Two car bombs exploded near the Green Zone in Baghdad in October 2009 killing more than 100 people and wounding more than 500
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Islamist terrorists took hostages at a police college in Pakistan in October 2016 and killed 60 cadets (another 100 were wounded).
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October 23, 1972: Bombing in Japan
In 1972 a Japanese leftist terrorist organisation bombed a memorial it saw as a symbol of ‘imperialist aggression’.
Terrorists tossed a bomb at a church holding the funeral of a police officer in San Francisco in October 1970.
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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.
An Islamist terrorist group claimed responsibility for a suicide car bombing in Rijeka, Croatia in October 1995.
Chechen terrorists killed as many as 20 people in an attack on that country’s parliament in October of 2010.
A Pakistani suicide bomber killed 43 people and wounded 150 in southeastern Iran in 2009.
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine assassinated the Israeli Tourism Minister at a hotel in Jerusalem in October 2001.
ISIS claimed responsibility for an October 2016 stabbing in Hamburg, Germany in which a 16-year-old boy was killed.