Terrorism

List of terrorist incidents, 2003

January

Date

Dead

Injured

Location and description

January 16

4

27

Colombia: A car bomb kills four and injures 27 at a shopping mall in Medellín. The attack is believed to be a retaliation of FARC for the arrest of 53 of its members in the preceding days.

Iraq, Suicide attacks in 2003.

February

Date

Dead

Injured

Location and description

February 7

36

200+

Colombia: 2003 El Nogal Club bombing. Car bomb kills 36 and injures more than 200 at the El Nogal social club in Bogotá; FARC rebels are blamed but deny responsibility for the attack.

February 14

18

37

Colombia: A bomb kills 18 and wounds 37 in Neiva, destroying 70 homes. Amongst the dead are the chief prosecutor in Neiva and the chief of police. FARC is blamed for the attack.^[1]

March

Date	Dead	Injured	Location and description
March 4	21		Philippines: Bomb attack in an airport in Davao kills 21.
March 5	6	68	Colombia: A car bomb kills six and injures 68 in a covered parking lot in Cúcuta. Rebel group ELN is blamed for the attack.^[2]
March 5	17	53	Israel: A Hamas suicide bomber kills 17 people and wounds 53 when he detonates a bomb hidden under his clothing in the Haifa bus 37 massacre.
March 13	1		Serbia: Serbian prime minister Zoran Djindjic is assassinated by snipers.
March 23	2	14	Iraq: SGT Hasan Akbar, US Army, murdered two officers and wounded 14 soldiers in a grenade attack at an Army base in Iraq.

May

Date	Dead	Injured	Location and description
May 8	3		Colombia, : A bomb kills three in an attack against a water treatment plant in Cali. FARC is blamed.
May 12	26	160	Saudi Arabia: Bombings of United States expatriate housing compounds in Saudi Arabia kill 26 and injure 160 in the Riyadh Compound Bombings. Al-Qaeda blamed.
May 12	59		Russia: A truck bomb attack on a government building in the Chechen town of Znamenskoye kills 59.
May 14	16		Russia: As many as 16 die in a suicide bombing at a religious festival in southeastern Chechnya.
May 16	41	100+	Morocco: Casablanca Attacks by twelve bombers on five "Western and Jewish" targets in Casablanca leave 41 dead and over 100 injured. Attack attributed to a Moroccan al-Qaeda-linked group.

July

Date

Dead

Injured

Location and description

July 5

15

40

Russia: 15 people die and 40 are injured in bomb attacks at a rock festival in Moscow.

August

Date	Dead	Injured	Location and description
August 1	50+	76	Russia: An explosion at the Russian hospital in Mozdok in North Ossetia kills at least 50 people and injures 76.
August 19	22	100+	Iraq, : Canal Hotel Bombing in Baghdad kills 22 people (including the top UN representative Sergio Vieira de Mello) and wounds over 100.
August 19	23	130	Israel: Jerusalem bus 2 massacre: A Hamas suicide bomber detonates himself on a crowded bus carrying mostly Orthodox Jewish Israelis, including many children returning from the Western Wall. 23 people are killed and over 130 wounded.
August 24	6	28	Colombia: Six die and 28 are wounded when a bomb explodes in a riverboat in the town of Puerto Rico. Rebel group FARC is blamed.^[3]
August 25	48	150	India: At least 48 people were killed and 150 injured in two blasts in south Mumbai - one near the Gateway of India at the other at the Zaveri Bazaar.

September

Date	Dead	Injured	Location and description
September 3	7	90	Russia: A bomb blast on a passenger train near Kislovodsk in southern Russia kills seven people and injures 90.
September 11	1	0	Sweden: Foreign Minister Anna Lindh dies in the early morning of September 11, 2003, following a knife attack in Stockholm on the afternoon of September 10. Mijailo Mijailović is later arrested and sentenced for the assassination. Mijailović is said to have been greatly angered by Lindh's staunch support for the U.S.-led military campaign against Serbia.
September 11	8	15	Colombia: A bomb strapped to a horse kills eight and injures 15 in the village of Chita. The attack is blamed on FARC, as the same technique had been used in the past.^[4]

September 29

10

54

Colombia: A motorcycle packed with explosives kills ten and injures 54 in downtown Florencia, capital of Caquetá. Rebel group FARC is blamed.^[5]

October

Date	Dead	Injured	Location and description
October 4	21	51	Israel: A Palestinian suicide bomber kills 21 and wounds 51 in a Haifa restaurant in the Maxim restaurant massacre.
October 8	6	11	Colombia: A car bomb kills six and injures eleven in downtown Bogotá. FARC is blamed.^[6]
October 15	3		Palestine: A bomb is detonated by Palestinians against a US diplomatic convoy in the Gaza Strip, killing three Americans.

November

Date

Dead

Injured

Location and description

November 15

2

70

Colombia: A grenade attack from a motorcycle kills two and injures seventy in the Bogotá Beer Company, a popular pub in Bogotá. Two FARC members were captured.

November 15 and November 20

57

700

Turkey: Al-Queda truck bombs go off at two synagogues, the British Consulate, and the HSBC Bank in Istanbul, killing 57 and wounding 700 in the 2003 Istanbul Bombings.

December

Date

Dead

Injured

Location and description

December 5

46

Russia: Suicide bombers kill at least 46 people in an attack on a train in southern Russia

December 9

6

11

Russia: Red Square Bombing: A blast in the center of Moscow kills six people and wounds at least eleven.