List of terrorist incidents in 1993

This is a timeline of incidents in 1993 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).

Guidelines

  • To be included, entries must be notable (have a stand-alone article) and described by a consensus of reliable sources as "terrorism".
  • List entries must comply with the guidelines outlined in the manual of style under MOS:TERRORIST.
  • Casualty figures in this list are the total casualties of the incident including immediate casualties and later casualties (such as people who succumbed to their wounds long after the attacks occurred).
  • Casualties listed are the victims. Perpetrator casualties are listed separately (e.g. x (+y) indicate that x victims and y perpetrators were killed/injured).
  • Casualty totals may be underestimated or unavailable due to a lack of information. A figure with a plus (+) sign indicates that at least that many people have died (e.g. 10+ indicates that at least 10 people have died) – the actual toll could be considerably higher. A figure with a plus (+) sign may also indicate that over that number of people are victims.
  • If casualty figures are 20 or more, they will be shown in bold. In addition, figures for casualties more than 50 will also be underlined.
  • Incidents are limited to one per location per day. If multiple attacks occur in the same place on the same day, they will be merged into a single incident.
  • In addition to the guidelines above, the table also includes the following categories:
  0 people were killed/injured by the incident.
  1–19 people were killed/injured by the incident.
  20–49 people were killed/injured by the incident.
  50–99 people were killed/injured by the incident.
  100+ people were killed/injured by the incident.

List

Date Type Dead Injured Location Details Perpetrator Part of
January 7 Car bombing 2 39 Medellín, Colombia A car bomb kills two and injures 39 in the parking lot of a building where several judges lived.[1] Medellín Cartel Colombian conflict
January 25 Shooting 2 3 Langley, Virginia, United States Pakistani immigrant Mir Qazi opened fire on CIA employees outside the CIA headquarters. Qazi committed the shootings because he was angered at U.S. foreign policy towards Muslim nations. Mir Qazi Terrorism in the United States
January 30 Bombing 25 70 Bogotá, Colombia A bomb kills 25 and injures 70, 12 days after a letter was published from fugitive cocaine king Pablo Escobar vowing to renew his all-out war on the Colombian state[2] Medellín Cartel Colombian Conflict
February 11 Bombing 14 25 Barrancabermeja, Colombia A bomb kills 14 and injures 25 at an auto repair shop.[3] Unknown Colombian conflict
February 15 Bombing 4 100+ Bogotá, Colombia Two bombs kill 4 and wound over 100.[2][4] Unknown Colombian conflict
February 26 Truck Bombing 6 1,042 New York City, United States World Trade Center bombing kills six and injures over 1000 people, by coalition of five groups: Jamaat Al-Fuqra'/Gamaat Islamiya/Hamas/Islamic Jihad/National Islamic Front,[5] see FBI Most Wanted Terrorists, FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives, Ramzi Yousef. Ramzi Yousef and co-conspirators
March 12 Bombings 257 1,400 Bombay, India 13 bombings targeting banks, hotels, the Bombay Stock Exchange and other buildings. The bombings were organized by Dawood Ibrahim, the leader of D-Company. D-Company
March 20 Bombings 2 56 Warrington, United Kingdom Two PIRA bombs exploded in trash bins on Bridge Street, killing two children and injuring dozens. PIRA The Troubles
March 24 Massacre 33 3 Elazığ and Bingöl, Turkey The May 24, 1993 PKK attack, sometimes referred to as the Bingöl massacre was a Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) attack on unarmed Turkish soldiers on the Elazığ-Bingöl highway, 13 km (8.1 mi) west of Bingöl. 33 soldiers and varying conflicting accounts of civilians were killed Kurdistan Workers' Party Kurdish–Turkish conflict (1978–present)
March 25 Mass shooting 4 1 Castlerock, Northern Ireland Three Catholic civilians and one Provisional IRA member are killed in a UDA attack at a building site. UDA The Troubles
April 9 Land mine 22 13 Karnataka, India A bus is destroyed by a land mine planted by criminal leader Veerappan and his supporters. Veerappan and co-conspirators
April 15 Bombings 8 242 Bogotá, Colombia A car bomb with 150 kg of explosives blows up in front of the Centro 93 shopping mall, killing 8 and injuring 242. The blast destroys 100 commercial properties and leave damages valued at 1.5 Bn COP[2] Medellín Cartel Colombian conflict
April 16 Suicide bombing 1 (+1 attacker) 7–9 Mehola, West Bank Hamas kill 2 in Mehola Junction bombing.[6] Hamas Israeli–Palestinian conflict
April 24 Truck bombing 1 44 City of London, United Kingdom IRA detonate a huge truck bomb at Bishopsgate, killing one person and causing approximately £1bn of damage.[7] (See 1993 Bishopsgate bombing.) PIRA The Troubles
April 24–25 Hijacking 0 (+1 attacker) 0 Amritsar, India Mohammed Yunus Shah hijacks Indian Airlines Flight 427 but is killed before he is able to harm any of the passengers. India accused the Hizbul Mujahideen of being behind the attack, but they denied responsibility. Mohammed Yunus Shah
Hizbul Mujahideen (suspected) 		Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir
May 1 Suicide Bombing 1 (+1 attacker) 0 Colombo, Sri Lanka Suicide bomber from LTTE kills President Ranasinghe Premadasa.[8][9] LTTE Sri Lankan Civil War
May 28 Arson 5 14 Solingen, Germany Four neo-Nazis set fire to a house belonging to a Turkish immigrant family. neo-Nazis
June 21 Car bombings 7 29 Madrid, Spain ETA detonates two car bombs targeting an army convoy. ETA Basque conflict
July–August 18 Letter bomb, car bombing 0 3 Caracas, Venezuela Letter bomb sent to the Supreme Court of Justice and car bomb in the CCCT shopping mall, among other attacks. Ramiro Helmeyer.[10]
July 2 Arson 35 (+2 attackers) 51+ Sivas, Turkey A mob of Islamic fundamentalists set a hotel housing Alevi intellectuals on fire. 37 die and more than 51 are injured.[11] Islamic fundamentalists
July 5 Mass shooting, arson 33 0 Başbağlar, Erzincan Province, Turkey Several PKK members stormed the village and went on killing civilians one by one after rounding them up. Over 200 houses, a clinic, a school and a mosque were burned down.[12] PKK Turkey-PKK conflict
July 25 Mass shooting 11 58 Cape Town, South Africa Members of the Azanian People's Liberation Army,[13] open fire on a congregation inside St James Church in Kenilworth, Cape Town, killing 11 and injuring fifty.[14] Azanian People's Liberation Army
August 8 Bombing 11 7 Chennai, India The head office of the Chennai wing of the Hindu nationalist organization Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh is bombed. Islamists
October 5 Attempted Attack 0 (+13) 1 Riofrío, Valle del Cauca, Colombia In the village of El Bosque, Piedras Portugal, 13 ELN guerrillas died in combat with troops from the Palacé Battalion of the III Brigade. They were surprised while they prepared a handstand.[15] ELN Colombian conflict
October 11 Assassination attempt 0 1 Oslo, Norway The publisher of Aschehoug William Nygaard was shot and got critically injured outside his residence. Police never found the perpetrator, but it is believed that the reason for the assassination was Aschehoug's publication of Salman Rushdie's controversial novel The Satanic Verses, which triggered an Islamist fatwa against the author, the translators and publishers. Islamic republic of Iran
October 23 Bombing 9 (+1 attacker) 57 Belfast, Northern Ireland Two members of the Provisional IRA entered a shop on Shankill Road where they believed a UDA meeting was taking place. However, the meeting had been rescheduled and the bomb detonated prematurely, killing one of the bombers, an UDA member and eight civilians. PIRA The Troubles
October 25 Massacre 38 50 Çat, Erzurum Province, Turkey The Yavi Massacre was a mass shooting organized by the PKK in the Yavi neighbourhood. Kurdistan Workers' Party Kurdish–Turkish conflict (1978–present)
October 30 Mass shooting 8 12 Greysteel, Northern Ireland Eight civilians (six Catholic, two Protestant) were killed and twelve wounded in a UDA attack on the Rising Sun Bar in County Londonderry. The UDA/UFF claimed that it had attacked the "nationalist electorate" in revenge for the Shankill Road bombing. UDA The Troubles
November 18 Ambush 5 Apure State, Venezuela Five Venezuelan army troops were killed during an ambush attributed to the Colombian ELN in Guafitas.[16] ELN Colombian conflict
December 9 Massacre 17 Unknown Antioquia Department, Colombia Rebels of the Popular Commands (demobilized from the EPL) assassinate 12 workers of a banana hacienda Los Katíos, located between Apartadó and Turbo, affiliated to the Communist Party. On the same day, insurgents of the V Front of the FARC, assassinate 5 members of the Esperanza, Paz, Libertad movement at La Ceja de Turbo.[17] Popular Liberation Army and FARC Colombian conflict
December 16 Ambush 11 6 kidnapped Sucumbíos Province, Ecuador FARC guerrillas attack an Ecuadorian police patrol in Peña Colorada. One policemen die and three soldiers and others in uniform disappear[18] FARC Colombian conflict
December 18 Shooting 14 (+10) 10 Boyacá, Colombia A fierce shootout in Güicán pits 250 troops from Brigades I and XVI, with 160 guerrillas from the Domingo Laín ELN front. 14 soldiers and ten rebels are dead.[19] ELN Colombian conflict
December 30 Mass shooting 4 5 Cape Town, South Africa Six members of the Azanian People's Liberation Army, the armed wing of the Pan Africanist Congress, open fire on patrons of the Heidelberg Tavern in Observatory, Cape Town, killing four people (Jose Cerqueira, Lindy-Anne Fourie, Bernadette Langford, and Rolande Palm) and injuring several others.[14] Azanian People's Liberation Army

See also

References

  1. ^ San Jose Mercury News, January 8, 1993, Page 17A
  2. ^ a b c Tiempo, Casa Editorial El. "HISTORIA DE OTRAS BOMBAS". El Tiempo (in Spanish). Retrieved 2017-11-16.
  3. ^ 14 killed and 25 wounded by a car bomb in Colombia, New York Times, February 11, 1993
  4. ^ "Past bombings in Colombia". Tampa Bay Times. Retrieved 2024-07-02.
  5. ^ Official prepared statement of Steven Emerson before the Senate Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology, and Government Information, on February 24, 1998, Federal Information Systems Corporation, Federal News Service, as downloaded from the Library of Congress, 1998, Made available 4/5/98
  6. ^ Levitt, Matthew (2008). Hamas: Politics, Charity, and Terrorism in the Service of Jihad. Yale University Press. p. 11.
  7. ^ BBC: IRA bomb devastates City of London, On this day, April 24, 1993
  8. ^ BBC News: Timeline of the Tamil conflict, September 4, 2000
  9. ^ The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism, ROBERT A. PAPE The University of Chicago, American Political Science Review Vol. 97, No. 3 August 2003, Page No 16
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  12. ^ "Başbağlar, one of PKK's bloodiest massacres, remembered". Daily Sabah. 4 July 2016. Retrieved 2016-09-28.
  13. ^ "TRC Reports on St James Church Massacre". South African History Online. Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Retrieved 31 January 2015. A terrorist attack on St. James Church in Cape Town, South Africa left 11 people dead and 58 wounded.
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