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| July 8, 2005 | Friday | Jumadi-ul-Awwal 30, 1426 |
Attacks since 9/11
LONDON, July 7: The wave of explosions in London is the latest in a line of attacks since the Sept 11 strikes in the United States in 2001.
Following is a list of some of the major attacks in recent times (not including Iraq):
Sept 11: Hijacked US airliners crash into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York, which collapse shortly afterwards.
A third hijacked plane crashes into the Pentagon, while a fourth comes down in rural Pennsylvania. The attacks, claimed by Al-Qaeda, kill around 3,000 people.
April 11: Tunisia: Nineteen people are killed in a truck-bomb explosion outside a synagogue on the resort island of Djerba, most of them German tourists.
May 8: Karachi: Fourteen people, including 11 French nationals, are killed in a car bomb attack.
Oct 12: Indonesia: Bomb blasts rip through two crowded nightspots on the resort island of Bali, killing 202 people from 21 countries. The attacks are blamed on the Jemaah Islamiyah group.
Nov 28: Kenya: Twelve Kenyans and three Israelis are killed in a car bomb attack on an Israeli-owned hotel in Mombasa that also kills three attackers. At the same time an Israeli charter plane narrowly escapes a missile attack.
May 12: Saudi Arabia: Thirty-five people, including nine bombers, are killed in a coordinated strike on three Western housing complexes in Riyadh. Chechnya: Fifty-nine people are killed when a truck packed with explosives rams a local government building.
May 16: Morocco: A series of suicide bombings in Casablanca kills 44 people, including 12 attackers and six foreigners.
July 5: Russia: Two female suicide bombers blow themselves up at a Moscow rock concert, killing 13 people.
July 4: QUETTA: Forty-eight people are killed in a suicide attack at a mosque.
Aug 1: Russia: A suicide bomber detonates a truck packed with explosives at a military hospital in southern Russia, claiming 44 lives.
Aug 5: Indonesia: Twelve people are killed and 74 others injured after an explosion from a car bomb tears through a luxury hotel and surrounding buildings in Jakarta’s main business district.
Aug 25: India: Double car-bombing in Mumbai kills 52.
Feb 6: Russia: A bomb explodes on the Moscow subway, killing 41 and injuring 120.
March 11: Spain: A coordinated series of bomb attacks, claimed by Al-Qaeda, in three Madrid railway stations, leave 191 dead and nearly 2,000 injured.
Aug 24: Russia: Two Russian airliners are blown out of the sky, killing 90 people. The attacks are claimed by Islamic Chechen separatists.
Feb 14: Lebanon: Former prime minister Rafic Hariri is among 19 killed in a bomb attack on the seafront road in Beirut.
May 7: Myanmar: Nineteen people killed and 162 injured in simultaneous bomb attacks on two shopping centres.—Reuters
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