On this day in 2011, a bomb was detonated at the Oktyabrskaya metro station in Minsk, Belarus, killing 12 people and injuring 126. The bomb was set to go off during rusk hour at one of the busiest metro stations in the city.
Category: Perspectives
On this day in 1992, the PIRA detonated a one-ton homemade bomb hidden in a white van in front of the Baltic Exchange building at the heart of London’s financial district.
On this day in 2009, a bombing in Jayapura, Indonesia killed 5 and injured several others while elsewhere 500 militants attacked a police post with bows and arrows and petrol bombs.
It may sound trite but when everything and everyone is seen as a terrorist – or a potential terrorist – the term has lost all its meaning.
On this day in 2004, a grenade exploded at an election rally in India-held Kashmir killing nine people and wounding over 50.
On this day in 2005, a small bomb stuffed with nails exploded near the heart of a tourist bazaar in Cairo killing two people including a French tourist.
On this day in 2008, a suicide bomber struck a marathon in Weliveriya, Sri Lanka killing 15 people and wounding another 90.
The decision to name some groups as terrorist is often a very biased one: it is important to see why certain groups are labeled as such
On this day in 2016 three civilians were killed and several others injured when two Boko Haram suicide bombers detonated their equipment in a public transport vehicle on its way to a market in southeast Niger.
On this day in 1972, a bomb exploded at the Cuban trade offices in Montreal killing the consular diplomat Sergio Pérez Castillo and wounding seven others.