List of terrorist incidents in 1996

This is a timeline of incidents in 1996 that have been labelled as "terrorism" and are not believed to have been carried out by a government or its forces (see state terrorism and state-sponsored terrorism).

January

Date	Type	Dead	Injured	Location	Details	Perpetrator	Part of
9-18 January	Hostage-taking	200+		Dagestan, Russia	Around 200 Chechen rebels raided an airbase near Kizlyar and took thousands of civilians hostage. The events concluded in a battle between the Chechens and Russian army in the village of Pervomayskoye that resulted in the deaths of around 200 Russian soldiers, 96 Chechen rebels and at least 26 civilians.	CRI	First Chechen War
16-19 January	Hostage-taking	0	13	Black Sea	Chechen rebels took over the ferry MV Avrasya and held the 232 passengers and crew hostage for 3 days before releasing them without bloodshed.	CRI	First Chechen War
31 January	Suicide bombing	91	1400	Colombo, Sri Lanka	An attack by the LTTE on the Colombo Central Bank killed 91 and injured a further 1,400 civilians, damaging other buildings in the process. It was the most deadly LTTE attack on a civilian target in the history of the group's operations.[1]	LTTE	Sri Lankan civil war

February

Date	Type	Dead	Injured	Location	Details	Perpetrator	Part of
9 February	Truck bombing	2	200	London, United Kingdom	The Provisional Irish Republican Army detonated a massive truck bomb in the Canary Wharf financial district of London	PIRA	The Troubles
11 February	Massacre	24	28	Kumarapuram, Sri Lanka	The Sri Lankan Army allegedly murdered 24 Tamils, mostly women and children, in the town of Kumarapuram.	Sri Lankan Army	Sri Lankan Civil War
25 February - 4 March	Suicide bombings	60	284	Israel	Four suicide bombers leave 60 dead and 284 wounded within days in a series of suicide bombings[2]	Hamas	Israel-Palestine conflict

April

Date	Type	Dead	Injured	Location	Details	Perpetrator	Part of
16 April	Ambush	53-100	Dozens	Yaryshmardy, Russia	Chechen rebels led by Ibn al-Khattab ambush and massacre a Battalion of Russian soldiers	CRI	First Chechen War
18 April	Mass shooting	18		Cairo, Egypt	18 people are killed when Islamist gunmen fire on the Europa hotel in Cairo.[3]	Islamists
22 April	Attack	3	1	Dečani, Serbia	In an attack on a kafana Čakor, three people: Stana Radusinović, Đorđe Dragić and Blagoje Okuka were killed and one, Branko Bibić, heavily injured. This is one of the first terrorist attacks of the Kosovo Liberation Army.[4]	Kosovo Liberation Army	Bosnian war

June

Date	Type	Dead	Injured	Location	Details	Perpetrator	Part of
11 June	Bombing	4	12	Moscow, Russia	A bomb explodes on a train traveling on the Serpukhovsko-Timiryazevskaya Line of the Moscow Metro, killing four people and seriously injuring at least twelve.[5]	CRI	First Chechen War
15 June	Van bombing	0	212	Manchester, United Kingdom	The Provisional Irish Republican Army parked a van containing an enormous bomb in the Manchester city centre and phoned a warning to police. The bomb, the largest to explode in Britain since World War II, exploded before it could be defused injuring 212 people, causing extensive damage but amazingly not killing anyone.	PIRA	The Troubles
25 June	Truck bombing	19	498	Khobar, Saudi Arabia	Truck bombing targeting an apartment complex that was housing U.S. servicemen. 19 American servicemen were killed and nearly 500 people of various nationalities were wounded.	Saudi Hezbollah

July

Date	Type	Dead	Injured	Location	Details	Perpetrator	Part of
4 July	Suicide bombing, assassination	20+	60	Jaffna, Sri Lanka	At least 20 people, including Brigade 51-2 Commanding Officer Ananda Hamangoda were killed in suicide bombing.	LTTE	Sri Lankan civil war
24 July	Bombing	64	400	Dehiwala, Sri Lanka	The LTTE detonated 4 bombs on Colombo-Alutgama train at Dehiwala killing 64 civilians and injuring 400 more	LTTE	Sri Lankan Civil War
27 July	Bombing	1	111	Atlanta, United States	Army of God member Eric Robert Rudolph detonated a pipe bomb at Centennial Olympic Park in hopes of canceling the 1996 Summer Olympics due to his anger of US government's sanctioning of Abortion	Eric Robert Rudolph AOG

November

Date	Type	Dead	Injured	Location	Details	Perpetrator	Part of
10 November	Bombing	13	30	Moscow, Russia	A bomb exploded at a cemetery that was holding a funeral for the president Soviet-Afghan war veterans group who had been murdered. The group had ties to organized crime. The assailants were two former members of the group who had formed a splinter organization.	Andrei Anohin Mikhail Smurov

December

Date	Type	Dead	Injured	Location	Details	Perpetrator	Part of
3 December	Bombing	4	170	Paris, France	A bomb exploded at the Port-Royal-des-Champs Abbey metro station	GIA	Algerian Civil War
17 December	Massacre, invasion	7	1	Novye Atagi, Russia	Five to ten Chechen separatists broke into a ICRC hospital and murdered 6 six nurses and an engineer, all of foreign nationalities. The head of the hospital was seriously wounded.	CRI	First Chechen War
30 December	Bombing	33+		Western Assam, India	Assamese nationalists bomb a Brahmaputra Mail train. The railway the train was on was also used by military trains which may have been the militants targets.	NDFB	Assam conflict

See also

• List of terrorist incidents

References

1. "Timeline of the Tamil conflict". BBC News. 2000-09-04. Retrieved 2015-08-16.
2. Cordesman, Anthony (2005). The Israeli-Palestinian War: Escalating to Nowhere. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 25.
3. MIPT Terrorism Knowledge Base
4. Ekipa Glasa javnosti (10 April 2008). "Početak oglašavanja OVK". Glas javnosti (in Serbian). Belgrade. Retrieved 2010-03-29.
5. CNN: Bomb rocks Moscow subway, 11 June 1996