Militant Incidents in Egypt (June 2014)

by | Feb 18, 2017 | Egypt Coverage, Incident Reports

Total casualties

16 fatalities

29 injuries

Total incidents

Civilian casualty ratio

%

Frequent modalities

  • Gun assaults (6)
  • Minor bombings (5)
  • Abductions (4)

Frequent targets

  • Deployed police units (5)
  • Coptic community members (4)
  • Subway system (2)

Deadliest attacks

  • Jun. 29 – Rafah (4 deaths)
  • Jun. 30 – Qahira (2 deaths)
  • Jun. 26 – Aswan (2 deaths)

Overview of incidents

  1. Jun. 01 – A policeman was injured when the bomb he was trying to defuse went off near Sheikh Zuwaid, in the North Sinai governorate. [Ahr]
  2. Jun. 03 – Militants fired a rocket-propelled grenade at a police station in the city of Arish, in the North Sinai governorate. Nobody was hurt in the incident. [Ahr]
  3. Jun. 07 – A civilian was killed and another one was wounded when a bomb exploded as they inspecting the device while working on a plot of land in Sadis min-Oktubar, in the Giza governorate. [Ahr]
  4. Jun. 11 – A soldier was killed when militants opened fire at Egyptian troops in the city of Arish, in the North Sinai governorate. Another soldier and a civilian were wounded in the incident. [Ahr & AM]
  5. Jun. 13 – A policeman was shot and injured by gunmen as security forces tried to control a riot by proponents of the Muslim Brotherhood in the city of Minya el-Qam, in the Sharqiya governorate. [AM]
  6. Jun. 13 – A gunman shot and killed a policeman as security forces were dispersing supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood who were staging a protest in the Ma’adi suburb of Qahira. [AFP, Ahr, AM & DNE]
  7. Jun. 14 – A Coptic surgeon was shot and wounded by gunmen before they abducted him in the city of Arish, in the North Sinai governorate. [AP & DNE]
  8. Jun. 16 – Militants opened fire at policemen who intercepted their car in southern Qahira, killing one officer and sparking a brief shootout. [AFP, Ahr, AM & AP]
  9. Jun. 16 – A Coptic trader was kidnapped by militants near his house in the city of Arish, in the North Sinai governorate. The hostage was later released by the militants. [AP & DNE]
  10. Jun. 21 – A roadside bomb exploded on a highway in Rafah, in the North Sinai governorate. The device went off prematurely. [Ahr]
  11. Jun. 25 – Two commuters were wounded when a bomb exploded at a subway station in Shubra el-Kheima, in the Qalyubiya governorate. A militant was also hurt as the bomb exploded prematurely. [AFP, Ahr, AM, AP, DNE & Reut]
  12. Jun. 25 – Bombs exploded at four subway stations in the city center of Qahira and in the Ezbet el-Nakhel suburb. Four civilians were hurt in the blasts. [AFP, Ahr, AM, AP, DNE & Reut]
  13. Jun. 25 – A bomb fixed to a parked car exploded outside a courthouse in the Heliopolis suburb of Qahira. One civilian was wounded in the blast. [AFP, Ahr, AM, DNE & Reut]
  14. Jun. 26 – Two Nubian men died when assailants belonging to the Arab Bani Hilal clan burnt their house in the city of Aswan. [Ahr & AP]
  15. Jun. 27 – Two repairmen were shot to death by militants as they left the house of a police officer in the city of Arish, in the North Sinai governorate. [Ahr, AP & DNE]
  16. Jun. 28 – A bomb exploded at the construction site of a telephone exchange in Sadis min-Oktubar, in the Giza governorate, killing the wife and daughter of a security guard. [AFP, Ahr, AM, AP & DNE]
  17. Jun. 28 – A group of gunmen clashed with policemen during a firefight on the western outskirts of Arish, in the North Sinai governorate. No one was hurt in the clash. [AFP, Ahr & DNE]
  18. Jun. 29 – Four off-duty policemen were killed when ABaM terrorists shot them after stopping their vehicle near the town of Rafah, in the North Sinai governorate. [AFP, Ahr, AM, AP & DNE]
  19. Jun. 30 – A Coptic trader was abducted by a group of militants from the town of Nag Hammadi, in the Qena governorate. [DNE]
  20. Jun. 30 – Three street cleaners were injured when a bomb exploded in the vicinity of the presidential palace in the Heliopolis suburb of Qahira. Two others bombs exploded nearby shortly afterwards during efforts to defuse the devices by security personnel, killing two policemen. Three other police officers and ten bystanders were hurt in the blasts. The incident was attributed to the AM. [Ahr, AM, AP, DNE & Reut]
  21. Jun. 30 – A Christian engineer was kidnapped by a group of unidentified assailants in the North Sinai governorate. [DNE]

AFP: Agence France-Presse (France), Ahr: Ahram (Egypt), AM: Aswat Masriya (Egypt), AP: Associated Press (America), DNE: Daily News Egypt (Egypt), EI: Egypt Independent (Egypt), MA: Masry al-Youm (Egypt), MENA: Middle East News Agency (Egypt), Reut: Reuters (Britain), TNN: Tahrir News Network (Egypt), SIS: State Information Service (Egypt)