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The Dahab bombings of 24 April 2006 were three bomb attacks on the Egyptian resort city of Dahab. The resorts are popular with Western tourists and Egyptians alike during the holiday season. Map of Sinai Peninsula and surrounding area, showing location of Dahab, Egypt (28. ... Map of Sinai Peninsula and surrounding area, showing location of Dahab, Egypt (28. ... April 24 is the 114th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (115th in leap years). ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Sinai Peninsula and surrounding areas, showing location of Dahab Dahab Beach promenade windsurfing, lagoon Dahab (Ø¯Ù‡Ø¨) is a small town situated on the south-eastern coast of the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt. ...

At about 19:15 local time on 24 April 2006 — a public holiday in celebration of Sham Al-Nasseim (Spring festival) — a series of bombs exploded in tourist areas of Dahab, a resort located on the Gulf of Aqaba coast of the Sinai Peninsula. One blast occurred in or near the Nelson restaurant, one near the Aladdin café (both being on both sides of the bridge), and one near the Ghazala market. At least 23 people were killed, mostly Egyptians, but including a German, Lebanese, Russian, Swiss, and a Hungarian. ^[1] Around 80 people were wounded, including tourists from Australia, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Israel, South Korea, Lebanon, the Palestinian Territories, and the United States. ^[2] Egypt Standard Time is at UTC+2. ... April 24 is the 114th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (115th in leap years). ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Sinai Peninsula, with the Gulf of Aqaba (east) and the Gulf of Suez (west), as viewed from the Space Shuttle STS-40. ... Sinai Peninsula, Gulf of Suez (west), Gulf of Aqaba (east) from Space Shuttle STS-40 For other uses of the word Sinai, please see: Sinai (disambiguation). ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... The West Bank map The Gaza Strip map Palestinian territories is one of a number of terms used to describe, from Arab point of view, areas captured by Israel in the Six-day War of 1967, whose political status has been the subject of negotiations between Israel and the Palestine...

The governor of South Sinai reported that the blasts might have been suicide attacks, but later Habib Adly, the interior minister of Egypt said that the devices were nail bombs set off by timers, and Egyptian TV also reported that the bombs were detonated remotely. Later investigations revealed the blasts were suicide attacks, set off by Bedouins, as in earlier attacks in the Sinai. ^[3] Janub Sina is one of the governorates of Egypt. ... General Habib Ibrahim El Adly, (born March 1, 1938), is the interior minister of Egypt. ... A nail bomb is an anti-personnel explosive device packed with nails to increase its destructive power. ... A Bedouin man resting on a hillside at Mount Sinai Bedouin, derived from the Arabic (), a generic name for a desert-dweller, is a term generally applied to Arab nomadic pastoralist groups, who are found throughout most of the desert belt extending from the Atlantic coast of the Sahara via...

These explosions followed other bombings elsewhere in the Sinai Peninsula in previous years: in Sharm el-Sheikh on 23 July 2005 and in Taba on 6 October 2004. Sinai Peninsula, Gulf of Suez (west), Gulf of Aqaba (east) from Space Shuttle STS-40 For other uses of the word Sinai, please see: Sinai (disambiguation). ... View of the Red Sea and Tiran Island from the Sheraton Sharm hotel. ... July 23 is the 204th day (205th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 161 days remaining. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Taba (Arabic: Ø·Ø§Ø¨Ø§ Hebrew: ×˜××‘×” ) is a small Egyptian village near the northern tip of the Gulf of Aqaba. ... October 6 is the 279th day of the year (280th in leap years). ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Egyptian security officials have stated that the attacks were the work of an Islamic terror organisation called Jama'at al-Tawhīd wal-Jihad (Monotheism and Jihad). ^[4] This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ... TawhÄ«d (also Tawhid or Tauhid or Tawheed; Arabic ØªÙˆØÙŠØ¯) is the Islamic concept of monotheism, derived from Ahad. ...

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Image File history File links Wikinews-logo. ... Wikinews is a free-content news source and a project of the Wikimedia Foundation. ... Sharm el-Sheikh is located on the coast of the Red Sea, at the southern tip of the Sinai Peninsula. ... The 2004 Sinai bombings were three bomb attacks targeting tourist hotels in the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt, on October 7, 2004. ... Djeser-Djeseru The Luxor Massacre took place on 17 November 1997, at Deir el-Bahri, an archaelogical site located across the River Nile from Luxor in Egypt. ...

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