Killing of 62 people, mostly tourists, that took place on 17 November 1997, at Deir el-Bahri. Deir el-Bahri is a tourist attraction of Egypt acrosss river Nile from Luxor.
The Egyptian Islamist organization Al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya is said to be bhind the attack to devastate the Eygyptian economy and lead the country to a major crisis.
Deir el-Bahri is famous for the mortuary temples which houses the mummies of Mentuhotep II of the Eleventh dynasty,18th-dynasty female pharaoh Hatshepsut and Amenhotep I.
The temple of Hatshepsut is more spectacular and is known by the name Djeser-
Djeseru.
Djeser-Djeseru
With the tourists trapped inside the temple, the killing went on systematically for 45 minutes and killed 62 people from various countries. The police and military tried to capture them in a shootout but they fled into the hills and all their bodies were found dead in a cave excpet one who was injured in the shootout. They might have committed suicide.
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