List of terrorist incidents, 1996

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).

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• January 31: An attack by the LTTE on the Colombo Central Bank killed 90 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]
• Israel, 25 February – 4 March: Four suicide bombers leave 60 dead and 284 wounded within days in a series of suicide bombings^[2]
• Egypt, 18 April: 18 people are killed when Islamist gunmen fire on the Europa hotel in Cairo.^[3]
• Serbia Dečani, 22 April: 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.^[4]
• Russia, 11 June: 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.^[5]
• July 24:The LTTE exploded 4 bombs on Colombo-Alutgama train at Dehiwala killing between 60^[1][6] and 70 civilians.^[1] The technique of simultaneously exploding multiple bombs in several carriages was used during this attack.^[6]

See also

• List of terrorist incidents

References