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2 SCANDINAVIANS KILLEd IN MOROCCO
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Three men were arrested on Thursday 12/20/2018 over the murder of Louisa Vesterager Jespersen, 24 (L), from Denmark, and Maren Ueland, 28 (R), from Norway. They had travelled together to Morocco for a month-long holiday on 9… Continue reading
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.… 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
EURODISNEY SCARE
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French police arrested, on Thursday 01/28/2016, a man carrying two low-caliber handguns at the Euro Disney amusement park outside Paris, an Interior Ministry official said.
French media had said that the man had been carrying the two guns concealed… 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
A PLOT TO BOMB AN EILAT HOTEL THWEATTED
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Two Israeli Arabs from Jerusalem. Khalil Nimri and Ashraf Salaymeh plotted to plant explosives at Rio hotel in the southern resort city Eilat, targeting religious Jews staying there. The two suspects were indicted on Thursday 12/31/2015 for… Continue reading
TOURIST KILLED IN DAGESTAN TERROR SHOOTING
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One man has been killed and 11 injured, on Tuesday 12/29/2015 night, in shooting at Naryn-Kala fortress in the city of Derbent, a fortress popular with tourists in Southern Dagestan.in the Caucasus, southern Russia.
The dead man has been… 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