Terrorism

List of terrorist incidents, 2008

January

Date	Dead	Injured	Location and description
January 3	≈7	≈66	Diyarbakir. PKK militants were suspected by Turkish authorities to be behind a car bomb explosion.^[1][2]
January 7	≈19	≈50	Baghdad. Six bombings.^[3]
January 10	≈23	≈58	Lahore. One suicide bomber blew himself up in a police crowd.^[4]
January 13	2	≈5	Yangon. A bomb exploded in a public toilet in a railway station, injuring one woman. This was the third bombing incident in three days. One other took place on Friday, in a railway station toilet in Nay Pyi Taw, killing one woman. Another man died, and four people were injured, when a bomb exploded in Pyu, north of Rangoon.^[5]
January 14	11	≈55	Karachi. A bomb exploded in Karachi during President Pervez Musharraf's visit.^[6]
January 14	≈6	≈6	Kabul. A suicide bomber kills six at the Kabul Serena Hotel.^[7]
January 15	3	≈22	Beirut. A bomb targeting a US Embassy vehicle detonates, killing bystanders and injuring the occupants.^[8]
January 15	0	≈39	South Thailand. Suspected Islamist separatist bombed a market.^[9]
January 16	30	65	Buttala: A civilian bus was bombed, and the fleeing passengers were gunned down and the feeing gunmen also attacked farmers, killing at least 30 people.^[10][11] The Sri Lankan government claimed that the gunman belonged to LTTE.
January 16	9	6	Khan Bani Saad: A woman wearing a vest lined with explosives blew herself up near Shiite worshippers in turbulent Diyala province north of the capital Wednesday, killing nine of them.^[12]
January 18	0	8	Sderot ;Western Negev. In 72 hours, more than 120 Qassam rockets and 65 mortars were fired towards the Western Negev, an exceptionally high number. More than 8 Israelis are injured by the rocket attacks..^[13]
January 18	4	4	Hadhramaut Governorate. Gunmen opened fire on a group of tourists, killing two Belgian women, their Yemeni driver and a Yemeni man believed to be a tourist guide. Belgian tourist and a Yemeni were wounded in the incident. Al-Qaida suspected.^[14]
January 20	0	0	Athens. A Chilean diplomatic car was destroyed by an IED. An organization calling itself “Radical Solidarity” claimed responsibility for the attack, saying it had been in support of Chile’s indigenous population.^[15]
January 21	18	22	Al-Hajaj. Suicide bomber kills 18 in a funeral tent .^[16]
January 24	1	4	West Bank. Two Palestinians infiltrated a religious seminary and stabbed 3 students in the West Bank settlement of Kfar Etzion before being shot dead. The same day, Palestinian gunmen opened fire at Israelis outside the Shuafat refugee camp on the outskirts of Jerusalem, killing a border police officer and seriously wounding a female officer.^[17]
January 26	4	≈36	Beirut. A powerful car bomb killed one of Lebanon’s top terrorism investigators and three other people in eastern Beirut.^[18]
January 29	4	20	Thenia. Four people killed and 20 wounded in an attack by a suicide bomber on a police station at Thenia, 50 kilometres (30 miles) east of Algiers.^[19]
January 30	≈6	≈18	Lashkar Gah. Taliban insurgents were blamed for a suicide bomb attack in a mosque, killing at least six including a provincial deputy governor, Per Mohammad.^[20][21]

February

Date	Dead	Injured	Location and description
February 1	6	0	North Waziristan. A suicide bomber rammed an explosive-laden car into a Pakistani security force checkpost in the North Waziristan tribal region on Friday, killing six men.^[22]
February 1	0	3	Nouakchott. Gunmen opened fire on Israel's embassy in Mauritania, wounding three French nationals ^[23]
February 1	98	≈200	Baghdad. Two mentally disabled women were strapped with explosives and sent into busy Baghdad markets, where they were blown up by remote control. The bombs killed at least 98 people and wounded more than 200 at two popular pet markets ^[24]
February 2	20	50	Dambulla. A bus carrying civilians bombed.^[25]
February 3	12	≈100	Colombo. Suspected Tamil Tiger suicide bomber blew herself up outside a train at the main railway station in Colombo.^[26]
February 3	≈8	≈9	Mogadishu. A mini-bus destroyed by a landmine .^{[27][28][29][citation needed]}
February 4	1	9	Dimona. A Palestinian suicide bomber detonates an explosion belt in a shopping center and kills one woman and injures nine other people. A second suicide bomber is hurt in the blast and shot to death by Israeli police before he could detonate his own belt.^[30][31] See Dimona attack.
February 4	13	20	Weli-Oya and Colombo. Suspected Tamil Tiger rebels killed 13 people with two roadside bombs on Monday, just hours after the government celebrated the island's 60th anniversary of independence with a parade of military might in the capital.^[32]
February 5	25	≈90	Bossaso. Two separate bombs went off in northern Somalia, killing at least 25 civilians and wounding more than 90 others ^[33]
February 9	27	50	Charsada, Peshawar province. The bombing of a political gathering killed 27 and wounded more than 50 people.^[34]
February 11	≈25	≈40	Balad, Iraq is struck by a car bomb. See 2008 Balad bombing.^[35]
February 11	10	13	North Waziristan. A suicide bomber killed at least ten people, including an election candidate, and wounded 13 others ^[36]
February 12	1	10+	Damascus, Syria Hezbollah senior commander killed in car explosion.^[37]
February 16	39	≈100	Parachinar. A suicide bomber attacked supporters of assassinated Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.^[38]
February 17	65	≈50	Kandahar. Taleban suspected of a suicide bomb attack at a dog-fighting competition.^{[21][39][40][41]}
February 18	37	30	Near Pakistan border. A suicide bomber targeted a foreign military convoy.^[42]
February 19	1	3	Kandahar car bomb kills 1.^[43]
February 20	0	0	Panvel. A small explosion occurred in a movie theater screening Jodhaa Akbar, a controversial film found by ethnic Rajputs to be "offensive".^[44][45]
February 26	5	0	Roadside bomb kills 5 policemen ^[46]
February 27	1	0	A student at Sapir College was killed when a Kassam rocket exploded in a parking lot near the Sderot campus. He died shortly after sustaining massive wounds to his chest. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack ^[47]
February 29	27	40	Suicide bomb at Pakistan funeral kills 27 ^[48]

March

Date	Dead	Injured	Location and description
March 4	5	19	Lahore. At Naval War College opposite Aitchison College Lahore a twin bomb blast occurred. Five were claimed dead while about 19 are reported to have been injured.
March 6	54	≈130	Baghdad. In a popular market in the Karada shopping area, a roadside bomb detonates. As a crowd gathered around the site of the blast, a few minutes later a suicide bomber blew himself up which killed dozens and wounded scores.^[49]
March 6	8	11	Jerusalem. Eight students of the Mercaz Harav Yeshiva in Jerusalem were killed when an attacker armed with a Kalashnikov assault rifle entered the yeshiva and opened fire in the library with about 80 people in attendance, most of them teenagers. Eleven others were wounded, including three who were in critical danger. The attacker, a resident of East Jerusalem, was killed by an IDF officer.^[50]
March 7	1	0	Mondragón An ETA gunman kills Isaías Carrasco, former town councilor for Mondragón, on his way to work, two days before the General Elections.
March 10	3	0	Kanaan. A female suicide bomber entered the home of Sheik Thaeir Ghadhban al-Karkhi, a prominent Sunni who had turned against al-Qaeda, and blew herself up, killing al-Karkhi, his 5-year-old niece, and a security guard.^[51]
March 11	27	≈100	Lahore. 27 among 13 FIA officials were killed on 11 March 2008 when a massive explosion that 'shook the city'. About 700–800 kilos of explosives were used at FIA HQ Temple Road.
March 21	0	1	Calahorra. A car bomb explodes outside a Guardia Civil barracks in Calahorra, La Rioja, injuring one policeman lightly and causing extensive property damage.^[52]
March 21	0	0	Azpeitia. Two small bombs exploded near Azpeitia with minor damage near a television transmitter. No injuries were reported.^[53]

April

Date	Dead	Injured	Location and description
April 6	15	90	Weliveriya. See 2008 Weliveriya bombing
April 8	1	0	A Shabaab suicide bomber rammed a car into the gate of the complex that housed peacekeepers from Burundi; one soldier was killed.^[54]
April 12	13	~200	Shiraz. A bomb exploded inside of the Shohada Hosseiniyeh mosque at around 9 p.m. during a sermon by a cleric well-known for criticism of Wahhabism and Bahaii. Tehran blamed Western-backed monarchists for the attack.^[55][56] On its website, a group called Anjoman-e Padeshahi-e Iran (API), or Soldiers of the Kingdom Assembly of Iran, claimed responsibility.^[57]
April 15	~53	~90	Baquba. At least 53 died and another 90 were injured when explosives packed in a bus detonated outside a restaurant near a court in Baquba, north of Bagdad.^[58]
April 15	13		Ramadi. 13 were killed in a suicide bombing at a kebab restaurant where policemen were eating in Ramadi^[58]
April 17	0	7	Bilbao. A bomb blast outside the office of Spain's ruling Socialist party in Bilbao, was blamed on Basque separatist group ETA after a traditional phone call to DYA, and caused serious damage to the building but no casualties. However, 7 policemen were injured.^[59]
April 19	0	13	Kerem Shalom. Three explosive-laden vehicles approached under heavy morning fog the Kerem Shalom central humanitarian crossing. Bombers triggered the explosives in the two jeeps, wounding thirteen IDF soldiers; one moderately-seriously, two moderately and eight lightly. Four bombers were killed in the incident, their attempts to detonate the third vehicle failed. The bombing attack was combined with a barrage of 15 mortar shells fired at the area.^[60]
April 19	0	0	Elgoibar. For the second time in three days, a bomb went off in northern Spain Sunday preceded by a warning call by the Basque separatist group ETA. The blast damaged the recreation center of the ruling Socialist Party in the Basque town of Elgoibar. No one was hurt.^[61]
April 25	26	64	Piliyandala. The bombing of a commuter bus in a suburb of Colombo killed 26 and injured at least 64. See 2008 Piliyandala bus bombing

May

Date	Dead	Injured	Location and description
May 1	0	0	Arrigorriaga. A bomb explodes in an industrial pavilion for Spain's Ministry of Labor in the Basque town of Arrigorriaga.^{[citation needed]}
May 1	0	0	Donostia-San Sebastian. Two bombs exploded half an hour later near a Basque regional government labor institute in the large Basque city of Donostia-San Sebastian.^{[citation needed]}
May 2	~15	~55	Yemen, Sa'dah Governorate. 15 are killed and 55 are injured in a bombing at the Ben Salman mosque.^[62]
May 10	11	29	Ampara. A bomb attributed to Tamil Tiger rebels ripped through a cafe, 11 killed, 29 injured.^[63]
May 12	0	0	Two small bombs have damaged construction equipment in an attack claimed by the Basque separatist group.^{[citation needed]}
May 13	63	213	Jaipur. A simultaneous bomb blast at eight different sites, including a crowded shopping site and a Hanuman temple, a self-styled Indian Mujahideen, (a collaboration of LeT & SIMI) has claimed responsibility.^[64]
May 14	1	4	Legutiano, Alava. A powerful bombing outside a civil guard, blamed on Basque separatist ETA group, killing one guard.^[65]
May 16	9	93	Downtown Colombo. A suicide bomb exploded near the Sri Lankan president residence,carried out by the LTTE .^[66]
May 18	13	20	Mardan. A bomb exploded a bakery shop near Pakistani Army site, which blamed on Taliban militants.^[67]
May 19	0	0	Getxo. At 00:50 CET, a bomb placed in a van exploded in front of the Real Club Marítimo in the neighborhood of Las Arenas – Areeta in Getxo, Biscay, usual meeting point of businessmen and politicians, causing no human losses.^[68]
May 20	6	0	Addis Ababa. a bomb went off on minibus near Ethiopian Foreign Ministry, where blamed on Oromo Liberation Front.^[69]
May 22	0	1	Exeter. See 22 May 2008 Exeter bombing
May 26	8	72+	Colombo. A packed commuter train carrying 200 passenger onboard which time bombing exploded at Dehiwela railroad station, carried out by the LTTE.^[70]
May 28	3	5	Negele Boran. A bomb blast at Kidane Mihret and Shuferoch hotel, Islamic militants suspected.^[71]
May 29	2	17	Zamboanga. a cell-phone time bomb exploded outside Edwin Andrews Air Base, where blamed on Abu Sayyaf militants.^[72]
May 31	0	0	Navi Mumbai. Police defused a small explosive at a movie theater screening Jodhaa Akbar, a controversial film found by ethnic Rajputs to be "offensive".^[73][74]

June

Date	Dead	Injured	Location and description
June 1	0	2	Zarautz. Following a warning call, at around 2:30 am early Sunday morning, a blast occurred outside the headquarters of a construction company, Construcciones Amenabar, in the town of Zarautz. There were no casualties, though two people suffered ear damage from the noise of the explosion.^[75]
June 2	~8	~30	Islamabad. A suicide car bombing blast occurred at around 1 p.m. local time outside of the Danish embassy. Nearby buildings also suffered damage. The attack is thought to be the work of fundamentalist terrorists.^[76]
June 4	0	~18	Colombo. A bomb blast targeted a commuter train as it sped towards the capital. The explosive had been left along the track and detonated at around 7:10 a.m. as the last car passed. Government sources implicated the LTTE.^[77]
June 4	0	7	Thane. A bomb exploded in the parking lot of an auditorium hosting a play that parodied the Mahabharat. Two men, ages 50 and 34, admitted guilt to the attack and others on February 20 and May 31. Although the men claimed membership in Hindutva groups, they stated that they acted alone without support.^[73][74]
June 6	21	47	Moratuwa suburb of Colombo. A roadside bomb blast targeted a crowded state-run commuter bus at about 7:35 a.m. The government quickly placed blame upon LTTE, who had yet to claim responsibility. See 2008 Moratuwa bus bombing^[78]
June 6	2	20	Kandy district. The Sri Lankan government blamed LTTE militants for a bomb explosion that occurred aboard a commuter bus only a few hours after a similar attack near the capital. See 2008 Polgolla bus bombing^[78]
June 8	0	0	A bomb detonated at the presses of El Correo near the port city of Bilbao at about 3 a.m damaging the printing facilities of the Basque newspaper as people worked inside, but no one was reported injured. While ETA have not yet laid claim to this attack, it is rumored to be the doing of ETA.^[79]
June 9	12		Boumerdès Province. Two explosions kill 13 in the town of Beni Amrane, Algeria. Islamic militants suspected.^[80]
June 15	2	~12	Rautahat District. A group calling itself the Tarai Army claimed responsibility for an explosion in a crowded bus station in southern Nepal. The bomb had been hidden in a wheat sack.^[81][82]
June 15	0	8	Istanbul. An explosion in a cafe in the Büyükçekmece district on the European side of the Bosporus was attributed to a bomb.^[83]
June 16	12	40+	Northern Province, Sri Lanka. Explosives in a motorcycle is detonated in front of a police station in Vavuniya, killing 12 members of police and injuring 40, including children.^[84]
June 17	63+	75+	Baghdad. A minibus packed with explosives detonated near a marketplace in the Huriya district during the evening business rush. The predominantly Shiite crowd blamed Sunni extremists although the U.S. military believed that radical Shiite militants caused the attack in an attempt to reignite sectarian tensions or to target nearby coalition forces.^[85][86]
June 20	6	4	Gereshk, Helmand. A suicide bomber attacked a military convoy as it passed by a market during the morning hours. The blast killed 5 civilians and 1 coaltion member.^[87]
June 22	15	40+	Baquba, Diyala. A female suicide bomber struck at a government outpost.^[88]
June 24	0	10	Muang district, Yala province. A bomb hidden in a bike exploded at a market around 7 AM. Six civilians and four soldiers were injured. A remote control detonated the explosive.^[89]
June 26	18	25	Al-Karmah, Anbar province. A suicide bomber attacked a meeting of tribal sheikhs. U.S. troops, who were in attendance, were among the injured. It is believed that AQI was behind the attack.^[90]
June 26	18	80+	Mosul. A car bomb exploded in a busy market minutes after a previous explosion.^[90]

July

Date	Dead	Injured	Location and description
July 2	3	50+	Jerusalem A driver of a bulldozer on the Jaffa Road between the Central Bus Station and the Mahane Yehuda market drove into cars and pedestrians as well as two public buses carrying some 50 passengers. Police shot and killed the driver^[91][92]
July 3	0	0	Palembang, Sumatra. Police arrested 12 militants who are accused of planning to bomb a cafe in Bukittinggi, a city popular among tourists. Several of the arrested have links to Jemaah Islamiyah.^[93]
July 4	0	50+	Minsk. A home-made bomb explodes in Belarus' capital at an outdoor Independence Day concert, injuring around 50 people. President Alexander Lukashenko was also attending the concert. No one has claimed responsibility as of yet, but government spokespersons blames the attack on "hooligans".^[94]
July 6	11	~22	Islamabad. A suicide-bomber targeted a group of police officers near the Lal Masjid almost a year after a deadly siege and raid on the mosque.^[95]
July 7	58	150+	Kabul. A suicide-bomber drove an explosives-laden automobile into the front gates of the Indian embassy.^[96]
July 9	3	3	Istanbul. Four men, believed to be Turkish citizens, attacked the American consulate around 1100 local time. Three of the four began shooting and were soon met with police fire. The three gunmen, as well as three police officers, were killed in the exchange. The fourth assailant, the driver, escaped the scene. Injuries occurred to two other people.^[97][98]
July 15	35	63	Diyala. Two men detonated explosive-laden belts seconds apart in a crowd of Army recruits at the Saad military base. The two bombers had disguised themselves as recruits.^[99]
July 20	0	1	Laredo and Noja. ETA claimed responsibility for four bomb blasts in resort areas along the northern coast.^[100]
July 21	2	13	Kunming, Yunnan. Two bomb explosions occurred onboard separate passenger buses during the early morning commute. The first blast happened at about 7:00 AM and the second came about an hour later.^[101][102]
July 22	0	18+	Jerusalem Almost three weeks to day of a bulldozer attack in the city, another tractor driver went on a rampage on the King David Street in the afternoon. The police reported that the perpetrator was shot dead, while at least 18 people were injured in the incident, one sustaining moderate to serious wounds.^[103]
July 24	~8	~24	Baqouba. Iraqi police said at least eight people have been killed in a female suicide bombing against a checkpoint manned by US-allied Sunni guards northeast of Baghdad.^[104]
July 25	2	20+	Bangalore. A series of nine blasts kills 2 and injures 20 people.^[105]
July 25	6	15+	Gaza City. At least six people, including senior Hamas member, were killed after bomb exploded at major Gaza intersection; explosive device planted near Hamas police parking site.^[106]
July 26	50+	160+	Ahmedabad. A series of seventeen blasts killing 49 and injuring 160 people.^[107]
July 27	0	6	Godda, Jharkhand. At least six people were injured when a bomb exploded at a bus stand in Jharkhand's Godda district.^[108]
July 27	~17	150+	Istanbul. Two bombs kill 17 people and wound at least 150 in Istanbul.^[109]
July 27	2	7	Knoxville, Tennessee. Knoxville Unitarian Universalist church shooting, Jim David Adkisson kills 2 people and injures 7 in Knoxville, Tennessee.
July 28	32+	102	Baghdad. Three female suicide bombers and a roadside bomb targeted Shi'ite pilgrims headed towards Kazimiyah.^[110][111]
July 28	25	185	Kirkuk. A bomb explosion occurred at a large protest against a provincial elections law. The US military initially believed the explosion to be a suicide attack. The majority of the victims were Kurds.^[111]
July 28	0	0	Orio, Basque Country. The regional government claimed that ETA caused a bomb explosion at a road construction site near the town of Orio. No workers were present at the time so no injuries occurred.^[112]

August

Date	Dead	Injured	Location and description
August 3	0	25	Tizi Ouzou, Kabylie. A suicide car bomber targeted the local police force. The explosion injured 25 people, 4 of whom were police. No one has claimed responsibility.^[113]
August 4	16	16	Sibi, Balochistan. A bomb attached to a parked motorcycle exploded in the main bazaar. The bomb was detonated by remote. Three of the killed were said to be members of a tribe supporting the Islamabad government.^[114]
August 8	21+	~70	Tal Afar. A bomb exploded in a crowded vegetable market.^[115]
August 10	0	10	Bogota. An explosion in the north of Colombia’s capital Bogotá left ten people wounded. The police blame rebel group FARC for the attack.^[116]
August 13	18+	45	Tripoli. A bomb, hidden in a briefcase, exploded at a crowded civilian bus stop at around 7:45 AM. Most of the dead were reported to be soldiers, who seemed to be the target of the attack. A remote control detonated the explosive. Initial suspicion fell upon Fatah al-Islam although political turmoil and sectarian strife could implicate any number of groups.^[117][118]
August 15	7	50	Ituango, Antioquia. Seven people were killed and more than 50 wounded when a bomb detonated in a small town. FARC denies responsibility on the attack, blaming Colombian State.^[119][120]
August 17	3	13	Baku. A young man reportedly threw a grenade into the Abu Bakr mosque during evening prayers while as many as 200 worshiped. Three people were killed and 13 injured.^[121]
August 18	12	22	Khost. A suicide bomber drove a car towards the gates of an American military base. The explosion killed no American military personnel, but did harm workers outside of the base. The forces repelled a second attacker, who fled. The attacks came on Afghanistan's Independence Day, which celebrates the end.^[122]
August 19	32	35	Dera Ismail Khan. A suicide bomber struck outside of a hospital, where a large crowd Shiite mourners had gathered.^[123]