List of terrorist incidents in 2001

This is a timeline of incidents in 2001 that have been labelled terrorism and are not believed to have been carried out by a government or its forces (see state terrorism and state-sponsored terrorism).

List guidelines

  • Casualties 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.

January

Dates Type Dead Injured Location Details Perpetrator Part of
1 Suicide car bombing 0 (+1) 50 Netanya, Israel A Hamas suicide car bomber detonates in the city of Netanya, wounding 50.[1] Hamas Second Intifada
10 Car bombing 0 50+ Medellín, Colombia A car bomb wounds at least 50 in a shopping center parking lot in Medellín.[2] FARC Colombian conflict

February

Dates Type Dead Injured Location Details Perpetrator Part of
9 Massacre 15 Rajouri district, India 2001 Chalwalkote massacre: A group of Muslim militants massacred 15 Muslim villagers in Rajouri district. Kashmiri Islamic Terrorists [3] Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir
14 Vehicular Assault 8 (+1) 26 Near Azor, Israel 2001 Azor attack: A Hamas terrorist plowed a bus into a crowd, killing 8 and wounding 26.[1] Hamas Second Intifada
16 Bus bombing 12 43 Podujevo, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Podujevo bus bombing: A bus carrying Kosovo Serb pilgrims was bombed, killing 12. Kosovo Albanian extremists were suspected of being behind the attack. Kosovo Albanian extremists (suspected) Aftermath of the Yugoslav Wars

March

Dates Type Dead Injured Location Details Perpetrator Part of
4 Suicide bombing 3 (+1) 65 Netanya, Israel 2001 Netanya bombing: A Hamas suicide bomber detonated in the city of Netanya, killing 3 and wounding 65.[1] Hamas Second Intifada
4 Car bombing 0 1 White City, London, England, United Kingdom 2001 BBC bombing: The Real IRA exploded a car bomb outside the BBC's main news centre in London. One London Underground worker suffered deep cuts to his eye from flying glass and some damage was caused to the front of the building.[4] Real IRA Dissident Irish Republican campaign
26 Sniper attack 1 1 Hebron, West bank A 10-month-old Israeli baby named Shalhevet Pass is murdered in a sniper attack by Tanzim militant Mahmud Amru. Shalhevet's father was also wounded. Tanzim Second Intifada
27 Suicide bombing 0 (+1) 30 French Hill, Jerusalem, Israel A suicide bomber blows himself up next to a bus in Jerusalem's French Hill area, injuring 30 Israelis.[5] Hamas Second Intifada
28 Suicide bombing 2 (+1) Kfar Saba, Israel A suicide bomber detonated near a gas station outside Kfar Saba, killing two Israeli teenagers on their way to school.[5] Hamas Second Intifada
28 Suicide bombing 0 (+1) 4 Israel A suicide bomber, from the Arab Hamas organization, blew himself up amidst a gathering of students waiting at a bus stop, four teenagers were wounded, one of them in critical condition.[5] Hamas Second Intifada

April

DateTypeDeadInjuredLocationDetailsPerpetratorPart of
14Bombings10≈50Dhaka, BangladeshTwo bombs explode at a Pohela Boishakh parade.Harkat-ul-Jihad al-IslamiInternal conflict in Bangladesh
28Massacre15Vejce, Macedonia15 Macedonian special forces members are massacred by UÇK militantsUÇK2001 insurgency in Macedonia
29Suicide Bombing0 (+1)0Nablus, Palestinian TerritoriesA suicide car bomber attempted to target a school bus near Nablus, but detonated prematurely.[6]HamasSecond Intifada

May

DateTypeDeadInjuredLocationDetailsPerpetratorPart of
4Car Bomb432ColombiaA car bomb kills four and injures 32 in a luxury hotel in Cali. No group claims the attack.[7]UnknownColombian conflict
6Bombing01United KingdomThe Real IRA detonate a bomb in a London postal sorting office. One person was injured.[8]Real IRADissident Irish Republican campaign
8Kidnapping and murder20Tekoa, West BankTwo Israeli teenagers are kidnapped and murdered from the Israeli West Bank settlement Tekoa. The killers are never found.UnknownSecond Intifada
17car bomb2050ColombiaA car bomb kills 20 and injures at least 50 in a park in Medellín.[9]FARCColombian conflict
18Suicide Bombing5 (+1)100+Netanya, IsraelAn Arab suicide bomber from the Hamas blew himself up at the entrance of a shopping mall in the city of Netanya, near Tel Aviv, 5 people were killed in the blast and over 100 men, women and children were injured.HamasSecond Intifada
24Bombing4ColombiaTwo bombs kill four near the Universidad Nacional campus in Bogotá. One more bomb is defused before it could explode. Right-wing paramilitaries are suspected.[10]UnknownColombian conflict
25Suicide car bombing0 (+2)65IsraelTwo suicide car bombers targeted a bus station in Hadera, injuring 65.[6]HamasSecond Intifada
25Suicide Bombing0 (+2)12IsraelTwo separate bombs detonate at Netzarim Junction, wounding 12.[11]HamasSecond Intifada

June

DateTypeDeathsInjuriesLocationDetailsPerpetratorsPart of
1Suicide bombing21 (+1)100+Tel Aviv, IsraelA Palestinian named Saeed Hotari blew himself up while waiting in line to enter the Dolphinarium nightclub in Tel Aviv, killing 21 people, mostly teenage girls. Both Islamic Jihad and Hamas claimed responsibility.Hamas
Islamic Jihad		Israeli–Palestinian conflict
15Kidnapping015 KidnappedTavildara, TajikistanFifteen people associated with AgoAction, a German agricultural humanitarian organization, were kidnapped by gunmen in the Tavil Dara region of Tajikistan. One of the workers was American, one was German, and the rest were from Tajikistan. Four people, including three women, were immediately released, while the remaining eleven were released two days later. All of the hostages were unharmed. The gunmen used to be rebels and were currently working for the Ministry of Emergency Situations. The gunmen demanded the release of four individuals who had been arrested for an assassination that took place several months earlier.[12]Unknown
17Car bomb016San Martín, Meta, ColombiaA car bomb injures 16. No group claims responsibility, but both FARC and AUC are suspected.[13]UnknownColombian conflict
22Suicide bombing2 (+1)Dugit, IsraelA suicide bomber kills 2.[1]HamasIsraeli–Palestinian conflict

July

DateTypeDeathsInjuriesLocationDetailsPerpetratorPart of
9Suicide car bombing0 (+1)IsraelAn Arab suicide car bomber detonated near the Kissufim crossing point in the southern Gaza Strip, causing no other casualties.[14]HamasIsraeli–Palestinian conflict
16Suicide bombing2 (+1)6IsraelAn Arab suicide bomber detonated at a bus stop near the train station in Binyamina, halfway between Netanya and Haifa. The Arab terrorist group Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack which killed two people.[5]Islamic JihadIsraeli–Palestinian conflict
24Suicide attack7 (+14)12Colombo, Sri LankaAn LTTE 14-man suicide squad attacked a Sri Lanka Air Force base and the adjoining Bandaranaike International Airport. 21 people were killed.[15]LTTESri Lankan Civil War
31Landmine58Assam, IndiaA remote control landmine was detonated damaging the forestry department's Eicher truck, which carried 13 Bhutanese passengers in Devadangi, Assam which left five killed and eight injured. The National Democratic Front of Bodoland is suspected to be behind the attacks.[16]National Democratic Front of Bodoland (suspected)Insurgency in Northeast India

August

DateTypeDeathsInjuriesLocationDetailsPerpetratorPart of
3Bombing07Ealing, United Kingdom2001 Ealing bombing: The last (at time of writing) IRA bomb on mainland Britain explodes in Ealing, West London, injuring seven people.[17]Real IRADissident Irish Republican campaign
3Massacre175Doda district, IndiaSeventeen Hindu villagers are kidnapped and murdered by Lashkar-e-Taiba militants.LeTInsurgency in Jammu and Kashmir
8Suicide Bombing0 (+1)1IsraelA suicide car bomber detonated, lightly wounding one soldier, at a roadblock near the B'kaot moshav in the northern Jordan Valley shortly after 9:00am.[14]HamasIsraeli–Palestinian conflict
9Suicide bombing15 (+1)130Jerusalem, IsraelHamas militant Izz al-Din Shuheil al-Masri blows himself up in a Sbarro restaurant in Jerusalem, killing 15 civilians, including 7 children and a pregnant woman.HamasSecond Intifada
10Land mine, shooting252165AngolaUNITA militants derail a train en route from Zenza do Itombe to Dondo and open fire on the passengers after they came out the train.UNITAAngolan Civil War
12Suicide Bombing0 (+1)15IsraelAn Arab suicide bomber wounds 15 people when he blows himself up in a restaurant in Kiryat Motzkin in northern Israel.[5]HamasIsraeli–Palestinian conflict
22Bombing00Republic of MacedoniaAn Orthodox monastery was destroyed by an explosion.[18]UÇK2001 insurgency in Macedonia
23Attack139ColombiaIn a series of attacks near Medellín, 10 bombs kill one and injure 39 others. No group claims responsibility.[19]UnknownColombian conflict
23Attempted Attack0 (+15)ColombiaAt least 15 members of terrorist group ELN die when the explosives they were carrying detonate.[20]ELNColombian conflict
26Bombing2Republic of MacedoniaAn explosion destroyed a hotel, killing two people.[21]UÇK2001 insurgency in Macedonia

September

DateTypeDeathsInjuriesLocationDetailsPerpetratorPart of
2Shooting1 (+1)0Béziers, FranceA 25 years-old man of Moroccan origin ambushes a police car and shoots at it with a rocket launcher before targeting the local police headquarters and kills a 72 years-old ex-legionnaire before being neutralized by members of the police's crisis response unit.Islamists
4Suicide bombing0 (+1)15Jerusalem, IsraelAn Arab suicide bomber wounds 15 people when he blows himself up outside a Jerusalem hospital.[5]HamasSecond Intifada
9Suicide bombing3 (+1)94Nahariya, IsraelA suicide bomber detonated at a train station in Nahariya, an Israeli city, killing three people and wounding over 90 unarmed civilians. The Palestinian militant group Hamas took responsibility for the murders.[5]Islamists
9Suicide car bombing0 (+1)17Netanya, IsraelA suicide car bomber hit Beit Lid junction near Netanya, injuring 17.[6]HamasSecond Intifada
9Suicide bombing10AfghanistanCommander Ahmad Shah Massoud, who spent years fighting Soviet occupation and then leading the anti-Taliban United Front (aka Northern Alliance), is killed by Algerian suicide bombers disguised as a camera crew.[22]Algerian Suicide Bombers
11Suicide hijackings2,977 (+19)6,000+United StatesSeptember 11 attacks: kill 2,977 victims and 19 terrorists[23] in a series of hijacked airliner crashes into two U.S. landmarks: the World Trade Center in New York City, and The Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia. A fourth plane, suspected by many to have been originally intended to hit the White House or the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C.,[24] crashes in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, after an apparent revolt against the hijackers by the plane's passengers.[25]Al-Qaeda (disputed)
18Bioterrorism517United StatesA number of letters containing high-grade Anthrax are sent to U.S. Senators Patrick Leahy and Tom Daschle and a number of news organizations across the U.S. in September and October 2001, killing five people and infecting seventeen others. The prime suspect, Bruce Edwards Ivins, a microbiologist for the USAMRIID, committed suicide in 2008 after learning that charges against him were likely, but he has never been confirmed to have committed the attacks.Unknown
21Stabbing10Peterborough, United KingdomBritish teenager stabbed to death by gang of Islamists[26]Islamists
27Bombing00Santiago de Chile, ChileCase Letter-bombs The so-called "letter-bomb" case was a terrorist attack on September 27, 2001, at the United States Embassy in Chile, perpetuated by Lenin Guardia, a sociologist and Chilean intelligence analyst, who was known to have contributed to the disarticulation of a guerrilla group during the transition to democracy, that its end was the indictment of the FPMR (Chilean extreme left group).[27]Lenin Guardia

October

DateTypeDeadInjuredLocationDetailsPerpetratorPart of
1Suicide car bombings38 (+3)Srinagar, IndiaThree suicide car bombers ram their cars into the assembly of Jammu and KashmirJeMInsurgency in Jammu and Kashmir
17Assassination10Jerusalem, IsraelIsrael's tourism minister Rehavam Ze'evi is assassinated by three Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine members at the Hyatt hotel in JerusalemPFLPSecond Intifada

November

DateTypeDeadInjuredLocationDetailsPerpetratorPart of
4Shooting245French Hill, IsraelTwo Israeli teenagers are killed and 45 people are injured in a submachine gun attack.[28]HamasSecond Intifada
26Suicide bombing0 (+1)2IsraelA Hamas suicide bomber detonates at Erez Checkpoint, injuring 2.[1]HamasSecond Intifada
29Suicide bombing3 (+1)7Pardes Hanna-Karkur, IsraelAn Arab suicide bomber detonated on a bus traveling on a major highway between the Israeli coastal cities of Hadera and Afula, killing 3.[5]Islamic JihadSecond Intifada

December

DateTypeDeathsInjuriesLocationDetailsPerpetratorPart of
1Suicide bombings, car bombing11 (+2)188IsraelArab suicide bombers detonated on Ben Yehuda Street in Jerusalem, a pedestrian mall frequented by many young people on Saturday night. A car bomb exploded nearby 20 minutes later. Ten people were killed, including many children, and 188 were injured in the terrorist attacks.[5]HamasSecond Intifada
2Suicide bombing15 (+1)40Haifa, IsraelA Hamas suicide bomber boarded an Israeli bus traveling from the Neveh Sha'anan district in Haifa, paying the driver with a large bill. He then blew himself up as the driver asked him to collect his change.[5]HamasSecond Intifada
5Suicide bombing0 (+1)3Jerusalem, IsraelAn Arab suicide bomber blows himself up outside a Jerusalem hotel wounding three people.[5]HamasSecond Intifada
9Suicide bombing0 (+1)8Haifa IsraelAn Arab suicide bomber detonates explosives at hitch-hiking post near Haifa wounding eight unarmed Israeli civilians.[5]HamasSecond Intifada
12Suicide bombing0 (+2)3+Gaza StripTwo Arab suicide bombers blow themselves up in the Gaza Strip, wounding at least three people.[5]HamasSecond Intifada
12Bombing, shooting11 (+3)30Immanuel, West BankThree Palestinian militants from the Hamas detonate two roadside bombs before opening fire on a bus in ImmanuelHamasSecond Intifada
13Shooting9 (+5)18New Delhi, IndiaA group of Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorists open fire on Indian Parliament, killing 8 security personnel and a gardener.LeT
JeM
22Attempted bombing00France/United States Over Atlantic OceanAl-Qaeda operative Richard Reid attempts detonate plastic explosives hidden in his shoes on American Airlines Flight 63 en route from Paris to Miami, but is subdued by other passengers.Richard Reid
(Al-Qaeda)

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Major Arab Terror Attacks Since Oslo
  2. ↑ People's Daily: Bomb blast in Colombia injures at least 50, January 11, 2001
  3. ↑
  4. ↑ "Bomb blast outside BBC". BBC News online. March 4, 2001. Retrieved September 22, 2006.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Chronology of Arab Suicide Bombings
  6. 1 2 3 Chronology of Terrorist Attacks in Israel Part V: 2001
  7. ↑ CNN: Columbia car bomb injures at least 32, May 5, 2001 Archived June 28, 2011, at the Wayback Machine.
  8. ↑ "Second blast at London post office". BBC, On this day. May 6, 2001. Retrieved December 12, 2006.
  9. ↑ CNN: Car bomb blast kills 7 in Medellín Archived April 6, 2013, at the Wayback Machine., May 18, 2001
  10. ↑ CNN: Bomb blasts kill at least 4 in Colombia Archived April 6, 2013, at the Wayback Machine., May 25, 2001
  11. ↑ "MIDDLE EAST | Suicide blasts shake Israel". BBC News. 2001-05-25. Retrieved 2013-12-05.
  12. ↑ All hostages abducted in Tajikistan freed", Associated Press, June 17, 2001."
  13. ↑ People's Daily: At least 16 injured in car bomb blast in Colombia, June 17, 2001
  14. 1 2 Suicide and Other Bombing Attacks in Israel Since the Declaration of Principles (Sept 1993)
  15. ↑ "Timeline: Sri Lanka". BBC News. 2007-05-01. Retrieved 2015-08-16.
  16. ↑ "Assembly members condemn attack on Bhutanese citizens in Assam". KuenselOnline. 2001-08-03. Retrieved 2013-12-05.
  17. ↑ "Car bombers rock west London". BBC News online. August 3, 2001. Retrieved September 22, 2006.
  18. ↑ Fisher, Ian (August 22, 2001). "Explosion Wrecks a 14th-Century Monastery". The New York Times. Retrieved May 8, 2010.
  19. ↑ CNN: Powerful bomb explodes in Medellín Archived April 6, 2013, at the Wayback Machine., August 24, 2001
  20. ↑ The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Bomb blasts kill 16 in Colombia, August 24, 2001
  21. ↑
  22. ↑ Afghanistan: A Chronology Of Suicide Attacks Since 2001
  23. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on August 29, 2011. Retrieved April 4, 2012.
  24. ↑ "'We Have Some Planes'". 9/11 Commission Report. National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States. 2004. Retrieved October 1, 2013.
  25. ↑ "Security Council Condemns, 'In Strongest Terms', Terrorist Attacks On United States". Un.org. Retrieved 2013-12-05.
  26. ↑ http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Race-attack+Asians+killed+white+with+foot-long+knife.-a095640533
  27. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.lasemanajuridica.cl/LaSemanaJuridica/1049/article-10614.html
  28. ↑ "Take A Pen: Terrorism". Archived from the original on 10 October 2004. Retrieved 11 October 2015.
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