Ras Burqa massacre | |
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Location | Ras Burqa, Sinai Peninsula, Egypt |
Coordinates | 29°12′28″N 34°44′06″E / 29.20778°N 34.73500°E |
Date | 5 October 1985 |
Target | Israeli tourists |
Attack type | Mass murder |
Weapons | Machine gun |
Deaths | 7 Israeli civilians (including 4 children) 1 Egyptian policeman[1] |
Injured | 4 Israeli civilians |
Perpetrator | Lone Egyptian soldier (Suleiman Khater) |
The Ras Burqa massacre was a mass shooting on 5 October 1985 on Israeli vacationers in Ras Burqa, a beach resort area in the Sinai peninsula, in which seven people, including four children, were killed by Egyptian soldier Suleiman Khater.