This is a timeline of incidents in 1993 that have been labelled as "terrorism" and are not believed to have been carried out by a government or its forces (see state terrorism and state-sponsored terrorism).
| Date | Type | data-sort-type="number" | Dead | data-sort-type="number" | Injured | Location | Details | Perpetrator | Part of |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 7 | Car bombing | 2 | 39 | A car bomb kills two and injures 39 in the parking lot of a building where several judges lived.[1] | Medellín Cartel | Colombian conflict | |||
| January 25 | Shooting | 2 | 3 | Langley, Virginia, United States | Pakistani immigrant Mir Qazi opened fire on CIA employees outside the CIA headquarters. Qazi committed the shootings because he was angered at U.S. foreign policy towards Muslim nations. | Mir Qazi | Terrorism in the United States | ||
| January 30 | Bombing | 25 | 70 | Bogotá, Colombia | A bomb kills 25 and injures 70, 12 days after a letter was published from fugitive cocaine king Pablo Escobar vowing to renew his all-out war on the Colombian state[2] | Medellín Cartel | Colombian Conflict | ||
| February 11 | Bombing | 14 | 25 | Barrancabermeja, Colombia | A bomb kills 14 and injures 25 at an auto repair shop.[3] | Unknown | Colombian conflict | ||
| February 15 | Bombing | 4 | 100+ | Bogotá, Colombia | Two bombs kill 4 and wound over 100.[4] | Unknown | Colombian conflict | ||
| February 26 | Truck Bombing | 6 | 1,042 | New York City, United States | World Trade Center bombing kills six and injures over 1000 people, by coalition of five groups: Jamaat Al-Fuqra'/Gamaat Islamiya/Hamas/Islamic Jihad/National Islamic Front,[5] see FBI Most Wanted Terrorists, FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives, Ramzi Yousef. | Ramzi Yousef and co-conspirators | |||
| March 12 | Bombings | 257 | 1,400 | Bombay, India | 13 bombings targeting banks, hotels, the Bombay Stock Exchange and other buildings. The bombings were organized by Dawood Ibrahim, the leader of D-Company. | D-Company | |||
| March 20 | Bombings | 2 | 56 | Warrington, United Kingdom | Two PIRA bombs exploded in trash bins on Bridge Street, killing two children and injuring dozens. | PIRA | The Troubles | ||
| March 24 | Massacre | 33 | 3 | Elazığ and Bingöl, Turkey | The May 24, 1993 PKK attack, sometimes referred to as the Bingöl massacre was a Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) attack on unarmed Turkish soldiers on the Elazığ-Bingöl highway, 13 km (8.1 mi) west of Bingöl. 33 soldiers and varying conflicting accounts of civilians were killed | Kurdistan Workers' Party | Kurdish–Turkish conflict (1978–present) | ||
| March 25 | Mass shooting | 4 | 1 | Castlerock, Northern Ireland | Three Catholic civilians and one Provisional IRA member are killed in a UDA attack at a building site. | UDA | The Troubles | ||
| April 9 | Land mine | 22 | 13 | Karnataka, India | A bus is destroyed by a land mine planted by criminal leader Veerappan and his supporters. | Veerappan and co-conspirators | |||
| April 15 | Bombings | 8 | 242 | Bogotá, Colombia | A car bomb with 150 kg of explosives blows up in front of the Centro 93 shopping mall, killing 8 and injuring 242. The blast destroys 100 commercial properties and leave damages valued at 1.5 Bn COP | Medellín Cartel | Colombian conflict | ||
| April 16 | Suicide bombing | 1 | 7–9 | Hamas kill 2 in Mehola Junction bombing.[6] | Hamas | Israeli–Palestinian conflict | |||
| April 24 | Truck bombing | 1 | 44 | City of London, United Kingdom | IRA detonate a huge truck bomb at Bishopsgate, killing one person and causing approximately £1bn of damage.[7] (See 1993 Bishopsgate bombing.) | The Troubles | |||
| April 24–25 | Hijacking | 0 | 0 | Amritsar, India | Mohammed Yunus Shah hijacks Indian Airlines Flight 427 but is killed before he is able to harm any of the passengers. India accused the Hizbul Mujahideen of being behind the attack, but they denied responsibility. | Mohammed Yunus Shah Hizbul Mujahideen (suspected) | Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir | ||
| May 1 | Suicide Bombing | 1 | 0 | Colombo, Sri Lanka | Suicide bomber from LTTE kills President Ranasinghe Premadasa.[8] [9] | LTTE | Sri Lankan Civil War | ||
| May 28 | Arson | 5 | 14 | Solingen, Germany | Four neo-Nazis set fire to a house belonging to a Turkish immigrant family. | neo-Nazis | |||
| June 21 | Car bombings | 7 | 29 | Madrid, Spain | ETA detonates two car bombs targeting an army convoy. | ETA | Basque conflict | ||
| July–August 18 | Letter bomb, car bombing | 0 | 3 | Caracas, Venezuela | Letter bomb sent to the Supreme Court of Justice and car bomb in the CCCT shopping mall, among other attacks. | Ramiro Helmeyer.[10] | |||
| July 2 | Arson | 35 (+2 attackers) | 51+ | Sivas, Turkey | A mob of Islamic fundamentalists set a hotel housing Alevi intellectuals on fire. 37 die and more than 51 are injured.[11] | Islamic fundamentalists | |||
| July 5 | Mass shooting, arson | 33 | 0 | Başbağlar, Erzincan Province, Turkey | Several PKK members stormed the village and went on killing civilians one by one after rounding them up. Over 200 houses, a clinic, a school and a mosque were burned down.[12] | PKK | Turkey-PKK conflict | ||
| July 25 | Mass shooting | 11 | 58 | Cape Town, South Africa | Members of the Azanian People's Liberation Army,[13] open fire on a congregation inside St James Church in Kenilworth, Cape Town, killing 11 and injuring fifty. | Azanian People's Liberation Army | |||
| August 8 | Bombing | 11 | 7 | Chennai, India | The head office of the Chennai wing of the Hindu nationalist organization Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh is bombed. | Islamists | |||
| October 5 | Attempted Attack | 0 (+13) | 1 | Riofrío, Valle del Cauca, Colombia | In the village of El Bosque, Piedras Portugal, 13 ELN guerrillas died in combat with troops from the Palacé Battalion of the III Brigade. They were surprised while they prepared a handstand.[14] | ELN | Colombian conflict | ||
| October 11 | Assassination attempt | 0 | 1 | Oslo, Norway | The publisher of Aschehoug William Nygaard was shot and got critically injured outside his residence. Police never found the perpetrator, but it is believed that the reason for the assassination was Aschehoug's publication of Salman Rushdie's controversial novel The Satanic Verses, which triggered an Islamist fatwa against the author, the translators and publishers. | Islamic republic of Iran | |||
| October 23 | Bombing | 9 | 57 | Belfast, Northern Ireland | Two members of the Provisional IRA entered a shop on Shankill Road where they believed a UDA meeting was taking place. However, the meeting had been rescheduled and the bomb detonated prematurely, killing one of the bombers, an UDA member and eight civilians. | PIRA | The Troubles | ||
| October 25 | Massacre | 38 | 50 | Çat, Erzurum Province, Turkey | The Yavi Massacre was a mass shooting organized by the PKK in the Yavi neighbourhood. | Kurdistan Workers' Party | Kurdish–Turkish conflict (1978–present) | ||
| October 30 | Mass shooting | 8 | 12 | Greysteel, Northern Ireland | Eight civilians (six Catholic, two Protestant) were killed and twelve wounded in a UDA attack on the Rising Sun Bar in County Londonderry. The UDA/UFF claimed that it had attacked the "nationalist electorate" in revenge for the Shankill Road bombing. | UDA | The Troubles | ||
| November 18 | Ambush | 5 | Apure State, Venezuela | Five Venezuelan army troops were killed during an ambush attributed to the Colombian ELN in Guafitas.[15] | ELN | Colombian conflict | |||
| December 9 | Massacre | 17 | Unknown | Antioquia Department, Colombia | Rebels of the Popular Commands (demobilized from the EPL) assassinate 12 workers of a banana hacienda Los Katíos, located between Apartadó and Turbo, affiliated to the Communist Party. On the same day, insurgents of the V Front of the FARC, assassinate 5 members of the Esperanza, Paz, Libertad movement at La Ceja de Turbo.[16] | Popular Liberation Army and FARC | Colombian conflict | ||
| December 16 | Ambush | 11 | 6 kidnapped | Sucumbíos Province, Ecuador | FARC guerrillas attack an Ecuadorian police patrol in Peña Colorada. One policemen die and three soldiers and others in uniform disappear[17] | FARC | Colombian conflict | ||
| December 18 | Shooting | 14 (+10) | 10 | Boyacá, Colombia | A fierce shootout in Güicán pits 250 troops from Brigades I and XVI, with 160 guerrillas from the Domingo Laín ELN front. 14 soldiers and ten rebels are dead.[18] | ELN | Colombian conflict | ||
| December 30 | Mass shooting | 4 | 5 | Cape Town, South Africa | Six members of the Azanian People's Liberation Army, the armed wing of the Pan Africanist Congress, open fire on patrons of the Heidelberg Tavern in Observatory, Cape Town, killing four people (Jose Cerqueira, Lindy-Anne Fourie, Bernadette Langford, and Rolande Palm) and injuring several others. | Azanian People's Liberation Army |