List of terrorist incidents in 1980

This is a timeline of incidents in 1980 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).

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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.

January
Date Type Dead Injured Location Details Perpetrator Part of
17 January Bombing 3 5 Dunmurry, Northern Ireland An incendiary bomb planted on a train by the Provisional IRA prematurely detonated and set the train on fire, killing 3 and wounding 5. Provisional IRA The Troubles
20 January Bombing 4 10 Alonsotegi, Spain A Spanish unionist paramilitary called the Grupos Armados Españoles bombed a bar that was known as a meeting place for Basque nationalists Grupos Armados Españoles Basque conflict
25 January Siege 5 5 Pretoria, South Africa Silverton Bank Siege: members of an Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) unit were confronted by the police while "on their way to carry out a mission". They entered a bank where they held customers hostage. This was followed by a shoot-out with the police in which two civilians and the three MK operatives were killed.[1] Umkhonto we Sizwe Internal resistance to apartheid

February
Date Type Dead Injured Location Details Perpetrator Part of
1 February Shooting, grenade 6 (+2 attackers) 0 Ispaster, Spain Basque group ETA kills 6 Civil Guards in a gun and grenade attack at Ispaster. 2 ETA members are killed by grenades they have thrown. ETA Basque conflict
14 February Shooting 0 1 San José, Costa Rica An explosion in Radio Noticias del Continente was reported in San José, Costa Rica. The group 15th of September Legion claimed responsibility for the attack.[2] 15th of September Legion Terrorism in Costa Rica
27 February – 27 April Siege 1 (an attacker) 5 Bogotá, Colombia Seventeen members of the 19th of April Movement held 60 hostages at the Dominican embassy for 2 months before escaping to Cuba. The only fatality was a young militant killed by police on the first day of the siege. M-19 Colombian conflict

March
Date Type Dead Injured Location Details Perpetrator Part of

April
Date Type Dead Injured Location Details Perpetrator Part of
7-8 April Shooting, hostage-taking 3 (+5 attackers) 16 Misgav Am, Israel Five Palestinian terrorists from the Iraqi-backed Arab Liberation Front penetrated kibbutz Misgav Am in Israel during night time and entered the nursery. They killed the kibbutz secretary and an infant boy. They held the rest of the children hostage, demanding the release of about 50 terrorists held in Israeli prisons. The first raid of an IDF infantry unit was unsuccessful, but a second attempt, a few hours later, succeeded, and all the terrorists were killed. Two kibbutz members and one soldier were killed, four children and 11 soldiers were injured.[3] Arab Liberation Front Israel-Palestine conflict
30 April – 5 May 1980 Shooting 5 2 London, England The Iranian Embassy siege took place from 30 April to 5 May 1980, after a group of six armed men stormed the Iranian embassy in South Kensington, London. The gunmen, members of an Iranian Arab group campaigning for Arab national sovereignty in the southern Iranian region of Khuzestan Province, took 26 people hostage—mostly embassy staff, but also several visitors as well as a police officer who had been guarding the embassy. They demanded the release of Arab prisoners from prisons in Khuzestan and their own safe passage out of the United Kingdom.[1] Margaret Thatcher's government quickly resolved that safe passage would not be granted, and a siege ensued. Over the following days, police negotiators secured the release of five hostages in exchange for minor concessions, such as the broadcasting of the hostage-takers' demands on British television. England Iranian Embassy siege

May
Date Type Dead Injured Location Details Perpetrator Part of
11 May Shooting 5 Unknown Santander Department, Colombia In rural areas of the municipality of La Paz (Santander), guerrillas from the IV front of the FARC kill 4 civilians and 1 policeman.[4] FARC Colombian conflict
22 May Bombing 0 1 Valparaíso, Chile A bomb explodes outside a PDI headquarters wounding one civilian Revolutionary Left Movement Armed resistance in Chile (1973–90)

July
Date Type Dead Injured Location Details Perpetrator Part of
13 July Shooting, ambush 2 (+2 attackers) 3 Orio, Spain Several members of ETA shoot and ambush a group Spanish Civil Guards, killing two and injuring three. The guards managed to kill two of the attackers. ETA Basque conflict
15 July Assassination, shooting 1 1 Santiago, Chile Revolutionary Left Movement militants kill director of the intelligency school of the Chilean army lieutenant colonel Roger Vergara Campos and wounding his driver deputy sergeant Mario Espinoza Navarro.[5] Revolutionary Left Movement (Chile) Armed resistance in Chile (1973–90)
27 July Grenade 1 20 Antwerp, Belgium A member of the Abu Nidal Organization throws two hand grenades into a group of Jewish schoolchildren waiting for a bus stop in Antwerp, Belgium, killing one and wounding twenty. Said Al Nasr was found guilty and sentenced to life in prison,[6] Said Al Nasr
Abu Nidal Organization		 Israel-Palestine conflict
31 July Shooting 2 2 Athens, Greece Two members of the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia attacked a Turkish family near the Turkish embassy in Athens. The father and 14-year-old daughter were killed while the mother and 16-year-old son were seriously wunded. ASALA

August
Date Type Dead Injured Location Details Perpetrator Part of
2 August Bombing 85 200+ Bologna, Italy Three members of the neo-fascist group Nuclei Armati Rivoluzionari detonate a time bomb at Bologna Central Station Nuclei Armati Rivoluzionari Anni di piombo
5 August Shooting 2 11 Lyon, France Two members of the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia stormed the Turkish Consulate in Lyon and opened fire, killing a doorman and a French visitor. ASALA Terrorism in France
23 August Bombing 0 1 Santiago, Chile A bomb explodes near a bank wounding a 14 years old boy Revolutionary Left Movement Armed resistance in Chile (1973–90)

September
Date Type Dead Injured Location Details Perpetrator Part of
20 September Shooting 4 0 Markina-Xemein, Spain Four members of Basque separatist group ETA kill four Spanish Civil Guards at a bar. ETA Basque conflict
26 September Bombing 12 (+1 attacker) 213 Munich, Germany A bomb at the Oktoberfest fairgrounds in Theresienwiese, Munich, Germany kills 12, including the alleged bomber Gundolf Kohler, a member of the neo-Nazi Military Sport Group Hoffman, and injures 213. Gundolf Kohler

October
Date Type Dead Injured Location Details Perpetrator Part of
3 October Bombing 4 46 Paris, France A motorcycle bomb kills four people and injures over forty at the rue Copernic synagogue in Paris, France. Authorities blamed the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.. PFLP Israel-Palestine conflict

November
Date Type Dead Injured Location Details Perpetrator Part of
20 November Shooting 5 5 Zarautz, Spain Two ETA members open fire on Civil Guards in a bar with machine guns. Four guards and a civilian are killed and 5 other people are wounded. ETA Basque conflict

December
Date Type Dead Injured Location Details Perpetrator Part of
16 December Armed Assault 1 0 Santiago, Chile A armed commando of the MIR (Revolutionary Left Movement) assaulted a bank in the capital city of Chile, killing a customer. Revolutionary Left Movement (Chile) Armed resistance in Chile (1973-90)
28 December Assassination 1 0 Santiago, Chile Extremist of the MIR kill a right-wing youth in his house in a slum neighborhood in Santiago Revolutionary Left Movement (Chile) Armed resistance in Chile (1973-90)
30 December Ambush,Armed Assault 3 2 Santiago, Chile A armed commando of the MIR assault three banks at the same time. In the shootout with security forces 2 policemen are killed and 2 more wounded and a bank security guard is also killed Revolutionary Left Movement (Chile) Armed resistance in Chile (1973-90)
31 December Bombing 20 85 Nairobi, Kenya At least 15 people were killed and 85 injured in a bombing at the Jewish-owned Norfolk Hotel in Nairobi, Kenya. The Kenyan government said the bomber was a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. PFLP Israel-Palestine conflict

See also

References
  1. "The Liberation Movements from 1960 to 1990" (PDF). Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa Report. Truth and Reconciliation Commission. 2: 327.
  2. "Incident Summary for GTDID". Global Terrorist Database. Retrieved 2019-07-20.
  3. Israel American Jewish Yearbook, 1982
  4. "El Tiempo - Búsqueda en el archivo de Google Noticias". News.google.com. Retrieved 22 April 2019.
  5. "Star-News - Google News Archive Search". News.google.com. Retrieved 22 April 2019.
  6. Mikolus, Edward (1989). International Terrorism in the 1980s: 1980-1983. Iowa State University Press. p. 71.
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