On October 24, 1994 a female LTTE suicide bomber killed Sri Lankan politician Gamini Dissanayake and 50 others.
Tag: Today in terrorism
On October 23, 2014 a radical Muslim convert attacked four NYPD officers in Queens, injuring two, one critically.
On October 22, 2015 a neo-Nazi armed with a sword killed a pupil and a teacher at a school in the Swedish town of Trollhattan.
On October 21, 2007 PKK terrorists killed at least 17 Turkish soldiers and wounded 16 others near Turkey’s border with Iraq.
On October 20, 1981 ‘black nationalists’ tried to rob a Brinks armoured car in Nanuet, New York, killing one guard and injuring another.
On October 19, 2015 a bomb explosion on a bus in the Pakistani city of Quetta killed at least 11 people and wounded a further 22
On October 18, 1995 a gas bottle exploded on a train in the Paris metro system, wounding 29
On October 17, 2008 a man tossed a bomb into a law firm in Georgia (US), killing himself and wounding four.
On October 16, 2020 French teacher Samuel Paty was knifed to death near Paris suburb for having showed his teenage students a cartoon lampooning the Prophet Muhammad.
On October 15, 1920 two bombs were thrown at a hotel in Milan hosting the UK delegation to the Milan International Conference: no one was hurt