List of terrorist incidents, 1987
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The following is a timeline of acts and failed attempts that can be considered non-state terrorism in 1987.
April 21: Car bomb at bus terminal in Colombo, Sri Lanka kills 110 people.[1] This attack was carried by LTTE. [2][page # needed]
April 25: Bombing of Greek Air Force bus carrying American military personnel. A group called November 17 claims responsibility.[3]
May 8: An assault by an IRA team on Loughgall RUC base is stopped by SAS commandos, who kill eight attackers and a civilian. See Loughgall Ambush.
June 19: Basque militant group ETA plant a bomb in the parking lot under the Hipercor hypermarket in Barcelona. It kills 21, 45 are injured.- November 8: Remembrance Day Bombing parade in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh by the IRA. Eleven are killed and 63 injured.
November 29: KAL Flight 858 bombed by North Korea.- December 11: Basque militant group ETA bomb a Guardia Civil police barracks in Zaragoza, killing eleven, 40 are injured.
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ BBC News: Timeline of the Tamil conflict, September 4, 2000
- ^ The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism, ROBERT A. PAPE The University of Chicago, American Political Science Review Vol. 97, No. 3 August 2003
- ^ New York Times: Leftists Claim Athens Attack, April 26, 1987
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