Total casualties
12 fatalities
53 injuries
Total incidents
Civilian casualty ratio
%
Overview of incidents
- Jan. 06 – Gunmen shot and killed a soldier as Egyptian security forces tried to control a riot by Gazans on the border in the North Sinai governorate. [AP & Reut]
- Jan. 07 – Islamist terrorists opened fire at worshippers leaving a Coptic church in the town of Nag Hamadi, in the Qena governorate, killing six Christians and a Muslim security guard. Nine other people were wounded in the attack. [AP & Reut]
- Jan. 08 – Muslim thugs hurled firebombs at houses and shops belonging to the Coptic community in Baghoura, in the Qena governorate. [AFP]
- Jan. 09 – A Christian woman was killed in an attack by unidentified assailants in the village of Baghoura, in the Qena governorate. No further information was available. [CA & ICC]
- Feb. 03 – Bedouin gunmen killed two policemen and injured four colleagues as they ambushed a police van carrying imprisoned tribesmen in the North Sinai governorate. The eight Bedouin criminals were freed during the incident. [Reut]
- Feb. 21 – A terrorist threw a poorly-constructed bomb at a synagogue in the city of Qahira, causing a minor blast. No one was injured in the incident. [AFP, AP & Reut]
- Feb. 27 – A Coptic priest and his wife were shot and wounded by Islamic gunmen in the village of Teleda, in the Minya governorate. [ICC]
- Mar. 13 – A mob of more than 250 Islamist thugs ransacked a Coptic church and set fire to three homes belonging to Christian families in the town of Marsa Matrouh, in the Matrouh governorate. More than twenty Copts were assaulted and injured in the incident. [CA & ICC]
- May 25 – A Belgian tourist was injured in a knife attack by an assailant in the city of Aswan. [AP]
- May 29 – A band of Muslim thugs stabbed and wounded four members of a Coptic family during a raid on their house in the village of Kom el-Mahras, in the Minya governorate. [ICC]
- Jun. 27 – Militants bombed a section of a gas pipeline in the village of Gafransh, in the North Sinai governorate. Bedouin fighters were suspected in the incident. [GTD]
- Jun. 28 – Bedouin gunmen clashed with police forces during a gun battle near Ouja, in the North Sinai governorate. No one was hurt in the encounter. [Reut]
- Jul. 05 – Islamic thugs stabbed and wounded a member of the Christian community in the city of Qahira. [AINA]
- Aug. 14 – Eleven Coptic Christians were injured in a series of assaults by Muslim thugs in the village of Shimi, in the Giza governorate. [AINA]
- Sep. 24 – Bedouin gunmen set fire to a police car and besieged a police station in the town of Gafafa, in the North Sinai governorate. No one was hurt in the incident. [Reut]
- Nov. 16 – At least ten houses belonging to members of the Coptic community were set on fire by Muslim thugs in the village of Nawahid, in the Qena governorate. The assailants were angry over a love affair between a Christian and a Muslim. [DNE]
- Nov. 27 – The son of an independent election candidate was stabbed to death by unknown thugs as he was putting up campaign posters in the Matariya neighborhood of Qahira. [AFP & DNE]
- Nov. 28 – An activist of the ruling socialist NDP party was shot and critically injured when rivals from the Sawarka Bedouin tribe attacked representatives of an election candidate from the Rishayat tribe at a polling station near Sheikh Zuwaid, in the North Sinai governorate. [DNE]
- Nov. 28 – Gunmen from the Rishayat Bedouin tribe sprayed gunfire at a polling station in the town of Sheikh Zuwaid, in the North Sinai governorate. No one was hurt in the attack. [DNE]
AFP: Agence France-Presse (France), AINA: Assyrian International News Agency (America), AP: Associated Press (America), CA: Cerus Intel Archives (Belgium), DNE: Daily News Egypt (Egypt), GTD: Global Terrorism Database (America), ICC: International Christian Concern (America), Reut: Reuters (Britain)