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 |
March
Date |
Type |
Dead |
Injured |
Location |
Details |
Perpetrator |
Part of
|
20 March |
Shooting |
0 (+4) |
Unknown |
Tolima Department, Colombia |
In the village of El Rodeo, in Cajamarca (Tolima), troops from the Army and guerrillas from the Jaime Bateman Cayon group are confronted. Alonso Grajales Lemus, alias El Pollo, maximum leader of the organization, who dies a week later in the north of the Cauca.[3] |
Jaime Bateman Cayon |
Colombian conflict |
April
Date |
Type |
Dead |
Injured |
Location |
Details |
Perpetrator |
Part of
|
11 April |
Ambush |
1 (+1) |
1 |
Santiago, Chile |
Two armed men attack the National Gendarmerie School in Santiago. In the shootout one gendarmie was killed and another gendarmie was wounded,also a terrorist was killed. [4] |
Manuel Rodriguez Patriotic Front |
|
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.[5] |
Islamists |
|
22 April |
Massacre |
13 |
Unknown |
Segovia, Colombia |
At least eight gunmen who counted on the collaboration of the public force that was in charge of the municipality, shot dead 13 people in the town of Segovia (Antioquia).[6] |
Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia and Colombian Police |
Colombian conflict |
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.[7] |
Kosovo Liberation Army |
Bosnian war |
June
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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.[8]
| 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
|
16 June
| Massacre
| 35-43
| Unknown
| La Gabarra, Tibú, Colombia
| La Gabarra Massacre was a massacre that occurred on June 16, 1996 and it was perpetrated by members of the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC paramilitary group) against alleged members of the FARC guerrilla Some 35-43 people were massacred.
| Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia
| Colombian conflict
|
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
|
|
September
Date |
Type |
Dead |
Injured |
Location |
Details |
Perpetrator |
Part of
|
24-26 September |
Shooting, Raid |
2 (+25) |
Unknown |
Antioquia Department, Colombia |
Troops of Brigades IV and XVII with reinforcements of the VIII launch Operation Black September to regain control of the way to the sea in Mutata and Dabeiba (Antioquia). During the fighting to recover the area, 25 guerrillas and 2 soldiers die.[11] |
FARC |
Colombian conflict |
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 |
|
12 November |
Arson |
0 |
0 |
Bloomington, Minnesota, United States |
Members of the Animal Liberation Front (ALF) are suspected to be responsible for throwing an incendiary through the window of Alaskan Fur Company Inc., near Bloomington, Minnesota in the United States, resulting in arson which caused an estimated $2 million in property damage to fur coats and other merchandise as well as $250,000 in structural damage to the two-story brick building. There were no casualties in the incident.[12] |
Animal Liberation Front |
Terrorism in the United States |
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