Militant Incidents in Egypt (March 2017)

by | Apr 11, 2017 | Egypt Coverage, Incident Reports

Total casualties

27 fatalities

27 injuries

Total incidents

Civilian casualty ratio

%

Overview of incidents

  1. Mar. 01 – A roadside bomb went off as a police armored vehicle passed by in the city of Arish, in the North Sinai governorate. Nobody was hurt in the blast. [Baw]
  2. Mar. 01 – A young man was abducted and later shot to death by militants belonging to the DaIWS in Rafah, in the North Sinai governorate. [Baw]
  3. Mar. 08 – An Ikhwani militant opened fire at police forces who raided his hideout in the city of Ismailiya. The gunman was killed in retaliatory gunfire. [Ahr]
  4. Mar. 08 – A roadside bomb exploded as a police convoy passed by in Arish, in the North Sinai governorate. A police colonel was killed and three officers were injured in the blast. The DaIWS asserted responsibility for the attack. [Ahr, Bal, Baw, DNE & MS]
  5. Mar. 09 – A bomb exploded near a busy square in western Qahira. No one was injured in the blast. [Bal]
  6. Mar. 09 – Two policemen were killed and four colleagues were wounded when a roadside bomb exploded during an attempt to dismantle it in the city of Arish, in the North Sinai governorate. [Ahr, AP, Bal, DNE & EI]
  7. Mar. 16 – Militants abducted and later executed two civilians in the town of Rafah, in the North Sinai governorate. [Baw]
  8. Mar. 20 – Three civilians were killed and two others were wounded when their vehicle was struck in a landmine explosion in the Garaya Valley, in the North Sinai governorate. [Ahr, Baw & EI]
  9. Mar. 20 – A roadside bomb exploded next to a police vehicle in Arish, in the North Sinai governorate. Six policemen and three civilians were wounded in the blast. [Baw, DNE & MS]
  10. Mar. 21 – Militants bombed and destroyed an apartment building in the city of Arish, in the North Sinai governorate. The compound was sometimes used by Egyptian soldiers as a sentry. [DNE]
  11. Mar. 23 – Ten soldiers were killed in two roadside bomb explosions as security forces were chasing militants in the south of the North Sinai governorate. [AFP, Ahr, AP, Bal, Baw & DNE]
  12. Mar. 23 – Two police officers were killed when militants ambushed their patrol near Arish, in the North Sinai governorate. [Ahr, AP, DNE & Reut]
  13. Mar. 24 – A janitor was killed when a bomb exploded during examination in the garden of the building where he worked in the Ma’adi neighborhood of Qahira. The victim’s wife and two children were injured in the blast. [Ahr, Bal, Baw, DNE & EI]
  14. Mar. 25 – Three policemen were killed and six colleagues were wounded when their armored vehicle was struck in a roadside bomb explosion near Hassana, in the North Sinai governorate. [AP, Bel, Baw & Reut]
  15. Mar. 25 – Militants bombed and partially destroyed a mainstream Islamic religious seminary in the city of Arish, in the North Sinai governorate. [Bal, Baw & DNE]
  16. Mar. 25 – A sniper shot and killed a police officer as he was manning a security checkpoint south of Arish, in the North Sinai governorate. [AP & MS]
  17. Mar. 27 – A soldier was killed when a sniper shot him at a security checkpoint in Sheikh Zuwaid, in the North Sinai governorate. [Baw]

AFP: Agence France-Presse (France), Ahr: Ahram (Egypt), AM: Aswat Masriya (Egypt), AP: Associated Press (America), Bal: Balad (Egypt) Baw: Bawaba (Egypt), BBC: British Broadcasting Corporation (Britain), CNN: Cable News Network (America), CP: Cairo Post (Egypt), DNE: Daily News Egypt (Egypt), EI: Egypt Independent (Egypt), MENA: Middle East News Agency (Egypt), MS: MENA Stream, MY: Masry al-Youm (Egypt), Reut: Reuters (Britain), Sho: Shorouk (Egypt), SHR: Sinai Human Rigths (Egypt), SIS: State Information Service (Egypt), SN: Sinai News (Egypt), TNN: Tahrir News Network (Egypt), Y7: Youm 7 (Egypt), Wat: Watan (Egypt)