Grand-Bassam shootings

Grand-Bassam shootings
Part of the spillover of the Maghreb insurgency
The beach targeted, pictured in 2008
Location	Grand-Bassam, Ivory Coast
Date	13 March 2016
Attack type	Mass murder, mass shooting
Weapons	Assault rifles Hand grenades
Deaths	16 civilians and 3 special forces members (+3 attackers)
Injured	33
Perpetrators	Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb Al-Mourabitoun
No. of participants	6

Grand-Bassam

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The location of Grand-Bassam within the Ivory Coast

On 13 March 2016, three gunmen opened fire at a beach on Grand-Bassam, Ivory Coast. They attacked the Étoile du Sud hotel which was occupied at the time.^[1] 19 people were killed. Thirty-three people were injured.^[2][3][4]

It had been the third attack on a tourism resort in West Africa for four months.^[5][6]

1. ↑ "Ivory Coast: Shooting at Grand Bassam beach". BBC News. Retrieved Mar 19, 2016.
2. ↑ "Death toll in Ivory Coast militant attack rises to 18: government". Reuters Editorial. 14 March 2016.
3. ↑ "Ivory Coast hotel shooting: Gunmen 'kill 15 including four Europeans' in Grand Bassam beach resort". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 13 Mar 2016.
4. ↑ "Ivory Coast Hotel Shooting: 12 Dead – Reports". Sky News. 13 March 2016. Retrieved 13 Mar 2016.
5. ↑ "Al-Qaeda claims deadly Ivory Coast attack". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 2021-03-05.
6. ↑ Coulibaly, Loucoumane; Searcey, Dionne (2016-03-13). "16 Killed in Terrorist Attack on Resort Hotels in Ivory Coast". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-11-04.