List of terrorist incidents in 1993 explained

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).

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DateType data-sort-type="number" Deaddata-sort-type="number" InjuredLocation DetailsPerpetratorPart of
January 7Car bombing239A car bomb kills two and injures 39 in the parking lot of a building where several judges lived.[1] Medellín CartelColombian conflict
January 25Shooting23Langley, Virginia, United StatesPakistani 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 QaziTerrorism in the United States
January 30Bombing2570Bogotá, ColombiaA 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 CartelColombian Conflict
February 11Bombing1425Barrancabermeja, ColombiaA bomb kills 14 and injures 25 at an auto repair shop.[3] UnknownColombian conflict
February 15Bombing4100+Bogotá, ColombiaTwo bombs kill 4 and wound over 100.[4] UnknownColombian conflict
February 26Truck Bombing61,042New York City, United StatesWorld 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 12Bombings2571,400Bombay, India13 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 20Bombings256Warrington, United KingdomTwo PIRA bombs exploded in trash bins on Bridge Street, killing two children and injuring dozens.PIRAThe Troubles
March 24Massacre333Elazığ and Bingöl, TurkeyThe 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' PartyKurdish–Turkish conflict (1978–present)
March 25Mass shooting41Castlerock, Northern IrelandThree Catholic civilians and one Provisional IRA member are killed in a UDA attack at a building site.UDAThe Troubles
April 9Land mine2213Karnataka, IndiaA bus is destroyed by a land mine planted by criminal leader Veerappan and his supporters.Veerappan and co-conspirators
April 15Bombings8242Bogotá, ColombiaA 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 CartelColombian conflict
April 16Suicide bombing1 7–9Hamas kill 2 in Mehola Junction bombing.[6] HamasIsraeli–Palestinian conflict
April 24Truck bombing144City of London, United KingdomIRA detonate a huge truck bomb at Bishopsgate, killing one person and causing approximately £1bn of damage.[7] (See 1993 Bishopsgate bombing.)The Troubles
April 24–25Hijacking0 0Amritsar, IndiaMohammed 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 1Suicide Bombing1 0Colombo, Sri LankaSuicide bomber from LTTE kills President Ranasinghe Premadasa.[8] [9] LTTESri Lankan Civil War
May 28Arson514Solingen, GermanyFour neo-Nazis set fire to a house belonging to a Turkish immigrant family.neo-Nazis
June 21Car bombings729Madrid, SpainETA detonates two car bombs targeting an army convoy.ETABasque conflict
July–August 18Letter bomb, car bombing 03Caracas, VenezuelaLetter bomb sent to the Supreme Court of Justice and car bomb in the CCCT shopping mall, among other attacks.Ramiro Helmeyer.[10]
July 2Arson35 (+2 attackers)51+Sivas, TurkeyA mob of Islamic fundamentalists set a hotel housing Alevi intellectuals on fire. 37 die and more than 51 are injured.[11] Islamic fundamentalists
July 5Mass shooting, arson330Başbağlar, Erzincan Province, TurkeySeveral 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] PKKTurkey-PKK conflict
July 25Mass shooting1158Cape Town, South AfricaMembers 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 8Bombing117Chennai, IndiaThe head office of the Chennai wing of the Hindu nationalist organization Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh is bombed.Islamists
October 5Attempted Attack0 (+13)1Riofrío, Valle del Cauca, ColombiaIn 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] ELNColombian conflict
October 11Assassination attempt01Oslo, NorwayThe 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 23Bombing9 57Belfast, Northern IrelandTwo 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.PIRAThe Troubles
October 25Massacre3850Çat, Erzurum Province, TurkeyThe Yavi Massacre was a mass shooting organized by the PKK in the Yavi neighbourhood.Kurdistan Workers' PartyKurdish–Turkish conflict (1978–present)
October 30Mass shooting812Greysteel, Northern IrelandEight 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.UDAThe Troubles
November 18Ambush5Apure State, VenezuelaFive Venezuelan army troops were killed during an ambush attributed to the Colombian ELN in Guafitas.[15] ELNColombian conflict
December 9Massacre17UnknownAntioquia Department, ColombiaRebels 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 FARCColombian conflict
December 16Ambush116 kidnappedSucumbíos Province, EcuadorFARC guerrillas attack an Ecuadorian police patrol in Peña Colorada. One policemen die and three soldiers and others in uniform disappear[17] FARCColombian conflict
December 18Shooting14 (+10)10Boyacá, ColombiaA 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] ELNColombian conflict
December 30Mass shooting45Cape Town, South AfricaSix 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

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Notes and References

  1. San Jose Mercury News, January 8, 1993, Page 17A
  2. Web site: HISTORIA DE OTRAS BOMBAS. Tiempo. Casa Editorial El. El Tiempo. es-CO. 2017-11-16.
  3. https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CE0D71F3DF932A25751C0A965958260 14 killed and 25 wounded by a car bomb in Colombia
  4. Web site: Past bombings in Colombia . 2024-07-02 . Tampa Bay Times . en.
  5. https://web.archive.org/web/20090730205943/http://geocities.com/CollegePark/6453/emerson.html Official prepared statement
  6. Book: Levitt, Matthew. Hamas: Politics, Charity, and Terrorism in the Service of Jihad . Yale University Press. 11. 2008.
  7. BBC: IRA bomb devastates City of London, On this day, April 24, 1993
  8. BBC News: Timeline of the Tamil conflict, September 4, 2000
  9. http://www.danieldrezner.com/research/guest/Pape1.pdf The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism, ROBERT A. PAPE The University of Chicago, American Political Science Review Vol. 97, No. 3 August 2003, Page No 16
  10. Book: Gómez-Samper, Henry. Gobernabilidad y Democracia: Participación Comunitaria y Cambio Social. Ediciones IESA. 1 January 1999. 24 August 2015. 9789800760406. es. Fabiola. Vethencourt. Virgilio Armas. Acosta.
  11. Web site: Turkey commemorates 15th anniversary of sivas massacre . 2 July 2008. Hurriyet . 2017-04-23.
  12. Web site: Başbağlar, one of PKK's bloodiest massacres, remembered. 4 July 2016. Daily Sabah. 2016-09-28.
  13. Web site: TRC Reports on St James Church Massacre. South African History Online. Truth and Reconciliation Commission. 31 January 2015. A terrorist attack on St. James Church in Cape Town, South Africa left 11 people dead and 58 wounded..
  14. Web site: MUERTOS 16 GUERRILLEROS AYER EN EL VALLE Y EL META. Tiempo. Casa Editorial El. 1993-10-06. El Tiempo. spanish. 2019-12-10.
  15. Web site: Venezuela Real. venezuelareal.zoomblog.com. 2019-11-29.
  16. Web site: NUEVA MASACRE SACUDE A URABÁ. Tiempo. Casa Editorial El. 1993-12-10. El Tiempo. spanish. 2019-12-10.
  17. Web site: Ministerio del Interior condecoró a policías, 21 años después de la masacre del Putumayo – Ministerio de Gobierno. es. 2019-12-10.
  18. Web site: CRUENTA EMBOSCADA A MILITARES EN BOYACÁ. Tiempo. Casa Editorial El. 1993-12-19. El Tiempo. spanish. 2019-12-10.