List of terrorist incidents in 1996

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).

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

Guidelines
  • To be included, entries must be notable (have a stand-alone article) and described by a consensus of reliable sources as "terrorism".
  • List entries must comply with the guidelines outlined in the manual of style under MOS:TERRORIST.
  • Casualties figures in this list are the total casualties of the incident including immediate casualties and later casualties (such as people who succumbed to their wounds long after the attacks occurred).
  • Casualties listed are the victims. Perpetrator casualties are listed separately (e.g. x (+y) indicate that x victims and y perpetrators were killed/injured).
  • Casualty totals may be underestimated or unavailable due to a lack of information. A figure with a plus (+) sign indicates that at least that many people have died (e.g. 10+ indicates that at least 10 people have died) – the actual toll could be considerably higher. A figure with a plus (+) sign may also i4ndicate that over that number of people are victims.
  • If casualty figures are 20 or more, they will be shown in bold. In addition, figures for casualties more than 50 will also be underlined.
  • Incidents are limited to one per location per day. If multiple attacks occur in the same place on the same day, they will be merged into a single incident.
  • In addition to the guidelines above, the table also includes the following categories:
  0 people were killed/injured by the incident.
  1–19 people were killed/injured by the incident.
  20–49 people were killed/injured by the incident.
  50–99 people were killed/injured by the incident.
  100+ people were killed/injured by the incident.

January
Date Type Dead Injured Location Details Perpetrator Part of
9-18 January Hostage-taking 200+ Dagestan, Russia Kizlyar-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. CRI First Chechen War
16-19 January Hostage-taking 0 13 Black Sea Black 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 without bloodshed. CRI First Chechen War
31 January Suicide bombing 91 1400 Colombo, Sri Lanka Central Bank bombing: An attack by the LTTE on the Colombo 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] LTTE Sri Lankan Civil War

February
Date Type Dead Injured Location Details Perpetrator Part of
9 February Truck bombing 2 200 London, United Kingdom 1996 Docklands bombing: The Provisional Irish Republican Army detonated a massive truck bomb in the Canary Wharf financial district of London. PIRA The Troubles

March
Date Type Dead Injured Location Details Perpetrator Part of

April
Date Type Dead Injured Location Details Perpetrator Part of
16 April Ambush 53-100 Dozens Yaryshmardy, Russia Shatoy ambush: Chechen rebels led by Ibn al-Khattab ambushed and massacres a battalion of Russian soldiers. CRI First Chechen War
18 April Mass shooting 18 Cairo, Egypt 1996 Cairo shooting: 18 people were killed when Islamist gunmen fired on Greek tourists outside the Europa hotel in Cairo.[2] Islamists

June
Date Type Dead Injured Location Details Perpetrator Part of
15 June Van bombing 0 212 Manchester, United Kingdom 1996 Manchester bombing: The PIRA parked a van containing an enormous bomb in Manchester city centre and phoned a warning to police. The bomb, the largest to explode in Britain since World War II, injured 212 people, causing extensive damage but amazingly not killing anyone. PIRA The Troubles
16 June Massacre 35-43 Unknown La Gabarra, Tibú, Colombia La Gabarra massacre: On June 16, 1996 a massacre was perpetrated by members of the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC paramilitary group) against alleged members of the FARC guerrillas, killing 35-43 people. Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia Colombian conflict
25 June Truck bombing 19 498 Khobar, Saudi Arabia Khobar 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

July
Date Type Dead Injured Location Details Perpetrator Part of
4 July Suicide bombing, assassination 20+ 60 Jaffna, Sri Lanka Ananda Hamangoda#LTTE suicide bombing: At least 20 people, including Brigade 51-2 Commanding Officer Ananda Hamangoda, were killed in a suicide bombing. LTTE Sri Lankan Civil War
24 July Bombing 64 400 Dehiwala, Sri Lanka 1996 Dehiwala train bombing: The LTTE detonated 4 bombs on Colombo-Alutgama train in Dehiwala, killing 64 civilians and injuring 400 others. LTTE Sri Lankan Civil War
27 July Bombing 2 111 Atlanta, United States Centennial 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

August
Date Type Dead Injured Location Details Perpetrator Part of

September
Date Type Dead Injured Location Details Perpetrator Part of

November
Date Type Dead Injured Location Details Perpetrator Part of
10 November Bombing 13 30 Moscow, Russia Kotlyakovskoya Cemetery bombing: A bomb exploded at a cemetery during a funeral for the president 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

December
Date Type Dead Injured Location Details Perpetrator Part of
3 December Bombing 4 170 Paris, France 1996 Paris Métro bombing: A bomb exploded at the Port-Royal-des-Champs Abbey metro station. GIA Algerian Civil War
17 December Massacre, invasion 7 1 Novye Atagi, Russia ICRC 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. CRI First Chechen War
30 December Bombing 33+ Western Assam, India Brahmaputra 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. NDFB Assam conflict

See also

References
  1. "Timeline of the Tamil conflict". BBC News. 4 September 2000. Retrieved 16 August 2015.
  2. MIPT Terrorism Knowledge Base
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