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22 May 1962. Continental Airlines Flight 11. A Boeing 707 exploded in the vicinity of Centerville, Iowa. Investigators determined that one of the passengers, Thomas G. Doty, had brought a bomb on board the aircraft after purchasing a life insurance policy. This was the first in-flight bombing of a jet airliner.
Indian ultra-nationalism. On 29 October 2023, a series of improvised explosive device (IED) blasts took place during a convention of Jehovah's Witnesses in Kalamassery, a suburb of Kochi, India. [1] [2] Five women, two men, and a child were killed and more than fifty other people were injured when the group was holding a Sunday morning session ...
Neo-fascism. The Oklahoma City bombing was a domestic terrorist truck bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States, on April 19, 1995, the second anniversary of the end to the Waco siege. The bombing was the deadliest act of terrorism in U.S. history before the September 11 attacks in 2001, and it ...
Nairobi ( / naɪˈroʊbi / ny-ROH-bee) is the capital and largest city of Kenya. The name is derived from the Maasai phrase Enkare Nairobi, which translates to 'place of cool waters', a reference to the Nairobi River which flows through the city. The city proper had a population of 4,397,073 in the 2019 census.
On 4 February 2019, at least 11 people were killed and 10 others injured in a car bombing attack at a shopping mall in Mogadishu, Somalia. [1] The car was parked near the mall 20 minutes before the explosion. The attack happened in Hamar Weyne District, which was very busy at the time. Al-Shabaab claimed responsibility for the attack.
39 (+1 suicide bomber) Injured. 50. On 19 February 2017, at least 39 people were killed after a car bomb exploded near Wadajir market in Madina district, Mogadishu, Somalia. More than 50 others were wounded. [1] [2] [3] No group claimed responsibility; Somali President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed offered a $100,000 reward for information leading ...
The Boston Marathon bombing, sometimes referred to as just simply the Boston bombing, [4] was an Islamist domestic terrorist attack that took place during the annual Boston Marathon on April 15, 2013. Brothers Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev planted two homemade pressure cooker bombs that detonated near the finish line of the race 14 seconds and ...
1983 Kuwait bombings. The 1983 Kuwait bombings were attacks on six key installations on 12 December 1983, two months after the 1983 Beirut barracks bombing.The 90-minute coordinated attack on two embassies, the country's main airport, and petro-chemical plant was more notable for the damage it was intended to cause than what was actually destroyed.