Here is a recap of previous attacks targeting foreign tourists holidaying in North Africa, after Moroccan authorities arrested three suspects in the murder this week of two Scandinavian hikers. The two men responsible for the attack are sentenced to death and seven others handed jail sentences ranging from two to 10 years. The bombing is the deadliest in Morocco since attacks in the coastal city of Casablanca in 2003 that killed 33 people and 12 bombers. TunisiaOn March 18, 2015, two men gun down 20 foreign tourists and a policeman at the Bardo National Museum in Tunisia. On June 26, 2015, a Tunisian student goes on a shooting spree at the Riu Imperial Marhaba Hotel in the beach resort of Sousse, killing 38 foreign tourists including 30 from Britain.

Source: The North Africa Journal December 20, 2018 16:18 UTC