minya bus attack | 2 November 2018 | Minya | 7 | Islamic State gunman opened fire on a bus of Egyptian Christians; a similar attack happened near the same place in 2017 |
