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October 21, 2008: Bombing in India

Communist terrorists angry at ‘gambling during Diwali’ planted a bomb outside a police training centre in northeastern India, killing 17.

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October 14, 1920: Nationalist bombings in Trieste, Italy

Nationalists tossed bombs and engaged in firefights with police in Trieste, northeastern Italy on October 14, 1920.

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October 12, 2000: Bombing of USS Cole in Yemen

After a failed first attempt, in 2000 Al Qaeda carried out a successful bombing of the USS Cole in Yemen, killing 17 sailors and wounding 39.

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October 11, 2002: Bombing at Finnish mall

Finnish police were unable to discover a motive behind a bombing at a Helsinki mall in 2002 perpetrated by a 19-year old chemistry buff.

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October 10, 2015: ISIS bombing in Ankara

ISIS is believed to have been behind the October 2015 Ankara train station bombing that killed close to 100 and wounded 250.

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October 9, 1983: Bombing in Burma

North Korean agents were blamed for a 1983 bombing targeting the visiting South Korean President to Burma in which 21 people died.

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Do security services really ‘get it wrong’ when things go boom

An inquiry into the 2017 Manchester suicide bombing has uncovered that MI5 had the terrorist on their ‘radar’ as long ago as 2010. The security service ended up dropping him from investigation. Did they screw up? Borealis weighs in on how investigations really work. Read more: Manchester Arena bomber linked to six MI5 ‘subjects of […]

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October 4, 1972: Bookstore bombing in Paris

It is ironic when a terrorist group is itself hit by a terrorist attack. PARIS, FRANCE — Like a lot of people I enjoy a really well written (or dramatised) whodunit. The twists and turns of the plot, the false leads, the paths that lead nowhere and, of course, the ultimate discovery of the real […]

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October 3, 1980: Bombing of a synagogue in Paris

A 1980 motorcycle bomb planted by the PFLP outside a synagogue in Paris killed four and wounded more than 40,

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September 10, 2002: 200 killed as superfast Kolkata-Mumbai train plunges into a river

Maoist Naxalite terrorists were believed behind the derailment of a Delhi-Calcutta express rrain in 2002 in which as many as 200 were killed.