On this day in 2002, a Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up in during a seder in an Israeli hotel, killing at least 30, many of them children.
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On this day in 2009, four female school children were killed and seven others injured in a bomb explosion in Iraq’s northern city of Mosul.
On this day in 2018, five District Reserve Guard (DRG) jawans were injured in an IED blast, suspected to be carried out by Naxals, in Chhattisgarh’s Sukma district.
On this day in 2014, two gunmen stormed a church near the Kenyan city of Mombasa, opening fire on worshipers and killing four people.
On this day in 2016, bombings at the Brussels airport and a metro station in the city killed 32 people and wounded many, many more.
On this day in 2011, unidentified people on motorbikes attacked a construction crew in the port city of Gwadar in Pakistan, killing eleven.
On this day in 1995, Sarin (an odourless, colourless liquid which is highly lethal) was released on the Tokyo metro killing 13 people and injured more that a thousand.
On this day in 1994 bombs in several metro stations in the Azerbaijani capital of Baku killed 27 people and wounded a further 91. (Photo: By President.az, CC BY 4.0)
On this day in 2009, four South Korean tourists were killed by a powerful bomb at the UNESCO World Heritage site of Shibam in Yemen.
The Hillcrest Bar bombing, also known as the Saint Patrick’s Day bombing, took place on 17 March 1976 in Dungannon. The Ulster Volunteer Force detonated a car bomb outside a pub crowded with people celebrating Saint Patrick’s Day.