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| Three Egyptians have been sentenced to death over a series of bomb attacks in Sinai resorts that killed 34 people in October 2004. | Three Egyptians have been sentenced to death over a series of bomb attacks in Sinai resorts that killed 34 people in October 2004. |
| The three men were found guilty of various terror-related charges at a state security court in Ismailiya. | The three men were found guilty of various terror-related charges at a state security court in Ismailiya. |
| More than 100 people were injured in three simultaneous bombings targeting a hotel in Taba and a backpacker camp a few miles along the coast on 7 October. | More than 100 people were injured in three simultaneous bombings targeting a hotel in Taba and a backpacker camp a few miles along the coast on 7 October. |
| Resorts in Sinai have been hit by a series of bombings in recent years. | Resorts in Sinai have been hit by a series of bombings in recent years. |
| The three men were named as Younes Mohammed Mahmoud, Osama al-Nakhlawi and Mohammed Jaez Sabbah. | |
| They were found guilty of terrorism, murder, illegal possession of weapons and belonging to a terror group, the Associated Press reports. | |
| Suspicions | |
| The bombings took place at the Hilton hotel in Taba and the Ras al-Shitan campsite resort near Nuweiba. | |
| Both resorts were packed with Israeli tourists who had travelled there during a Jewish holiday. | |
| Many of the dead were Israelis, but Russians, Egyptians and Italians were also killed. | |
| More than 2,000 people were reported to have been arrested in the weeks following the attacks, which badly damaged part of the Hilton hotel. | |
| Egypt has said little about its investigations of this and other bomb attacks in Sinai. | |
| But suspicion has fallen on a group called al-Tawhid Wal Jihad, which is believed to be made up of Sinai Bedouin with militant Islamist views. |