List of terrorist incidents in 1996 explained

This is a timeline of incidents in 1996 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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List

DateTypeDeadInjuredLocationDetailsPerpetratorsPart of
9-18 JanuaryHostage-taking200+Dagestan, RussiaKizlyar-Pervomayskoye hostage crisis

Around 200 Chechen rebels raided an air base near Kizlyar and took thousands of civilians hostage. The events concluded in a battle between the Chechens and Russian Army in the village of Pervomayskoye that resulted in the deaths of around 200 Russian soldiers, 96 Chechen rebels and at least 26 civilians.

CRIFirst Chechen War
16-19 JanuaryHostage-taking013Black SeaBlack Sea hostage crisis

Chechen rebels took over the ferry MV Avrasya and held the 232 passengers and crew hostage for 3 days before releasing them.

CRIFirst Chechen War
31 JanuarySuicide bombing911400Colombo, Sri LankaCentral Bank bombing

An attack by the LTTE on the Central Bank killed 91 and injured a further 1,400 civilians, damaging other buildings in the process. It was the most deadly LTTE attack on a civilian target in the history of the group's operations.[1]

LTTESri Lankan Civil War
9 FebruaryTruck bombing2200London, United Kingdom1996 Docklands bombing

The Provisional Irish Republican Army detonated a massive truck bomb in the Canary Wharf financial district.

PIRAThe Troubles
14 MarchFirebombing7?Sitra, Bahrain1996 Sitra attack

Five terrorists throw petrol bombs into a restaurant, killing seven Bangladeshi workers.

DFLP1990s uprising in Bahrain
16 AprilAmbush53-100DozensYaryshmardy, RussiaShatoy ambush

Chechen rebels led by Ibn al-Khattab ambushed and massacres a battalion of Russian soldiers.

CRIFirst Chechen War
18 AprilMass shooting18Cairo, Egypt1996 Cairo shooting

18 people were killed when Islamist gunmen fired on Greek tourists outside the Europa hotel.[2]

Islamists
15 JuneVan bombing0212Manchester, United Kingdom1996 Manchester bombing

The PIRA parked a van containing an enormous bomb in the city centre and phoned a warning to police. The bomb, the largest to explode in Britain since World War II, caused extensive damage. But despite injuring 212 people, the bomb did not kill anyone as the area had been evacuated, although a bomb squad failed to defuse the bomb.

PIRAThe Troubles
16 JuneMassacre35-43UnknownLa Gabarra, Tibú, ColombiaLa Gabarra massacre

A massacre was perpetrated by members of the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC paramilitary group) against alleged members of FARC, killing 35-43 people.

Autodefensas Unidas de ColombiaColombian conflict
25 JuneTruck bombing19498Khobar, Saudi ArabiaKhobar Towers bombing

A truck bombing targeting an apartment complex that housed U.S. servicemen. 19 American servicemen were killed and nearly 500 people of various nationalities were injured.

Saudi Hezbollah
30 JuneBombing9 (+1)29Tunceli Province, TurkeyThe 1996 Tunceli bombing was a suicide bombing targeting a group of 60 unarmed military personnel at a flag raising ceremony.Kurdistan Workers' PartyKurdish–Turkish conflict (1978–present)
4 JulySuicide bombing, assassination20+60Jaffna, Sri LankaAnanda Hamangoda#LTTE suicide bombing

At least 20 people, including Brigade 51-2 Commanding Officer Ananda Hamangoda, were killed in a suicide bombing.

LTTESri Lankan Civil War
24 JulyBombing64400Dehiwala, Sri Lanka1996 Dehiwala train bombing

The LTTE detonated 4 bombs on Colombo-Alutgama train, killing 64 civilians and injuring 400 others.

LTTESri Lankan Civil War
27 JulyBombing2111Atlanta, United StatesCentennial Olympic Park bombing

Army of God member Eric Robert Rudolph detonated a pipe bomb at Centennial Olympic Park to try to cancel the 1996 Summer Olympics due to his anger at the U.S. government allowing abortion.

Eric Robert Rudolph
AOG
10 NovemberBombing1330Moscow, RussiaKotlyakovskoya Cemetery bombing

A bomb exploded at a cemetery during a funeral for the president of the Soviet-Afghan war veterans group who had been murdered. The group had ties to organized crime. The assailants were two former members of the group who had formed a splinter group.

Andrei Anohin
Mikhail Smurov
3 DecemberBombing4170Paris, France1996 Paris Métro bombing

A bomb exploded at the Port-Royal-des-Champs Abbey metro station.

GIAAlgerian Civil War
17 DecemberMassacre, invasion71Novye Atagi, RussiaICRC Hospital of Novye Atagi#The massacre

Five to ten Chechen separatists broke into an ICRC hospital and murdered 6 six nurses and an engineer, all foreign nationals. The head of the hospital was seriously wounded.

CRIFirst Chechen War
30 DecemberBombing33+Western Assam, IndiaBrahmaputra Mail train bombing

Assamese nationalists bombed a Brahmaputra Mail train. The railway the train was on was also used by military trains, which may have been the militants targets.

NDFBAssam conflict

See also

Notes and References

  1. News: 2000-09-04. Timeline of the Tamil conflict. BBC News. 2015-08-16.
  2. http://www.tkb.org/Incident.jsp?incID=7980 MIPT Terrorism Knowledge Base