2004 Sinai bombings | |
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Location | Taba and Nuweiba, Sinai Peninsula, Egypt |
Coordinates | 29°07′24.43″N 34°41′05.12″E / 29.1234528°N 34.6847556°E 29°29′24.20″N 34°53′58.50″E / 29.4900556°N 34.8995833°E |
Date | 7 October 2004 |
Attack type | car bombings |
Deaths | 34 |
Injured | 171 |
Perpetrators | masterminded by Iyad Saleh and carried out by a Palestinian group |
Motive | presumably the Israeli–Palestinian conflict |
The 2004 Sinai bombings were three bomb attacks targeting tourist hotels in the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt, on 7 October 2004. The attacks left 34 people dead and 171 injured.