05/29/2008: On Thursday morning,  in Tskhinvali, Shida Kartli, Georgia, a car bomb exploded near the Police Special Task Force building wounding six civilians. According to a police spokesman, the early morning blast originated from a car that may have been driven into South Ossetia from neighboring Georgia.  An investigation is underway. There has been no claim of responsibility. The attack caused an unknown amount of property damage.
10/18/2008: On Saturday morning, unknown separatists detonated an improvised explosive device on a bridge connecting Georgian and Ossetian villages in Adzvi village, Gori, Shida Kartli (Georgia) province, Georgia. The bombing attack completely destroyed the bridge and caused minor damage to nearby houses but resulted in no casualties. No claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
07/03/2008: On Thursday in Shida Kartli, Georgia, armed assailants fired upon, with submachine guns,  a police patrol, wounding one police officer and damaging his vehicle. No motive for the attack was reported and no group claimed responsibility, although authorities believed Georgian South Ossetian separatists were responsible.
08/01/2008: On Friday morning, four traffic policemen were wounded when two remote-controlled bombs exploded under the police car on a road near Tskhinvali city, South Ossetia province, Georgia. No claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
07/03/2008: On Thursday and Friday (07/04/2008), overnight, in one of four related attacks, in Ergneti, Shida Kartli, Georgia; Eredvi, Shida Kartli, Georgia; Kvemo Nikozi, Shida Kartli, Georgia; and Prisi, Shida Kartli, Georgia, armed assailants fired mortars on a peacekeeping station, a police station, and on various villages, causing no casualties or damage. No group claimed responsibility, although authorities believed Georgian South Ossetian separatists were responsible.
07/03/2008: On Thursday morning at around 0600, unknown assailants detonated an improvised explosive device that killed Police Cheif Nodar Bibilov in the village of Dmenis, Ts'khinvali, South Ossetia, Georgia. The explosion made a crater one meter in diameter and damaged nearby buildings. No additional casualties or motive for the attack was reported and no group claimed responsibility.
07/02/2008: On Wednesday morning, in Rukhi, Samegrelo-Zemo Svanet'i, Georgia, assailants detonated an improvised explosive device  near a Georgian police station, causing no casualties or damage. No motive for the attack was reported and no group claimed responsibility.
08/07/2008: On Thursday near Avnevi, Shida Kartli, Georgia, a landmine exploded when a military armored personnel carrier drove over it, killing one soldier, wounding two others, and damaging the vehicle. No group claimed responsibility, although authorities believed Georgian South Ossetian separatists were responsible.
06/29/2008: On Sunday, at 0825, a bomb exploded near a bank in the town of Gagry in Sukhumi, Abkhazia, Georgia. The bomb was planted underneath an electric power line pylon. No casualties resulted from the blast and no group claimed responsibility for the explosion.
08/07/2008: On Thursday, in Ergneti, Shida Kartli, Georgia; and Nuli, Shida Kartli, Georgia, armed assailants fired upon villages, causing no casualties but damaging several houses. No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed that Georgian South Ossetian separatists were responsible.
08/17/2008: On Sunday, in Gali, Abkhazia, Georgia, a remote-controlled landmine killed two Abkhaz border guards and injured two others. No group claimed responsibility.
12/10/2008: On Wednesday, assailants remotely detonated a remotely controlled improvised explosive device at a passing police vehicle in Kvemo Nikozi, Shida Kartli, Georgia. The attack did not cause any casualties or damages. No group claimed responsibility.
06/20/2008: On Friday, unknown individuals attempted to assassinate Eduard Emin-zade, the head of the counterintelligence department of the Abkhaz State Security Service. The assailants opened fire on Emin-zade's car near the Sukhumi railway station in Sukhumi, Abkhazia, Georgia. Emin-zade and his driver were wounded in the attack. No group claimed responsibility.
09/25/2008: On Thursday, at an unknown time, in Orchosani, Shid Kartli, Georgia, armed assailants fired upon an Ashtrom Group road construction crew, wounding one construction worker and damaging his vehicle.  The armed assailants then took seven construction workers hostage.  No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed that Georgian South Ossetian separatists were responsible.
05/16/2008: On Friday,  near the village of Eredvi (about one kilometer from Tskhinvali), in the zone of the Georgian-South Ossetian conflict, a Georgian policeman has been seriously wounded in an explosion. The police officer was rushed to a hospital in the town of Gori (some 30 kilometers from Tskhinvali). He is in serious condition. TNT was used in the blast that is equivalent to 500 gr. There has been no claim of responsibility. It Is unknown if the attack caused any property damage.
07/03/2008: On Thursday and Friday (07/04/2008), overnight, in one of four related attacks, in Ergneti, Shida Kartli, Georgia; Eredvi, Shida Kartli, Georgia; Kvemo Nikozi, Shida Kartli, Georgia; and Prisi, Shida Kartli, Georgia, armed assailants fired mortars on a peacekeeping station, a police station, and on various villages, causing no casualties or damage. No group claimed responsibility, although authorities believed Georgian South Ossetian separatists were responsible.
07/06/2008: On Sunday night at 23:00, an improvised explosive device killed four café patrons and wounded six others in a café in downtown Gali, Abkhazia province, Georgia. The chief of the security service in Gali was among those who died, as were a border guard, a woman who worked at the cafe and a translator for the United Nations mission in Abkhazia. No claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
07/09/2008: On Wednesday morning in Kodori, Abkhazia, Georgia, armed assailants fired upon and wounded three police officers. No damage or motive for the attack was reported and no group claimed responsibility, although authorities believed Georgian Abkhazian separatists were responsible.
11/23/2008: On Sunday, near Tbilisi, Georgia, unknown assailants fired upon a motorcade of President Lech Kaczynski of Poland and President Mikhail Saakashvili of Georgia, causing no injuries or damages.  No group claimed responsibility.
02/28/2008: In South Ossetia, Russia, a bomb hidden inside a television set at a polling station detonated and killed 2 civilians and injured 15 civilians. This incident occurred a couple days prior to the presidential election in Russia and authorities believe the intended target was South Ossetia's "alternative premier" Dmitry Sanakoyev. No group claimed responsibility for this attack.
07/29/2008: On Tuesday morning, in Kvemo-Sarabuki, Shida Kartli, Georgia, armed assailants fired small arms and grenade launchers at a peacekeeping station and at residences, damaging the peacekeeping building and several residences but causing no casualties. No motive was reported and no group claimed responsibility, although authorities believed Georgian South Ossetian separatists were responsible.
07/25/2008: On Friday afternoon at 17:20, Valentin Dzhioyev, a 26-year-old resident of Tskhinvali, was killed after two remote-controlled roadside bombs hit the victim’s car near a Russian peacekeeper post in the south-western suburb of Tskhinvali district, Shida Kartli province, Georgia. No claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
08/12/2009: On Wednesday afternoon at 1647, in Gagra, Abkhazia, Georgia, assailants detonated a improvised explosive device in a garbage can outside of a resort building, killing two civilians, wounding six others and one child, and damaging the resort building. No motive for the attack was reported and no group claimed responsibility for the attack.
08/12/2009: On Wednesday evening at 2020, in Sokhumi, Ap'khazet'is (Abkhazia), Georgia, assailants detonated an improvised explosive device near the Elbrus restaurant, causing no casualties or damage. No motive for the attack was reported and no group claimed responsibility.
03/29/2009: On Sunday, in Ach'igvara, Ap'khazet'is (Abkhazia), Georgia, assailants detonated an improvised explosive device as two Abkhazian separatist paramilitary members were entering a shop, wounding the two paramilitary members, the shop owner, and caused minor damage to the shop. No group claimed responsibility.
3/22/2009: On early Sunday morning, near Tbilisi, Georgia, an assailant fired upon and threw a grenade at the Mtskheta-Mtianeti district police headquarters, causing minor damage to the building but causing no casualties. No group claimed responsibility.
02/10/2009: On Tuesday night at 0300, militants abducted two European Union monitors, working for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, near the Georgian village of Adzvi, in the Gori district. According to the Georgian Interior Minister, the hostages were moved to the village of Akhalgori.  From there, their locations were lost.  The nationalities of the victims has not been released.  No group has claimed responsibility for this attack.
01/25/2009: On Sunday afternoon at 1315, in Gali, Ap'khazet'is (Abkhazia), Georgia, assailants detonated an improvised explosive device when it was picked up while wrapped in a bag, near a police vehicle, causing minor damage to two adjacent buildings. No casualties or motive were reported and no group claimed responsibility.
09/06/2009: On Sunday morning, near Zugdidi, Samegrelo and Zemo Svaneti, Georgia, an improvised explosive device made from a mixture of TNT and hexagon, detonated as a passenger train passed by on the Tbilisi-Zugdidi rail line, lightly damaging the train but causing no casualties. The motive for the attack was to disrupt transportation on the rail line and no group claimed responsibility for the attack.
03/13/2009: On Friday, in the evening, in Tbilisi, Georgia, assailants threw a grenade at a vehicle belonging to the Security Police Service on Rustaveli Avenue, destroying the vehicle but no casualties were reported. No group claimed responsibility, but it was widely believed that Democratic Movement United Georgia was responsible.
10/13/2009: On Tuesday night at about 0200, in the village of Tsaghvil in Khashuris Raioni, Shida Kartli, Georgia, assailants detonated an improvised explosive device targeting electrical transmission towers, damaging four towers but causing no casualties. The motive of the attack was to disrupt the power supply to the nearby area. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
06/21/2009: On Sunday, in Muzhava, Samegrelo-Zemo Svanet'i, Georgia, an improvised explosive device exploded as a European Union Monitor Mission convoy was passing, killing a Georgian medical worker, wounding a Georgian doctor, destroying one vehicle, and damaging one other. No group claimed responsibility.
05/28/2009: On Thursday evening at about 2000, near Gori, Shida Kartli, Georgia, assailants fired at police post with a large caliber pistol, causing minor damage to the police post, but no casualties. No motive for the attack was reported and no group claimed responsibility.
06/20/2009: On Saturday, in Tbilisi, Georgia, assailants threw a Molotov cocktail at a rear entrance to the Georgian parliament building causing no casualties but damaging the building. No group claimed responsibility.
05/25/2009: On Monday night at 0300, in Tbilisi, Georgia, assailants detonated a grenade at the building of the opposition TV channel Maestro. The explostion damaged the entrance door, the building's walls, and smashed some of the windows, but no casualties were reported. No group claimed responsibility.
05/13/2009: On Wednesday afternoon at about 1745, near Gali, Ap'khazet'is (Abkhazia), Georgia, a grenade rigged with a trip wire exploded as civilians passed, damaging one vehicle but causing no casualties. No group claimed responsibility.
05/29/2009: On Friday morning at 0730, near Monasteri, Shida Kartli, Georgia, assailants fired upon a police vehicle with automatic weapons, causing minor damage to the vehicle, but no casualties. No motive for the attack was reported and no group claimed responsibility.
07/30/2009: On Thursday, in a village in the Dushetsky, Tbilisi, Georgia, near the border between Georgia and South Ossetia, assailants detonated unknown explosives inside a families Niva car, killing one man and injuring his wife and two children and destroying one car. No motive for the attack was reported and no group claimed responsibility.
08/09/2009: On Sunday morning, around 0300, in Sokhumi, Ap'khazet'is (Abkhazia), Georgia, assailants detonated a improvised explosive device made from a 122-milimeter howitzer round under a section of railway tracks, damaging the tracks but causing no casualties. The motive for the attack was to interfere with transportation line and no group claimed responsibility for the attack.
08/26/2009: On Wednesday, in Ts'khinvali, Shida Kartli, Georgia, assailants detonated an improvised explosive device in a children’s music school on Pushkin Street, damaging the school and a nearby gas pipeline but causing no casualties. The motive for the attack was thought to create division between Georgia and South Ossetia. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
06/27/2009: On Saturday, in Muzhava, Samegrelo-Zemo Svanet'i, Georgia, a Russian landmine exploded as a police patrol was passing, causing no injuries or damage. No group claimed responsibility.
09/15/2009: On Tuesday morning, in Zugdidi, Samegrelo and Zemo Svaneti, Georgia, an improvised explosive device made from a unknown explosive and hexogen, detonated as a passenger train was leaving the Zugdidi rail station, damaging the train and the tracks but causing no casualties. The motive for the attack was to disrupt transportation on the railway line and no group claimed responsibility.
03/29/2009: On Sunday, in Dvani, Georgia, an improvised explosive device (IED) exploded as a police vehicle was passing, killing one police officer and damaging the vehicle. As other police officers arrived to investigate the explosion, another IED exploded, wounding six police officers and causing minor damage to a police vehicle. No group claimed responsibility.
06/01/2009: On Monday night at 0330, near Ingiri, Zugdidi, Georgia, a timed improvised explosive device using trinitrotoluene exploded on the Khobi-Zugdidi section of the railway, destroying several meters of the railway but causing no injuries. No group claimed responsibility.
05/05/2009: On Tuesday, near the village of Bagiata, Java district, South Ossetia, Georgia, a roadside bomb was discovered in the South Ossetian section of the Trans-Caucasus Highway. The bomb contained 800 grams of TNT equivalent, and was filled with sharpened bolts and screws and was later disarmed by officers from the Defense Ministry. No motive for the attack was reported and no group has claimed responsibility for the attempted bombing.
06/10/2009: On Wednesday, between 06/10/2009 and 06/11/2009, in Zugdidi, Samegrelo-Zemo Svanet'i, Georgia, the first of three improvised explosive devices (IED) was detonated on an empty passenger train at the Zugdidi train station. The explosion injured an engineer and damaged the train. Approximately 15 minutes later, a second IED exploded in a trash can at the train station, causing minor damage to the station but no injuries. Approximately one hour later, a third IED planted in a truck exploded near the Zugdidi police station, causing no injuries or damage. No group claimed responsibility.
10/21/2009: On Wednesday, between Senaki, Samegrelo and Zemo Svaneti, Georgia and Poti, Samegrelo and Zemo Svaneti, Georgia, assailants detonated an explosive device believed to be made from TNT, damaging 100 yards of track and overturned 16 tanker cars but caused no casualties. The motive for the attack was to disrupt transportation on the railroad line. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack, but rebels from Abkhazia were thought to be responsible.
01/29/2010: On Friday, in Chuburkhindzh, Galsky District, Abkhazia, Russia, assailants detonated improvised explosive devices targeting police officers as they responded to an earlier robbery call. Two people were killed, including one police officer and seven people were injured including four police officers. No material damage was reported and no group claimed responsibility for the attack.
10/08/2010: On Friday, in Gudauta, Abkhazia, Georgia, unidentified gunmen approached a mosque and opened fire on a group of people praying outside the building, killing one civilian and wounding two others. No damage was reported and no group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
09/23/2010: On Thursday, in Lykhny village, Gudautsky, Abkhazia, Georgia, an unidentified gunman fired a rocket propelled grenade (RPG), using an RPG-26, at the home of Abkhazia Vice President, Aleksandr Ankvab, wounding him in the hand and leg. No damage was reported and no group claimed responsibility.
11/28/2010: On Sunday, on Javakhishvili Street in Tbilisi, Georgia, an elderly individual was killed and two others were injured, including a child, when unidentified militants detonated an improvised explosive device targeting a residential building which is also the location of the Labor Party's offices. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
03/27/2010: On Saturday, in Kirbali, Gori District, Georgia, Mamuka Samkharadze (30) was kidnapped by suspected South Ossetian separatists. His family reported that he had gone to gather brushwood in a nearby forest where he was assaulted and kidnapped; they also stated that the kidnappers were keeping him in the Tskhinvali detention centre. No group claimed responsibility.
11/28/2010: On Sunday, in Tsibili, Georgia, unidentified militants detonated an improvised explosive device outside a grocery store. No casualties were reported, but a number of nearby buildings were damaged in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
07/01/2010: On Thursday, in the village of Ganmukhuri near Zugdidi, Georgia, unidentified assailants fired upon a police checkpoint for about 15 minutes, wounding one policeman in the attack. An unmanned aerial vehicle was also spotted in the aftermath of the incident. No damage was reported and no group claimed responsibility, although Georgia blamed Abkhazian separatist forces.
09/21/2011: On Wednesday morning at 0920, in Sukhumi, Abkhazia, Georgia, one person was killed and another was injured when militants detonated an improvised explosive device (IED) that had been placed inside a Mercedes car. The driver who was killed was identified as Arsen Bzhekshiyev, and was originally from Russia's North Caucasus region of Kabardino Balkariya and a veteran of the Georgia-Abkhaz civil war of the 1990s; his wife was the passenger. The attack caused an unknown amount of material damage to the Mercedes car. It was believed that the IED was made of 200 grams of TNT. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
12/6/2011: The home of the South Ossetian prosecutor general Taymuraz Khugayev was targeted by unknown individuals in Ts'khinvali, South Ossetia, Georgia. A grenade launcher fired an explosive at the home early in the morning while the prosecutor, his wife, and his two children were home. No one was injured, but the windows were blown out and a 30-cm hole was left in a wall of the home. No claim of responsibility was reported.
02/23/2011: On Wednesday evening, in Tbilisi, Georgia, Georgia, police discovered three improvised explosive devices (IEDs) at the Imedi Television Station building, which were meant to target the employees. Police were able to locate the IEDs based on information obtained from an individual identified as Gogity Arkania, in custody for links to a separate incident. One IED was found next to the building's parking lot, and the other in a metal container 10 -15 meters from the door of the station. The third IED was located in a unspecified location. Police sappers were able to disarm the devices before detonation could occur. No casualties or damages were reported and no group has claimed responsibility for the attempted attack.
05/04/2012: An explosive device was discovered and defused near the prosecutor's office in Zugdidi city, Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti region, Georgia. No group claimed responsibility for the attack. One person was arrested in connection with the incident.
02/13/2012: Assailants planted an explosive device on an Israeli embassy car in Tbilisi city, Georgia. The device was discovered and safely defused without injury. This was one of two coordinated incidents targeting Israeli officials on the same day; the other incident took place in India and was attributed to members of Iran's Revolutionary Guards.
02/22/2012: A roadside bomb detonated near Sukhumi city in Abkhazia territory, Georgia. The blast targeted Alexander Ankvab's convoy; Ankvab was the president of Abkhazia. Assailants also opened fire following the explosion. Ankvab was unharmed in the attack; however, one of his guards was killed and at least two more were injured. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
02/18/2013: A grenade detonated near a regional police department in Kaspi, Shida Kartli, Georgia. There were no reported casualties resulting from the blast; however, the building and a vehicle were damaged. No group claimed responsibility for the incident, although a suspect was detained in connection with the bombing.
09/09/2013: An assailant fired upon Dmitry Vishernyov and his wife in an unknown location in Abkhazia republic, Georgia. Vishnyov, a Russian Embassy first secretary in the republic, was killed in the assault while his wife died in the hospital on September 14, 2013. An unexploded homemade bomb was also discovered at the scene. No group claimed responsibility for the attack; however, authorities detained an individual on September 19, 2013, in connection with the assault.
02/16/2014: A grenade detonated in front of Boris Chochiev's house in Shida Kartli, Georgia. Chochiev, the head of the presidential administration, was unharmed but the house sustained minor damage. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
03/30/2014: Assailants attacked Nugzar Tsiklauri in Tbilisi city, Tbilisi region, Georgia. Tsiklauri, the United National Movement deputy, was injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/20/2015: An explosive device was discovered in a school yard in Tbilisi city, Tbilisi region, Georgia. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
10/17/2016: An explosive device detonated prematurely outside a television and radio station in Sokhumi, Abkhazia, Georgia. The assailant was killed in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
10/04/2016: An explosive device detonated targeting the vehicle of Givi Targamadze in Tbilisi, Georgia. Targamadze, a United National Movement (UNM) member of parliament, was unharmed; however, four people were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
02/26/2016: Assailants opened fire on Aleksi Petriashvili in Tbilisi, Georgia. Petriashvili, a former state minister and leader of the Free Democrats party, was wounded in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
10/02/2016: Assailants opened fire at a campaign rally for Irakli Okruashvili, an independent candidate, in Gori, Shida Kartli, Georgia. Two people were injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
02/22/2018: Assailants abducted three people, including a former soldier, in Shida Kartli, Georgia. One hostage was killed on February 23, 2018 while the fate of the other two hostages is unknown. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the incident to separatists.
10/2/2000: Assailants threw bricks and then firebombs at a synagogue in Dusseldorf, Germany. No one was injured in the attack and a neighbor who witnessed the attack climbed the perimeter fence and put out the flames before any major damage occurred. Witnesses stated that the attack was perpetrated by at least two assailants; two 15-year-old young men were taken into custody. The attack occurred the night before the ten year anniversary of Germany's unity.
09/09/2000: Assailants opened fire on Turkish flower store owner Enver Simsak in Nuremberg city, Bavaria state, Germany. Simsak was killed in the attack. The Nationalist Socialist Underground claimed responsibility on a digital video disc (DVD) later found in a member's house.
07/31/2000: A pipe-bomb set by unknown perpetrators explosion in Stralsund, Germany, causing minor damaged to the chamber of commerce building but no casualties.
07/16/2000: Unidentified arsonists torched a refugee shelter housing Albanian Kosovars in Ludwigshafen, Germany. The fire injured three children and damaged the building.
01/02/2000: The Thuringian Interior Ministry in Erfurt, Germany, was attacked when unknown persons threw a Molotov cocktail at the building from a car. The device landed in front of the building stairs, causing no damage. A previous attack on the building on December 21, 1999, was claimed by the Autonomous Decorators , in protest of the arrest of three members of the Revolutionary Cells/Red Zora. It was speculated that this attack was committed by the same perpetrators.
07/27/2000: Ten people were injured when a TNT-filled pipe bomb exploded around 3:00p.m. at the S-Bahn rail station in Dusseldorf, Germany. At least nine of the ten casualties were foreign students, including six Russian and Ukrainian Jews. A neo-Nazi extremist and former German soldier identified as Ralf S. was arrested in 2017 in connection with the attack.
8/20/2000: Unidentified assailants threw a smoke bomb into a hostel in Eisenhuettenstadt, Germany. The hostel was housing Colombian asylum seekers. Seven people suffered eye injuries as a result of the attack and the apartment walls were damaged by the smoke. Authorities believe that the attack was perpetrated by neo-Nazis.
06/13/2001: Assailants opened fire on Turkish tailor Abdurrahim Ozudogru in Nuremberg city, Bavaria state, Germany. Ozudogru was killed in the attack. The Nationalist Socialist Underground claimed responsibility on a digital video disc (DVD) later found in a member's house.
05/24/2001: An estimated 30 skinhead males attacked an Italian woman in Leipzig, Germany. The woman was not injured however the perpetrators hit a German passerby in the head and finally clashed with police, injuring one officer in the eye. Seven extremists were arrested, but only one was detained. Reports did not state whether the individuals were affiliated in a specific group. The same group of men was suspected for also attacking two Iranian men in a nearby city.
01/19/2001: An explosive device detonated inside a grocery store in Cologne city, North Rhine-Westphalia state, Germany. One grocery store worker, an Irani German, was injured by the blast. The Nationalist Socialist Underground claimed responsibility on a digital video disc (DVD) later found in a member's house.
08/20/2001: A firebomb was thrown at the home of Henning Scherf, the mayor of Bremen, Germany by an unknown man. Scherf was not home at the time. No injuries occurred and a door was slightly damaged from the fire.
08/29/2001: Assailants opened fire on Turkish greengrocer Habil Kilic in Munich city, Bavaria state, Germany. Kilic was killed in the attack. The Nationalist Socialist Underground claimed responsibility on a digital video disc (DVD) later found in a member's house.
05/24/2001: An estimated six skinhead males attacked two people, identified as Iranian males, riding bicycles in Hanover, Germany. One of the men suffered cuts and lacerations. The same group of men was suspected for also attacking an Italian woman in a nearby city.
06/27/2001: Assailants opened fire on Turkish vegetable shop owner Suleyman Taskopru in Hamburg city, Hamburg state, Germany. Taskopru was killed in the attack. The Nationalist Socialist Underground claimed responsibility on a digital video disc (DVD) later found in a member's house.
08/17/2001: A 17-year-old Iraqi and a 22-year-old Jordanian were stabbed by four unidentified Neo-Nazis in Cham, Bavaria, Germany.
04/28/2002: A Molotov cocktail petrol bomb was thrown at a sysnagogue in the Kreuzberg section of Berlin. The cocktail caused a small fire which was quickly extinguished by synagogue staff. There were no injuries. No group has claimed responsibility.
03/00/2002: An explosive device hidden in a bottle was thrown at the gates of the cemetery in Charlottenburg area, Berlin city, Berlin state, Germany. No one was injured, but the gates were damaged by the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
08/20/2002: Five members of the Democratic Iraqi Opposition of Germany took over the Iraqi Embassy in Berlin, Germany. The group took hostage the Iraqi Ambassador to Germany and a second person. Police believed that the perpetrators used tear gas pistols in the assault, but were otherwise unarmed. After a five-hour standoff, the German police raided the Embassy, arresting the hostage takers and freeing their two captives. The two hostages suffered minor injuries.
12/29/2003: The anarchist group called Informal Anarchic Federation (FAI) sent a letter bomb addressed to the offices of European Central Bank (ECB) in Frankfurt, Germany, Jean-Claude Trichet. The letter was discovered in the ECB mail room at noon when employees noticed "appliances" in the letter, which, according to the police, "justified the suspicion that it contained an explosive or arson device."
02/25/2004: Assailants opened fire on Turkish kebab shop employee Yunis Turgut in Rostock city, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern state, Germany. Turgut was killed in the attack. The Nationalist Socialist Underground claimed responsibility on a digital video disc (DVD) later found in a member's house.
06/09/2004: A nailed-filled explosive device detonated in Mullheim, a predominantly Turkish suburb of Cologne city, North Rhine-Westphalia state, Germany. Between 17 and 22 people were injured by the blast. The Nationalist Socialist Underground claimed responsibility on a digital video disc (DVD) later found in a member's house.
02/21/2004: Three people were injured by a group of neo-Nazis in Pasewalk, Germany. The owner of a Greek restaurant was hit over the head by one member of the group, while his wife was injured with some sort of irritant gas. A guest was also injured. Police arrested six people. Before the attack the group threw xenophobic fliers into the restaurant.
06/15/2005: Assailants opened fire on Greek locksmith Theodorus Boulgarides in Munich city, Bavaria state, Germany. Boulgarides was killed in the attack. The Nationalist Socialist Underground claimed responsibility on a digital video disc (DVD) later found in a member's house.
06/09/2005: Assailants opened fire on Turkish kebab shop owner Ismail Yasar in Nuremberg city, Bavaria state, Germany. Yasar was killed in the attack. The Nationalist Socialist Underground claimed responsibility on a digital video disc (DVD) later found in a member's house.
05/24/2005: Unidentified perpetrators threw Molotov Cocktails at the Syrian Embassy in Berlin, Germany. No one was harmed in the attack.
06/09/2005: Assailants opened fire on Turkish internet cafe owner Halit Yozgat in Kassel city, Hesse state, Germany. Yozgat was killed in the attack. The Nationalist Socialist Underground claimed responsibility on a digital video disc (DVD) later found in a member's house.
07/31/2006: German authorities announced on 8/18/2006 that they had uncovered a plot to blow up two trains in West Germany using propane bombs concealed in suitcases. The bombs were to explode 10 minutes before reaching their destinations. Bombs made it onto the trains but were discovered when rail workers noticed the abandoned luggage. Two men, with alleged links to Hizb al-Tahrir al-Islami (HT), were arreseted in connection to the plot.
06/09/2005: Assailants opened fire on Turkish kebab shop owner Mehmet Kubasik in Dortmund city, North Rhine-Westphalia state, Germany. Kubasik was killed in the attack. The Nationalist Socialist Underground claimed responsibility on a digital video disc (DVD) later found in a member's house.
04/06/2006: Attackers smashed down the door and tossed a Molotov cocktail into a Turkish cultural center in Germany, the latest in a string of incidents which police linked to political tensions in Turkey. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/25/2007: Assailants opened fire on German police officer Michele Kiesewetter in Heilbronn city, Baden-Wurttemberg state, Germany. Kiesewetter was killed and her colleague was injured in the attack. The Nationalist Socialist Underground claimed responsibility on a digital video disc (DVD) later found in a member's house. Sources speculated that Kiesewetter was killed because her father had tried to buy a pub that group members were using as a local meeting place and she had recognized the group members in a chance encounter.
03/21/2007: A construction site of a mosque in Berlin, Germany suffered from an arson attack that is suspected to be politically motivated. No claim of responsibility was reported.
03/21/2007: Molotov Cocktails were thrown in the windows of a Turkish Cultural center in Goeppingen, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany. No one was hurt and property damage was minor. No claim of responsibility was reported.
12/13/2008: On Saturday, Police Chief Alois Mannichl was stabbed on the doorstep of his house in the southern city of Passau, Bavaria, Germany. The attacker told him before stabbing him: "You're a leftist pig cop, and you will no longer hang around the graves of our comrades." The attacker's comments were an apparent reference to this summer's funeral of a regional neo-Nazi leader, who was buried with a Nazi swastika flag, which Mannichl later had removed from his grave. Two suspects were arrested in Passau on 12/15/2008. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/26/2008: On Saturday, firebombs were thrown at accommodations for Polish agricultural workers near the town of Querfurt in the eastern city of Halle, Sachsen Anhalt, Germany. The six Poles in the accommodation were unhurt in the attack, which police suspected was carried out with a xenophobic motive. No claim of responsibility was made for the incident. On 04/27/2008 on Sunday, three men and one women were arrested in connection with the arson attack in Saxony, Germany.
02/06/2008: A parcel bomb exploded when opened by a car dealer in Munich, Germany, resulting in serious burns to the man’s face and hands. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
12/03/2009: Between Thursday and Friday (12/04/2009), overnight, in Treptow district, Berlin, Germany, assailants threw two paint bombs and a Molotov cocktail at a Federal Office of Criminal Investigation (BKA) station, damaging the police station but causing no injuries. No group claimed responsibility.
12/03/2009: On Thursday night, in the Schanzenviertel district of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, assailants set fire to a police station, damaging the police station and two police vehicles but causing no injuries. They also threw stones at the police responding to the attack, causing no reported damage or injuries. The Hoodie Wearers claimed responsibility.
03/29/2009: On Monday, in Stadtallendorf town of Marbug, Hessen, Germany, assailants fired upon and threw Molotov cocktails at a mosque, causing minor damage but no causalities were reported. No group claimed responsibility.
07/06/2009: On Monday morning, in Munich, Bavaria, Germany, assailants threw three Molotov cocktails at the Chinese Consulate, burning a Chinese flag and causing slight soot damage to the building. No motive for the attack was reported and no group claimed responsibility.
11/02/2010: On Tuesday, in Berlin city, Berlin, Germany, in one of 13 related attacks, an improvised explosive device (IED) was mailed in a package and addressed to the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel. The IED was discovered in a routine x-ray scan of packages at the chancellery. The package, sent from Greece, contained a pipe that was filled with black powder. There were no casualties and the Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei claimed responsibility for the attempted bombing. Thirteen of the groups members were arrested in connection to the attacks.
12/7/2011: A letter bomb, addressed to Deutsche Bank CEO Josef Ackermann, was discovered in the mailroom on the bank's headquarters in Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany. Authorities were able to defuse the bomb before it caused any harm. The Italian anarchist group, Federazione Anarchica Informal (FAI), claimed responsibility.
01/17/2011: On Monday, in Berlin city, Berlin, Germany, a package containing a hand grenade was found outside of the Croatian Embassy just before the Croatian President's scheduled visit on Wednesday. Authorities safely disposed of the grenade. No casualties or damages were reported and no group has claimed responsibility for the attempted attack.
10/11/2011: On Tuesday, in Berlin, Berlin, Germany, suspected members of the Hekla Reception Committee-Initiative for More Social Eruptions planted three timed incendiary devices on a German rail line in the eastern part of Berlin. None of the devices exploded however and no damage or casualties occurred. The group did not claim responsibility for planting the devices, but they did claim responsibility for similar devices found the day before, which leads authorities to believe they are responsible.
10/10/2011: On Monday night at 0345, on the Inter City Express rail line in Brandenburg, Germany, the Hekla Reception Committee-Initiative for More Social Eruptions group bombed a rail line. The group used a timed incendiary device which was composed of a three battery improvised electronic detonator, a canister, gasoline and other unspecified materials. The device was hidden in a cable duct next to the track bed at the rail marker for kilometer 24.6. The fire bomb detonated between the Brieselang and Finkenkrug stations. No casualties occurred as a result of the bombing. The signals system was damaged and the line was shut down temporarily. The group claimed responsibility for the bombing on 10/10/2011.
10/12/2011: On Wednesday, in Berlin, Berlin, Germany, suspected members of the Hekla Reception Committee-Initiative for More Social Eruptions planted an unspecified number of timed incendiary devices on the tracks just outside the Staaken train station. The devices did not detonate so there was no damage or casualties; the trains were slightly delayed while police removed the devices however. The group did not claim responsibility for the devices but they did claim responsibility for similar devices planted around Berlin before and after this incident so police highly suspect they are responsible.
03/02/2011: A Kosovar gunman identified as Arid Uka, 21, opened fire on United States Air Force personnel boarding a bus outside Frankfurt International Airport, in Frankfurt, Germany. Two airmen were killed and two others were wounded in the attack. Uka, who was employed at the airport and said he acted on his own, was detained at the scene. He confessed to the attack and was sentenced to life in prison in February 2012.
10/10/2011: On Monday, in Berlin, Berlin, Germany, suspected members of the Hekla Reception Committee-Initiative for More Social Eruptions attempted to bomb the Berlin Hauptbahnhof, the central train station, with a timed incendiary device. The device was discovered by German Federal Police in a tunnel that led to the station, before it detonated. The device was made of seven bottles which contained flammable liquids and were linked together to a fuse. No casualties occurred. The group did not claim responsibility for the event but they are highly suspected.
10/13/2011: On Thursday, in Berlin, Berlin, Germany, members of the Hekla Reception Committee-Initiative for More Social Eruptions planted three timed incendiary devices made of gasoline, a container, a three-battery timer and a few other components on the tracks near Staaken train station. None of the bombs detonated so there was no damage or casualties. The group claimed responsibility through a post on a leftist forum online.
05/14/2012: Assailants set fire to the car and vandalized the house of Horst Reichenbach in Potsdam city, Brandenburg state, Germany. Reichenbach, a high-ranking European Union (EU) official, was not injured, but the house and car were damaged in the attack. The Friends of Loukanikos group claimed responsibility for the incident, stating they carried it out to protest austerity measures imposed on Greece.
10/15/2012: Assailants set fire to the vehicle of the Greek military attache in Berlin city, Berlin state, Germany. The vehicle was destroyed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
12/10/2012: Assailants planted an explosive device at the main railway station in Bonn city, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The device ignited but failed to detonate; it was later defused by experts. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Muslim extremists.
05/01/2012: Three pipe bombs were discovered and defused in the Kreuzberg area of Berlin city, Berlin state, Germany. The bombs targeted the May Day Leftist Parade route. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
08/28/2014: Assailants set fire to a power cable shaft of the subway system in Treptow neighborhood, Berlin city, Berlin state, Germany. There were no reported casualties in the attack. Left wing activists claimed responsibility for the incident and stated that the attack was carried out in order to draw attention to the treatment of illegal immigrants in Germany.
08/10/2014: Assailants set a mosque on fire in Bielefeld town, North Rhine-Westphalia state, Germany. No additional information is available.
08/30/2014: Assailants threw an incendiary device at a Turkish mosque in Oldenburg city, Lower Saxony state, Germany. There were no reported casualties; however, the mosque was damaged in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
01/02/2014: Assailants set fire to two vehicles belonging to Turkish diplomats in Berlin city, Berlin state, Germany. There were no reported casualties; however, the two vehicles were destroyed in the fire. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
09/29/2014: An assailant threw an incendiary device at the parliament building in Tiergarten neighborhood, Berlin, Germany. There were no reported casualties in the attack. Ralph K., a member of the German Resistance Movement, claimed responsibility for the incident and expressed anti-immigrant sentiments.
12/12/2014: Assailants set fire to a refugee hostel in Vorra city, Bavaria state, Germany. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Free Network South (Freies Netz Sued).
08/25/2014: An assailant threw an incendiary device at the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) Headquarters in Tiergarten neighborhood, Berlin, Germany. There were no reported casualties in the attack. Ralph K., a member of the German Resistance Movement, claimed responsibility for the incident and expressed anti-immigrant sentiments.
07/29/2014: Assailants threw petrol bombs at a synagogue in Wuppertal city, North Rhine-Westphalia state, Germany. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
08/11/2014: Assailants set fire to the Mevlana mosque in Kreuzberg neighborhood, Berlin city, Berlin state, Germany. There were no reports of casualties in the attack, but the mosque was damaged. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
10/11/2014: Assailants set fire to a mosque in Bad Salzuflen town, Lippe district, North Rhine-Westphalia state, Germany. There were no reports of casualties in the attack, but the door to the mosque was damaged. Two Yazidi Kurds confessed to committing the attack, stating that they had targeted the mosque due to attacks on Yazidis by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Syria.
09/04/2014: Assailants attacked a Turkish mosque in Moelln town, Schleswig-Holstein state, Germany. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
10/12/2014: Assailants threw two Molotov cocktails at a building housing political asylum-seekers in Gross Lusewitz, Mecklenburg-West Pomerania, Germany. There were no reported injuries in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources suspected a political motive.
07/02/2014: Assailants set fire to a Greek diplomat's car in Berlin city, Berlin state, Germany. There were no reports of casualties in the attack, but the car was damaged. The Nihilists Sect of the Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire claimed responsibility for the incident, stating that the attack was in retaliation for police brutality and the death of a high-profile prison inmate.
12/00/2015: Sometime between December 11, 2015 and December 15, 2015, assailants attempted to set fire to a building planned to house refugees in Augsburg, Bavaria, Germany. There were no reported casualties. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
11/22/2015: Assailants set fire to a building being prepared for asylum seekers in Johanngeorgenstadt, Saxony, Germany. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
11/01/2015: An assailant threw a Molotov cocktail at a refugee shelter hosting a family from Montenegro in Sehnde, Lower Saxony, Germany. There were no reported casualties. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
08/24/2015: Assailants set fire to a planned asylum accommodation center in Weissach im Tal, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/04/2015: Assailants set fire to a refugee shelter in Troeglitz, Saxony-Anhalt state, Germany. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources suspected that the attack was carried out by a neo-Nazi group.
11/02/2015: Assailants set fire to a refugee center in Lampertheim town, Hesse state, Germany. There were no reported casualties in the attack, but the refugee center was damaged in the blaze. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
09/04/2015: Assailants set fire to a refugee shelter in Heppenheim city, Hesse state, Germany. Five civilians were injured and the shelter suffered $28,000 worth of damage in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
08/25/2015: An assailants set a refugee shelter on fire in Leipzig, Saxony, Germany. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
10/31/2015: Assailants set fire to the former Hotel Visa building which was being considered for refugee housing in Cossebaude, Saxony, Germany. There were no reported casualties. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
10/31/2015: Assailants armed with baseball bats attacked Syrian refugees in Magdeburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Three refugees were injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
12/26/2015: Assailants set fire to a planned refugee shelter in Schlettau, Saxony state, Germany. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
09/10/2015: Approximately 25 assailants attacked a Turkish mosque in Bielefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. There were no reported casualties in the attack. The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/21/2015: An assaiilant threw an incendiary device at the Bundestag building in Tiergarten neighborhood, Berlin, Germany. There were no reported casualties in the attack. Ralph K., a member of the German Resistance Movement, claimed responsibility for the incident and expressed anti-immigrant sentiments.
03/23/2015: An assailant threw an incendiary device that landed near Paul-Loebe-Haus and failed to ignite in Tiergarten neighborhood, Berlin, Germany. Ralph K., a member of the German Resistance Movement, claimed responsibility for the incident and expressed anti-immigrant sentiments.
09/07/2015: Assailants set fire to an unknown number of planned refugee shelters in Ebeleben town, Thuringia state, Germany. There were no reported casualties. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
01/11/2015: Assailants threw an incendiary device at Hamburger Morgenpost offices in Hamburg city, Hamburg state, Germany. There were no reported casualties; although, the building was damaged in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources noted that Hamburger Morgenpost newspaper had reprinted images of the prophet Muhammad, originally published in the Charlie Hebdo magazine, which was attacked earlier in the week.
07/12/2015: Assailants opened fire on a refugee hostel in Bohlen city, Saxony state, Germany. No one was harmed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
09/07/2015: Assailants set fire to apartment buildings intended to house refugees in Rockensussra area, Thuringia province, Germany. There were no reported casualties in the attack, but the buildings were heavily damaged. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
08/21/2015: Assailants set fire to a refugee housing unit in Neustadt an der Walnaab city, Bavaria state, Germany. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
08/28/2015: Assailants threw an incendiary device at a building housing refugees in Salzhemmendorf, Lower Saxony state, Germany. No one was injured, but the building was damaged. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the attack to right-wing extremists.
09/19/2015: Assailants set fire to a refugee shelter near Laage, Mecklenburg-West Pomerania state, Germany. There were no reported casualties. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
08/25/2015: Assailants set fire to a planned refugee shelter in Nauen, Brandenburg, Germany. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources identified the assailant as a Neo-Nazi extremist.
07/15/2015: Assailants set fire to a guesthouse used for refugee housing in Reichertshofen, Bavaria, Germany. No one was injured, but the guesthouse was damaged No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Third Way (Der III. Weg).
07/27/2015: An explosive device detonated near the vehicle of a politician in Freital, Saxony, Germany. There were no reported casualties in the blast. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the attack to the Freital Group.
11/28/2015: Assailant set fire to the Turkish consulate in Munster, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. There were no reported casualties. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
12/07/2015: Assailants set fire to a refugee shelter in Altenburg, Thuringia, Germany. At least 10 refugees were injured in the attack, which caused $21,600 in damage to the shelter. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/22/2015: An assailant threw fire crackers at the home of an asylum seeker, and stabbed him in Brand-Erbisdorf, Saxony, Germany. The asylum seeker was injured in the assault. Authorities identified the assailant as a right-wing extremist and noted that he shouted "I will kill you" and "I will remove the foreigners" during the attack.
04/13/2015: Assailants set fire to a mosque in Witten city, North Rhine-Westphalia state, Germany. No casualties were reported. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
10/31/2015: Assailants armed with baseball bats attacked two Syrian refugees outside of shelter in Wismar, Mecklenburg-West Pomerania, Germany. Both refugees were injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
09/19/2015: Assailants threw fireworks at an apartment building housing refugees in Freital, Saxony state, Germany. There were no reported casualties, although the building's window was damaged in the attack. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the incident to the Freital Group.
06/29/2015: An under-construction refugee hostel was set ablaze in Luebeck, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. There were no reported casualties. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
10/11/2015: Two Pakistanis set fire to a former refugee home in Heidelberg, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany. There were no reported casualties, but the home was damaged in the blaze. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
05/06/2015: Assailants set fire to housing under construction for asylum-seeking refugees in Limburgerhof town, Rhineland-Palatinate state, Germany. There were no reported casualties in the attack, which caused at least $56,192.50 in damage. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
09/19/2015: Assailants set fire to a refugee shelter in Wertheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany. Two civilians suffered from flue gas poisoning as a result of the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
11/01/2015: An assailant threw an explosive device at a refugee home in Frietal city, Saxony region, Germany. A Syrian refugee was wounded by broken glass when the device detonated. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the attack to the Freital Group.
12/09/2015: Assailants set fire to a house accommodating asylum seekers in Heide, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. There were no reported casualties in the incident. This was one of three attacks targeting houses in Heide on the same morning. No group claimed responsibility for the incidents.
10/04/2015: Assailants set fire to four portable toilets outside a school housing asylum seekers in Friemar, Thuringia, Germany. There were no reported casualties, though the building was damaged in the incident. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the attack to right-wing extremists.
10/03/2015: Assailants set fire to a refugee shelter in Bischhagen district, Thuringia state, Germany. There were no reported casualties in the attack, but the shelter was damaged. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
06/28/2015: Assailants set fire to a refugee dorm in Meissen town, Saxony state, Germany. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
10/17/2015: An assailant stabbed Henriette Reker in Cologne city, North Rhine-Westphalia state, Germany. Reker, a pro-refugee mayoral candidate, and four others were injured in the attack. An individual claimed responsibility for the incident, and stated that he carried out the attack "because of anti-foreigner motives."
09/11/2015: Assailants set fire to a building intended to be used as a refugee shelter in Gerstungen, Thuringia, Germany. There were no reported casualties. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
11/01/2015: An assailant attacked a refugee at a tram stop in Jena city, Thuringia state, Germany. The refugee was injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
08/20/2015: Assailants threw burning wood at a refugee housing unit in Marzahn neighborhood, Berlin city, Berlin state, Germany. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
09/17/2015: An assailant armed with a knife attacked a police officer in Berlin city, Germany. The police officer was wounded and the assailant was killed when another police officer opened fire. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources identified the assailant as Rafik Mohammed Yousef.
10/11/2015: Assailants set fire to a building accommodating refugees in Altena town, North Rhine-Westphalia state, Germany. There were no casualties, but the building was damaged in the blaze. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
12/09/2015: Assailants set fire to a house accommodating asylum seekers in Heide, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. There were no reported casualties in the incident. This was one of three attacks targeting houses in Heide on the same morning. No group claimed responsibility for the incidents.
05/24/2015: An assailant threw an incendiary device at the front gates of Bellevue Palace in Tiergarten neighborhood, Berlin, Germany. There were no reported casualties in the attack. Ralph K., a member of the German Resistance Movement, claimed responsibility for the incident and expressed anti-immigrant sentiments.
11/15/2015: Assailants set fire to a planned refugee center in Trassenheide, Mecklenburg-West Pomerania, Germany. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
12/31/2015: Assailants set fire to refugee housing near Hanover, Lower Saxony state, Germany. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
12/24/2015: Assailants set fire to a planned refugee hostel in Schwabisch Gmund, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
12/14/2015: Assailants threw a Molotov cocktail at a building planned to house refugees in Pirna, Saxony, Germany. There were no reported casualties. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
12/24/2015: An assailant set fire to a refugee hostel in Wallerstein town, Bavaria state, Germany. This was one of two related attacks on refugee hostels in this area on this day. Twelve people were injured across both attacks. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
03/02/2015: Assailants attacked an anti-Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the West (PEGIDA) rally outside the Semperoper Opera House in Dresden, Saxony, Germany. Police officers successfully thwarted the incident. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the incident to the Patriotic Europeans against the Islamization of the West (PEGIDA).
12/02/2015: Assailants set fire to a German Fox Terrier Club clubhouse in Achtum town, Lower Saxony state, Germany. There were no casualties in the attack. The Animal Liberation Front (ALF) claimed responsibility for the incident and demanded the closure of the German Fox Terrier Association clubhouse.
09/07/2015: Assailants set fire to a refugee shelter in Rottenburg town, Baden-Wurttemberg state, Germany. Five civilians were injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
10/16/2015: Assailants set fire to a refugee shelter in Flensburg city, Schleswig-Holstein state, Germany. There were no reported casualties. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
10/28/2015: Assailants threw four incendiary devices at a planned refugee housing site in Dresden city, Saxony state, Germany. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
12/20/2015: Assailants threw a Molotov cocktail at a building housing refugees in Godendorf, Mecklenburg-West Pomerania, Germany. There were no reported casualties. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
12/09/2015: Assailants set fire to a house accommodating asylum seekers in Heide, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. There were no reported casualties in the incident. This was one of three attacks targeting houses in Heide on the same morning. No group claimed responsibility for the incidents.
12/20/2015: Assailants set a fire to the basement of a building housing refugees in Tutow, Mecklenburg-West Pomerania, Germany. There were no reported casualties. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
02/09/2015: An assailant set fire to a refugee hostel in Escheburg city, Schleswig-Holstein state, Germany. There were no reported casualties in the attack. An unidentified individual claimed responsibility for the incident and stated that he carried out the attack in order to stop Iraqi refugees from moving into the targeted refugee hostel.
09/19/2015: Assailants set fire to two vehicles belonging to supporters of a refugee initiative in Neuhardenberg city, Brandenburg state, Germany. There were no reported casualties. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
10/03/2015: Assailants set fire to a youth center planned to accommodate asylum seekers in Grosshartmannsdorf, Saxony, Germany. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
09/09/2015: Assailants set fire to a planned asylum center in Gersheim, Saarland, Germany. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
12/24/2015: An assailant set fire to a refugee hostel in Wallerstein town, Bavaria state, Germany. This was one of two related attacks on refugee hostels in this area on this day. Twelve people were injured across both attacks. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
07/11/2015: Assailants opened fire on a refugee hostel in Bohlen city, Saxony state, Germany. No one was injured in the attack, but the building was damaged. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
02/02/2016: Assailants set fire to an under-construction refugee shelter in Oberhausen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. There were no reported casualties. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
12/19/2016: An assailant hijacked a truck and later killed the driver in northwest Berlin, Germany. This was one of two attacks carried out on the same day; in a later event, the assailant drove the hijacked vehicle into a market, killing and injuring a number of people. The assailant, identified as Anis Amri, had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). In addition, ISIL claimed responsibility for the incident; however, the assailant's connection to the group could not be confirmed. Amri was killed several days later by police officers in Milan, Italy.
02/27/2016: Assailants opened fire on a planned refugee housing in Grafenhainichen, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility; however sources attributed the attack to right-wing extremists.
05/10/2016: An assailant stabbed people at a train station in Grafing, Bavaria, Germany. One person was killed and three others were wounded in the attack. The assailant stated that he wanted to target "non-believers."
01/17/2016: An assailant attacked Afghan refugees in Altenberg, Saxony, Germany. At least two refugees were injured in the assault. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the incident to Neo-Nazi extremists.
11/08/2016: An explosive device detonated at the Lokomov center in Chemnitz, Saxony, Germany. There were no reported casualties in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident, though sources noted that the cultural center was hosting a play about hatred not prevailing in Germany and demonstrated the impact of Neo-Nazi attacks.
12/19/2016: An assailant drove a truck into a Christmas market in Breitscheidplatz, Berlin, Germany. At least 12 people were killed and 48 people, including two United States citizens, were injured in the attack. This was one of two attacks carried out on the same day; in an earlier event, the assailant hijacked the vehicle and killed the driver. The assailant, identified as Anis Amri, had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). In addition, ISIL claimed responsibility for the incident; however, the assailant's connection to the group could not be confirmed. Amri was killed several days later by police officers in Milan, Italy.
10/16/2016: An assailant armed with a knife attacked civilians in Alster neighborhood, Hamburg, Germany. One civilian was killed while another civilian and the assailant were wounded in the attack. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) claimed responsibility for the incident; however, authorities doubted the veracity of this claim.
02/06/2016: Assailants set fire to an unknown number of vehicles in Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the incident to anarchists.
01/04/2016: Assailants opened fire on a house for asylum seekers in Dreieich, Hesse, Germany. One civilian was wounded in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
09/08/2016: Assailants set fire to several police vehicles near a police headquarters in Magdeburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
12/05/2016: An explosive device was discovered and defused at a Christmas market in Ludwigshafen, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, authorities identified the assailant as a 12-year-old child and posited that he had been inspired by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
01/30/2016: Assailants attacked a refugee shelter in Chemnitz, Saxony, Germany. This was one of four attacks targeting refugee shelters in Saxony over the weekend. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
09/26/2016: An explosive device detonated outside a mosque in Dresden, Saxony, Germany. There were no reported casualties in the blast. This was one of two related attacks in Dresden on this day. Nino K., a Patriotic Europeans against the Islamization of the West (PEGIDA) supporter, claimed responsibility for the incident.
01/30/2016: Assailants attacked a refugee shelter in Leipzig, Saxony, Germany. This was one of four attacks targeting refugee shelters in Saxony over the weekend. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
01/25/2016: Assailants set fire to a house near a planned refugee shelter in Witten city, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. This was one of two arson attacks on houses close to the planned shelter in Witten city on this date. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
09/25/2016: Assailants threw Molotov cocktails at the Turkish-Islamic Union for Religious Affairs (DITIB) Mosque in Bebra, Hesse, Germany. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
02/26/2016: A 15-year old assailant stabbed a police officer in Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany. The police officer was injured as a result of the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources stated that the assailant had recently joined the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) during a trip to Turkey.
01/30/2016: Assailants attacked a refugee shelter in Saxony, Germany. This was one of four attacks targeting refugee shelters in Saxony over the weekend. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
11/14/2016: Assailants set fire to the business of a Syrian civilian in Magdeburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. No casualties were reported in the attack. Neo-Nazis claimed responsibility for the incident and wrote "Out" on the wall of the business.
11/26/2016: Assailants attacked and set fire to an exhibition center in Hamburg, Germany. There were no reported casualties in the assault. Left-Wing extremists claimed responsibility for the incident and stated that the group did not approve of the meetings that were held at the targeted exhibition center.
02/07/2016: Assailants set fire to an unknown number of vehicles in Neukolln neighborhood, Berlin, Germany. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the incident to anarchists.
09/29/2016: An assailant with a club attacked Joachim Kebschull in Oersdorf, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. Kebschull, the local mayor, was wounded in the assault. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the attack to a neo-Nazi group.
02/05/2016: An assailant threw two incendiary devices at the Ernst-August-Galerie mall in Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources identified the assailant as Saleh Schmitter. Schmitter had previously been in contact with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) during a trip to Turkey.
09/17/2016: Assailants set fire to a refugee shelter in Erbach an der Donau, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany. Five people were injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
11/26/2016: An explosive device was discovered and defused at a Christmas market in Ludwigshafen, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
07/22/2016: An assailant opened fire on civilians at a shopping mall in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. At least nine people were killed and 27 people were injured in the assault before the assailant fled and later killed himself. David Ali Sonboly claimed responsibility for the incident and yelled "I am German!" during the attack. Sources also noted that Sonboly did not like "Turkish people and Arabs," had written a manifesto in opposition to "foreign infiltration," and admired Adolf Hitler.
09/16/2016: Assailants set fire to Frauke Petry's car in Leipzig, Saxony, Germany. Petry, the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party leader, was unharmed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
07/24/2016: An assailant detonated an explosive device outside a music festival in Ansbach, Bavaria, Germany. The assailant was killed and at least 15 people were injured in the blast. The assailant, identified as Muhammad Daleel, had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) also claimed responsibility for the incident; however, Daleel's connection to ISIL could not be confirmed.
01/25/2016: Assailants set fire to a house near a planned refugee shelter in Witten city, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. This was one of two arson attacks on houses close to the planned shelter in Witten city on this date. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
07/18/2016: An assailant armed with an axe and a knife attacked passengers on a train near Wurzburg, Bavaria, Germany. At least five people were injured in the attack before the assailant fled; the assailant was later shot and killed by police. Riaz Khan Ahmadzai claimed responsibility for the incident and stated that the attack was carried out in revenge for members of the Muslim community. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) also claimed responsibility for the incident; however, Ahmadzai's connection to ISIL could not be confirmed.
11/06/2016: Assailants set fire to a Turkish Consulate vehicle in Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources suspected that the attack may have been carried out by the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
09/26/2016: An explosive device detonated outside the International Congress Center in Dresden, Saxony, Germany. There were no reported casualties in the blast. This was one of two related attacks in Dresden on this day. Nino K., a Patriotic Europeans against the Islamization of the West (PEGIDA) supporter, claimed responsibility for the incident.
08/04/2016: Assailants set fire to the campaign bus of Thilo-Harry Wollenshlaeger in Berlin, Germany. Wollenshlaeger, a Christian Democratic Union (CDU) parliamentary candidate, was not harmed as there were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
01/30/2016: Assailants attacked a refugee shelter in Saxony, Germany. This was one of four attacks targeting refugee shelters in Saxony over the weekend. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
10/01/2016: Assailants set fire to three police vehicles in Dresden, Saxony, Germany. There were no reported casualties. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/16/2016: An explosive device detonated at a Sikh temple in Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. At least three people, including the temple priest, were injured in the blast. Two Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) supporters, identified as Yussuf T. and Mohammed B., claimed responsibility for the attack.
10/06/2016: Assailants attacked and injured three Syrian refugees in Sebnitz, Saxony, Germany. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to right-wing extremists.
09/28/2016: Assailants set fire to a refugee shelter in Kothen, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
08/00/2016: Sometime between August 1, 2016 and August 30, 2016, assailants attacked the office of Bettina Kudla, a Member of Parliament, in Leipzig, Saxony, Germany. The office was damaged in the incident. A left-wing extremist group claimed responsibility for the attack.
03/29/2016: Assailants threw Molotov cocktails at the vehicle of Muhterem Gungor in Hamburg, Germany. Gungor, a Union of European Turkish Democrats (UETD) head, was not harmed as there were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the attack to the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
10/04/2016: Assailants attacked the office of Bettina Kudla, a member of parliament, in Leipzig, Saxony, Germany. No casualties were reported in the attack. Left wing extremists claimed responsibility for the incident and stated that the victim was responsible for conservative policies on asylum and the deterioration of health insurance for the unemployed.
01/06/2016: An assailants stabbed an Iraqi asylum-seeker in Lohfelden, Germany. The victim was injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the attack to Stephan Ernst, a Neo-Nazi extremist.
11/04/2016: Assailants threw incendiary devices at a Turkish cafe in Kray neighborhood, Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. At least one person was injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the incident to the Bahoz.
02/20/2016: Assailants set fire to a planned refugee center in Bautzen, Saxony state, Germany. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
12/24/2017: A potential suicide bomber drove a vehicle filled with petrol canisters into the front of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) headquarters and set the vehicle on fire in Berlin, Germany. The assailant was injured in the attack. This was one of two incidents targeting political party headquarters carried out by the same assailant on this date. No group claimed responsibility; however, authorities arrested a 58-year old man in connection with the attacks.
02/28/2017: Assailants set fire to six Securitas company vehicles at Anhalter railway station in Berlin, Germany. There were no reported casualties in the attack. The Conspiracy of Vengeful Arsonists claimed responsibility for the incident and stated: "Securitas have been gaurding the entry to the occupied school on Ohlauer Strasse in Kreuzberg, Berlin for two years, forcing the remaining refugees to a jail-like existence."
03/17/2017: Assailants set fire to police vehicle outside the residence of Mayor Olaf Scholz in Hamburg, Germany. There were no reported casualties in the attack. This was one of two related arsons carried out by the assailants on this date. The Fire and Flame for the Police (FFdP) claimed responsibility for the incident and stated that the attack was carried out in retaliation for alleged violent threats by authorities regarding potential demonstrations during the G20 summit.
06/19/2017: Assailants set fire to railway infrastructure in Leipzig, Saxony, Germany. There were no reported casualties. This was one of 10 coordinated attacks on railways across Germany on this date. Shutdown G20: Take Hamburg offline! claimed responsibility for the incidents and stated that railway infrastructure was targeted because it represented "the central nervous system of capitalism."
06/19/2017: Assailants set fire to railway infrastructure in Berlin, Germany. There were no reported casualties. This was one of 10 coordinated attacks on railways across Germany on this date. Shutdown G20: Take Hamburg offline! claimed responsibility for the incidents and stated that railway infrastructure was targeted because it represented "the central nervous system of capitalism."
07/28/2017: An assailant stabbed civilians at a supermarket in Hamburg, Germany. A civilian was killed and at least seven others, including the assailant, were injured in the attack. Ahmad A. Alhaw, an unaffiliated individual, claimed responsibility for the incident and stated that "he wanted to kill as many 'Christians and young people' as possible." Sources also noted that Alhaw followed the ideology of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
11/27/2017: An assailant armed with a knife stabbed Andreas Hollstein in Altena, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Hollstein, the Altena mayor, and another person were injured in the attack. An unaffiliated individual, identified as Werner S., claimed responsibility for the incident and stated prior to the attack, "You're letting me die of thirst, but you bring 200 refugees to Altena."
07/27/2017: Assailants threw Molotov cocktails at the Martin Luther Church in Dresden, Saxony, Germany. There were no reported casualties, but the church was slightly damaged. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/14/2017: Assailants threw two petrol bombs at a complex housing refugees in Kremmen, Brandenburg, Germany. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
06/19/2017: Assailants set fire to railway infrastructure in Leipzig, Saxony, Germany. There were no reported casualties. This was one of 10 coordinated attacks on railways across Germany on this date. Shutdown G20: Take Hamburg offline! claimed responsibility for the incidents and stated that railway infrastructure was targeted because it represented "the central nervous system of capitalism."
06/19/2017: Assailants set fire to railway infrastructure in Hamburg, Germany. There were no reported casualties. This was one of 10 coordinated attacks on railways across Germany on this date. Shutdown G20: Take Hamburg offline! claimed responsibility for the incidents and stated that railway infrastructure was targeted because it represented "the central nervous system of capitalism."
06/19/2017: Assailants set fire to railway infrastructure in Engelsdorf, Saxony, Germany. There were no reported casualties. This was one of 10 coordinated attacks on railways across Germany on this date. Shutdown G20: Take Hamburg offline! claimed responsibility for the incidents and stated that railway infrastructure was targeted because it represented "the central nervous system of capitalism."
06/29/2017: An explosive device was discovered and defused outside a McDonald's restaurant in Wrangelstrasse, Berlin, Germany. No group claimed responsibility; however, authorities suspected a political motive.
03/27/2017: Assailants set fire to police vans outside a police station in Eimsbuettel neighborhood, Hamburg, Germany. There were no reported casualties in the attack. Left-wing extremists claimed responsibility for the incident.
07/06/2017: Assailants set fire to at least eight vehicles at the Hamburg Porsche Centre dealership in Hamburg, Germany. There were no reported casualties in the attack. Anarchists claimed responsibility and stated that the attack was carried out in retaliation for the development of a new Porsche center and increased police presence in the area.
03/15/2017: Security forces intercepted and defused a letter bomb addressed to Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble in Berlin, Germany. The Conspiracy of Cells of Fire claimed responsibility for the incident. In addition, sources suspected the invovlement of the Revolutionary Struggle.
12/24/2017: An assailant left a container of flammable substances in front of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) headquarters at Klingelhoferstrasse 8 in Berlin, Germany. There were no reported casualties as the device failed to ignite. This was one of two incidents targeting political party headquarters carried out by the same assailant on this date. No group claimed responsibility; however, authorities arrested a 58-year old man in connection with the attacks.
04/14/2017: Assailants threw an incendiary device at a building housing Syrian refugees in Artern, Thuringia, Germany. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
06/19/2017: Assailants set fire to railway infrastructure in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. There were no reported casualties. This was one of 10 coordinated attacks on railways across Germany on this date. Shutdown G20: Take Hamburg offline! claimed responsibility for the incidents and stated that railway infrastructure was targeted because it represented "the central nervous system of capitalism."
06/19/2017: Assailants set fire to railway infrastructure in Mockau neighborhood, Leipzig, Saxony, Germany. There were no reported casualties. This was one of 10 coordinated attacks on railways across Germany on this date. Shutdown G20: Take Hamburg offline! claimed responsibility for the incidents and stated that railway infrastructure was targeted because it represented "the central nervous system of capitalism."
03/08/2017: Assailants set fire to a hunting tower in the Grunewald Forest near Berlin, Germany. There were no reported casualties, but the tower was destroyed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the incident to animal rights extremists.
03/17/2017: Assailants set fire to police union vehicle in Hamburg, Germany. There were no reported casualties in the attack. This was one of two related arsons carried out by the assailants on this date. The Fire and Flame for the Police (FFdP) claimed responsibility for the incident and stated that the attack was carried out in retaliation for alleged violent threats by authorities regarding potential demonstrations during the G20 summit.
06/19/2017: Assailants set fire to railway infrastructure in Bremen, Germany. There were no reported casualties. This was one of 10 coordinated attacks on railways across Germany on this date. Shutdown G20: Take Hamburg offline! claimed responsibility for the incidents and stated that railway infrastructure was targeted because it represented "the central nervous system of capitalism."
06/19/2017: Assailants set fire to railway infrastructure in Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. There were no reported casualties. This was one of 10 coordinated attacks on railways across Germany on this date. Shutdown G20: Take Hamburg offline! claimed responsibility for the incidents and stated that railway infrastructure was targeted because it represented "the central nervous system of capitalism."
04/27/2017: Five assailants threw Molotov cocktails at the Eyup Sultan mosque in Weil am Rhein, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany. There were no reported casualties, though the mosque was damaged in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources suspected that either the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) or anti-Muslim extremists may have carried out the attack.
06/19/2017: Assailants set fire to railway infrastructure in Bad Bevensen, Lower Saxony, Germany. There were no reported casualties. This was one of 10 coordinated attacks on railways across Germany on this date. Shutdown G20: Take Hamburg offline! claimed responsibility for the incidents and stated that railway infrastructure was targeted because it represented "the central nervous system of capitalism."
08/21/2017: Assailants set fire to two vehicles of Social Democrat (SPD) politician Michelle Müntefering in Herne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
12/21/2018: Assailants used slingshots and rocks to attack an RWE energy firm truck in Hambach Forest, Dusseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. One worker was injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
03/12/2018: Assailants set fire to three vehicles in Gutersloh, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. There were no reported casualties. Action Cell Haukur Hilmarsson claimed responsibility for the incident and stated that the attack was carried out in retaliation for Turkish military operations in Afrin.
09/20/2018: Assailants threw incendiary devices at a Turkish association in Reuterstrasse, Neukolln, Berlin, Germany. There were no reported casualties in the attack. The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) claimed responsibility for the incident.
10/07/2018: Assailants attempted to sabotage an ICE 821 train by pulling a steel wire across train tracks near Allersberg, Bavaria, Germany. There were no reported casualties in the attack. Authorities apprehended an unidentified individual in connection with the attack. Jihadi-inspired extremists claimed responsibility for the incident.
03/25/2018: Four assailants threw Molotov cocktails at the Yunus Emre Mosque in Kassel, Hesse, Germany. There were no reported casualties. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
03/26/2018: Assailants cut and set fire to electrical cables in Berlin, Germany. There were no reported casualties; however, the attack caused a major power outage in the city. Vulkangruppe NetzHerrschaft zerreissen claimed responsibility for the incident.
03/12/2018: Assailants threw incendiary devices targeting a Turkish community center in Ahlen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. There were no reported casualties. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
12/23/2018: An assailant attacked an overhead power cable on a railway track between Karlshorst and Wuhlheide railway stations in eastern Berlin, Germany. There were no reported casualties in the incident. A Jihadi-inspired extremist claimed responsibility for the attack and an Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) flag was discovered at the scene. Sources also suspected that the assailant supported ISIL.
10/15/2018: An assailant set fire to a McDonald's restaurant in the main railway station in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The assailant then went into an adjacent pharmacy, took a civilian hostage, and covered them in petrol. Police were able to free the hostage on site. Four people, including the assailant, were injured during the attack. An unaffiliated individual claimed responsibility for the incident and "demanded to be allowed to leave Germany for Islamic State in Syria."
01/07/2018: Assailants opened fire on the vehicle of Deniz Naki in Duren, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Naki, a German-Kurdish soccer player, was not harmed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources suspected that the attack was related to Naki's criticism of the Turkish government.
03/19/2018: Assailants threw Molotov cocktails at a mosque in Ulm, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany. There were no reported casualties. Four assailants were arrested and claimed responsibility for the attack.
10/18/2018: Assailants set fire to a Turkish restaurant in Chemnitz, Saxony, Germany. The restaurant was damaged extensively but there were no reported casualties. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
03/11/2018: Assailants threw Molotov cocktails targeting the Turkish-Germany Friendship Association cultural center in Meschede, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. There were no reported casualties. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Kurdish Militants.
09/14/2018: Assailants armed with sharp objects, steel knuckle gloves, and tasers attacked foreign migrants in Chemnitz, Saxony, Germany. An unknown number of people were injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Revolution Chemnitz.
03/11/2018: Assailants threw Molotov cocktails at a Turkish vegetable shop on Kirchenstrasse, Itzehoe, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. There were no reported casualties. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
02/17/2018: An assailant armed with a knife stabbed refugees outside a church in Heilbronn, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany. Three civilians from Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria were injured in the attack before the assailant was arrested. Willi B. claimed responsibility for the attack and stated that he was frustrated with the asylum policy in Germany. Sources also noted that the suspect told investigators, "The foreigners would be treated better than him, his family would have problems, he blamed Merkel for that" and that he intended to "set a political mark against Angela Merkel."
12/25/2018: Assailants threw incendiary devices and rocks at a RWE energy firm truck in Hambach Forest, Dusseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
03/09/2018: Five assailants threw Molotov cocktails targeting the Aksemsettin Mosque in Lauffen am Neckar, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany. There were no reported casualties. The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) claimed responsibility for the incident.
02/18/2018: Assailants set fire to a Turkish Islamic Union for Religious Affairs (DITIB) vehicle in Schoeneberg neighborhood, Berlin, Germany. There were no reported casualties. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
09/24/2018: Assailants damaged several areas of a railway line between Duisburg and the Dusseldorf Airport, North-Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. There were no reported casualties in the attack. An unknown group claimed responsibility for the incident and stated that the attack was carried out in order to demonstrate against deportations from Dusseldorf Airport.
03/11/2018: Three assailants threw incendiary devices at the Koca Sinan Camii Mosque at the intersection of Pankower Allee and Kuhleweinstrasse in Reinickendorf, Berlin, Germany. There were no reported casualties. The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) claimed responsibility for the incident.
10/09/2019: An assailant, identified as Stephan Balliet, shot and injured a couple at their residence after they refused to hand over the keys to one of their vehicles in Landsberg-Wiedersdorf, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. This was one of three related attacks carried out by Balliet on this day. Balliet, an Anti-Semitic extremist, claimed responsibility by live-streaming the attack on Twitch and through a manifesto he had posted earlier online. During the attack, Balliet "ranted about Jews, feminism and immigration" and in his manifesto stated "If I fail and the but kill a single jew, it's worth it. After all, if every White Man kills just one, we win."
08/17/2019: Assailants disrupted a cultural festival and attacked Ike Ekweremadu, Deputy President of the Nigerian Senate, in Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany. There were no reported casualties in the attack. The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) claimed responsibility for the incident at the scene and "began to complain about the killings in the South East, stressing that there would be no Igbo event at the venue."
07/23/2019: An explosive device detonated targeting the residence of Ramona Gehring, a Die Linke (The Left) party politician, in Zittau, Saxony, Germany. There were no reported casualties in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
06/02/2019: An assailant opened fire on Walter Luebcke, a pro-migrant official, in Wolfhagen, Hesse, Germany. Luebcke was killed in the attack. A Neo-Nazi extremist, identified as Stephen E., claimed responsibility for the incident.
10/04/2019: An assailant armed with a knife attempted to enter a synagogue in Berlin city, Berlin, Germany. Security guards apprehended and injured the assailant and there were no other reported casualties in the attack. An Anti-Semitic extremist claimed responsibility for the incident and shouted "F*** Israel" during the attack.
01/01/2019: An assailant attempted to drive his vehicle into pedestrians at a bus stop in Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. There were no reported casualties in the attack. This was one of three related attacks in the area on this date. An Anti-Immigrant extremist, identified as Andreas N., claimed responsibility for the incidents and told police that he intended to target foreigners in the attacks.
10/11/2019: Assailants set fire to a Turkish embassy vehicle in Berlin city, Berlin, Germany. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
10/09/2019: An assailant, identified as Stephan Balliet, attempted to attack a synagogue in Halle, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. The door to the synagogue was locked and the assailant was unable to gain entry. He then shot and killed a woman outside the synagogue. This was one of three related attacks carried out by Balliet on this day. Balliet, an Anti-Semitic extremist, claimed responsibility by live-streaming the attack on Twitch and through a manifesto he had posted earlier online. During the attack, Balliet "ranted about Jews, feminism and immigration" and in his manifesto stated "If I fail and the but kill a single jew, it's worth it. After all, if every White Man kills just one, we win."
01/01/2019: An assailant drove his vehicle into a crowd of pedestrians in Bottrop, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. At least four people were injured in the attack. This was one of three related attacks in the area on this date. An Anti-Immigrant extremist, identified as Andreas N., claimed responsibility for the incidents and told police that he intended to target foreigners in the attacks.
10/09/2019: An assailant, identified as Stephan Balliet, opened fire on a kebab shop in Halle, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. One person was killed in the attack. This was one of three related attacks carried out by Balliet on this day. Balliet, and Anti-Semitic extremist, claimed responsibility by live-streaming the attack on Twitch and through a manifesto he had posted earlier online. During the attack, Balliet "ranted about Jews, feminism and immigration" and in his manifesto stated "If I fail and the but kill a single jew, it's worth it. After all, if every White Man kills just one, we win."
01/01/2019: An assailant attempted to drive his vehicle into a pedestrian in Bottrop, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. There were no reported casualties in the attack. This was one of three related attacks in the area on this date. An Anti-Immigrant extremist, identified as Andreas N., claimed responsibility for the incidents and told police that he intended to target foreigners in the attacks.
10/03/2019: Assailants set fire to three cranes and an excavator in Leipzig, Saxony, Germany. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
05/25/2019: An assailant set fire to a mosque in Hagen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources suspected that the attack was carried out by anti-Muslim extremists.
01/07/2019: Assailants attacked Frank Magnitz in Bremen, Germany. Magnitz, an Alternative for Germany (AfD) parliamentarian, was injured in the assault. Anti-Fascist Spring Bremen claimed responsibility for the incident and stated that the group "wanted to free AfD politician F. Magnitz from his fascist ideas."
01/03/2019: An explosive device detonated at an Alternative for Germany (AfD) party office in Dobeln, Saxony, Germany. There were no reported casualties in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
05/24/2019: Assailants threw an incendiary device at the camper of a Roma family in Erbach an der Donau, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany. There were no reported casualties in the attack. Anti-Roma extremists claimed responsibility for the incident, which targeted a Roma family, and left a message at the scene that stated "not welcome."
08/24/2014: Assailants opened fire on the private residence of Kwadwo Marfo in Kumasi city, Ashanti region, Ghana. At least three people, including Marfo, a Kapital Radio journalist, were wounded in the assault. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
11/01/2016: Two explosive devices were discovered and defused near the residence of Andy Okrah, the Deputy Regional Minister, in Kumasi, Ashanti, Ghana. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
01/11/2018: Assailants opened fire on a police patrol in Drobonso, Ashanti, Ghana. Two police officers were killed and another officer was injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Fulani extremists.
01/08/2018: Assailants opened fire on a members of Operation Cow Leg, a joint military and police taskforce, in Agogo, Ashanti, Ghana. Four people, including three soldiers and a police officer, were injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Fulani extremists.
02/16/2019: Assailants attacked Abrewanko village in Ashanti, Ghana. At least one person was killed, five people were injured, and two people were reported missing. In addition, the village was also set on fire during the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Fulani extremists.
03/25/2019: Assailants attacked electricity pylons by removing bolts and cutting them down in Tema, Greater Accra, Ghana. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
02/14/2000: A previously unknown Greek anarchist group calling themselves the Erotic Anti-authority Cells used a gas canister firebomb to attack a Pfizer office building. No one was injured, but the building, located in Thessaloniki, Greece, suffered extensive damage.
07/05/2000: Turkey's consulate general in Rhodes, Dodecanese Prefecture, was attacked by Molotov cocktails, resulting in minor damage to the building. No casualties were reported from the incident.
04/03/2000: A Commercial Bank branch in the Halandri suburb of Athens, Athens prefecture, Greece, was destroyed by a bomb blast. There was no warning and the perpetrators are unknown. The bomb consisted of ten gas canisters connected to a time bomb.
06/08/2000: Two men on a motorcycle shot and killed a British military attache, Brigadier Stephen Saunders, in a Athens suburb was he while driving to work at the British Embassy in Athens. Police identified the 17 November Revolutionary Organization (17N) as responsible for the attack.
04/03/2000: Unknown perpetrators threw a grenade in a busy shopping area in central Athens, Greece. Nearby shops were damaged, but no injuries were reported.
08/16/2000: A car belonging to Italian Embassy Attache, Tasi Antonela, parked outside her residence in Vouliagmeni, Greece, and was set on fire by the so-called Mavro Asteri (Black Star) anarchist group. No one was injured as a result of the attack.
03/05/2000: Unidentified perpetrators attacked a Commercial Bank branch office in Thessaloniki and hurled at least seven firebombs inside. The subsequent fires destroyed furniture, equipment and an automatic teller machine.
10/14/2000: A powerful bomb was planted outside the office of former Pasok Merchant Marine Minister Stavros Soumakis in Athens, Greece. The bomb was discovered and defused before it could explode. An anarchist group called Revolutionary Nuclei claimed responsibility for the bomb.
01/03/2000: A car belonging to the Jordanian Embassy was torched in the Athens suburb of Aghia Paraskevi. A call was later made to a radio station claiming responsibility by the Anarchist Faction, wanting the liberation of individuals Kostas Kalaremas and Nikolaos Maziotis.
09/04/2000: Two perpetrators on a motorcycle threw three gasoline bombs at a police station in Papagou, about three miles northeast of central Athens. There were no injuries, but a police car parked outside was damaged by the bombs. No arrests were made, but the Black Star group on September 6, 2000 claimed responsibility for the incident by calling into an Athens newspaper and radio station.
09/06/2000: The Black Star anarchist organization burned a Toyota van belonging to a Greek-American pensioner parked in a lot in the Athens suburb of Paleo Faliro. The vehicle had American plates. Greek police stated that Black Star claimed responsibility by calling in to an Athens newspaper and radio station on early 09/06/2000. The vehicle was reportedly "torched."
11/12/2000: A bomb attack on a sculpture studio in the northern suburb of Marussi, Greece, caused minor damages, but no injuries. The Revolutionary Cells (RZ) claimed responsibility for the blast in a call to a newspaper that was made prior to the incident.
01/04/2000: A bomb place outside an Athens branch of the National Bank of Greece by unknown perpetrators was spotted by a bank security guard and defused before it detonated.
12/25/2000: A bomb exploded at a Citibank ATM in Athens, Greece, causing damage to the exterior ATM and to the bank interior. The Anarchists Attack Team perpetrated the incident and stated that it was showing support for the dead prisoners in Turkey.
09/02/2000: On early morning of September 2, 2000, Black Star members burned a DHL courier van. The DHL van and a Turkish embassy car parked in front of the van were damaged by the flames. Black Star called in to a radio station on September 2, 2000 to claim responsibility for this incident, and also for burning a Polish embassy car on 08/31/2000. Police did not suspect that the Turkish embassy car was the target because the car did not have diplomatic plates.
09/07/2000: A car belonging to Greece's Ambassador to Albania, Alexandros Mallias, was torched. The car bore diplomatic plates, but did not show country of origin. The Black Star group, a self-proclaimed anarchist organization, claimed responsibility on September 8, 2000.
09/07/2000: At around 0200 hours, a car belonging to the Iranian Consul to Athens was damaged by arson. The car, a Hyundai model, was parked on the street near the residence, and suffered extensive damage. The Black Star group, a self-proclaimed anarchist organization, claimed responsibility on September 8, 2000. No individual perpetrators were identified. Halandri is a northern Athens suburb.
04/12/2000: A previously unknown anarchist group, Last Generation, claimed responsibility for the firebombing of two cars in Zografou, Greece. The cars were severely damaged, but there were no injuries.
04/03/2000: An Ionian bank branch in the Halandri suburb of Athens, Greece, was destroyed by a bomb blast. Ten gas canisters were wired to a time bomb. No warning was given, as is usual in these cases, and no perpetrators are known.
09/03/2000: On the night of September 3, 2000, a time bomb exploded at a Jaguar car dealership in the Rendi District of Athens. The façade of the building housing the dealership was damaged, but no injuries or casualties were reported. There was no claim of responsibility for the blast.
7/29/2000: An improvised explosive device (IED) blew up outside of a branch of EFG Eurobank in downtown Athens, Greece. The explosion caused minor damage to the bank, including to the automated teller machine and the front entrance. The bomb consisted of several gas canisters and containers of petrol. A note left at the scene stated that the attack was in response to "government attempts to deregulate the labor market".
08/25/2000: A car belonging to military attache, Prentex Stephanovis, at the Yugoslav Embassy was torched in Athens, Greece, The attack was later claimed by an anarchist group Anarchist Struggle. There were no injuries.
09/06/2000: The Black Star anarchist organization threw two firebombs at the Greek Communist Party (KKE) offices in the Ambelokipi District of Athens. Greek police stated that Black Star claimed responsibility by calling an Athens newspaper.
11/12/2000: A bomb attack on a Citibank in the northern suburb of Marussi, Greece, caused minor damages, but no injuries. The Revolutionary Cells (RZ) claimed responsibility for the blast in a call to a newspaper that was made prior to the incident.
01/23/2000: In Athens an Italian diplomat’s car and a bus owned by a Greek-German school were burned after a group attacked with gas canisters. Both attacks were claimed by phone call by the November 19 Anarchist Faction and Revolutionaries of the Streets.
03/05/2000: A homemade time-bomb exploded outside the offices of ATKOR Construction offices in Athens, Greece. No was injured in the blast. A man who claimed to be with the group Revolutionary Cells (RZ) claimed responsibility for the attack in calls to two Athens newspapers.
11/12/2000: A bomb attack on a Barclays branch in the southern seaside suburb of Voula, Greece, caused minor damages, but no injuries. The Revolutionary Cells (RZ) claimed responsibility for the blast in a call to a newspaper that was made prior to the incident.
01/21/2001: A bomb blast injured parliament member Vasilios Michaloiakos. The attack took place in Piraeus, Greece and was attributed to 17 November Revolutionary Organization (17N). Three were injured.
01/15/2001: Unidentified perpetrators attacked the offices of Deputy National Economy Minister, Khristos Pakhtas in Thessaloniki, Greece. The attackers placed a phone book soaked in gasoline and alcohol and set it on fire. The door to the office was destroyed.
01/15/2001: Unidentified perpetrators placed glass bottles with cloth soaked in a flammable liquid in two cars on Stromnitsis Street in Thessaloniki, Greece. The cars exploded damaging the two cars.
12/23/2001: An improvised explosive device detonated behind a McDonalds outlet in northern Athens, Attica periphery, Greece. The building and a billboard were damaged in the explosion. Authorities believe that the device likely consisted of dynamite with a slow fuse. No group has claimed responsibility for the incident and motive is unknown.
03/08/2001: Unknown attackers Explosives used improvised explosive devices in three coordinated attacks in the city of Thessaloniki, Greece within one hour of each other. The group first targeted the offices of the television station Star at 110 Mitropoleos Street. A man set fire to bottles containing an unknown gas outside the station’s main entrance. No casualties resulted from attack. The group left a note stating that the attacks were meant to draw attention to the plight of the destitute people living in Mitilini.
07/23/2001: A National Bank branch was damaged, as were vehicles close to it, when two firebombs thought to be homemade exploded in Athens, Attica region, Greece. The Anarchist Liberation Brigade claimed they were the perpetrators of the attack when they contact a newspaper via telephone, although they did not state a motive for the bombing.
03/08/2001: Unknown attackers Explosives used improvised explosive devices in three coordinated attacks in the city of Thessaloniki, Greece within one hour of each other. The third explosive went off at the branch of the National Bank of Greece located on 104 Papanastasiou Street. There was minor damage but no one was injured in the incident. The group left a note stating that the attacks were meant to draw attention to the plight of the destitute people living in Mitilini.
01/15/2001: Unidentified perpetrators attacked to offices of the Pan-Hellenic Socialist Movement in Thessaloniki, Greece. Cloth soaked in flammable material was stuffed into glass bottles but the flames went out before the bottles could explode.
11/15/2001: A powerful bomb exploded outside a shopping center in Halandri suburb in Athens, Greece, damaging an American Express office, banks and shops. The bomb was placed on a bicycle parked at the entrance to the shopping center on the main road linking Athens to its northern suburbs. No one claimed responsibility and no one was injured in the attack.
07/23/2001: The office of a European research company in Athens, Attica region, Greece was attacked by arsonists claiming to be members of a group called Group of Carlo Giuliani when they contacted a newspaper via telephone. Carlo Giuliani was a man killed while protesting at the Group of Eight (G-8) summit in Italy, which was thought to be the motive for this attack in Athens.
01/15/2001: Unidentified perpetrators placed glass bottles with cloth soaked in a flammable liquid in a car on Tzavella Street in Thessaloniki, Greece. The car exploded damaging the two cars.
03/08/2001: Unknown attackers Explosives used improvised explosive devices in three coordinated attacks in the city of Thessaloniki, Greece within one hour of each other. The second attack occurred when an explosive was planted in a building on the corner of Egnatia and Ayias Sofias streets, targeting the Ministry of Health and Welfare. The building sustained minor damage, but there were no casualties. The group left a note stating that the attacks were meant to draw attention to the plight of the destitute people living in Mitilini.
04/18/2001: Members of the anarchist group Revolutionary Violence Units torched Thai and Israeli diplomatic vehicles in Greece. The cars were destroyed, but no casualties resulted from the attacks.
07/23/2001: Members of a group named the Anarchist Squad attacked a guardhouse at the headquarters of the Athens government in Athens, Attica region, Greece, with five molotov cocktails, damaging the guardhouse. No one was injured in the attack. The group contacted a newspaper via telephone and claimed the attacks were a response to police violence against protesters at the Group of Eight (G-8) summit in Italy.
07/09/2002: A bomb blast caused minor damage to the Hellas Flying Dolphins company in the Port of Piraeus in Greece. No one was injured. The New Revolutionary Popular Struggle claimed responsibility for the attack.
02/08/2002: A homemade bomb containing gas canisters exploded in front of an ATM machine at the National Bank of Greece in Athens. The bomb, which authorities believe was planted by anarchists, caused damage to the ATM and the exterior of the bank. In addition to this explosion, two other explosions occurred on the same day in Athens.
06/17/2002: A hand grenade attack damaged the office of a Panhellenic Socialist Party official in Athens. No one was wounded and the Popular Resistance (Laiki Antistasi) claimed responsibility for the incident.
07/17/2002: Arsonists left an explosive device at the offices of the New Democracy organization in Thessaloniki, Greece. No one was injured. The Rabid Brothers of Giuliani claimed responsibility.
01/15/2002: A homemade bomb exploded outside a bank in Athens, Greece. No one was injured in the blast, however the bank received some exterior damage.
01/25/2002: The car of a Jordanian diplomat was destroyed in an arson attack in Athens, Greece. It was not certain who was responsible for the attack.
06/21/2002: A bomb exploded under a car registered to the Egyptian Embassy in the Pagrati neighborhood of Athens. No one was harmed and no group claimed responsibility.
02/08/2002: Shortly after a device exploded outside of a bank in Athens, Greece, another explosion occurred outside of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement office, which authorities also attributed to anarchists. Casualties and the amount of damages were not mentioned in the report.
02/08/2002: An explosion occurred outside of a second Panhellenic Socialist Movement office in Athens, Greece, after an explosion had occurred at another office in Athens. Property damage was stated to be minimal and there were no casualties. Authorities attribute this attack to anarchists.
06/05/2002: The terrorist outfit Popular Resistance (Laiki Antistasi) claimed responsibility for a bomb attack on the offices of an insurance company in Athens. No one was reported hurt.
03/21/2003: Four gas canisters were set on fire at the entrance of Citibank in Cholargos, Greece, in the early morning. Firemen were able to put out the fire quickly and no injuries or damage resulted. The War That Was Never Declared claimed responsibility for the attack.
12/09/2003: Unknown anarchist group members firebombed the state-run telephone utility (OTE) company, among other targets, using propane cooking gas canisters soaked in gasoline in Thessaloniki, Greece.
12/09/2003: Unknown anarchist group members firebombed a second office of the ruling Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) party, among other targets, using propane cooking gas canisters soaked in gasoline in Thessaloniki, Greece.
12/09/2003: Unknown anarchist group members firebombed a supermarket, among other targets, using propane cooking gas canisters soaked in gasoline in Thessaloniki, Greece.a
09/05/2003: Two bombs exploded minutes apart in the busy court district of downtown Athens, Greece. A previously unknown group named the Revolutionary Struggle claimed responsibility. No deaths occurred but two police officers were injured in the second blast.
03/16/2003: A fire damaged an ATM, the entrance and the inside of a Commercial Bank branch in Kypseli, Greece, but caused no injuries. The Enraged Revolutionaries claimed responsibility for the attack.
07/11/2003: In Athens, Greece the Alter TV channel received a phone call that stated a bomb was set to explode in ten minutes on the second floor of a building on Mihalokopoulou Street. Police investigated the building and found dynamite, a detonator, and a wristwatch that was supposed to act as a timing device inside a metal box. The bomb was safely detonated. The Popular Revolutionary Action claimed responsibility for the attempted attack which did not kill or injure anyone.
12/09/2003: Unknown anarchist group members firebombed the offices of the ruling Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) party, among other targets, using propane cooking gas canisters soaked in gasoline in Thessaloniki, Greece.
03/22/2003: An incendiary device, planted by unknown perpetrators, exploded in the early morning outside of a Citibank branch in Koropi, Greece, damaging an ATM, but harming no one.
11/06/2003: In one of three related incidents, unknown perpetrators used gas canisters and Molotov cocktails to attack three commercial banks in Athens, Greece. The first of the attacks came against an ATM belonging to the Commercial Bank. The perpetrators placed three explosive gas canisters near the bank’s ATM. No group claimed responsibility for the attacks, but authorities believed that the incidents might have been related to U.S. FBI Director, Robert Mueller, being in Athens.
11/06/2003: In one of three related incidents, unknown perpetrators used gas canisters and Molotov cocktails to attack three commercial banks in Athens, Greece. The third of the attacks occurred when the perpetrators placed gas canisters outside of the windows of a branch of the Bank of Cyprus. The attack did not result in any casualties. No group claimed responsibility for the attacks, but authorities believed that the three incidents might have been related to U.S. FBI Director, Robert Mueller, being in Athens at the time.
11/06/2003: In one of three related incidents, unknown perpetrators used gas canisters and Molotov cocktails to attack three commercial banks in Athens, Greece. The second of the attacks occurred when the perpetrators threw a Molotov cocktail at a Eurobank office. The attack did not result in any casualties. No group claimed responsibility for the attacks, but authorities believed that the three incidents might have been related to U.S. FBI Director, Robert Mueller, being in Athens at the time.
10/29/2004: Unidentified perpetrators targeted two police buses en route to Korydallos, a maximum-security prison located near Athens, Greece. The bomb had been tied to a railing along a busy overpass in the industrial district of Tavros in Athens and was detonated from 30 meters away via a cable. No one was injured and there was no claim of responsibility. The police buses sustained minor damage in the attack.
05/05/2004: Three improvised bombs were exploded outside a police station in Athens, Greece. No casualties resulted from the bombings. The Revolutionary Struggle claimed responsibility for the bombings in a letter after the incident.
04/16/2004: A 26-year-old man was arrested while in the process of placing gas canisters under a car belonging to a private security firm in Thessaloniki, Greece. Three policemen were injured when the perpetrator and an accomplice used paralytic spray on the officers. The perpetrator’s accomplice managed to escape. No group claimed responsibility for the attack, but police suspected that the men had been involved in other gas canister attacks in the area since the European Union summit in June 2003.
05/13/2004: Three fire bombs were exploded outside a bank in Athens, Greece. No casualties resulted form the incident. The Resistance Cell claimed responsibility for the incident to a Greek newspaper.
11/20/2005: 30 masked perpetrators attacked the offices of the right-wing extremist group Chryssi Avgi (Golden Dawn) organization in Athens, Greece using gasoline bombs causing some minor damage. In response to the attack, people from within the building fired on the perpetrators with hunting rifles injuring two of the masked rioters. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
01/11/2005: Unknown perpetrators bombed an attorney’s private residence in Athens, Greece. The attackers placed a device comprised of dynamite under a car near the victim’s residence. No one was harmed in the attack which Athens police may have been related to the victim’s job as a financial consultant for Eurobank in charge of foreclosures of property from debtors.
06/02/2005: A bomb went off outside the Greek Labor Ministry building, but there were no casualties and damage was minimal. Fifteen minutes before the bomb exploded, a warning was phoned in to Elevtheroptipia newspaper; the bomb was found in time to clear the area and call in the fire department before the explosion. About a week after the bombing on June 9th, the "Revolutionary Struggle" group claimed responsibility and issued a proclamation through the press.
12/12/2005: A home-made propane gas bomb exploded outside the Finance Ministry’s main building in Athens, Greece causing extensive material damage and three injuries. Two young men were seen outside the building with a motorcycle that is believed to have housed the bomb. A group called “revolutionary struggle” claimed responsibility for the attack in a letter about a week after the incident. Prior to the explosion, a phone call to the local Athens Daily warned of an imminent explosion outside the Finance Ministry allowing police to clear the area before the explosion.
12/22/2005: In the second of two similar incidents (cf. 200512120001), a bomb exploded outside of Greece’s Ministry of Development building in Athens. An anonymous tip-off to a newspaper occurred 30 minutes before the bomb went off. Greece’s Finance Ministry was also attacked with a bomb on December 12, 2005, an incident for which the group Revolutionary Struggle claimed responsibility.
05/27/2005: Unidentified perpetrators bombed a construction company in Athens, Greece causing minor damage to the facility. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
02/17/2006: Suspected anarchists used homemade incendiary devices in five arson attacks targeting banks, which occurred within 30 minutes of one another, in the greater Athens area of Greece. All the attacks caused minor damage, but no injuries. The second explosion occurred at another Emporiki bank branch in Peristeri at 2:00 in the morning. No group claimed responsibility for the attacks.
02/25/2006: A homemade bomb exploded at a BNP Paribas Bank branch in Maroussi, a suburban city north of Athens, Greece, causing no injuries. An half hour before the explosion, an anonymous caller claimed responsibility for the attack to a Greek newspaper; police said that two other anonymous calls had also preceded the explosion. "Solidarity with imprisoned members of Action Directe" (AD) claimed responsibility for the attack.
02/24/2006: Suspected anarchists destroyed a bank branch in the central Gyzi district of Athens, Greece, after breaking the glass door and tossing in petrol bombs; no one was injured. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
05/30/2006: Greece’s Culture Minister George Voulgarakis was targeted by a timed, homemade bomb placed on a bicycle that exploded on a street about 200 meters from the minister’s apartment in Athens. No one was injured, but extensive damage was caused to five vehicles. Voulgarakis was scheduled to pass by the bombing location three minutes after it exploded. Police believed the group Revolutionary Struggle, which had previously attacked Greece’s National Economy and Employment ministries, was responsible for the attack. Voulgarakis stated that he had been ‘targeted’ and given threats.
01/31/2006: A group of at least 15 youths attacked the General Confederation of Workers of Greece (GSEE) President Christos Polyzogopoulos in Athens, Greece with sticks and stones as he was driving his car. Polyzogopoulos and a passenger in his car, Savvas Robolis, the head of GSEE’s labor institute, were both slightly wounded. Police believe that the attackers were returning from a nearby anarchist rally when they encountered the car. There were no reported claims of responsibility, but police arrested two people in connection with the attack.
01/19/2006: In a series of related incidents, a home-made firebomb exploded beneath a parked municipal vehicle in Athens, Greece, causing damage but no injuries. This incident and two other simultaneous bombings were claimed by Revolutionary Liberation Action.
02/17/2006: Suspected anarchists used homemade incendiary devices in five arson attacks targeting banks, which occurred within 30 minutes of one another, in the greater Athens area of Greece. All the attacks caused minor damage, but no injuries. At 2:10 in the morning, the final two explosions occurred simultaneously at a Bank of Cyprus branch in Halandri and a National Bank of Greece branch in Nea Smyrni. No group claimed responsibility for the attacks.
02/17/2006: Suspected anarchists used homemade incendiary devices in five arson attacks targeting banks, which occurred within 30 minutes of one another, in the greater Athens area of Greece. All the attacks caused minor damage, but no injuries. The third explosion occurred at the American Bank of Albania in downtown Athens at 2:05 in the morning. No group claimed responsibility for the attacks.
02/17/2006: Suspected anarchists used homemade incendiary devices in five arson attacks targeting banks, which occurred within 30 minutes of one another, in the greater Athens area of Greece. All the attacks caused minor damage, but no injuries. At 2:10 in the morning, the final two explosions occurred simultaneously at a Bank of Cyprus branch in Halandri and a National Bank of Greece branch in Nea Smyrni. No group claimed responsibility for the attacks.
01/19/2006: In a series of related incidents, a home-made firebomb exploded outside a National Bank of Greece branch in Athens, Greece, causing damage but no injuries. This incident and two other simultaneous bombings were claimed by Revolutionary Liberation Action.
01/04/2006: Unknown assailants tossed a firebomb against a ruling New Democracy office near Exarchia (District), Athens, Greece. No group claimed responsibility.
01/04/2006: Unknown assailants torched a traffic camera’s street-level telephone exchange in Zografou (District), east Athens, Greece. No group claimed responsibility.
02/17/2006: Suspected anarchists used homemade incendiary devices in five arson attacks targeting banks, which occurred within 30 minutes of one another, in the greater Athens area of Greece. All the attacks caused minor damage, but no injuries. The first explosion occurred at an Emporiki Bank branch in the Argyroupolis suburb at 1:45 in the morning. No group claimed responsibility for the attacks.
01/23/2006: A group calling itself "Anti-State Justice" claimed responsibility for an arson attack on an ELTA post office in Athens, Greece. The fire, started with a home-made incendiary device, caused property damage, but no injuries. This incident is related to another arson attack occurring around the same time.
01/04/2006: A makeshift explosive device caused serious damages to Aspis Bank in central Athens, Ambelokipi (District), Greece when it exploded at the entrance. No group claimed responsibility.
01/03/2006: In the Mets residential district of Athens, Greece, a home-made incendiary device made up of small propane canisters exploded beneath a parked car with diplomatic license plates. The fire damaged the car and four surrounding vehicles, but caused no injures. Police said an anonymous caller phoned the private ALTER tv station at 5:00 a.m. and claimed responsibility for the arson attacks on behalf of a hitherto unknown group calling itself "Anti-State Justice", in an act of solidarity with anarchists Panayiotis Aspiotis, George Kalaitzidis and Petros Karasaridis, who are serving time in prison for arson attacks and several felon charges.
02/24/2006: A small explosive device exploded outside of a National Bank of Greece branch in Thessaloniki, Greece, causing minor damage but no injuries. Police suspected anarchists in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
02/25/2006: A homemade bomb exploded in front of the Renault car dealership in Athens, Greece, damaging four vehicles. "Solidarity with imprisoned members of Action Directe" (AD) claimed responsibility for the attack.
01/03/2006: In the suburb of Petroupolis, Athens, Greece, unidentified persons torched a parked car without license plates, damaging it and another parked car. Police said an anonymous caller phoned the private ALTER tv station at 5:00 a.m. and claimed responsibility for the arson attacks on behalf of a hitherto unknown group calling itself "Anti-State Justice", in an act of solidarity with anarchists Panayiotis Aspiotis, George Kalaitzidis and Petros Karasaridis, who are serving time in prison for arson attacks and several felon charges.
01/03/2006: A home-made incendiary device comprising small propane canisters exploded at 4:15 a.m. in the Kypseli residential district, Athens, Greece, at the entrance of a New Democracy Party office on the ground floor, causing material damage Police said an anonymous caller phoned the private ALTER tv station at 5:00 a.m. and claimed responsibility for the arson attacks on behalf of a hitherto unknown group calling itself "Anti-State Justice", in an act of solidarity with anarchists Panayiotis Aspiotis, George Kalaitzidis and Petros Karasaridis, who are serving time in prison for arson attacks and several felon charges.
01/23/2006: A group calling itself “Anti-State Justice” claimed responsibility for an arson attack just outside a New Democracy party (ND) office in Athens, Greece. The fire, started with a home-made incendiary device, damaged the office and several cars parked nearby, but caused no injuries. The claim of responsibility came in the form of an anonymous call to a radio station after the attack. This incident is related to another arson attack occurring around the same time.
02/24/2006: Two diplomatic vehicles belonging to a Swedish official working with the Balkan Reconstruction Organization were severely damaged after a bomb exploded in Thessaloniki, Greece. A third car parked nearby was also damaged, but no one was injured. Police suspected anarchists. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
01/19/2006: In a series of related incidents, a home-made firebomb exploded outside a local organization office of the ruling New Democracy party (ND) in Athens, Greece, causing damage but no injuries. This incident and two other simultaneous bombings were claimed by Revolutionary Liberation Action.
06/08/2007: A German school bus was damaged when an unknown number of Athens and Thessaloniki Arsonist Nuclei perpetrators set it on fire using homemade gas-canister bombs in the early morning at a Mercedes dealership in Athens, Athens Periphery, Greece. The Arsonist Nuclei later claimed responsibility for the attack.
06/08/2007: Three Mercedes automobiles were damaged when an unknown number of Athens and Thessaloniki Arsonist Nuclei perpetrators set them on fire using homemade gas-canister bombs in the early morning at a Mercedes dealership in Thessaloniki, Central Macedonia Periphery, Greece. The Arsonist Nuclei later claimed responsibility for the attack.
06/08/2007: A storefront of the Miele domestic appliances company was damaged when an unknown number of Athens and Thessaloniki Arsonist Nuclei perpetrators set it on fire using a homemade gas-canister bombs in the early morning in Thessaloniki, Central Macedonia Periphery, Greece. Arsonist Nuclei later claimed responsibility for the attack.
06/08/2007: A Greek government employment office was damaged when an unknown number of Athens and Thessaloniki Arsonist Nuclei perpetrators set it on fire using a homemade gas-canister bombs in the early morning in Thessaloniki, Central Macedonia Periphery, Greece. Arsonist Nuclei later claimed responsibility for the attack.
07/03/2007: Thirty suspected anarchists attacked Greece's Culture Ministry in Athens, Greece, with molotov cocktails. Two cars were damaged in the incident, but there were no causalities. No claim of responsibility was reported.
01/25/2007: Unknown arsonists using gas canister-based explosives attacked two Greek banks in Athens, Greece. The banks suffered minor damages from the attack. Authorities suspect it an anarchist group to be behind the attack. No claim of responsibility was reported.
06/05/2007: A Eurobank branch and an automated teller machine (ATM) were damaged when 10 unknown perpetrators threw Molotov cocktails at the Eurobank branch building in the early morning in Peristeri suburb, Athens, Attica Periphery, Greece. No claim of responsibility was reported.
06/08/2007: An ATM machine at a Lidl Supermarket was damaged when an unknown number of Athens and Thessaloniki Arsonist Nuclei perpetrators set it on fire using homemade gas-canister bombs in the early morning in Thessaloniki, Central Macedonia Periphery, Greece. Arsonist Nuclei later claimed responsibility for the attack.
06/08/2007: A total of seven vehicles were destroyed when an unknown number of Athens and Thessaloniki Arsonist Nuclei perpetrators used homemade gas canisters to set fire to cars at dealerships in the early morning in Athens, Athens Periphery, Greece. In this case an Opel dealership was targeted. The Arsonists Nuclei later claimed responsibility for the attack.
06/08/2007: Three Mercedes automobiles were damaged when an unknown number of Athens and Thessaloniki Arsonist Nuclei perpetrators set them on fire using homemade gas-canister bombs in the early morning at a Mercedes dealership in Thessaloniki, Central Macedonia Periphery, Greece. Arsonist Nuclei later claimed responsibility for the attack.
01/12/2007: A Russian-made anti-tank rocket struck the United States Embassy in Athens, Greece damaging the building. There were no casualties in the attack that has been claimed by the left-wing domestic group known as the Revolutionary Struggle.
01/10/2007: A series of minor explosions damaged four banks and an office of the conservative New Democracy political party in Athens, Greece. There were no casualties in the blasts made from gas canisters; the attacks were claimed by a group called the Revolutionary Action of Liberation.
06/05/2007: One Greek Police vehicle was slightly damaged when one of several improvised explosive devices (IED) composed of gas canisters and planted on vehicles by two male and one female anarchist perpetrators caught fire at a police station in Palaio Faliron neighborhood, Athens, Attica Periphery, Greece. No claim of responsibility was reported.
06/08/2007: A total of seven vehicles were destroyed when an unknown number of Athens and Thessaloniki Arsonist Nuclei perpetrators used homemade gas canisters to set fire to cars at dealerships in the early morning in Athens, Athens Periphery, Greece. In this case a Mercedes-Benz dealership was targeted.The Arsonists Nuclei later claimed responsibility for the attack.
11/11/2008: On Tuesday, assailants detonated several incendiary devices, damaging the offices of two private security companies but causing no injuries in Athens, Attiki, Greece. Incendiary Committee of Solidarity for Detainees claimed responsibility.
11/11/2008: On Tuesday, unidentified assailants set fire to and damaged a branch of the Bank of Cyprus, two vehicles, and a truck in Athens, Attiki, Greece. There were no reports of casualties and no group claimed responsibility.
09/04/2008: On Thursday, at an unknown time, in Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece, assailants detonated a firebomb at a business, damaging the building but causing no injuries.  No group claimed responsibility.
06/09/2008: On Monday, three unidentified gunmen kidnapped George Mylonas, the chairman of the Federation of Northern Greek Industries and owner of Alumil SA, near his home in Salonika, Greece, Greece. Mylonas was released on 06/23/2008, after his family paid $19 million to the kidnappers. No group claimed responsibility for the kidnapping.
04/14/2008: On Monday at about 01:00, a bomb planted inside a parked car belonging to the embassy of Saudi Arabia exploded near the Saudi Arabian embassy in the northern suburb of Halandri near central Athens, Greece province, Greece. Police believed that the bomb was activated using mechanical timer devices. The remains of two gas canisters were also found under the car. An unidentified man called a local telephone station and said a group called the "Forbidden blockade" claimed responsibility for the attack. No casualties were reported but the vehicle was destroyed form the bombing attack.
02/21/2008: An anarchist group named Conspiracy of Cells of Fire claimed responsibility for committing 13 separate arson attacks with homemade explosives (which contained small propane canisters) throughout Attica, Greece on Thursday between 2:00 a.m. and 2:10 a.m. In this incident, a Eurobank in Kallithea was attacked. It was unclear if there were any casualties.
11/04/2008: On Tuesday evening at approximately 1715, in Athens, Attiki, Greece, a firebomb exploded at the door of the Greek defense minister's office, slightly damaging the entrance but causing no casualties. No group claimed responsibility.
02/21/2008: An anarchist group named Conspiracy of Cells of Fire claimed responsibility for committing 13 separate arson attacks with homemade explosives (which contained small propane canisters) throughout Attica, Greece on Thursday between 2:00 a.m. and 2:10 a.m. In this incident, a car belonging to a private security company in Kolonos was attacked. It was unclear if there were any casualties.
06/23/2008: On Monday, a bomb partially exploded outside the offices of German drug maker Bayer AG in the Maroussi area of Athens, Greece, Greece. The bomb was in a box that contained a cellular phone attached to explosives. No casualties were reported but minor damages were done to the offices. No group claimed responsibility for the blast.
09/26/2008: On Friday, at around 0530, in Athens, Attiki, Greece, assailants detonated firebombs at a City bank branch and a Marfin Bank branch and at an insurance office, damaging three buildings but causing no injuries.  No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed that anarchists were responsible.
02/21/2008: An anarchist group named Conspiracy of Cells of Fire claimed responsibility for committing 13 separate arson attacks with homemade explosives (which contained small propane canisters) throughout Attica, Greece on Thursday between 2:00 a.m. and 2:10 a.m. In this incident, a Citibank in Piraeus was attacked. It was unclear if there were any casualties.
11/02/2008: On Sunday, in Athens, Attiki, Greece, assailants set fire to five automobiles, destroying three, damaging the other two and damaging a mobile phone shop in the northern suburb of Aghia Paraskevi. Police say three cars were destroyed and another two badly burned by homemade incendiary bombs made of cooking gas canisters bound together. The vehicles were parked outside Greek navy offices in central Athens. There were no casualties. No group claimed responsibility, but it was widely believed that anarchists were responsible.
02/21/2008: An anarchist group named Conspiracy of Cells of Fire claimed responsibility for committing 13 separate arson attacks with homemade explosives (which contained small propane canisters) throughout Attica, Greece on Thursday between 2:00 a.m. and 2:10 a.m. In this particular incident, a car registered with the Health Services in Piraeus was the target. No casualties or injuries were reported.
04/18/2008: On Friday, a diplomatic car belonging to the Turkish embassy was fire-bombed in the Athens suburb of Halandri, Greece. The arson attack caused extensive damage to the vehicle but caused no injuries. An unidentified person called saying he was part of the Anti-Democratic Struggle and claimed responsibility for the attack.
09/26/2008: On Friday, sometime in the morning, in Athens, Attiki, Greece, assailants detonated firebombs at a Citroen vehicle dealership, damaging the facility and four vehicles but causing no injuries. There were no claims of responsibility.
02/21/2008: An anarchist group named Conspiracy of Cells of Fire claimed responsibility for committing 13 separate arson attacks with homemade explosives (which contained small propane canisters) throughout Attica, Greece on Thursday between 2:00 a.m. and 2:10 a.m. In this incident, a private car in Glyfada was attacked. No casualties or injuries were reported.
03/03/2008: A bomb exploded outside the offices of Attiki Forest Directorate in the Neo Psikhiko area of Athens, Greece. The attack caused minor damage but no injuries. A man shortly after the incident called a newspaper and said that the EED, a continuation of the LED (Popular Revolutionary Army), was behind the incident.
04/15/2008: On Tuesday shortly after midnight, a Saudi Arabian embassy car was damaged by a homemade bomb attack in the northern Athens suburb of Gerakas in Greece.  A makeshift bomb consisting of gas canisters was used on the car and no claim of responsibility was made for the incident. No casualties were reported from the bombing attack.
07/17/2008: On Thursday morning, in Piraeus, Attiki, Greece, assailants threw Molotov cocktails and detonated firebombs at a police station, damaging the building, five police vehicles, and six other vehicles but causing no casualties. No motive was reported and no group claimed responsibility.
02/21/2008: An anarchist group named Conspiracy of Cells of Fire claimed responsibility for committing 13 separate arson attacks with homemade explosives (which contained small propane canisters) throughout Attica, Greece on Thursday between 2:00 a.m. and 2:10 a.m. In this incident, the offices of the Ethniki Asfalistiki insurance company (a subsidiary of the National Bank of Greece) in Kato Halandri were attacked. It was unclear if there were any casualties.
09/26/2008: On Friday, sometime in the early morning, in Thessaloniki, Greece, assailants detonated a firebomb at a government taxation office, damaging the building but causing no injuries.  No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed that anarchists were responsible.
06/24/2008: On Tuesday, in Maroussi, Attiki, Greece, assailants detonated an improvised explosive device in a building housing the Bayer pharmaceutical company and Siemens engineering firm, damaging the building but causing no casualties. Popular Will claimed responsibility.
02/21/2008: An anarchist group named Conspiracy of Cells of Fire claimed responsibility for committing 13 separate arson attacks with homemade explosives (which contained small propane canisters) throughout Attica, Greece on Thursday between 2:00 a.m. and 2:10 a.m. In this incident, a Millennium Bank in Gerakas was attacked. It was unclear if there were any casualties.
12/03/2008: On Wednesday evening, at 1750, a bomb exploded at the Agence France-Presse (AFP) office in Athens, Greece causing minor damage but no casualties. The bomb, made up of four small gas canisters, was placed at the front door to the office on the fifth floor of a block in the centre of the Greek capital. The Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/23/2008: On Wednesday, arsonists used fire-bombs to target three foreign car dealerships including Opel and Nissan in Athens, Greece. The extent of the damage was not disclosed, however no casualties were reported from the arson attack. No claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
09/13/2008: On Saturday, sometime in the early morning, in Thessaloniki, Greece, 15 assailants threw firebombs, Molotov cocktails, and stones at the Plateia Demokratias police station, damaging the station, one nearby shop, six police vehicles, and 16 civilian vehicles, but causing no injuries.  The Fighting Fire Nuclei claimed responsibility.
02/21/2008: An anarchist group named Conspiracy of Cells of Fire claimed responsibility for committing 13 separate arson attacks with homemade explosives (which contained small propane canisters) throughout Attica, Greece on Thursday between 2:00 a.m. and 2:10 a.m. In this incident, a branch of Citibank in Petroupolis was attacked. It was unclear if there were any casualties.
02/21/2008: An anarchist group named Conspiracy of Cells of Fire claimed responsibility for committing 13 separate arson attacks with homemade explosives (which contained small propane canisters) throughout Attica, Greece on Thursday between 2:00 a.m. and 2:10 a.m. In this particular incident, a car registered to the Bank of Cyprus in Argyroupolis [Argiroupolis] was attacked. No casualties or injuries were reported.
07/01/2008: On Tuesday night at 0250, in Chania, Crete, Greece, assailants detonated a bomb at a Coalition of the Radical Left political party office, destroying the office but causing no casualties. No motive was reported and no group claimed responsibility.
01/21/2008: Unknown perpetrators detonated home-made bombs next to 6 banks, 22 vehicles and 3 luxury car showrooms in Athens and Salonica, Greece. The attacks killed and injured no one but caused some property damage.
04/18/2008: On Friday, a diplomatic car belonging to the Bosnia and Herzegovina Embassy was fire-bombed in Athens, Greece. The arson attack caused extensive damage to the vehicle but caused no injuries. An unidentified person called saying he was part of the Anti-Democratic Struggle and claimed responsibility for the attack.
02/21/2008: An anarchist group named Conspiracy of Cells of Fire claimed responsibility for committing 13 separate arson attacks with homemade explosives (which contained small propane canisters) throughout Attica, Greece on Thursday between 2:00 a.m. and 2:10 a.m. In this incident, a branch of Proton Bank in downtown Athens was attacked. It was unclear if there were any casualties.
05/30/2008: On Friday morning at dawn, an incendiary device was thrown at the Millennium bank subsidiary in Thessaloniki, Greece by unknown anarchists who claimed responsibility for the attack in a web blog post. The anarchists also claimed responsibility for another arson attack in Thessaloniki as well. No casualties were reported for the incident, but the facade of the bank's building was damaged as a result of the arson attack.
09/26/2008: On Friday, at around 0230, in Athens, Attiki, Greece, assailants detonated firebombs under vehicles belonging to the Czech and Italian Embassies and a civilian, at an insurance office, and at a Eurobank branch, damaging three vehicles and two buildings but causing no injuries. There were no claims of responsibility.
11/02/2008: On Sunday, unknown assailants set fire to a bank and damaged about 30 vehicles in Thessaloniki, Greece. Three to eight policemen were wounded in the attack, and nine assailants were arrested. No group has claimed responsibility for the incident, although the perpetrators supposedly came from the University of Thessaloniki.
02/21/2008: An anarchist group named Conspiracy of Cells of Fire claimed responsibility for committing 13 separate arson attacks with homemade explosives (which contained small propane canisters) throughout Attica, Greece on Thursday between 2:00 a.m. and 2:10 a.m. In this incident, a Bank of Cyprus in Patissia was attacked. It was unclear if there were any casualties.
11/07/2008: On Friday night before dawn, in Athens, Attiki, Greece, a firebomb placed under a Libyan Embassy automobile exploded, damaging that vehicle and several other vehicles. No casualties were reported. No group claimed responsibility.
05/09/2008: On Friday in the late afternoon, a group of 30 suspected anarchists using petrol bombs set fire to a tax office in central Athens, Greece. No casualties were reported as the building was closed at the time of the arson attack, however the tax office sustained extensive damage, including widespread damage to the building's basement and first floor. Anarchist arsonists frequently target government property, as well as banks and foreign diplomatic cars in Athens and Greece's second-largest city of Thessaloniki. No claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
02/21/2008: An anarchist group named Conspiracy of Cells of Fire claimed responsibility for committing 13 separate arson attacks with homemade explosives (which contained small propane canisters) throughout Attica, Greece on Thursday between 2:00 a.m. and 2:10 a.m. In this incident, a Eurobank Open 24 in Piraeus was attacked. It was unclear if there were any casualties.
10/29/2008: On Wednesday morning, arsonists hurled small cooking gas canisters at a military court in Athens, Athens province, Greece. The arson attack caused minor damage to the entrance of the military building but resulted in no casualties. No claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
11/07/2008: On Friday, in Athens, Attiki, Greece, assailants ignited several incendiary devices, damaging several cars, including a car owned by the Libyan Embassy. No casualties were reported. No group claimed responsibility, but it was widely believed that anarchists were responsible.
05/16/2008: On Friday, in Athens, Greece, a petrol bomb and gas canister attack was carried out against a police station in the Aegaleo area, destroying five patrol cars and two undercover police cars. There was no motive reported and a group called the gang of conscience claimed responsibility.
09/26/2008: On Friday, at around 0515, in Athens, Attiki, Greece, assailants detonated a firebomb at a City bank branch damaging the building, but causing no injuries.  No group claimed responsibility.
05/29/2008: On Thursday at 0230, in Athens, Attiki, Greece, assailants set fire to a New Democracy political party building, damaging the building and a nearby vehicle but causing no casualties. There was no motive reported and no group claimed responsibility.
10/13/2008: On Monday, 20 suspected anarchists hurled 20 petrol bombs, rocks and paint at a police station in Athens, Athens province, Greece. The arson attack caused an unknown amount of damage to the entrance of the police building but resulted in no casualties. No claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
08/03/2008: On Saturday at 2320, an improvised explosive device functioned against the home of the president of the AGB marketing research company in the Penteli suburb of Athens, Athens province, Greece. The device was placed at the base of a tree and damaged the wall and a window of the AGB building. No casualties were reported and no claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
10/24/2008: On Friday night, an improvised explosive device planted by unknown assailants, was located and safely defused by police outside the headquarters of the Royal Dutch Shell oil company in the coastal suburb of Palaio Faliron, Athens, Athens province, Greece. The bomb was composed of three kilos of dynamite and a timer inside a plastic toolbox. Police believed that the bombers were also targeting the Olympic Properties, which is located near the oil company headquarters. No casualties were reported as the bomb was defused by police prior to detonation. An anonymous caller alerted police to the bomb. Police suspected that either the Revolutionary Struggle group or the leftist Enedra group was responsible for the incident, mainly because the bomb components were identical to the bomb components of previous bombings by the Revolutionary Struggle and the fact that the callers informed the police instead of the media as Enedra has been known to do.
02/21/2008: An anarchist group named Conspiracy of Cells of Fire claimed responsibility for committing 13 separate arson attacks with homemade explosives (which contained small propane canisters) throughout Attica, Greece on Thursday between 2:00 a.m. and 2:10 a.m. In this particular incident, a branch of National Bank in Vyronas [Vironas] was the target. No casualties or injuries were reported.
06/05/2008: On Thursday, unidentified anarchists firebombed two bookstores in central Athens, Greece, Greece. The suspects entered the shops, forced the customers and employees out, and then set the building off with fire bombs. No one was hurt in the attack but the fires caused extensive damage. No group claimed responsibility.
04/10/2008: On Thursday in Athens, Greece, explosions damaged 35 cars, mostly Fiat and Alfa Romeo cars. No group claimed responsibility.
02/24/2008: In Athens, Greece, a homemade bomb was thrown outside the office of the environment ministry. Twenty minutes prior to the detonation, an anonymous individual called the Greek newspaper Eleftherotypia and stated the location and time that the bomb would go off. No casualties resulted from this attack and no group claimed responsibility for this attack.
09/26/2008: On Friday, at about 2:30 AM, in Athens, Attiki, Greece, assailants detonated firebombs at an insurance office. No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed that anarchists were responsible. There were no reported casualties.
09/26/2008: On Friday, at around 0515, in Athens, Attiki, Greece, assailants detonated a firebomb at an insurance office, damaging the building, but causing no injuries.  No group claimed responsibility.
10/02/2009: On Friday evening at about 2000, in Athens, Attiki, Greece, assailants detonated an improvised explosive device during a political campaign rally, shortly before a scheduled speech by Prime Minister Karamanlis, damaging two motorcycles, several stores, and an apartment building, but caused no casualties. The motive for the attack was to send a message to the authorities to release four members that had been arrested a few days earlier. The Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei claimed responsibility for the attack with an online proclamation.
02/05/2009: On Thursday morning, in Athens, Attiki, Greece, assailants ignited an incendiary device at the Alternate Interior Minister for Public Order office, causing minor damage. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility.
03/30/2009: On Manday night, five government offices were firebombed in the city of Salonika, Macedonia, Greece. Minor damaged occured to the buildings and there were no reports of casualties. No group claimed responsibility.
11/13/2009: On Friday, in Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece, assailants firebombed a retail shop, damaging the shop but causing no casualties. Anarchists claimed responsibility.
07/03/2009: On Friday night at 0437, in Ambelokipi, Athens, Attiki, Greece, a time bomb exploded outside a branch of McDonald's, causing extensive damage to the premises to the fast-food outlet, a tax office located above, and showered the sidewalk with broken glass and rubble but causing no casualties. Anonymous warning calls were made to two Athens newspapers naming the McDonald's food chain as the target, allowing police officers to cordon off the area before the explosion. The bomb comprised two kilograms of ammonium nitrate, had been placed under a ramp for wheelchair access outside the fast-food outlet and it was believed to attack being planned to coincide with America's Independence Day on 07/04/2009. No group has claimed responsibility, but the group Revolutionary Struggle is thought to be responsible.
10/27/2009: On Tuesday evening around 2145, two men approached a Athens police post on a motorcycle and fired upon the officers with a Kalashnikov automatic rifle, injuring six policemen and one civilian. No material damage or motive for the attack was reported and no group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
12/24/2009: On Thursday morning, at about 0400, in Athens, Attiki, Greece, assailants ignited an incendiary device at a Piraeus Bank branch, damaging the facility and two nearby parked cars but causing no injuries. No group claimed responsibility.
07/10/2009: On Friday, in Irakleion, Crete, Greece, one man threw Molotov cocktails at a vehicle dealership, damaging six vehicles but causing no casualties. No motive for the attack was reported and no group has claimed responsibility.
06/27/2009: On Saturday, in the early morning, in the Aghios Dimitrios area of Athens, Attiki, Greece, 25 assailants on motorcycles threw Molotov cocktails at an urban bus depot, destroying five buses, damaging three others but causing no injuries. No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei was responsible.
05/05/2009: On Tuesday morning, in Irakleion, Crete, Greece, assailants ignited incendiary devices outside a Eurobank branch, damaging the bank. No casualties or motive for the attack was reported and no group has claimed responsibility.
02/17/2009:  On Tuesday, in Crete, Greece, assailants used incendiary devices on the automobile of a public works contractor. No casualties were reported and minor damage was caused to the car in the incident.  No claim of responsibiity was reported.
02/03/2009: On Tuesday, in Piraeus, Greece, three members of the "Revolutionary Struggle" organization fired a Scorpion semi-automatic and a 9mm handgun, and lobbed a grenade at the Korydallos police building and guard post near Piraeus. The grenade did not go off. After the attack the assailants disappeared into the city, and were no able to be found. There were no reported casualties or any damage reported. The Sect of Revolutionaries claimed responsibility.
02/11/2009: On Wednesday, in Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece, assailants ignited two incendiary devices in front of the Ta Nea and Avriani newspaper offices, causing minor damage to two buildings but no injuries. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility.
02/12/2009: On Thursday night, in the Ilioupolis neighborhood of Athens, Attiki, Greece, assailants ignited an incendiary device outside the home of an Athens prosecutor, causing minor damage and no injuries. No casualties were reported and the Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei claimed responsibility.
07/23/2009: On Thursday morning, in Thessaloniki, Macedonia, Greece, assailants detonated a firebomb made with propane canisters targeting an office of the New Democracy party, causing minor damage but no casualties. No motive for the attack was reported and the group Deniers of Holidays claimed responsibility for the attack.
07/17/2009: On Friday, in Psikhikon, Athens, Attiki, Greece, a firebomb exploded underneath a Psikhikon municipality vehicle, destroying the vehicle and damaging two others nearby but causing no casualties. No motive for the attack was reported and no group has claimed responsibility.
04/30/2009: On Thursday, in Peristeri, Attiki, Greece, assailants ignited home-made incendiary devices comprising small propane canisters at a New Democracy Party youth organization office, causing minor damage but no casualties. No group claimed responsibility.
05/20/2009: On Wednesday evening at around 2000, in the Kolonaki area of Athens, Attiki, Greece, an improvised explosive device exploded outside the office of a consultant company, causing damage to the office and two adjacent offices but no causalities. No motive for the attack was reported and the Popular Will claimed responsibility.
02/17/2009: On Tuesday at 1900, assailants threw a firebomb in the back door of the television station building during an armed assault, but it did not explode. No casualties were reported.  Sect of Revolutionaries claimed responsibility.
06/04/2009: On Thursday night at approximately 0100, in Maroussi, Athens, Greece, assailants firebombed an Alpha Bank branch using home-made incendiary devices comprised of small propane canisters, causing minor damage to the bank but causing no injuries. This incident was part of a series of three linked attacks that targeted banks in Athens. No group claimed responsibility.
02/17/2009:  On Tuesday, in Crete, Greece, assailants used incendiary devices on the automobile of a prominent businessperson. No casualties were reported but damage was caused to the car.  No claim of responsibility was reported.
03/31/2009: On Tuesday night at about 0100, in Khalandri, Attiki, Greece, assailants firebombed a vehicle belonging to Brinks Security, causing minor damage to the vehicle but no causalities were reported. No group claimed responsibility.
03/31/2009: On Tuesday night at around 0100 assailants firebombed vehicles, causing minor damage to three vehicle in Glyfada, Attiki, Greece. There were no reports of casualties and no group claimed responsibility.
12/12/2009: On Saturday at about 0415, in Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece, assailants set fire to a diplomatic vehicle parked at the Albanian Consulate, causing minor damage to the car but causing no injuries. Anarchist Action claimed responsibility on the website zougla.gr.
02/12/2009: On Thursday, at noon, in the Ilioupolis neighborhood of Athens, Attiki, Greece, assailants threw an incendiary device at the home of a judge, causing minor damage to the residence and no injuries. No casulaties were reported and the Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei claimed responsibility.
03/31/2009: On Tuesday night around 0100, in Athens, Attiki, Greece, assailants firebombed a vehicle belonging to Pakistani embassy, causing minor damage to the vehicle but no causalities were reported. No group claimed responsibility.
02/04/2009: On Wednesday morning, in the Halandri neighborhood of Athens, Attiki, Greece, assailants ignited an incendiary device at a car dealership which caused a fire, destroying 14 vehicles. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility.
07/28/2009: On Tuesday morning, in one of six related attacks, in Athens, Attiki, Greece, assailants firebombed and threw an incendiary device at a New Democracy party office in Drapetsona. They also threw incendiary devices at three other offices in Kaminia, Koukaki, and Khalandri, causing minor damage but no casualties. Assailants also firebombed and threw incendiary devices at three Panhellenic Socialist Movement offices in Votanikos and Goudi, causing minor damage but no casualties. All attacks occurred within 30 minutes of one another. Illuminating Paths of Solidarity claimed responsibility.
02/24/2009: On Tuesday evening, assailants threw a grenade outside the offices of the Network for Civil and Social Rights organization. The incident took place in Athens, Attiki, Greece. No casualties were reported but damage was caused to the building. No group claimed responsibility.
04/30/2009: On Thursday, in Galatsi, Attiki, Greece, assailants ignited home-made incendiary devices comprising of small propane canisters at an Attica Bank branch, causing minor damage but no casualties. No group claimed responsibility.
07/04/2009: On Saturday night around 0100, in the Neos Kosmos area of Athens, Attiki, Greece, assailants threw petrol bombs at the Ministry of Interior Information Technology Services building, damaging the building but causing no casualties. No motive for the attack was reported and the group Attack Teams for the Dissolution of the Nation claimed responsibility.
06/07/2009: On Sunday, in the early morning, in Patrai, Achaia, Greece, assailants threw six Molotov cocktails at the fifth police precinct station, causing no injuries or damage. The assailants fled away on motorcycles. No group claimed responsibility.
10/23/2009: On Friday, in Thessaloniki, Macedonia, Greece, assailants detonated a firebomb outside the Socialist party office of Greece's Deputy Civil Protection Minister, damaging the office but causing no casualties. The motive for the attack was to disrupt the Greek Government. The Council for the Destruction of Order claimed responsibility for the attack.
03/31/2009: On Tuesday night at about 0100, in Metamorfosis, Attiki, Greece, assailants firebombed a car dealership, causing minor damage but no causalities were reported. No group claimed responsibility.
02/03/2009: On Tuesday morning, in the Korydallos district of Athens, Attiki, Greece, assailants fired upon and threw a grenade at a police station, causing no injuries or damage. No casualties were reported and Revolutionary Struggle claimed responsibility.
05/17/2009: On Sunday morning, in Athens, Attiki, Greece, assailants firebombed a Suzuki car dealership, causing minor damage but no casualties. No motive for the attack was reported and no group claimed responsibility.
06/03/2009: On Wednesday, during the late evening, in the Melissia area of Athens, Attiki, Greece, a group of about ten assailants threw Molotov cocktails at a police station, destroying two nearby vehicles and damaging four others but causing no injuries. The group was repulsed by the police station's guard, who fired shots in the air, while the duty officer threw two non-lethal grenades, emitting sound and light. The assailants fled on motorcycles and on foot. Alexandros Grigoropoulos Anarchist Attack Group claimed responsibility.
04/01/2009: On Wednesday, in Athens, Greece, two homemade explosive devices went off overnight outside banks in an Athens suburb. The bombs caused a small amount of damage and there were no casualties. Bank branches of Proton Bank, Eurobank and the Bank of Cyprus were targeted. An unknown group claimed responsibility.
07/06/2009: On Monday night around 0300, in the Galatsi, Athens, Attiki, Greece, a firebomb exploded outside a Tax Bureau office, damaging the tax office and two adjacent shops but causing no injuries. No motive for the attack was reported and no group claimed responsibility.
02/18/2009: On Wednesday, a scientific conference being held in the Cultural Center of the University of Athens was attcked by roughly 50 hooded individuals in Athens, Greece, Greece. The hooded individuals stormed into the conference, brutally attacked those in attendance, and caused extensive damage. One person was injured in the attack. No group has claimed responsibility.
07/21/2009: On Tuesday, in Thessaloniki, Macedonia, Greece, assailants detonated firebombs made from propane canisters, targeting a New Democracy party youth organization office, causing minor damage but no casualties. No motive for the attack was reported and no group has claimed responsibility.
02/17/2009:  On Tuesday, in the evening, in Chania, Crete, Greece, assailants ignited three incendiary devices near automobiles of the G4 Security Firm. Two automobiles were destroyed in the incident and one other was damaged.  No casualties were reported in the incident.  No claim of responsibility was reported.
05/05/2009: On Tuesday morning, in Irakleion, Crete, Greece, assailants set fire to two vehicles belonging to a security company, damaging the vehicles. No casualties or motive for the attack was reported and no group has claimed responsibility.
07/28/2009: On Tuesday morning, in one of six related attacks, in Athens, Attiki, Greece, assailants firebombed and threw an incendiary device at a New Democracy party office in Koukaki. They also threw incendiary devices at three other offices in Kaminia, Drapetsona, and Khalandri, causing minor damage but no casualties. Assailants also firebombed and threw incendiary devices at three Panhellenic Socialist Movement offices in Votanikos and Goudi, causing minor damage but no casualties. All attacks occurred within 30 minutes of one another. Illuminating Paths of Solidarity claimed responsibility.
03/31/2009: On Tuesday night at around 0100, assailants firebombed vehicles belonging to the Public Power Corporation in the Paleo Faliro area of Athens, Attiki, Greece. The attack caused minor damage to the three vehicles. There were no reports of casualties and no group claimed responsibility.
01/05/2009: On Monday, at the intersection of Zaimis and Kountouriotou Streets in Exarkhia, behind the Culture Ministry in Greece, three Riot Squad officers were attacked by gunmen using Kalashnikov rifles, MP5 submachine gun and a hand grenade. One officer was injured. Police recovered 27 Kalashnikov shells and four 9mm shells from the MP5 at the scene. No damage or motive were reported. The Revolutionary Struggle has claimed responsibility for this attack.
04/30/2009: On Thursday, in Psikhikon, Attiki, Greece, assailants ignited home-made incendiary devices comprising of small propane canisters near two vehicles belonging to a supermarket chain, causing minor damage to the two vehicles but no casualties. No group claimed responsibility.
04/11/2009: On Saturday night at 0200, in the Kipseli area of Athens, Attiki, Greece, an incendiary device exploded outside an office of the New Democracy Party, causing minor damage to the building but no casualties. No group claimed responsibility.
03/19/2009: On Thursday at 2130, in Athens, Attiki, Greece, a bomb hidden in a bag hanging from a fence outside Hellenic Public Real Estate Corporation was detonated, likely by remote. No one was injured, however the windows of the entrance and of nearby buildings were smashed and a car was damaged. No group claimed responsibility for the bombing, but police are suspecting the Revolutionary Struggle is behind it.
06/04/2009: On Thursday night at approximately 0100, in Chalandri, Athens, Greece, assailants firebombed an Aspis Bank branch using home-made incendiary devices comprised of small propane canisters, causing minor damage and no injuries. This incident was part of a series of three linked attacks that targeted banks around Athens. No group claimed responsibility.
04/11/2009: On Saturday night at 0415, in the Kallithea area of Athens, Attiki, Greece, an improvised explosive device exploded outside an office building that houses an Alpha Bank branch and the offices of the Cetelem Insurance company, causing minor damage to the building but no casualties.  No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed the Revolutionary Struggle was responsible.
02/12/2009: On Thursday, at noon, in Athens, Attiki, Greece, assailants ignited an incendiary device at the legal offices of an Athens' lawyer, causing minor damage and no injuries.No casualties were reported and the Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei claimed responsibility.
05/12/2009: On Tuesday morning, shortly after midnight, in the northern suburb of Alsoupolis and southern suburb of Aghios Dimitrios, Athens, Attiki, Greece, assailants broke the window of a building in Panagouli Square belonging to the Public Power Corporation and threw molotov cocktails through the window, damaging the building, and three vehicles but causing no casualties. No motive for the attack was reported and no group claimed responsibility.
05/19/2009: On Tuesday morning at 0657, in the Nea Penteli area of Athens, Attiki, Greece, an incendiary device made with a timing mechanism and a large gas canister, exploded in a police station under construction, causing minor damage but no casualties. No motive for the attack was reported and the Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei claimed responsibility.
07/02/2009: On Thursday, in Athens, Attiki, Greece, assailants detonated a gas canister under a vehicle belonging to the chairman of the Council of States, destroying the vehicle but causing no causalities. No motive was reported and the group Attack Teams for the Dissolution of the Nation claimed responsibility.
04/25/2009: On Saturday morning at approximately 1130, in the Peristeri area of Athens, Attiki, Greece, assailants drove by and fired upon the Alter Television building, causing no casualties or damage. No group claimed responsibility.
03/09/2009: On Monday, in Athens, Greece a bomb exploded outside a Citibank in the morning. Police state the bomb only caused minor damage to windows and facade of the building as well as two parked cars, with no one being injured. The bomb was set off by a 35-meter cable from the explosive device to a car battery. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack, however police suspect it was the Revolutionary Struggle.
12/16/2009: Late on Wednesday, assailants threw Molotov cocktails at several bank branches, damaging four banks but causing no injuries. They smashed the windows using sledgehammers in Alpha Bank and Bank of Cyprus and at two other banks, and threw the petrol bombs in. No group claimed responsibility, but it was widely believed that anarchists were responsible.
10/30/2009: On Friday, in Thessaloniki, Macedonia, Greece, assailants detonated a bomb outside the Spanish consulate, causing no casualties or damage. The motive for the attack was to disrupt the Spanish government. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
02/03/2009: On Tuesday evening, in Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece, assailants ignited incendiary devices in front of the New Democracy Party deputy's office, causing minor damage to the building door. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility.
07/28/2009: On Tuesday morning, in one of six related attacks, in Athens, Attiki, Greece, assailants firebombed and threw incendiary devices at three Panhellenic Socialist Movement offices in Votanikos and Goudi, causing minor damage but no casualties. Assailants also firebombed and threw incendiary devices at four New Democracy party offices in Koukaki, Kaminia, Drapetsona, and Khalandri, causing minor damage but no casualties. All attacks occurred within 30 minutes of one another. Illuminating Paths of Solidarity claimed responsibility.
08/26/2009: On Wednesday morning, in Thessaloniki, Greece, assailants used a gas canister to firebomb a patrol car belonging to the Neapolis municipality, damaging the vehicle but causing no casualties. No motive for the attack was reported and no group claimed responsibility. This was one of three related attacks.
08/26/2009: On Wednesday morning, in Ano Poli district, Thessaloniki, Greece, assailants used a gas canister to firebomb a vehicle parked on the roadside, damaging the vehicle but causing no casualties. No motive for the attack was reported and no group claimed responsibility. This was one of three related attacks.
04/09/2009: On Thursday afternoon at approximately 1500, in Piraeus, Attiki, Greece, an incendiary device exploded outside the Aghia Triada church, causing minor damage to the church but no casualties. The Athens Metropolitan Cathedral was also targeted by an identical bomb. Nihilist Faction claimed responsibility.
07/20/2009: On Monday, in Thessaloniki, Macedonia, Greece, assailants set fire to vehicles outside the Pylaia municipal building, damaging two vehicles, but causing no casualties. No motive for the attack was reported and no group has claimed responsibility.
05/17/2009: On Sunday morning, in Athens, Attiki, Greece, assailants firebombed businesses which sell security systems, hunting gear, and military uniforms, causing minor damage to the stores but no casualties. No motive for the attack was reported and no group has claimed responsibility.
07/09/2009: On Thursday morning, in one of two linked attacks, at about 0400, in Papagou, Athens, Attiki, Greece, assailants detonated a firebomb comprising small propane canisters under a police vehicle in front of the Papagou town hall, destroying the vehicle but causing no casualties. No motive for the attack was reported and no group has claimed responsibility.
10/30/2009: On Friday, in Athens, Attiki, Greece, a bomb exploded outside car dealership, causing no casualties or damage. No motive for the attack was reported and no group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
02/17/2009:  On Tuesday, in Crete, Greece, assailants used incendiary devices on the automobile of the Byzantine Antiquities Agency. No casualties were reported in the incident but damage was caused to the vehicle. No claim of responsibility has been reported.
02/17/2009:  On Tuesday, in Chania, Crete, Greece, assailants ignited incendiary devies at the Hellenic Post Bank. No casualties were reported in the incident although minor damage was caused. There was no claim of responsibility.
02/17/2009:  On Tuesday,  in Crete, Greece, assailants used incendiary devices on an automobile belonging to the Hunter's Federation.  No casualties were reported in the incident but minor damage was caused to the vehicle in the incident. There was no claim of responsibility.
06/17/2009: On Wednesday morning at 0620, in Athens, Attiki, Greece, assailants fired upon and killed an anti-terrorism police officer who was sitting in his vehicle. The vehicle was damaged in the attack. The militant group Sect of Revolutionaries claimed responsibility.
09/02/2009: On Wednesday morning at 0538, in one of two related attacks, in Athens, Attiki, Greece, assailants detonated a vehicle borne improvised explosive device outside the Athens stock exchange, wounding a civilian and damaging the building and several cars. The attack was preceded by anonymous warning calls to the newspaper Eleftherotypia about 40 minutes before the attack, but no motive was reported. No group claimed responsibility but police suspected a far-left militant group called the Revolutionary Struggle to be responsible for the attack. This is one of two related attacks.
03/04/2009: On Wednesday, in the early morning, in Athens, Attiki, Greece, assailants threw incendiary devices into the Piraeus Bank, causing extensive damage but no casualties were reported. No group claimed responsibility.
07/03/2009: On Friday morning, in Athens, Attiki, Greece, assailants poured gasoline on the front entrance to the Hellenic Migration Policy Institute and set it alight, damaging the building but causing no casualties. No motive for the attack was reported and the group Attack Teams for the Dissolution of the Nation claimed responsibility.
03/07/2009: On Saturday, in the early morning, in Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece, assailants threw incendiary devices at a power company office, destroying five vehicles parked outside, damaging three others but no casualties were reported. No group claimed responsibility.
03/08/2009: On Sunday, at about midnight, in Athens, Attiki, Greece, assailants threw incendiary devices at an office for a Greek employment organization, a labor inspection bureau, and a Sprider sporting goods store, causing damage to the buildings but no casualties were reported. No group claimed responsibility.
05/18/2009: On Monday night at about 0100, in the Paleo Faliro area of Athens, Attiki, Greece, assailants set fire to a police motorcycle, destroying the motorcycle but causing no casualties. No motive for the attack was reported and no group claimed responsibility.
02/19/2009:  On Thursday,  in Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece assailants ignited incendiary devices outside a Peugeot automobile dealership.  No casualties or damage was reported in the incident.  No claim of responsibility was reported.
02/17/2009:  On Tuesday,  in Crete, Greece, assailants ignited an incendiary device at the office of a tour operator.  No casualties were reported in the incident although minor damage was caused to the office. No claim of responsibility was reported.
05/05/2009: On Tuesday morning, in Irakleion, Crete, Greece, assailants ignited incendiary devices outside a National Bank of Greece branch, damaging the bank. No casualties or motive for the attack was reported and no group has claimed responsibility.
04/11/2009: On Saturday night at 0415, in the Kallithea District of Athens, Greece, a bomb exploded outside an office building. The blast broke windows and the marble masonry at the building; no casualties were reported. No one has claimed responsibility for the attacks.
02/11/2008: On Wednesday, in Athens, Greece, Professor Panousis' office, of the University of Athens, became the target of an arson attack, damaging his office. No group claimed responsibility.
12/08/2009: On Tuesday in the night, in Toumba district, Thessaloniki, Greece, assailants threw Molotov cocktails at a New Democracy (ND) party office, damaging the facility but causing no injuries. No group claimed responsibility.
07/11/2009: On Saturday night at about 0400, in the Palaion Faliron area of Athens, Attiki, Greece, an improvised explosive device rigged with a timer, detonated in front of the residence belonging to the former deputy Greek police minister, damaging a building and three nearby vehicles but causing no casualties. About 30 minutes before the attack, police received an anonymous telephone tip about the bomb, allowing the police to evacuate the area. No motive for the attack was reported and the group Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei was responsible.
07/28/2009: On Tuesday morning, in one of six related attacks, in Athens, Attiki, Greece, assailants firebombed and threw an incendiary device at a New Democracy party office in Kaminia. They also threw incendiary devices at three other offices in Koukaki, Drapetsona, and Khalandri, causing minor damage but no casualties. Assailants also firebombed and threw incendiary devices at three Panhellenic Socialist Movement offices in Votanikos and Goudi, causing minor damage but no casualties. All attacks occurred within 30 minutes of one another. Illuminating Paths of Solidarity claimed responsibility.
06/04/2009: On Thursday, in the early morning, in the Paleo Faliro area of Athens, Attiki, Greece, assailants used home-made incendiary devices comprising of small propane canisters to attack the Millennium Bank, causing minor damage to the bank and no injuries. This incident was part of a series of three linked attacks that targeted banks around Athens. No group claimed responsibility.
11/16/2009: On Monday, in Athens, Attiki, Greece, assailants set fire to vehicles, destroying six cars and three motorcycles but causing no casualties. No group claimed responsibility.
07/09/2009: On Thursday night at about 0405, in one of two related attacks, assailants firebombed the Holargos municipal police building, causing damages but no injuries. No group claimed responsibility.
06/05/2009: On Friday night at approximately 0300, in Psychico north of Athens, Greece, an improvised explosive device exploded outside the Tax Bureau office on Kifissias Avenue, causing minor damage to the government office but no injuries. Armed Revolutionary Action claimed responsibility.
02/19/2009: On Thursday morning in Xanthi, Greece, assailants threw an incendiary device at National Bank of Greece branch. No casualties were reported in the incident although office equipment was damaged in the bank. No claim of responsibility was reported.
05/19/2009: On Tuesday night at 0435, in the Stavroupolis area of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece, an incendiary device made with a timing mechanism and large gas canister exploded in a police station under construction, causing minor damage but no casualties. No motive for the attack was reported and the Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei claimed responsibility
02/18/2009: On Wednesday at 0430, assailants drove a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device into the central entrance to the Greek headquarters of Citibank. The incident took place on Trizianias Street, in the Kifisia area of Athens, Attiki, Greece. One door lock was damaged in the incident. No casualties were reported in the incident. Revolutionary Struggle claimed responsibility for the incident.
01/07/2009: On Wednesday, in the Kholargos suburb of Athens, Attiki, Greece, assailants detonated a firebomb outside a Starbucks cafe, causing minor damage to the cafe. No casualties or motive were reported and no group claimed responsibility.
08/26/2009: On Wednesday morning, in the Ano Poli, Thessaloniki, Greece, assailants used a gas canister to firebomb a vehicle belonging to the Alumil Company, damaging the vehicle but causing no casualties. No motive for the attack was reported and no group claimed responsibility. This is one of three related attacks.
11/20/2009: On Friday morning, in Nea Ionia, Athens, Attiki, Greece, assailants threw firebombs at a city police building, damaging the police building, a nearby city government building, and two parked vehicles but causing no casualties. No group claimed responsibility
03/09/2009: On Monday, at about 0300, in Psikhikon, Attiki, Greece, assailants planted an improvised explosive device behind a Citibank branch on the corner of Lavrion and Kapodhistriou streets and detonated it, causing damage to the bank and two nearby vehicles but no casualties were reported. Revolutionary Struggle claimed responsibility.
10/30/2009: On Friday morning, in Athens, Attiki, Greece, a timed bomb targeted the home of the former Minister of Education and current European Parliament member, damaging a building and one car but no casualties. Twenty minutes before the explosion calls were made to Eleftherotypia newspaper and Alter TV channel warning of the bomb. The motive for the attack was to disrupt the European Union legislatures. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
12/18/2009: On Friday at around 0200, in Athens, Attiki, Greece, assailants set fire to and firebombed Socialist Party (PASOK) offices in several locations, damaging six offices but causing no injuries. An anarchist group claimed responsibility.
02/04/2009: On Wednesday, in Athens, Attiki, Greece, assailants threw incendiary devices at a police station, causing minor damage. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility.
03/31/2009: On Tuesday night at around 0100 in Athens, Attiki, Greece, assailants firebombed a Piraeus Bank branch, causing minor damage but no causalities were reported. No group claimed responsibility.
11/13/2009: On Friday afternoon at about 1400, in Athens, Attiki, Greece, an improvised explosive device exploded outside the residence of a Greek Member of Parliament, damaging the residence but causing no casualties. The Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei claimed responsibility.
03/31/2009: On Tuesday night at around 0100, assailants firebombed a vehicle in the Pagrati area of Athens, Attiki, Greece. The attack caused minor damage to the vehicle and blowing out the windows of two nearby buildings. There were no reports of casualties and no group claimed responsibility.
05/17/2009: On Sunday morning, in Athens, Attiki, Greece, assailants firebombed a Skoda car dealership, destroying seven vehicles and causing minor damage to the dealership but no casualties. No motive for the attack was reported and no group has claimed responsibility.
03/31/2009: On Tuesday night around 0100, in Athens, Attiki, Greece, assailants firebombed a post office in Omonia Square, causing minor damage but no causalities were reported. No group claimed responsibility.
03/18/2009: On Wednesday night in Athens, Greece, a bomb made from small gas cylinders exploded in front of the office of Kyriakos Mitsotakis, current foreign minister of Greece. The bomb caused minor damage. Revolutionary Liberation Action claimed responsibility by placing a phone call to a private radio station.
07/28/2009: On Tuesday morning, in one of six related attacks, in Athens, Attiki, Greece, assailants firebombed and threw an incendiary device at a New Democracy party office in Khalandri. They also threw incendiary devices at three other offices in Kaminia, Drapetsona, and Koukaki, causing minor damage but no casualties. Assailants also firebombed and threw incendiary devices at three Panhellenic Socialist Movement offices in Votanikos and Goudi, causing minor damage but no casualties. All attacks occurred within 30 minutes of one another. Illuminating Paths of Solidarity claimed responsibility.
03/03/2009: On Tuesday, at about 0100, in Kifissia area of Athens, Attiki, Greece, assailants used gasoline and incendiary devices to set fire to an Athens Piraeus Electric Railway train at the Kifissia Train Station, causing major damage to eight train carriages, but no casualties were reported. Revolutionary Nuclei and Gangs of Conscience-Perama Extremists claimed responsibility.
03/31/2009: On Tuesday night at around 0100 in Athens, Attiki, Greece, assailants firebombed a Eurobank branch, causing minor damage but no causalities were reported. No group claimed responsibility.
09/02/2009: On Wednesday night at 0456, in one of two related attacks, in Thessaloniki, Macedonia, Greece, assailants detonated a bomb hidden in a telephone booth outside the provincial ministry for Macedonia caused no casualties but damaged the building. The attack was preceded by anonymous warning calls to the newspaper Eleftherotypia about 40 minutes before the attack, but no motive was reported. No group claimed responsibility but police suspected a far-left militant group called ‘Revolutionary Struggle’ to be responsible for the attack. This is one of two related attacks.
03/31/2009: On Tuesday night around 0100 in Athens, Attiki, Greece, assailants firebombed a National Bank branch, causing minor damage but no causalities were reported. No group claimed responsibility.
07/28/2009: On Tuesday morning, in one of six related attacks, in Athens, Attiki, Greece, assailants firebombed and threw incendiary devices at three Panhellenic Socialist Movement offices in Votanikos and Goudi, causing minor damage but no casualties. Assailants also firebombed and threw incendiary devices at four New Democracy party offices in Koukaki, Kaminia, Drapetsona, and Khalandri, causing minor damage but no casualties. All attacks occurred within 30 minutes of one another. Illuminating Paths of Solidarity claimed responsibility.
03/31/2009: On Tuesday night around 0100 in Athens, Attiki, Greece, assailants firebombed a Eurobank branch on Messogian Avenue, causing minor damage but no causalities were reported. No group claimed responsibility.
12/27/2009: On Sunday night, at 2301, the Ethniki Asfalistiki National Insurance building was targeted by a bomb central Athens, Greece. The bomb went off after an unknown caller told newspaper Eleftherotypia about the bomb at around 2246. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
07/27/2009: On Monday, in Athens, Attiki, Greece, assailants firebombed the office belonging to a Member of Parliament in the Popular Orthodox Party, causing minor damage but no casualties. Zero Tolerance claimed responsibility.
03/20/2010: On Saturday morning, in the Patissia district of Athens, Attiki, Greece, a bomb exploded outside the home of Anuar Ikmar, the chairman of the Greek-Pakistan friendship association. The explosion damaged the home and a parked vehicle but caused no casualties. Twenty minutes before the explosion, an unidentified caller phoned a local newspaper and television station to warn of the blast. The Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire (Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei) claimed responsibility.
11/02/2010: On Tuesday, in the cargo area of Athens International Airport in Athens, Greece, Greece, two improvised explosive devices were destroyed by police after they were discovered in packages. The packages were addressed to the European Union's highest court in Luxembourg and to the Europol Law Enforcement Agency in the Netherlands. There were no casualties or damages and the Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei claimed responsibility for the attempted bombings. Thirteen of the group's members were arrested in connection with the attacks.
03/28/2010: On Sunday night at 2240, in the Patissia district of Athens, Attiki, Greece, an improvised explosive device exploded outside a public building at the intersection of Iakovaton and F. Politou Street, killing one child and injuring one child and one civilian. It is unknown if the attack caused any property damage. Rebellious Group Lambros Foundas claimed responsibility, although police suspected they were not responsible.
11/02/2010: On Tuesday, in Athens, Greece, Greece, in one of 13 related attacks, an improvised explosive device in a package was sent to the Chilean embassy in Athens. The package was turned away by the Chilean Embassy and was detonated outside the building. There were no casualties or damages and the Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei claimed responsibility for the attempted bombing. Thirteen of the group's members were arrested in connection with the attacks.
03/27/2010: On Saturday night at 0215, in the Aegaleo district of Athens, Attiki, Greece, an improvised explosive device comprised of gas canisters exploded outside the entrance to the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) political party office. The facility was damaged but there were no casualties. The Revolutionary Liberation Action claimed responsibility.
03/19/2010: On Friday morning at 0846, in Omonia Square of downtown Athens, Attiki, Greece, unidentified assailants detonated an improvised explosive device (IED) at the offices of Golden Dawn, an ultra-right youth organization. An anonymous caller telephoned Eleftherotypia newspaper and warned of the explosion 22 minutes before the IED detonated. The office and several nearby buildings were damaged but there were no casualties. Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/01/2010: On Thursday night, in Crete, Greece, a bomb was placed on the stairs of the Arkalhori village hall, but was defused by authorities. The bomb consisted of 10 liter barrel filled with stones, 5.5 kilograms of explosives from old shells, two common detonators with slow-burning fuses and a digital watch battery. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility.
04/14/2010: On Wednesday, in Thessaloniki, Greece, a home-made explosive device made of gas containers exploded at the entrance of the political offices of Ecologists-Greens Europarliament deputy Michalis Tremopoulos causing material damage. This attack was one of four related attacks in a series of linked incidents that targeted politicians and a shipping firm in Salonika. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility.
04/14/2010: On Wednesday, in Thessaloniki, Greece, a small homemade explosive device made of gas containers exploded in front of the office of a far-right legislator, MP Kyriakos Vellopoulos, causing material damage. This attack was one of four related attacks in a series of linked incidents that targeted politicians and a shipping firm in Salonika. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility.
01/29/2010: On Friday in the early morning at 0435, in Kalamaria, Greece, firefighters quickly put out a fire targeting several cars before it spread to a fast food outlet. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility.
11/01/2010: On Monday, in Athens, Greece, Greece, in one of 13 related attacks, an improvised explosive device in a package addressed to the Dutch embassy was discovered and destroyed in a controlled explosion before it could detonate. There were no casualties or damages and the Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei claimed responsibility for the attempted bombing. Thirteen of the group's members were arrested in connection with the attacks.
02/16/2010: On Tuesday evening at 1950, in the Kolonaki district of central Athens, Greece, a time-bomb exploded outside a JP Morgan bank. Shortly before the bombing, a local newspaper received a warning call and in turn immediately informed the police. The area was then cordoned off and ambulances and fire engines were put on standby. Damages included the door, furniture, bank computers and some windows. No casualties were reported. Revolutionary Continuity claimed responsibility, although authorities believed anarchist groups Revolutionary Struggle or Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei were responsible for the attack.
04/14/2010: On Wednesday, in Athens, Greece, a bomb made of gas containers exploded in front of the offices of a Socialist deputy causing only minor damage. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility.
05/14/2010: On Friday afternoon, in Thessaloniki, Greece, a bomb exploded inside a bathroom in the main court building injuring, injuring one court employee, Manolis Lampsidis, head of the local bar association, and damaging the courthouse. Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei claimed responsibility.
11/01/2010: On Monday, in Athens, Greece, Greece, in one of 13 related attacks, an employee of a civilian courier company was injured when an improvised explosive device that was hidden inside a package exploded. The package was addressed to the Mexican embassy in Athens. Several other parcel bombs were found addressed to other embassies in Athens earlier in the day. No damage was reported and the Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei claimed responsibility for the bombing. Thirteen of the group's members were arrested in connection with the attacks.
12/30/2010: On Thursday morning around 0821, in the Panormos area of central Athens, Greece, Greece, a bomb placed on a motorbike exploded outside a courthouse. The blast damaged two administrative court buildings, shattered windows, damaged cars, and sent up a cloud of smoke that was visible across the city. The explosion occurred after an anonymous phone call warning. Two men in police uniforms were seen pulling up near the court building on a scooter around 0630. No casualties were reported and the militant group Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei claimed responsibility for the attack.
02/17/2010: On Wednesday, in the Peristeri district of Athens, Greece, security police bomb disposal experts neutralized a time bomb that was hidden in a package with a series of controlled explosions. The bomb was planted outside the political office of the Greek Citizens Protection minister, Michalis Chryssohoidis, who is in charge of police. The building was seriously damaged along with several shops across the street, where glass was shattered by the explosion. No casualties occurred as police had cordoned off the street block. Popular Will claimed responsibility for planting the bomb.
05/13/2010: On Thursday night at about 2215, in Athens, Greece, a bomb exploded at the Korydallos Prison, injuring one civilian woman and damaging the prison, a nearby apartment building and several retail shops. The bomb contained 26 pounds of explosive and was detonated by a timer. Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei claimed responsibility.
11/02/2010: On Tuesday, in Athens, Greece, Greece, in one of 13 related attacks, an improvised explosive device (IED) in the mail was intercepted at the Russian Embassy in Athens. The IED was discovered and detonated in a controlled blast by authorities. There were no casualties or damages and the Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei claimed responsibility for the attempted bombing. Thirteen of the group's members were arrested in connection with the attacks.
11/01/2010: On Monday, in Athens, Greece, Greece, in one of 13 related attacks, an improvised explosive device in a package addressed to the French President, Nicolas Sarkozy, was discovered and destroyed in a controlled explosion before it could detonate. There were no casualties or damages and the Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei claimed responsibility for the attempted bombing. Thirteen of the group's members were arrested in connection with the attacks.
09/18/2010: On Saturday morning at 0830, in Chania, Crete, Greece, unknown assailants planted an improvised explosive device (IED) concealed inside a suspicious looking package at the entrance to a cafeteria. A telephone call alerted police, who safely defused the IED, preventing any casualties or damages from taking place. No group claimed responsibility.
01/29/2010: On Friday in the early morning between 0240 and 0245, in Thessaloniki, Greece, an unknown number of high-end cars parked in different parts of the city were set ablaze. No group claimed responsibility.
06/28/2010: On Monday morning, in one of three related attacks targeting residences in Thessaloniki, Greece, a home-made explosive device comprised of small propane canisters exploded outside the private residence of former president of the Macedonia-Thrace Union of Journalists, Dimitris Goussidis, in downtown Thessaloniki. The blast caused only minor material damage, according to the Fire Brigade and resulted in no casualties. Groups for Dissemination of Revolutionary Theory and Action claimed responsibility.
01/29/2010: On Friday in the early morning, in the district of Nea Smyrni, Athens, Greece, the vehicles of two United Nations diplomats were set on fire when they were doused with flammable liquid. The attack was carried by suspected anarchist militants. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
03/18/2010: On Thursday morning, in the Exarchia district of Athens, Attiki, Greece, a home-made incendiary device exploded outside the entrance of a Culture Ministry branch. There were no casualties but the facility was damaged. No group claimed responsibility for the attack, although anarchists were suspected to be responsible.
01/28/2010: On Thursday afternoon, in central Athens, Greece, Costas Simitis, former Greek Prime Minister, was targeted by a fire bomb which was placed outside his office. The bomb was made from four gas canisters and spread fire when it exploded causing damage to the office building. No casualties were reported in the attack. Revolutionary Liberation Action claimed responsibility for the attack with a phone call to the private television network SKAI.
11/02/2010: On Tuesday, in Athens, Greece, Greece, in one of 13 related attacks, an improvised explosive device (IED) was mailed to the Bulgarian embassy in Athens. The IED was discovered and detonated in a controlled blast by authorities. There were no casualties or damages and the Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei claimed responsibility for the attempted bombing. Thirteen of the group's members were arrested in connection with the attacks.
11/01/2010: On Monday, in Athens, Greece, Greece, in one of 13 related attacks, an improvised explosive device in a package addressed to the Belgian embassy was discovered and destroyed in a controlled explosion before it could detonate. There were no casualties or damages and the Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei claimed responsibility for the attempted bombing. Thirteen of the group's members were arrested in connection with the attacks.
06/20/2010: On Sunday night at 0345, in Thessaloniki, Greece, a team of MAT riot police were attacked by a group of unknown individuals with Molotov cocktails in front of the Sport Museum. The assailants threw the Molotov cocktails at the police before fleeing, causing no casualties or damages. No group claimed responsibility.
11/04/2010: On Thursday, in Athens, Greece, Greece, in one of thirteen related attacks, an improvised explosive device in a package addressed to the French embassy was discovered and later destroyed by bomb disposal experts in a controlled explosion. There were no casualties or damages and the Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei claimed responsibility for the attempted bombing. Thirteen of the group's members were arrested in connection with the attacks.
03/13/2010: On Saturday night, in the Kolonos district of Athens, Attiki, Greece, unknown assailants assaulted and killed a Pakistani embassy staff member. Police found the man's body, which displayed serious stabbing wounds. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
03/25/2010: On Thursday in the early morning, in Athens, Attiki, Greece, a group of around 15 masked assailants threw five Molotov cocktails at the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) political party office and at Riot Control police guarding the office. Four of the five Molotov cocktails exploded but caused no damage or casualties. No group claimed responsibility for the attack, although anarchists were suspected to be responsible.
05/02/2010: On Sunday, in Athens, Greece, a bomb exploded at a branch of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation bank, damaging the bank but causing no casualties. The home-made bomb was comprised of gas canisters and fuel. No group claimed responsibility, but it was widely believed that anarchists were responsible.
11/02/2010: On Tuesday, in Athens, Greece, Greece, in one of 13 related attacks, an improvised explosive device (IED) hidden inside a package exploded at the Swiss embassy. The IED was left at the entrance to the embassy and burst into flames while it was being checked by staff. There were no casualties or damages and the Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei claimed responsibility for the attempted bombing. Thirteen of the group's members were arrested in connection with the attacks.
07/19/2010: On Monday morning at 0525, in the Llioupoli area of Athens, Greece, unidentified gunmen armed with nine millimeter pistols shot and killed an investigative journalist, Sokratis Giolias, outside his residence. He was shot 15 times by three gunmen dressed as security personnel reporting someone had stolen his car. No damage was reported and no group claimed responsibility, but it was believed that the Sect of Revolutionaries was responsible.
01/28/2010: On Thursday night, in the district of Exarchia in Athens, Greece, an unspecified company truck was set ablaze and slightly damaged. Two propane canisters were found intact at the scene. No group claimed responsibility.
04/14/2010: On Wednesday, in Thessaloniki, Greece, a bomb was placed in front of the offices of a conservative member of parliament, but was defused by authorities. This attack was one of four related attacks that targeted politicians and a shipping firm in Salonika. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility.
01/29/2010: On Friday, in the Nea Smyrni area of Athens, Greece, a group of around ten unidentified individuals broke the glass facade of the local offices of main opposition New Democracy party and set them on fire using flammable liquid. The offices suffered minor damage and no group claimed responsibility.
08/12/2010: On Thursday night around 0400, in Thessaloniki, Greece, three unidentified men threw three Molotov cocktails at the Turkish Consulate General and police guarding it. No casualties or damages were reported and no group claimed responsibility.
02/26/2010: On Friday evening at 2049, in Athens, Attiki, Greece, an incendiary device comprised of four gas canisters exploded at the political office of PASOK party deputy Pemy Zouni, located on the fifth floor of a building on Voulis street. The political party office suffered light material damage from the fire which caused no casualties. Zero Tolerance claimed responsibility.
11/02/2010: On Tuesday, in Athens, Greece, Greece, in one of 13 related attacks, an improvised explosive device (IED) was sent to the German embassy in Athens. The IED was discovered and detonated in a controlled blast by authorities. There were no casualties or damages and the Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei claimed responsibility for the attempted bombing. Thirteen of the group's members were arrested in connection with the attacks.
01/09/2010: On Saturday evening at 2000, in Athens, Greece, a timed explosive device went off outside the Greek Parliament building, causing no injuries and only minor damage. The explosion was preceded by a phone call to the Eleftherotypia newspaper warning of the blast which occurred 17 minutes later. Police evacuated the area around the site where passers-by normally stroll close to the monument of the Fallen Soldiers guarded by the presidential Evzones guards. The device which was fitted with a timer was hidden in a garbage bin a few yards from an Evzones sentry box. Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire and Terrorists Guerrilla Group claimed joint responsibility.
06/24/2010: On Thursday evening at 2015, in Athens, Greece, an improvised explosive device disguised as a gift, detonated at the offices of the Ministry of Citizen Protection, killing Giorgos Vassilakis, 52, head of the minister's security team and damaging the building. No group claimed responsibility, although Revolutionary Struggle was suspected.
05/24/2010: On Monday in the early morning, in front of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, in Thessaloniki, Greece, unknown assailants threw Molotov cocktails at police officers, damaging several parked vehicles but causing no casualties. No group claimed responsibility.
02/28/2010: On Sunday night at 0246, in Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece, an incendiary device comprised of three gas canisters exploded at a Millennium Bank branch, causing minor damage to the glass exterior of the bank but causing no casualties. Only one of the three canisters exploded in the attack. No group claimed responsibility, although anarchists were suspected to be responsible.
04/14/2010: On Wednesday, in Thessaloniki, Greece, a bomb was placed in front of a shipping firm, SAOS, but authorities neutralized it causing no damages. This attack was one of four related attacks that also targeted politicians in Salonika. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility.
09/30/2010: On Thursday morning, in Chania, Crete, Greece, unidentified assailants set fire to one vehicle belonging to the Souda Bay Naval Station. The attack destroyed the vehicle but caused no casualties. No group claimed responsibility.
04/02/2010: On Friday morning, in Kaminia, Crete, Greece, a bomb placed at the entrance of a building that housed the offices of the Spiritual and Cultural Association of Arab Solidarity and Peace exploded causing minor damage. Police recovered a gas canister and the remains of a plastic container that had petrol. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility.
03/20/2010: On Saturday afternoon at 1558, in Athens, Attiki, Greece, an improvised explosive device (IED) exploded at a bus station next to the wall of the Attiki Foreign Nationals-Migrants Directorate, damaging the immigration facility and the bus station but causing no casualties. An unidentified caller phoned a local newspaper and television station warning of the imminent explosion, while also reportedly providing information on the exact spot where the IED was planted. The Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire (Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei) claimed responsibility.
01/12/2011: On Wednesday, in Thessaloniki, in Greece, Greece, in one of two related attacks, unidentified militants detonated unknown explosives at the office of the Union for Retired Policemen, injuring one person and damaging the building. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
05/14/2011: On Saturday, in Athens, Greece, 25 hooded individuals threw two Molotov cocktails at a police station in the central Exarchia district. The attack damaged a police car and two other vehicles as well as a motorcycle and caused an unknown amount of damage to the building. The individuals then fled down the street and confronted two police officers and knocked them off their bike and set it on fire. The gas tank on the bike exploded, injuring three bystanders at an open air market. The attacks were believed to be used to provoke social unrest. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
12/13/2011: An explosive device made of gas canisters exploded outside of the office of Greek Justice Minister Miltiadis Papaioannou in Athens, Attica, Greece. It is suspected that anarchists may be responsible. No claim of responsibility has been made.
11/29/2011: Unidentified assailants threw a incendiary device into a tax office in the Glyfada area of Athens, Attica region, Greece. The attack, which occurred in the early morning before the office was open, caused damages but no injuries. No group claimed responsibility for the incident and specific motive is unknown; however, the device was similar to ones used by anarchists.
04/19/2011: On Tuesday night around 0300, in Corfu, Ionian Islands, Greece, a Jewish synagogue was set on fire after an unknown number of individuals broke in and spread gasoline throughout the building, while setting holy books on fire. An unknown amount of property damage was done to the building, but at least 30 books were destroyed. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility for the act.
03/23/2011: On Wednesday, in Athens, Greece, Greece, suspected militants planted an improvised explosive device near the entrance of the Central Tax Office. An unidentified individual then placed a call to local media outlets warning of a device at the office. The media then warned police, who responded and disarmed the device. No group has claimed responsibility for the device.
01/12/2011: On Wednesday, in Thessaloniki, in Greece, Greece, in one of two related attacks, unidentified militants detonated unknown explosives at the office of Greek lawmaker Aggelos Kolokotronis, a member of the Right Popular Orthodox Party. One female employee was injured. It is unknown if the attack caused any property damage. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
03/31/2011: On Thursday, in Athens, Greece, unidentified militants sent a padded envelope addressed to the governor of Korydallos prison, where alleged members of an armed militant group are on trial. Police discovered an improvised explosive device inside of the package and safely defused it, causing no casualties or damages. No group claimed responsibility for this incident.
02/02/2011: On Wednesday, at the Ministry of Justice building in Athens, Greece, Greece, a parcel improvised explosive device (IED) was discovered. The parcel IED was addressed to a Justice that served at the location, but was found by security personnel during a regular security check. Greek police responded and used a controlled explosion to make the IED safe before it could detonate. Further examination revealed that the package contained some type of explosive, a battery, and some wires in a setup similar to the parcel bombs sent throughout Greece and Europe in November 2010. No casualties were reported and no group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
10/12/2011: On Wednesday night around 0408, in the commercial center of the Glyfada suburb in Athens, Greece, a bomb planted by an unidentified assailant detonated. Dozens of shops along the main street of the commercial center were destroyed and the windows of apartments all the way up to the third story were blown out. No casualties occurred and no group claimed responsibility, however the Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei was suspected.
11/14/2011: An incendiary device exploded outside of the officer of junior minister Mariliza Xenogiannakopoulou in Greece. The device, consisting of gas canisters, caused minor damage and no reported injuries. No group claimed responsibility for the incident and specific motive is unknown.
09/02/2012: An explosive device detonated outside the entrance of a police station in the Kypseli district of Athens city, Attica region, Greece. No one was injured in the attack; however, a small amount of material damage was reported. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/03/2012: An explosive device detonated outside the office of the former prime minister in Athens city, Attica region, Greece. The former minister, Costas Simitis, was not injured; however, the building was slightly damaged in the explosion. No group claimed responsibility for this attack.
01/11/2012: An explosive device exploded under an empty car in Agios Dimitrios neighborhood, Athens city, Attica region, Greece. The car belonged to the wife of the head of Greece's fire and rescue services. No group claimed responsibility for the attack; however, anarchist groups aiming to destroy "the system" often carry out similar incidents.
06/17/2012: Approximately 10 assailants attacked a polling station in Exarcheia area, Athens city, Attica region, Greece. The attackers, armed with hammers and bats, injured two police officers and set the ballot box on fire. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/14/2012: An explosive device detonated outside a Eurobank branch in Athens city, Attica region, Greece. There were no casualties reported, but the building was damaged in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
02/25/2012: An explosive device was found under a seat in a subway train and defused at Egaleo train station, Athens city, Attica region, Greece. The Urban Guerrilla War claimed responsibility for the attack. The February 12 Movement also claimed responsibility, stating that they targeted the train to protest transportation costs and other austerity measures.
06/17/2012: Two hand grenades were discovered at the Skai Media Group Office in Neo Faliro district, Attica region, Greece. Employees at the media office received a telephone call alerting them to the presence of the devices. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
03/24/2012: Assailants started a fire outside the home of Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) member of parliament (MP) Sofia Giannaka in Agrinio, Western Greece, Greece. No one was injured and nothing was damaged in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
10/08/2012: Assailants threw multiple incendiary devices into two tram cars in Piraeus town, Attica region, Greece. One person was injured and both cars damaged in the fire. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
06/27/2012: Assailants rammed a vehicle laden with flammable liquids into Microsoft's Greek headquarters in the Marousi suburb of Athens city, Attica region, Greece. There were no reported casualties; however, the fire caused damages. The International Revolutionary Front claimed responsibility for the incident, stating that they targeted the Microsoft offices in order to strike a blow against capitalism and show support for imprisoned anarchists in Greece and Italy.
12/07/2012: An explosive device detonated outside of Giannis Papantoniou's residence in Athens city, Attica region, Greece. Papantoniou, the former Greek finance minister, was unharmed; however, two vehicles were damaged in the blast. According to an online statement, Militant Minority claimed responsibility for the incident, stating that they targeted Giannis Papantoniou because he was a former member of the government and corrupt.
03/24/2012: An explosive device made from gas canisters detonated outside the Information Society Department building in Hymettus area, Athens city, Attica region, Greece. No one was injured in the blast; however, minor damage was caused to the building. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/09/2012: An explosive device detonated outside the Administrative Reform Ministry building in Athens city, Attica region, Greece. There were no casualties, but the building was damaged in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
03/09/2012: Assailants threw a grenade at a Eurobank in Athens, Attica region, Greece. The bank building was slightly damaged. No group claimed responsibility for this attack.
11/26/2012: Assailants planted four rigged gas canisters outside of a house belonging to Maria Kaltsa, a former ministry official, in Psychiko area of Athens city, Attica region, Greece. There were no reported injuries in the blast, although the house was damaged. A group calling itself Militant Minority claimed responsibility for the incident.
08/31/2012: An explosive device detonated as an assailant attempted to plant it under a vehicle in Sparta city, Peloponnese region, Greece. The assailant was injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
05/14/2012: An explosive device detonated outside of a tax office in Marousi city, near Athens city, Attica region, Greece. No one was injured, but property was damaged in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
11/22/2012: An explosive device detonated outside of a criminal prosecutor's house in Chalandri neighborhood, Athens city, Attica region, Greece. There were no reported casualties; however, the house and at least two cars were damaged in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
09/29/2012: Assailants threw Molotov cocktails at a police precinct in Athens city, Attica region, Greece. No one was injured in the attack; however, two motorcycles and four cars caught on fire. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
02/29/2012: An explosive device detonated near a shipping supply company in Kaminia district, Parieus city, Attica region, Greece. There were no casualties, but surrounding buildings were damaged. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
08/28/2012: An explosive device detonated at a National Bank of Greece automated teller machine (ATM) in Athens city, Attica region, Greece. There were no reported casualties; however, nearby buildings and vehicles were damaged in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
12/04/2012: An explosive device detonated at the office of Golden Dawn, a Greek neo-Nazi political group, in Aspropyrgos district, Athens city, Attica region, Greece. There were no reported casualties; however, the office and surrounding buildings were damaged in the blast. According to an online statement, the Informal Anarchist Federation claimed responsibility for the attack, stating that they targeted the Golden Dawn party offices because they wanted to attack them first before Golden Dawn attacked them.
03/12/2013: Three homemade explosive devices hidden in gas canisters detonated outside of the office of New Democracy lawmaker, Kostas Gioulekas, in Thessaloniki, Central Macedonia, Greece. There were no reported injures from the blasts; however, the office and nearby property were damaged in the incident. This was one of three attacks on the offices of conservative members of parliament on this day in this location. In a statement released to the media, an anarchist group calling itself the "Overall Deniers of Joining the Existing" claimed responsibility for the attack and criticized the government's stance on controversial gold mining issues in the northern part of the country.
12/13/2013: An explosive device detonated at Kostas Simitis' summer residence in Corinth city, Peloponnese region, Greece. Simitis, the former Prime Minister, was not home at the time of the attack, and no injuries were reported. However, the home was damaged. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
07/20/2013: An explosive device detonated at an apartment building in Larissa city, Thessaly region, Greece. The blast targeted the apartment of a public prosecutor, but there were no reported casualties. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
07/12/2013: Assailants threw firebombs at a Myrmigi community center in Kypseli area, Athens city, Attica region, Greece. No one was injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
12/13/2013: Assailants attacked a police station with firebombs in Athens city, Attica region, Greece. No casualties were reported, but several cars were damaged. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
03/12/2013: Three homemade explosive devices hidden in gas canisters detonated outside of the office of Deputy Environment Minister, Stavros Kalafatis, in Thessaloniki, Central Macedonia Region, Greece. There were no reported injuries from the blasts; however, the office and nearby property were damaged in the incident. This was one of three attacks on the offices of conservative members of parliament on this day in this location. In a statement released to the media, an anarchist group calling itself the "Overall Deniers of Joining the Existing" claimed responsibility for the attack and criticized Kalafatis' stance on controversial gold mining issues in the northern part of the country.
03/28/2013: Assailants threw two petrol bombs at a Bank of Cyprus branch in Volos, Thessaly, Greece. No injuries were reported, but two Automatic Teller Machines (ATM) were damaged. No groups claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/15/2013: A hand grenade detonated in the Galatsi area of Athens city, Attica region, Greece. There were no reported injuries; however, one car and two motorcycles were damaged in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
08/18/2013: Authorities discovered and disposed of 13 explosive devices inside Aristotle University in Thessaloniki city, Central Macedonia administrative region, Greece. No casualties were reported, and no group claimed responsibility for the attack.
06/12/2013: An explosive device detonated near the car of a Nafplio prison correctional officer in Argos city, Peloponnese region, Greece. No one was injured in the blast; however, several cars and buildings sustained property damage. The "Informal Anarchist Federation (FAI) - International Conspiracy for Revenge" claimed responsibility for the incident.
09/26/2013: Assailants attacked the office of Proto Thema newspaper in the Agrafon area of Marousi city, Attica region, Greece. There were no reported casualties; however, the office was damaged. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
03/10/2013: An explosive device made from gas canisters detonated at a Swift Mail courier firm in Athens city, Attica region, Greece. The building and vehicles outside were damaged in the explosion. Two groups, the Informal Anarchist Federation and the International Revolutionary Front-Intact Revolutionary Cell, claimed responsibility for the attack. The groups said that they attacked the firm to punish its employees for helping the government capture members of their organizations.
02/21/2013: Approximately 30 masked assailants threw Molotov cocktails at a police station in the Exarchia neighborhood of Athens, Attica Region, Greece. There were no casualties reported; however, the police station and a patrol car were damaged. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
06/07/2013: An explosive device detonated under the car used by Maria Stefi, the Korydallos Prison chief, in Dafni area, Attica region, Greece. One passerby was injured by the shattering glass. Conspiracy of Cells of Fire claimed responsibility for the incident, saying it was in support of ten of their members imprisoned at Korydallos.
01/11/2013: An incendiary device detonated at journalist George Oikonomeas's former residence in Lykavittos district, Athens city, Attica region, Greece. There were no reported casualties resulting from the attack, although the building was damaged. This was one of five coordinated attacks targeting journalists in the city on the same night. Two groups, Militant Minority (Greece) and Circle of Violators/Nucleus Lovers of Anomy, claimed responsibility for the incidents.
07/06/2013: An explosive device detonated outside the office of Fevronia Patrianakou, the deputy of the New Democracy (ND) political party, in Athens city, Attica region, Greece. There were no reported casualties, but the building was slightly damaged. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
09/01/2013: Assailants sent a letter containing an explosive device to a judicial official in Holargos area, Athens city, Attica region, Greece. The targeted official specialized in terrorism cases. There were no reported casualties or damages resulting from the blast. The Conspiracy of Cells of Fire claimed responsibility for sending an explosive device to a judicial official, stating that the attack was revenge for the arrest of two people accused of sending another letter bomb. The group also stated that the attack was part of their "efforts to revive urban guerrilla war."
01/11/2013: An incendiary device detonated at Chris Konstas's private residence in Maroussi district, Athens city, Attica region, Greece. Konstas, a journalist, was not injured in the attack, although the building was damaged. This was one of five coordinated attacks targeting journalists in the city on the same night. Two groups, Militant Minority (Greece) and Circle of Violators/Nucleus Lovers of Anomy, claimed responsibility for the incidents.
01/11/2013: An incendiary device detonated at Antonis Liaros's private residence in Agia Paraskevi district, Athens city, Attica region, Greece. Liaros, a journalist, was not injured in the attack, although the building was damaged. This was one of five coordinated attacks targeting journalists in the city on the same night. Two groups, Militant Minority (Greece) and Circle of Violators/Nucleus Lovers of Anomy, claimed responsibility for the incidents.
11/21/2013: Assailants set fire to a vehicle in Halandri neighborhood, Athens city, Attica region, Greece. The vehicle, which belonged to an employee of the Libyan Embassy, was destroyed by the fire. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
07/16/2013: A letter bomb was discovered and safely destroyed at the Judges and Prosecutors' Union in Evelpidon area, Athens city, Attica region, Greece. According to an online statement, the group Unsubordinated Desires, also known as Rebellious Desires, claimed responsibility for the incident, stating that they carried out the attack in order to support imprisoned anarchist Costas Sakkas.
07/04/2013: Assailants threw firebombs at the office of Member of Parliament Fevronia Patrianakou in Athens city, Attica region, Greece. Patrianakou, from the New Democracy (ND) party, was not injured in the attack. Zero Tolerance claimed responsibility for the incident, stating that they targeted Fevronia Patrianakou as part of their campaign to punish those who are contributing to the continuation of the Greek government.
08/17/2013: Authorities discovered and disposed of 20 firebombs inside Aristotle University in Thessaloniki city, Central Macedonia administrative region, Greece. No casualties were reported, and no group claimed responsibility for the attack.
01/11/2013: Assailants threw bricks and a petrol bomb at a Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) office in Athens city, Attica region, Greece. There were no reported casualties resulting from the attack, although the building was damaged. This was one of three related attacks targeting government buildings and people in the city on the same night. No group claimed responsibility for the incidents.
01/11/2013: An incendiary device detonated at Petros Karsiotis's private residence in Alimos district, Athens city, Attica region, Greece. Karsiotis, a journalist, was not injured in the attack, although the building was damaged. This was one of five coordinated attacks targeting journalists in the city on the same night. Two groups, Militant Minority (Greece) and Circle of Violators/Nucleus Lovers of Anomy, claimed responsibility for the incidents.
01/14/2013: Assailants opened fire on the headquarters of the ruling New Democracy party in Athens city, Attica region, Greece. There were no reported casualties resulting from the attack; however, one office was damaged. The Group of Popular Fighters claimed responsibility for the incident.
07/04/2013: Assailants detonated several explosive devices at a local government building in Kavala, Eastern Macedonia and Thrace, Greece. There were no reported casualties; however, several vehicles were damaged in the blasts. Detonators of Social Uprisings claimed responsibility for the incident, stating that they were acting in solidarity with an incarcerated anarchist, Costas Sakkas.
06/03/2013: An explosive device comprised of gas canisters detonated outside an Environment Ministry office in Athens city, Attica region, Greece. No one was injured in the blast. This was one of three coordinated attacks in Athens on this day. Proletariat Self-defense Groups claimed responsibility for the incident, stating that it was carried out in solidarity with residents who had been against local mining practices.
01/11/2013: Assailants threw a petrol bomb at a New Democracy Party office in Athens city, Attica region, Greece. There were no reported casualties resulting from the attack, although the building was damaged. This was one of three related attacks targeting government buildings and people in the city on the same night. No group claimed responsibility for the incidents.
12/27/2013: A firebomb was thrown through the window of the New Democracy party office in the Glyfada area of Athens city, Attica region, Greece. There were no reported injuries resulting from the attack; however, the office was damaged. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
07/10/2013: At least 80 assailants attacked a community center in Athens, Attica, Greece. There were no reported casualties in the incident. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the attack to Golden Dawn.
03/27/2013: An explosive device detonated outside of a home in Athens city, Attica Region, Greece. The home belonged to a Tsakos Ship Owning family member. There were no casualties reported. Epanastatiki Anatropi (Revolutionary Overthrow) claimed responsibility for this attack.
01/11/2013: Assailants threw a petrol bomb at a New Democracy Party office in Athens city, Attica region, Greece. There were no reported casualties resulting from the attack, although the building was damaged. This was one of three related attacks targeting government buildings and people in the city on the same night. No group claimed responsibility for the incidents.
01/11/2013: An incendiary device detonated at Antonis Skyllakos's private residence in Penteli district, Athens city, Attica region, Greece. Skyllakos, the director of the Athens News Agency, was not injured in the attack, although the building was damaged. This was one of five coordinated attacks targeting journalists in the city on the same night. Two groups, Militant Minority (Greece) and Circle of Violators/Nucleus Lovers of Anomy, claimed responsibility for the incidents.
04/16/2013: Assailants started a fire at a police station in Ierissos, Central Macedonia, Greece. The building and three vehicles were damaged in the attack. No group has claimed responsibility for the incident.
09/26/2013: An explosive device detonated outside of a tax office in the Kifissia area, Athens city, Attica region, Greece. There were no reported casualties; however, the building was damaged in the blast. The Powers of the Revolutionary Arc claimed responsibility for the attack and stated that it was carried out in retaliation for state action against the Golden Dawn.
02/17/2013: At least 30 assailants attacked Hellas Gold facilities at a prospective gold mine in Skouries area, Central Macedonia region, Greece. The assailants set fire to vehicles and equipment and doused security guards in gasoline; at least two guards were injured in the attack. One suspect was arrested the next day. Specific motive is unknown; however, local residents have expressed concern about the environmental impact of the mining operation.
02/13/2013: A small explosive device detonated outside the offices of the far right-wing Golden Dawn party in Piraeus, port of Athens, Attica region, Greece. The office was damaged; however, there were no reported injuries. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
08/30/2013: Assailants planted 12 explosive devices outside of the Attiki Square Cafeteria in Athens city, Attica region, Greece. Four of the devices detonated, but no casualties were reported. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
01/12/2013: Assailants threw an incendiary device at the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) office in Iraklio city, Crete region, Greece. There were no reported casualties resulting from the incident. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
09/18/2013: An assailant stabbed Pavlos Fyssas at a cafe in Athens, Attica, Greece. Fyssas, a musician and anti-fascist activist, was killed in the attack. Giorgos Roupakias, a member of Golden Dawn, was arrested and claimed responsibility for the incident.
06/03/2013: An explosive device comprised of gas canisters detonated outside the office of Giorgos Sourlas, the General Secretary of the Justice Ministry, in Athens city, Attica region, Greece. One person from a nearby apartment building was injured in the explosion; however, Sourlas was unharmed. This was one of three coordinated attacks in Athens on this day. The Proletariat Self-defense Groups claimed responsibility for the incident, stating that Sourlas had suppressed demonstrations and union activities.
03/10/2013: Assailants set fire to the Acropolis police station in Athens, Attica, Greece. There were no reported casualties in the attack. Anarchists claimed responsibility and stated that the incident was intended to honor the two-year anniversary of the death of Lambros Fountas, who was a member of the group Revolutionary Struggle.
03/12/2013: Three homemade explosive devices hidden in gas canisters detonated outside of the office of lawmaker, Yorgos Orfanos, in Thessaloniki, Central Macedonia, Greece. There were no reported injures from the blasts; however, the office and nearby property were damaged in the incident. This was one of three attacks on the offices of conservative members of parliament on this day in this location. In a statement released to the media, an anarchist group calling itself the "Overall Deniers of Joining the Existing" claimed responsibility for the attack and criticized the government's stance on controversial gold mining issues in the northern part of the country.
07/03/2013: An explosives-laden envelope addressed to a high ranking police officer caught fire in a post office north of Athens city, Attica region, Greece. No injuries were reported. The attack was claimed by the Conspiracy of Cells of Fire and the Informal Anarchist Federation.
12/30/2013: Assailants opened fire on the residence of Wolfgang Dold in Athens city, Attica region, Greece. Dold, the German Ambassador, was not harmed as there were no reported casualties in the assault. The Group of Popular Fighters claimed responsibility for the attack and stated that it was carried out in order to express solidarity with those whose living standards have been negatively affected by austerity measures. The group also stated that the attck was carried out in memory of Dimitris Christoulas, a pensioner who shot himself in April 2012 to protest the austerity measures.
01/13/2013: Assailants threw petrol bombs at George Kedikoglou's private residence in Athens city, Attica region, Greece. Kedikoglou, the brother of a government spokesperson Simos Kedikoglou, was not injured in the attack, although his house was damaged. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
01/20/2013: An explosive device hidden inside a trash can detonated inside The Mall Athens in Maroussi district of Athens, Attica region, Greece. Two security guards were injured in the blast. Two groups, Wild Freedom and Instigators of Social Explosion, co-claimed the attack as a protest against capitalism and raids on squatters in central Athens.
11/01/2013: Two assailants opened fire on people standing outside of a Golden Dawn party office in the Neo Iraklio area of Athens city, Attica region, Greece. Two party members were killed and one was wounded in the attack. The Militant People's Revolutionary Forces claimed responsibility for the incident.
09/27/2013: Assailants attempted to attack the residence of a government spokesperson's brother in Athens city, Attica region, Greece. Police intercepted the assailants before they could succeed. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
10/09/2013: Several assailants set fire to the office of Miltiadis Varvitsiotis, the Merchant Marine Minister, in Kolonaki neighborhood, Athens, Attica, Greece. No casualties were reported and the building was slightly damaged in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
03/12/2013: Gas canister bombs exploded at the entrance to the Gold Dawn party offices in Kavala, Eastern Macedonia and Thrace, Greece. The building was damaged in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
06/03/2013: An explosive device detonated outside the Foundation for Economic and Industrial Research (IOBE) office in Athens city, Attica region, Greece. No one was injured in the blast. This was one of three coordinated attacks in Athens on this day. Proletariat Self-defense Groups claimed responsibility for the incident, stating that it was carried out in solidarity with residents who had been against local mining practices.
02/12/2013: A small explosive device detonated outside the offices of the far right-wing Golden Dawn party in Larissa, Thessaly, Greece. There were no reported injuries resulting from the blast. The Angry Brigade claimed responsibility for the incident.
11/30/2014: Assailants set fire to an ATM in Vyronas area, Athens city, Attica region, Greece. There were no reported casualties in the attack. This was one of seven related attacks targeting ATMs throughout Athens on this date. Anarchists claimed responsibility for the incident and stated that the attacks were carried out in order to demonstrate solidarity with Nikos Romanos, an anarchist being held in Greece, who went on a hunger strike.
04/16/2014: Assailants threw dynamite at the residence of Yiannis Sbokos in Kifissia city, Attica region, Greece. Sbokos, the former general secretary of the Hellenic Ministry of National Defense, was unharmed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/10/2014: An explosive device planted inside a stolen vehicle detonated outside of the Bank of Greece in Athens city, Attica region, Greece. Although there were no reported casualties, several nearby buildings and shops were damaged in the blast. The Revolutionary Struggle claimed responsibility for the incident, stating that the attack was in retribution for the "predatory pro-memoranda policies" affecting the Greek people; however, Greek officials also attributed the attack to the November 17 Revolutionary Organization (N17RO).
04/13/2014: Assailants threw incendiary devices and paving slabs at police personnel in Thessaloniki, Central Macedonia, Greece. Two police officers were injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
11/30/2014: Assailants set fire to an ATM in Ilioupoli area, Athens city, Attica region, Greece. There were no reported casualties in the attack. This was one of seven related attacks targeting ATMs throughout Athens on this date. Anarchists claimed responsibility for the incident and stated that the attacks were carried out in order to demonstrate solidarity with Nikos Romanos, an anarchist being held in Greece, who went on a hunger strike.
08/11/2014: Assailants threw Molotov cocktails at an undocumented immigrant settlement in Patras, Western Greece, Greece. No further information is available.
12/10/2014: Security forces found and defused an explosive device planted outside of a bank in Halandri suburb, Athens city, Attica region, Greece. The Anarchist Attack Consortium claimed responsibility for the incident, stating that it was acting in solidarity with jailed anarchist Nikos Romanos.
04/29/2014: A parcel bomb, disguised as a package containing religious books, was discovered and defused at the Hellenic Police Station in Itea city, Central Greece region, Greece. The Conspiracy of Cells of Fire claimed responsibility, stating that the attack targeted a police station where an Albanian prisoner had been tortured.
07/16/2014: An explosive device detonated near a restaurant in Nea Erythraia neighborhood, Athens city, Attica province, Greece. There were no reported casualties in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
11/30/2014: Assailants set fire to an ATM in Alimos area, Athens city, Attica region, Greece. There were no reported casualties in the attack. This was one of seven related attacks targeting ATMs throughout Athens on this date. Anarchists claimed responsibility for the incident and stated that the attacks were carried out in order to demonstrate solidarity with Nikos Romanos, an anarchist being held in Greece, who went on a hunger strike.
10/02/2014: An explosive device was discovered at the Greek Stock Exchange in Athens city, Attica region, Greece. The device was safely defused. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/17/2014: An explosive device planted under the vehicle of the wife of Deputy Speaker Giorgos Kalantzis detonated in Kavala city, Eastern Macedonia and Thrace region, Greece. There were no reported casualties; however, the vehicle was damaged in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
01/02/2014: Assailants set fire to the Social Security Organization (IKA) office in Glyfada area, Attica region, Greece. No casualties were reported; however, the building was seriously damaged. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
01/12/2014: Assailants launched a rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) at the Mercedes-Benz dealership in Varibombi village, Attica province, Greece. No casualties were reported because the rocket missed the target and landed in a field. The Group of Popular Fighters claimed responsibility for the incident and stated that the attack was carried out in protest of German capitalism.
11/06/2014: Assailants set fire to the offices of the Athens Voice newspaper in Athens city, Attica region, Greece. There were no reports of casualties in the attack, but the offices were destroyed. The Anarchist Anti-Capitalist Action Group claimed responsibility for the incident, stating that they were protesting unfair labor laws in Greece.
11/30/2014: Assailants set fire to an ATM in Gyzi area, Athens city, Attica region, Greece. There were no reported casualties in the attack. This was one of seven related attacks targeting ATMs throughout Athens on this date. Anarchists claimed responsibility for the incident and stated that the attacks were carried out in order to demonstrate solidarity with Nikos Romanos, an anarchist being held in Greece, who went on a hunger strike.
11/30/2014: Assailants set fire to an ATM in Exarchia area, Athens city, Attica region, Greece. There were no reported casualties in the attack. This was one of seven related attacks targeting ATMs throughout Athens on this date. Anarchists claimed responsibility for the incident and stated that the attacks were carried out in order to demonstrate solidarity with Nikos Romanos, an anarchist being held in Greece, who went on a hunger strike.
05/25/2014: Assailants opened fire on the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) headquarters in Athens city, Attica region, Greece. There were no reported casualties in the attack. Organization for Revolutionary Self Defense claimed responsibility for the incident, stating that the attack was carried out in response to the party's policies.
03/24/2014: An explosive device was discovered and safely defused outside of a Tax Bureau office in Korydallos neighborhood, Athens city, Attica region, Greece. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
08/31/2014: Assailants threw incendiary devices at police personnel in Exarchia neighborhood, Athens city, Attica province, Greece. Two police officers were wounded in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
03/02/2014: Assailants detonated an unknown number of explosive devices at the entrance to Failos Kranidiotis' law office in Athens city, Attica region, Greece. Kranidiotis, an aide to the Greek prime minister, was unharmed in the attack, but the building suffered damages. The Informal Anarchist Federation claimed responsibility for the incident, stating that Kranidiotis was targeted because he was believed to be involved with the ultra-right Golden Dawn party.
01/14/2014: An explosive device detonated outside the office of Yiannis Michelakis, the Interior Minister, on Amerikis Street, Athens city, Attica region, Greece. Although there were no reported casualties, the building was damaged in the blast. Zero Tolerance claimed responsibility for the incident.
12/12/2014: Assailants opened fire on the Israeli embassy in Athens city, Attica region, Greece. No one was injured in the attack, but the building was damaged. The Group of Popular Fighters claimed responsibility for the incident.
11/30/2014: Assailants set fire to an ATM in Pagrati area, Athens city, Attica region, Greece. There were no reported casualties in the attack. This was one of seven related attacks targeting ATMs throughout Athens on this date. Anarchists claimed responsibility for the incident and stated that the attacks were carried out in order to demonstrate solidarity with Nikos Romanos, an anarchist being held in Greece, who went on a hunger strike.
11/14/2014: An explosive device detonated at a tax office building in Galatsi area, Athens city, Attica region, Greece. There were no reported casualties; however, the building was damaged in the attack. The Proletarian Assault Group claimed responsibility for the incident, stating that the tax office was targeted in response to capitalism.
11/30/2014: Assailants set fire to an ATM in Kesariani area, Athens city, Attica region, Greece. There were no reported casualties in the attack. This was one of seven related attacks targeting ATMs throughout Athens on this date. Anarchists claimed responsibility for the incident and stated that the attacks were carried out in order to demonstrate solidarity with Nikos Romanos, an anarchist being held in Greece, who went on a hunger strike.
06/13/2015: Assailants attacked Golden Dawn offices in Patissia district, Athens, Attica region, Greece. There were no reported casualties. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to anarchists.
03/23/2015: Assailants set fire to the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) offices in Patisia neighborhood, Athens, Attica region, Greece. There were no reported casualties in the attack. The Nihilistic Patrol and Neighborhood Arsonists claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/26/2015: Assailants attacked Yanis Varoufakis and his spouse in Exarchia district, Athens, Attica region, Greece. Varoufakis, the Greek Finance Minister, and his spouse were unharmed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, Varoufakis attributed the attack to anarchists.
11/09/2015: Assailants set fire to a Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) party office in Nea Ionia suburb, Athens, Attica region, Greece. No casualties were reported, though the office was damaged in the attack. This was one of three attacks on SYRIZA party offices in Athens on the same date. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
01/19/2015: Assailants set fire to a vehicle in Exarcheia area, Athens city, Attica region, Greece. No casualties were reported. The Anarchist Commando Nestor Makhno Group claimed responsibility for the incident.
09/14/2015: Assailants attacked the Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund (TAIPED) offices in Athens, Attica region, Greece. A security guard was briefly detained and company property was damaged in the attack. Rouvikonas (Rubicon), an Anarchist group, claimed responsibility for the incident.
11/21/2015: Assailants threw an incendiary device at the residence of Alekos Flambouraris in Exarcheia neighborhood, Athens, Attica, Greece. Flambouraris, the state minister, was not harmed and there were no other reported casualties in the attack. An unknown group claimed responsibility for the incident and stated that the attack was carried out in retaliation for the alleged oppression by the government and the government's support for capitalism.
01/15/2015: An explosive device detonated near the office of a Member of Parliament (MP) in Athens city, Attica region, Greece. There were no reported casualties in the blast. Zero Tolerance claimed responsibility for the attack and demanded the closure of "Type C prisons."
06/15/2015: Assailants attacked the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) headquarters in Athens city, Attica region, Greece. They also threw an incendiary device at a media van. There were no reported casualties resulting from the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/06/2015: An explosive device detonated in front of the Microsoft Corporation Offices in Maroussi suburb, Athens city, Attica region, Greece. There were no reported casualties in the blast. The International Revolutionary Front and the Informal Anarchist Federation claimed responsibility for the attack.
12/15/2015: Assailants attacked Vassilis Oikonomou in Exarchia neighborhood, Athens city, Attica region, Greece. Oikonomou, a New Democracy Member of Parliament, was injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Anarchists.
02/06/2015: Assailants threw incendiary devices at a police vehicle in Exarchia neighborhood, Athens city, Attica region, Greece. There were no reported casualties from the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
12/12/2015: An explosive device detonated targeting the Ethniki Asfalistiki insurance company in Kaisariani area, Athens city, Attica region, Greece. No casualties were reported, but the building was damaged in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
01/11/2015: Assailants threw incendiary devices at a Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) headquarters in Exarcheia neighborhood, Athens city, Attica region, Greece. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
03/28/2015: Assailants threw several explosive devices that landed near a Hellenic Police Station and detonated in Dafni suburb, Athens, Attica region, Greece. There were no reported casualties in the blasts. Revolutionary Struggle claimed responsibility and stated that the attack was in retaliation for the killing of anarchist Lambros Fountas by authorities in March 2010.
12/18/2015: Assailants threw 15 incendiary devices at the Turkish consulate along Aghiou Dimitriou Street in Thessaloniki city, Central Macedonia, Greece. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
10/02/2015: An explosive device detonated at the office of Haralambos Athanasiou on Lesbos island, North Aegean region, Greece. Athanasiou, a former justice minister, was unharmed and there were no other reported casualties, but the office was damaged in the blast. Insurrectionals from the Frontier claimed responsibility for the attack.
11/24/2015: An explosive device detonated outside the Hellenic Federation of Enterprises (SEV) offices in Athens, Attica, Greece. There were no reported casualties in the blast. The Group of Popular Fighters claimed responsibility for the incident.
09/17/2015: Approximately 150 assailants threw petrol bombs at a police precinct in Athens city, Attica region, Greece. One police officer was injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to anarchists.
11/09/2015: Assailants set fire to a Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) party office in Glyfada suburb, Athens, Attica region, Greece. No casualties were reported, though the office was damaged in the attack. This was one of three attacks on SYRIZA party offices in Athens on the same date. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/13/2015: Assailants set fire to the facility of a poultry company on Agiou Pablou Street in Peristeri neighborhood, Athens, Attica region, Greece. There were no reported casualties in the attack. The Earth Liberation Front (ELF) claimed responsibility and stated that the attack was carried out in solidarity with detainees being held in Greece.
11/09/2015: Assailants set fire to a Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) party office in Kypseli suburb, Athens, Attica region, Greece. No casualties were reported, though the office was damaged in the attack. This was one of three attacks on SYRIZA party offices in Athens on the same date. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
02/21/2015: Assailants opened fire on the chief warden of Domokos Prison in Kouvela town, Central Greece region, Greece. The warden was killed in the attack. Anarchists claimed responsibility for the incident.
12/14/2015: Assailants armed with incendiary devices attacked Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) offices in Exarchia neighborhood, Athens city, Attica region, Greece. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources suspected that Anarchists were involved in the attack.
02/07/2015: Assailants set fire to the vehicle of Evripidis Stylianidis in Drosia town, Attica region, Greece. Stylianidis, a member of parliament and former minister, was unharmed; however, the vehicle was damaged in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
11/09/2015: An explosive device detonated outside the residence of Isidoroas Kouvelos in Maroussi suburb, Athens, Attica region, Greece. Kouvelos, a businessperson, was unharmed though his residence was damaged in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
12/04/2015: An explosive device detonated in front of the residence of Costas Laliotis in Lycabettus area, Athens, Attica region, Greece. Laliotis, a former minister, was not harmed and there were no other reported casualties in the blast. Informal Anarchist Federation claimed responsibility for the attack.
12/16/2015: Assailants attacked the Teiresias offices in Marousi neighborhood, Athens, Attica, Greece. No one was injured, although company property was damaged in the attack. Rubicon (Rouvikonas) claimed responsibility for the incident and stated that the attack was carried out in opposition to the government and its new policies regarding taxes.
12/04/2015: Assailants threw incendiary devices at the entrance of the Culture Ministry in Athens, Attica region, Greece. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
11/23/2015: An explosive device detonated near a mosque in Heraklion, Crete, Greece. No one was injured and there were no damages in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
12/16/2016: Assailants threw a Molotov cocktail at police on Kallidromiou street in Exarcheia, Athens, Attica, Greece. There were no reported casualties. Anarchists claimed responsibility for the incident and stated that the attack was carried out because of the unfair treatment by police personnel in the area.
07/29/2016: Assailants threw Molotov cocktails at Subdivision of Order Measures (YMET) guards outside the house of State Minister Alekos Flampouraris in Exarchia, Athens, Attica, Greece. There were no reported casualties in the attack. Anarchists claimed responsibility for the incident and stated that the attack was carried out in retaliation for various operations by authorities.
02/05/2016: Assailants threw Molotov cocktails at the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) headquarters in Athens, Attica, Greece. No casualties were reported in the incident. This was one of two attacks targeting the headquarters on the same day. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
02/05/2016: Assailants threw Molotov cocktails at the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) headquarters in Athens, Attica, Greece. No casualties were reported in the incident. This was one of two attacks targeting the headquarters on the same day. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
02/26/2016: An explosive device detonated outside the residence of Christos Simorelis, a Member of Parliament, in Mouria Thessaly, Greece. No casualties were reported in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
12/12/2016: An explosive device was discovered and defused outside the Labor Ministry in Athens, Attica, Greece. Group of Popular Fighters claimed responsibility for the incident. Authorities also attributed the attack to the Conspiracy of Cells of Fire.
02/04/2016: Approximately 20 assailants assaulted Demitrios Perros in Athens, Attica, Greece. Perros, a radio journalist, was injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to anarchists.
02/27/2016: Assailants torched a planned refugee center in Giannitsa, Central Macedonia, Greece. There were no casualties. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
07/31/2016: Assailants stormed the St. Gregory Palamas cathedral in Thessaloniki, Central Macedonia, Greece. There were no reported casualties, though unspecified property was damaged in the attack. Anarchists claimed responsibility for the incident.
03/24/2016: Assailants threw three incendiary devices at a Hellenic Police station in Pangrati neighborhood, Athens, Attica, Greece. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
07/31/2016: Assailants opened fire on the Mexican Embassy in Kolonaki, Athens, Attica, Greece. There were no reported casualties. The Organization for Revolutionary Self Defense claimed responsibility for the incident and stated that the Mexican embassy was targeted due to Mexico's totalitarianism policies.
04/27/2016: Assailants threw an incendiary device at the former office of Nikos Paraskevopoulos in Thessaloniki, Central Macedonia, Greece. Paraskevopoulos, the Greek Ministry of Justice minister, was not harmed as there were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
07/29/2016: Assailants attacked a SYRIZA office in Petralona, Athens, Attica, Greece. There were no reported casualties. Anarchists claimed responsibility for the incident and stated that the attack was carried out in retaliation for various operations by authorities.
07/28/2016: Police forces discovered and defused an explosive device at the residence of a judge in Athens, Attica, Greece. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources suspected that the attack was part of an attempt to revive the Sect of Revolutionaries.
11/15/2016: Assailants threw Molotov cocktails at a police station in Athens, Attica, Greece. There were no reported casualties in the attack. Anarchists claimed responsibility for the incident and stated that the attack was carried out on behalf of anarchist detainees.
02/03/2016: Five assailants attacked the office of Dimitris Bourlos, an attorney, in Exarchia neighborhood, Athens, Attica, Greece. There were no reported casualties in the assault. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to anarchists.
08/24/2016: Assailants set fire to a building used to house refugee families in Athens, Attica, Greece. No casualties were reported in the attack. The Lone Wolves of Radical, Autonomous, Militant National Socialism claimed responsibility for the incident.
11/10/2016: Two assailants threw a grenade at the French Embassy in Athens, Attica, Greece. A police officer was injured in the blast. The Organization for Revolutionary Self Defense claimed responsibility for the incident and stated that they carried out the attack in response to French interference in the Middle East and its treatment of refugees.
01/30/2016: Assailants threw petrol bombs at the residence of State Minister Alekos Flampouraris in Exarchia neighborhood, Athens, Attica, Greece. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
06/29/2016: Two assailants threw explosive devices at a Transport Ministry office in Nafplio, Peloponnese, Greece. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
07/29/2016: Assailants attacked a SYRIZA office in Thessaloniki, Central Macedonia, Greece. There were no reported casualties. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to anarchists.
06/02/2016: An explosive device was discovered and defused at the residence of Isidora Pogka, a judge, in Ymittos, Athens, Attica, Greece. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
10/12/2016: An explosive device detonated outside the residence of Georgia Tsatani, a prosecutor, in Exarchia, Athens, Attica, Greece. There were no reported casualties in the blast. The Conspiracy of Cells of Fire claimed responsibility for the incident and stated that Tsatani was targeted for his alleged corruption.
06/18/2016: Assailants threw 20 petrol bombs at a guard booth outside the Turkish consulate in Thessaloniki, Central Macedonia, Greece. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
06/19/2016: Assailants threw petrol bombs at the Ministry of Culture building in Athens, Attica, Greece. There were no reported casualties. This was one of two related attacks in the Exarchia neighborhood on this date. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
06/23/2016: Assailant set fire to a French car dealership in Thessaloniki, Central Macedonia, Greece. There were no reported casualties in the attack. Les Casseurs claimed responsibility for the incident and stated that the group supported demonstrators against French labor reforms.
08/08/2016: Assailants threw four Molotov cocktails at the Church of Greece's Holy Synod in Athens, Attica, Greece. There were no reported casualties in the attack. Unrepentant Anarchists claimed responsibility for the incident and stated that the attack was carried out in retaliation for authorities forcing anarchists out of buildings they were squatting in illegally.
06/19/2016: Assailants threw petrol bombs at a police patrol in Athens, Attica, Greece. There were no reported casualties. This was one of two related attacks in the Exarchia neighborhood on this date. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/24/2016: Assailants equipped with petrol bombs and sledgehammers attacked a police station in Athens, Attica, Greece. There were no reported casualties in the assault. Anarchists claimed responsibility for the incident and stated that the attack was carried out in retaliation for authorities allegedly attempting to suppress anarchist activity against drug dealers.
12/00/2017: Sometime between December 25, 2017 and January 5, 2018, assailants attacked the houses of migrant workers in Nikaia neighborhood, Piraeus, Attica, Greece. This was one of two related incidents in Piraeus in which houses belonging to migrant workers were attacked during this period. At least 30 houses were damaged across both attacks. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the incidents to Crypteia and Golden Dawn.
03/07/2017: An explosive device detonated under a Hellenic Telecommunications Organization S.A. (OTE) van on Constantinou Karamanli Street in Thessaloniki, Central Macedonia, Greece. There were no reported casualties in the blast. This was one of three bombings that took place in Thessaloniki on the same day. No group claimed responsibility for the incidents.
10/07/2017: Assailants armed with iron bars and knives attacked and injured two Pakistani migrant workers in Aspropyrgos, Attica, Greece. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to neo-fascist extremists.
12/00/2017: Sometime between December 25, 2017 and January 5, 2018, assailants attacked the houses of migrant workers in Renti neighborhood, Piraeus, Attica, Greece. This was one of two related incidents in Piraeus in which houses belonging to migrant workers were attacked during this period. At least 30 houses were damaged across both attacks. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the incidents to Crypteia and Golden Dawn.
01/30/2017: Assailants attacked riot police on Harilaou Trikoupi street in Athens, Attica, Greece. There were no reported casualties in the attack. This was one of two similar attacks in this area on this day. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to anarchists.
01/30/2017: Assailants stormed and occupied the Greek Ministry of Labour, Social Security and Social Solidarity building in Athens, Attica, Greece. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Rubicon (Rouvikonas).
10/25/2017: Assailants attacked Evangelismos Hospital in Athens, Attica, Greece. There were no reported casualties. Rubicon (Rouvikonas) claimed responsibility for the incident and stated that the doctor was targeted for accepting bribes.
03/10/2017: Assailants threw incendiary devices at the Hellenic Post S.A. (ELTA) office on Ellis Street in Dafni neighborhood, Athens, Attica, Greece. There were no casualties in the incident. This was one of two attacks in Dafni on the same day. No group claimed responsibility for the incidents.
05/25/2017: An explosives-laden parcel detonated in the vehicle of Lucas Papademos in Athens, Attica, Greece. Papademos, the former Prime Minister, and two Bank of Greece employees were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources suspected that the Conspiracy of Cells of Fire carried out the attack. In addition, sources suspected the invovlement of the Revolutionary Struggle.
02/08/2017: Assailants attacked a supermarket in Exarcheia, Athens, Attica, Greece. A store employee was briefly taken hostage and there were no reported casualties. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to anarchists.
10/17/2017: Assailants attacked the notary association of the Athens Appeals Court in Athens, Attica, Greece. Although there were no reported casualties, unspecified property was damaged in the attack. The Anarchist Collective of Kallithea-Moschato claimed responsibility for the incident and stated that the attack was carried out in opposition to recent foreclosures.
01/30/2017: Assailants attacked riot police on Harilaou Trikoupi street in Athens, Attica, Greece. There were no reported casualties in the attack. This was one of two similar attacks in this area on this day. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to anarchists.
11/06/2017: Assailants opened fire on a riot police van outside the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) party headquarters in Exarcheia neighborhood, Athens, Attica, Greece. There were no reported casualties in the attack. The Organization for Revolutionary Self Defense claimed responsibility for the incident and stated that police personnel were targeted because they were "the armed protectors of exploitation."
02/27/2017: Assailants set fire to a vehicle outside the French School at Athens (EfA) in Athens, Attica, Greece. There were no reported casualties in the attack. The Cells of Direct Attack - Living Waste Group claimed responsibility for the incident and stated that the attack was carried out in opposition to "police brutality" and to bring about "solidarity with French youths."
03/31/2017: Assailants threw incendiary devices at the Democratic Alignment party headquarters along Charilaou Trikoupi Street in Exarchia neighborhood, Athens, Attica, Greece. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
03/07/2017: An explosive device detonated at the Thessaloniki Municipality's Architecture Center in Thessaloniki, Central Macedonia, Greece. There were no reported casualties in the blast. This was one of three bombings that took place in Thessaloniki on the same day. No group claimed responsibility for the incidents.
03/07/2017: An explosive device detonated at the entrance to the Technical College on Megalou Alexandrou Street in Thessaloniki, Central Macedonia, Greece. There were no reported casualties in the blast. This was one of three bombings that took place in Thessaloniki on the same day. No group claimed responsibility for the incidents.
11/02/2017: Assailants attacked a notary office in Exarchia, Athens, Attica, Greece. There were no reported casualties. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to anarchists.
01/04/2017: An incendiary device went off outside the office of Dimitris Bourlos in Exarchia neighborhood, Athens, Attica, Greece. Bourlos, a Committee of Wise Men attorney, was not harmed as there were no reported casualties in the incident. This was one of two related attacks in Athens targeting practitioners involved in labor market reforms on the same day. No group claimed responsibility for the incidents.
01/30/2017: Assailants stormed and occupied Avgi newspaper offices in Athens, Attica, Greece. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Rubicon (Rouvikonas).
08/29/2017: Assailants threw two incendiary devices at the Free Social Center Favela in Piraeus, Attica, Greece. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility; however, four Apella members were arrested in connection with the incident.
05/24/2017: Assailants armed with axes, hammers, and knives attacked the education faculty at University of Athens in Athens, Attica, Greece. There were no reported casualties. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to anarchists.
01/03/2017: An explosive device detonated outside the residence of Efrosini Kouskouna in Athens, Attica, Greece. Kouskouna, the Greek Ministry of Labour, Social Insurance and Social Solidarity's National Actuarial Authority President, was not harmed as there were no reported casualties. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
11/03/2017: Assailants attacked the home of an Afghan migrant family in Athens, Attica, Greece. There were no reported casualties in the attack. Crypteia, a suspected offshoot of Golden Dawn, claimed responsibility for the incident and stated, "We will fight until the last immigrant leaves. And to that end, we will use force and violence, mercilessly." Sources suspected that the victims were targeted because their son had gained media attention after being prevented from carrying the Greek flag in a school parade.
10/19/2017: Assailants attacked the IKA Social Security Foundation's collections center on 28 Pireos Street, Athens, Attica, Greece. Although there were no reported casualties, various pieces of property and equipment were damaged in the attack. Rubicon (Rouvikonas) claimed responsibility for the incident and stated that the attack was carried out in retaliation for recent foreclosures.
11/30/2017: Assailants detonated an explosive device at the entrance to an apartment building on Konitsis Street, Kalamaria, Central Macedonia, Greece. There were no reported injuries. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
06/03/2017: Assailants threw incendiary devices at a SYRIZA party headquarters in Thessaloniki, Central Macedonia, Greece. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
12/18/2017: Assailants detonated an explosive device at the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) party office in Ilion, Athens, Attica, Greece. There were no reported casualties in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Neo-Fascists.
11/21/2017: An explosive device detonated next to a tax office in Kallithea, Athens, Attica, Greece. There were no reported casualties. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
12/21/2017: Assailants attacked the Union of Thessaloniki Daily Newspaper Editors office along Stratigou Kallari Street in Thessaloniki, Central Macedonia, Greece. There were no reported casualties in the incident. The Minorities of Metropolitan Attacks claimed responsibility for the attack.
03/01/2017: Assailants threw an incendiary device at an in vitro fertilization (IVF) clinic in Chalandri neighborhood, Athens, Attica, Greece. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
10/26/2017: Assailants threw firebombs at a police station in Pefki district, Athens, Attica, Greece. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to anarchists.
02/25/2017: Police forces discovered and safely detonated an explosive device outside a police station in Dafni neighborhood, Athens, Attica, Greece. There were no reported casualties. An unknown group claimed responsibility for the incident and stated that the attack was carried out in honor of Lambros Fountas, a Revolutionary Struggle member.
02/14/2017: An explosive device detonated outside a Hellenic Post office in Maroussi neighborhood, Athens, Attica, Greece. There were no reported casualties in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
12/06/2017: An explosive device detonated at the Distomo social center in Aghios Panteleimonas neighborhood, Athens, Attica, Greece. There were no reported casualties in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
01/10/2017: An assailant opened fire on a Hellenic Police bus outside the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) headquarters at the intersection of Harilaou Trikoupi Street and Arachovis Street in Athens, Attica, Greece. At least one officer was injured in the assault. The Organization for Revolutionary Self Defense claimed responsibility for the incident.
03/10/2017: Assailants threw incendiary devices at the Dafni Town Hall on Ellis Street in Dafni neighborhood, Athens, Attica, Greece. There were no casualties in the incident. This was one of two attacks in Dafni on the same day. No group claimed responsibility for the incidents.
07/29/2017: Assailants threw incendiary devices at the residence of Minister of State, Alekos Flambouraris, in Exarchia, Athens, Attica, Greece. There were no reported casualties in the attack. Residents and regulars of Exarchia claimed responsibility for the incident and stated "the state is frantically trying to impose police dominance in Exarchia to destroy its extensive self-organized structures and the free public space."
12/22/2017: An explosive device detonated at the Greek Ministry of Justice, Transparency, and Human Rights Appeals Court in Athens, Attica, Greece. Assailants also opened fire on a security guard as they were leaving the court after planting the device. There were no reported casualties in the attack. The Group of Popular Fighters claimed responsibility for the incident and stated that the "judicial system is not blind, but serves the interests of capitalists."
04/19/2017: An explosive device detonated targeting a Eurobank office in Athens, Attica, Greece. There were no reported casualties in the blast. The Group of Popular Fighters claimed responsibility for the attack. Sources also attributed the incident to the Conspiracy of Cells of Fire.
12/20/2017: Assailants attacked the TV100 and FM100 Municipal Media building in Thessaloniki, Central Macedonia, Greece. At least one person was injured in the incident. The Minorities of Metropolitan Attacks claimed responsibility for the attack.
03/20/2017: Eight explosives-laden packages were discovered and defused at a postal sorting center in Kryoneri, Attica, Greece. The packages were intended to target prominent European economic officials. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attempted attack to the Conspiracy of Cells of Fire. In addition, sources suspected the involvement of the Revolutionary Struggle.
01/04/2017: Four explosive devices detonated outside the Center for European Constitutional Law office on Akadimias Street in Athens, Attica, Greece. There were no reported casualties in the blast and ensuing fire. This was one of two related attacks in Athens targeting practitioners involved in labor market reforms on the same day. No group claimed responsibility for the incidents.
07/08/2017: Assailants threw incendiary devices at a Hellenic Police station in Zografou neighborhood, Athens, Attica, Greece. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the incident to anarchists.
02/25/2018: Assailants armed with tire irons and smoke bombs attacked a leftist community center in Piraeus, Attica, Greece. At least five people, including a lawyer representing the family of murdered musician Pavlos Fyssas, were injured in the assault. Golden Dawn claimed responsibility for the incident.
12/17/2018: An explosive device detonated targeting the Skai TV headquarters in Moschato-Tavros, Athens, Attica, Greece. There were no reported casualties in the blast. The Group of Popular Fighters claimed responsibility for the incident and accused Skai TV of being capitalist.
12/10/2018: Assailants detonated explosive devices at a church in Saranta Ekklisies, Thessaloniki, Central Macedonia, Greece. There were no reported casualties in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
03/01/2018: Assailants smashed windows and threw fireworks into a Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) party office in Kaisariani neighborhood, Athens, Attica, Greece. There were no reported casualties. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to anarchists.
11/13/2018: An explosive device was discovered and defused outside the residence of Supreme Court deputy prosecutor Isidoros Dogiakos in Vyronas, Athens, Attica, Greece. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Conspiracy of Cells of Fire and Group of Popular Fighters.
10/15/2018: Assailants threw 40 petrol bombs at a police station in Omonia, Athens, Attica, Greece. At least four police officers were injured and several vehicles were damaged in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to anarchists.
02/28/2018: Assailants attacked the Agriculture Ministry office with incendiary devices in Patras, Western Greece, Greece. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
02/06/2018: An explosive device detonated outside a Ministry of National Defense office in Thessaloniki, Central Macedonia, Greece. There were no reported casualties in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
06/02/2018: Assailants threw incendiary devices at a bus carrying anti-riot police in Thessaloniki, Central Macedonia, Greece. There were no reported casualties in the attack. Anarchists claimed responsibility for the incident.
12/27/2018: An explosive device detonated outside of Saint Dionysios church as it was being inspected by a police officer in Kolonaki, Athens, Attica, Greece. At least two people, including the police officer and the church caretaker, were injured in the blast. The Iconoclastic Sect claimed responsibility for the attack.
10/30/2018: Assailants threw firebombs at an Albanian travel office on Deligianni Street, Athens, Attica, Greece. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility; however, authorities suspected that the attack was related to the police killing of a Greek civilian in Albania two days prior.
05/19/2018: Assailants beat Yiannis Boutaris, the mayor of Thessaloniki, in Thessaloniki, Central Macedonia, Greece. Boutaris was injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Neo-Fascists.
02/26/2018: Assailants set fire to an Albanian consulate diplomatic vehicle in Thessaloniki, Central Macedonia, Greece. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
09/30/2018: Assailants threw Molotov cocktails at police personnel outside the Turkish consulate in Thessaloniki, Central Macedonia, Greece. There were no reported casualties. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
02/27/2018: An explosive device detonated outside of a linens shop along Vouliagmenis Avenue in Athens, Greece. There were no reported casualties in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
05/13/2018: Assailants threw firebombs at police guarding the residence of Minister of State Alekos Flambouraris at Strefi Hill in Athens, Attica, Greece. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
08/25/2018: Assailants attacked the offices of Mytilineos company in Marousi, Athens, Attica, Greece. There were no reported injuries, though the building was damaged in the attack. Rubicon (Rouvikonas) claimed responsibility for the incident and alleged that Vangelis Mytilineos had created his "empire by ripping natural resources, exploiting thousands of people who work for him and - as he has the right connections - making some very profitable deals especially with the national power company."
02/26/2018: Assailants threw a grenade at a police station in Kaisariani, Athens, Attica, Greece. A taxi driver was injured in the blast. The Armed Revolutionary Forces claimed responsibility for the incident.
03/01/2018: Assailants threw stones and Molotov cocktails at police personnel in Exarchia, Athens, Attica, Greece. There were no reported casualties in the attack. Anarchists claimed responsibility for the incident and stated that the attack was "an 'expression of solidarity' with Constantinos Giagtzoglou."
06/11/2018: Assailants attacked the Citizens Protection Ministry in Athens, Attica, Greece. There were no reported casualties in the attack. Rubicon (Rouvikonas) claimed responsibility for the incident and demanded the release of Dimitris Koufoudinas.
07/21/2018: Assailants threw Molotov cocktails at riot police guarding the residence of Minister of State Alekos Flambouraris on Voulgaroktonos Street in Athens, Attica, Greece. At least one officer was injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the incident to anarchists.
03/22/2018: Assailants set fire to an Afghan community center on Halkokondyli Street in Athens, Attica, Greece. There were no reported casualties. Crypteia claimed responsibility for the incident.
09/17/2018: Assailants attacked the Iranian Embassy in Psychiko, Athens, Attica, Greece. There were no reported casualties in the assault. Rubicon (Rouvikonas) claimed responsibility for the incident and stated that the attack was carried out in retaliation for the execution of Kurdish detainees held in Iran on September 8, 2018.
02/12/2018: An explosive device detonated outside a clothing store owned by Mareva Grabowski, the wife of New Democracy party leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis, in Athens, Attica, Greece. There were no reported casualties in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
12/04/2018: Assailants threw firebombs at a security detail guarding the residence of Minister of State Alekos Flambouraris in Exarcheia, Athens, Attica, Greece. At least one officer was injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
12/12/2019: Assailants set fire to the Alimos Marina in Athens, Attica, Greece. There were no reported casualties in the attack. This was one of four related arson attacks in Athens on this date. Mayhem Squads claimed responsibility for the incident.
05/18/2019: Assailants set fire to the basement of a Thessaloniki metro construction site in Thessaloniki, Central Macedonia, Greece. There were no reported casualties in the attack. Moles claimed responsibility for the incident, stating that the attack was carried out in opposition to the metro construction, which the group believed would "push out poorer families from the city centre and increase living costs for all residents."
06/10/2019: An assailant threw a gas canister outside the Greek parliament in Athens, Attica, Greece. There were no reported casualties in the incident. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
12/23/2019: Assailants threw a Molotov cocktail at the vehicle of a Turkish Consulate employee in Thessaloniki, Central Macedonia, Greece. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
05/14/2019: An explosive device detonated under the vehicle of Mina Karmatrou, a CNN reporter, in Zografou district, Athens, Attica, Greece. There were no reported casualties in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
05/14/2019: Assailants threw incendiary devices at a police station in Kaisariani district, Athens, Attica, Greece. At least one officer was injured in the attack. Chaotic Harmony claimed responsibility for the incident.
01/25/2019: Assailants threw an incendiary device at the residence of Betty Skoufa in Katerini, Central Macedonia, Greece. Skoufa, a Member of Parliament, was not harmed as there were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
02/11/2019: An explosive device detonated outside Golden Dawn offices in Aspropyrgos, Attica, Greece. There were no reported casualties in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
02/08/2019: An explosive device detonated outside a bank in Galatsi, Athens, Attica, Greece. There were no reported casualties in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
09/19/2019: An explosive device detonated at a post office in Athens, Attica, Greece. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
12/12/2019: Assailants set fire to the vehicle of a private security company in Athens, Attica, Greece. There were no reported casualties in the attack. This was one of four related arson attacks in Athens on this date. Mayhem Squads claimed responsibility for the incident.
12/16/2019: An explosive device was discovered and safely detonated by police officers on a university campus across the street from the police station in Athens, Attica, Greece. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources suspected the involvement of the Iconoclastic Sect.
02/19/2019: Assailants threw a petrol bomb at an Iraqi family's residence in Thessaloniki, Central Macedonia, Greece. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
05/08/2019: Assailants threw Molotov cocktails at a police station in Exarchia, Athens, Attica, Greece. There were no reported casualties. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
03/02/2019: Assailants threw petrol bombs at a police station in Koukaki, Athens, Attica, Greece. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
02/08/2019: An explosive device detonated targeting a post office in Kaisariani, Athens, Attica, Greece. There were no reported casualties in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
02/18/2019: Assailants threatened a guard and forced their way inside the Swiss Embassy in Athens, Attica, Greece. There were no reported casualties in the attack. Rubicon (Rouvikonas) claimed responsibility for the incident and stated that the attack was carried out in protest of the detainment of a fellow protester in Switzerland.
09/12/2019: An explosive device detonated targeting an office of the New Democracy political party in Lykovrysi-Pefki, Athens, Attica, Greece. There were no reported casualties in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
11/01/2019: Assailants armed with make-shift explosive devices attacked a Golden Dawn office on Deligianni Street in Athens, Attica, Greece. At least two police officers were injured in the ensuing police chase. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
10/10/2019: Assailants threw Molotov cocktails at a police station in Toumba neighborhood, Thessaloniki, Greece. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
03/02/2019: Assailants hurled Molotov cocktails at police guarding the Turkish consulate along Agiou Dimitriou Road in Thessaloniki, Central Macedonia, Greece. There were no casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to anarchists.
02/08/2019: An explosive device detonated targeting an insurance firm in Kaisariani, Athens, Attica, Greece. There were no reported casualties in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
12/12/2019: Assailants set fire to the residence of a journalist in Athens, Attica, Greece. There were no reported casualties in the attack. This was one of four related arson attacks in Athens on this date. Mayhem Squads claimed responsibility for the incident.
05/23/2019: Assailants armed with explosive devices attacked a Golden Dawn office in Acharnes, Attica, Greece. There were no reported casualties in the attack. The Durutti Brigades claimed responsibility for the incident.
10/12/2019: Assailants threw a petrol bomb at a police precinct in Penteli, Athens, Greece. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
07/04/2019: Assailants raided the office of the Athens Voice newspaper in Athens, Attica, Greece. There were no reported casualties in the attack. Rubicon (Rouvikonas) claimed responsibility for the incident and stated that "the attack was in retaliation for the remark about Gayane Kassardjian, a 50-year-old Armenian woman, working off the books as a private caregiver at the Nikaia General Hospital near Piraeus."
11/07/2019: Assailants attacked police officers with fire bombs in Athens, Attica, Greece. Three officers were injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Rubicon (Rouvikonas).
01/23/2019: Assailants threw four petrol bombs at the house of lawmaker Theodora Tzakri in Giannitsa, Central Macedonia, Greece. There were no casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
06/10/2019: Assailants set fire to the vehicle of a Turkish international organization employee in Thessaloniki, Central Macedonia, Greece. There were no reported casualties in the attack. This was one of two arson attacks targeting Turkish nationals in Thessaloniki on this day. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
06/10/2019: Assailants set fire to the vehicle of Serkan Burali, the commercial attaché of the Turkish embassy, in Thessaloniki, Central Macedonia, Greece. There were no reported casualties in the attack. This was one of two arson attacks targeting Turkish nationals in Thessaloniki on this day. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
12/12/2019: Assailants set fire to a cafe owned by a New Democracy candidate in Athens, Attica, Greece. There were no reported casualties in the attack. This was one of four related arson attacks in Athens on this date. Mayhem Squads claimed responsibility for the incident.
03/22/2019: Assailants threw a hand grenade at the Russian consulate in Chalandri, Athens, Attica, Greece. There were no reported casualties in the attack. The Informal Anarchist Federation and the International Revolutionary Front jointly claimed responsibility for the incident and alleged that Russia was torturing anarchists, who had been arrested. The groups also "dedicated" the attack to Mikhail Zhlobitsky, the perpetrator of the Arkhangelsk attack in October 2018.
7/20/2000: Jose Alfredo Quino and Maria Elena Mejia, two Maya Indians, were shot and killed by three masked gunmen in Solola department, Guatemala. The victims were members of the Regional Coordination of Integrated Cooperatives (CORCI) that worked to resolve land disputes. The assailants ambushed the car before shooting the victims at point blank range. No group has claimed responsibility.
2/21/2001: Unidentified gunmen opened fire on Lizeth Perez, the daughter of retired General Otto Perez Molina, as she drove out of her home in Guatemala City, Guatemala Department, Guatemala. Lizeth Perez was shot five times; however, she was listed as stable after undergoing surgery. Assailants also attacked General Molina's wife on the same day in a separate incident. General Molina was known for being openly critical of the government and had recently declared that he was going to form his own political party. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
2/21/2001: Unidentified gunmen opened fire on Rosita de Perez, the wife of retired General Otto Perez Molina, as she drove through a parking lot of a shopping mall in Guatemala City, Guatemala Department, Guatemala. Rosita de Perez was not hurt in the attack; however, a woman in a car ahead of her was killed. Assailants also attacked General Molina's daughter on the same day in a separate incident. General Molina was known for being openly critical of the government and had recently declared that he was going to form his own political party. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
01/26/2003: Five members of the National Unity of Hope (UNE) political party in Guatemala’s province of Escuintla were wounded in a drive-by shooting style attack by unknown gunmen. Members of the UNE were meeting to elect party leaders for a national assembly at the time of the attack.
01/12/2003: Judge Hector Mauricio Rodriguez Argueta, a Supreme Court Justice for Guatemala, was shot dead by unknown assailants in Guatemala City.
01/09/2003: Judge Jackeline Espana was the target of a failed assassination attempt by unknown gunmen while driving alone in Chiquimula in Guatemala.
09/28/2004: Two men shot and killed Angel Morales, secretary of the National Press Circle, on the major highway connecting Guatemala City and the Caribbean Coast.
09/28/2004: Congressman Carlos Hipolito Miranda and his assistant, Eduardo de Jesus Moreno Alvarez were shot and killed in Cuilapa, Guatemala. No one claimed responsibility.
04/05/2006: Antonio Ixbalán Calí, a Tz’utujil leader and president of the Agriculturalists Association of Santiago Atitlán, and his wife, María Petzey Coo, were killed by four gunmen in their home at 7:00 p.m. in a community of Chicacao Municipality, Suchitepequez Department, Guatemala. Petzey died instantly and Calí died later at the Mazatenago hospital. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/02/2006: Meregilda Súchite, an indigenous activist, was shot by a gunman while on her way to mass in Olopa municipality, Guatemala. She later died from the gun shot wounds. There was no claim of responsibility.
04/06/2006: Gunmen on a motorcycle lying in wait killed Mario Pivaral, an opposition congressman as he stepped out of the National Union of Hope's (UNE) party's headquarters in Guatemala City, Guatemala. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/09/2006: Eleaza Tabalan, one of the coordinators of the not-yet-established leftwing Encuentro Por Guatemala party, was shot dead by a professional assassin in Guatemala. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
01/13/2012: Assailants opened fire on the vehicle of Oscar Leal, a Guatemalan legislator, in the center of Guatemala City, Guatemala. Leal and his brother were killed, and a bodyguard was injured. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources noted that Leal had received threats because he had been planning to switch political parties in support of the country's president.
01/14/2013: Assailants opened fire on Carlos Enrique Castillo Medrano at a local barbershop in Jutiapa town, Jutiapa, Guatemala. Medrano, the mayor of Jutiapa, was killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident
08/12/2013: Assailants opened fire on Fredy Rodas in Mazatenango city, Suchitepequez department, Guatemala. Rodas, a radio journalist for Sonora Es La Noticia, was seriously injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
08/06/2013: Assailants shot and killed a journalist, Luis de Jesus Lima, in Zacapa province, Guatemala. No group claimed responsibility for the incident
08/15/2013: Assailants opened fire on the home of Vernick Gudiel, who led an investigative team for El Periodico, a local newspaper, in an unknown location in Guatemala. No casualties were reported. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
03/20/2013: Assailants opened fire on Jaime Napoleon Jarquin Duarte in Ciudad Pedro de Alvarado, Jutiapa, Guatemala. Jarquin was a journalist with the Nuestro Diario newspaper and was active in local politics; he was killed in the attack and two of his companions were injured. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
08/19/2013: Assailants shot Carlos Alberto Orellana Chavez in Suchitepequez department, Guatemala. Chavez, a journalist for La Venadita radio, was killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
08/00/2018: Sometime between August 19, 2018 and August 23, 2018, assailants blockaded a road and checked vehicles in Mataquescuintla district, Jalapa, Guatemala. There were no reported casualties. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Peaceful Resistance Group of Mataquescuintla.
08/24/2018: Assailants abducted 12 security contractors for Tahoe Resources Inc. in Mataquescuintla district, Jalapa, Guatemala. The hostages were injured and then released several hours later. The Peaceful Resistance Group of Mataquescuintla claimed responsibility for the incident.
02/26/2001: A Nigerian member of the UN Mission in Guinea Bissau (UNOGBIS), Ademola Araoyeb, escaped an assassination attempt for which responsibility has not been claimed. His vehicle was riddled with bullets fired by a gunman who was hiding in Bissau’s city center.
07/16/2005: In one attack out of four, the Presidential Palace was attacked with gunfire and collectively three were killed, including two policemen, and collectively fifteen were wounded, and collectively twenty arrested in Bissau, Guinea-Bissau. It is suspected to be connected to the upcoming second round of presidential elections, and suspected groups included "Nino" Vieira who had previously came in second, and the Social Renewal Party, which previously came in third.
07/16/2005: In one attack out of four, the Army Headquarters was attacked with gunfire and collectively three were killed, including two policemen, and collectively fifteen were wounded, and collectively twenty arrested in Bissau, Guinea-Bissau. It is suspected to be connected to the upcoming second round of presidential elections, and suspected groups included "Nino" Vieira who had previously came in second, and the Social Renewal Party, which previously came in third.
07/17/2005: In one attack out of four, the Interior Ministry was attacked with gunfire and collectively three were killed, including two policemen, and collectively fifteen were wounded, and collectively twenty arrested in Bissau, Guinea-Bissau. It is suspected to be connected to the upcoming second round of presidential elections, and suspected groups included "Nino" Vieira who had previously came in second, and the Social Renewal Party, which previously came in third.
07/16/2005: In one attack out of four, the Electoral Commission was attacked with gunfire and collectively three were killed, including two policemen, and collectively fifteen were wounded, and collectively twenty arrested in Bissau, Guinea-Bissau. It is suspected to be connected to the upcoming second round of presidential elections, and suspected groups included "Nino" Vieira who had previously came in second, and the Social Renewal Party, which previously came in third.
03/16/2006: Near Sao Domingos, Cacheu, Guinea-Bissau, a bus drove over a land mine. Eleven civilans were killed, twelve were injured, and the bus was damaged. No claim of responsibility was reported.
06/05/2009: On Friday night around 0400, in Bissau, Guinea Bissau, one man fired upon and killed Baciro Dabo, a presidential candidate at his residence. No material damage or motive for the attack was reported and no group has claimed responsibility.
03/18/2012: Gunmen shot and killed Samba Diallo, a former intelligence chief, in Bissau city, Bissau Autonomous Sector, Guinea-Bissau. Diallo's attackers were reportedly wearing military uniforms at the time of the attack. No group claimed responsibility for this incident.
11/27/2000: Rebels raided Sokolalu Tekoulo village in Gueckedou Prefecture, Guinea. They killed at least three villagers in the attack. They also destroyed 19 houses and a health center. The attack coincided with a regional visit from a team of cabinet ministers. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
11/13/2000: Rebels raided the village of Yagouya, in the Kindia area, Guinea. One villager was killed in the raid and an unknown number were kidnapped. The raid coincided with the arrival of an observer team that was assessing the need for the deployment of regional force. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack but sources note that kidnapping is characteristic of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF). This was the first of two attacks in the area on the same day.
11/13/2000: Rebels raided the village of Soumbazaya, in the Kindia area, Guinea. The rebels were met with resistance from government troops and, after eight hours of fighting, the rebels were driven back. There were no reports of deaths or injuries as a result of the attack. The raid coincided with the arrival of an observer team that was assessing the need for the deployment of regional force. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack. This was the second of two attacks in the area on the same day.
09/30/2000: An overnight raid by rebels killed 60 people in a village near Macenta in Guinea. A military post in the village was also attacked.
12/4/2000: Rebels attacked Gbayaro village, Macenta, Guinea. At least one civilian and more than three rebels were killed in the attack. A similar attack occurred in a neighboring village the same day.
12/10/2000: Rebels attacked Kissidougou town, near the border of Liberia and Sierra Leone, Kissidougou Prefecture, Guinea. The attack began at 3 am and continued for several hours while the rebels fought with government troops. The assailants were driven back and authorities report that at least 30 attackers were killed. Death toll amongst civilians and troops is unknown. A man named Mohamed Lamine Fofanah, who stated he represented the Allied Democratic Forces of Guinea (RDFG), claimed responsibility for the attack.
12/5/2000: Armed rebels attacked the town of Gueckedou, Guinea, near the southern border with Liberia. The rebels fought their way into the town and they held Gueckedou for a day before being driven out by army forces. At least 48 civilians were killed in the attack. Government buildings and company offices were burned down; in addition, vehicles and power lines were destroyed. Thousands of local residents and refugees fled the area.
09/01/2000: Unidentified armed men in blue uniforms attacked Massadou Village in Guinea. Forty-seven people were killed and twenty-nine injured. Three people were missing. At least ten of the dead were Guinean soldiers. A large number of guns were also robbed from a Border Post in the vicinity. The Guinean government suspects that the perpetrators attacked from nearby Liberia, possibly supported by the Liberian Government.
11/28/2000: Rebels from Liberia raided Bayoro village, near the southeastern border, Guinea. Six civilians were killed in the attack and three individuals, including one government soldier, were injured. Unconfirmed reports also state that a large portion of the village was burnt down. Specific motive is unknown, but there was been a string of raids between the two countries, leading to escalating tension.
09/17/2000: A Togolese employee of the UN Refugee Agency was killed and a citizen of Ivory Coast was kidnapped in an attack by unknown perpetrators.
12/4/2000: Rebels attacked Kotizu village, Macenta, Guinea. At least one civilian and more than three rebels were killed in the attack. A similar attack occurred in a neighboring village the same day.
9/6/2000: Members of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) kidnapped two Italian missionaries who were providing support to Sierra Leone refugees in the border town of Pamlape, Forecariah, Guinea. The two missionaries were Franco Manganello and Vittorio Mosele; a third individual, a volunteer named Guiseppe Giacomello, was originally believed to be kidnapped but managed to elude the rebels. The two captives escaped from the rebels on December 5th, 2000. They were not seriously injured.
01/19/2005: Unknown perpetrators fired shots at Guinea’s President, Lansana Conte in Conakry. The perpetrators failed to hit Conte’s vehicle and the President escaped unharmed. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
03/01/2013: Assailants opened fire on the Planète FM radio station in the Koloma neighborhood of Conakry city, Conakry region, Guinea. No one was hurt in the attack; however, a bullet damaged a third-floor window of the building. The attack occurred around the same time that Faya Millimo, the leader of the opposition Liberal Bloc, was being interviewed at the station. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, authorities believed that the attack was related to political tensions over upcoming national elections.
03/03/2013: Assailants attacked the offices of the Renaissance FM radio station in the Koloma neighborhood of Conakry city, Conakry region, Guinea. When the perpetrators failed to gain entry to the station, they hurled stones at windows. No one was hurt in the attack, which was the second such incident involving radio stations in Conakry in less than a week. No group claimed responsibility for the incident, but authorites believed the attack was perpetrated by individuals who were angry about the media's coverage of the upcoming national elections.
01/20/2015: An assailant threw a grenade at a crowd of soccer fans in Conakry city, Conakry region, Guinea. A civilian was killed and four others, including the assailant, were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/05/2015: Assailants opened fire on the vehicle of Aboubacar Sylla in Conakry city, Conakry region, Guinea. Sylla, a National Assembly member, was not harmed as there were no reported casualties in the assault. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
02/05/2016: An assailant shot and killed journalist Elhadji Mohamed Diallo at the headquarters of the Union of Democratic Forces of Guinea (UFDG) in Conakry, Guinea. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
10/23/2018: Assailants opened fire on the vehicle of Cellou Dalein Diallo, a Guinean opposition leader, at the Belle-Vue traffic circle in Conakry, Guinea. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
01/16/2018: Assailants opened fire on Shaykh 'Abd-al-'Aziz Bin-Salih al-Tuwayjiri between Kankan and Kerouane, Kantebalandougou, Kankan, Guinea. al-Tuwayjiri, a Saudi preacher, was killed and one other was wounded in the assault. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/23/2001: Unidentified attackers in a white van drove up to the main office of the People's National Congress/Reform opposition party in Georgetown, Guyana, around 11:30pm and opened fire on the building, shooting at it and throwing what was thought to be a fire bomb. No one was injured in the attack, although minor damage was done to the building. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
9/25/2002: Four unidentified gunmen opened fire at a popular bar in Georgetown, Demerara-Mahaica, Guyana. The assailants pulled up to the bar in a vehicle and opened fire with automatic weapons. Four people were killed and six were injured. One of the injured victims was Denis Hanoman-Singh, Guyana's chief prosecutor. Authorities believe that he might have been the target of the attack.
08/08/2006: Gunmen killed employees of Kaieteur News in Georgetown, Guyana. No claim of responsibility was reported.
01/30/2006: Unidentified perpetrators shot dead Ronald Waddell outside his home near Georgetown, Guyana. Waddell was a political activist and television host. There were no claims of responsibility for the attack.
01/26/2008: Unknown perpetrators attacked Lusignan Village in Guyana with assault rifles killing eleven people and injuring three others.
01/26/2008: Unknown perpetrators attacked a police station in Eve Leary, Guyana killing no one and injuring two policemen.
02/18/2008: Perpetrators dressed in military attire and armed with assault weapons attacked a police station in Bartica, Guyana and stole weapons and ammunition. There are varying reports on the number of casualties, although the majority of the reports claimed 12 people were killed and seven were injured in this attack. No group claimed responsibility for this attack.
06/04/2016: Assailants threw a grenade at the vehicle of Glenn Lall, a Kaieteur News publisher, in Georgetown, East Berbice-Corentyne, Guyana. There were no reported casualties as the device failed to detonate. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
11/29/2019: An assailant threw an explosive device into the headquarters of the Transport and Harbours Department in Georgetown, Demerara-Mahaica, Guyana. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
4/3/2000: Jean Leopold Dominique, director and owner of Radio Haiti Inter and special advisor to President Rene Preval, was shot and killed outside of the radio station in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. He was shot several times in the head and chest and died later in the hospital. A security guard, Jean-Claude Louissaint, was also shot and killed in the attack. No group has claimed responsibility and the motive behind the attack is unknown.
11/10/2000: Unidentified perpetrators hurled explosive devices at the headquarters, and two other offices, of the Haitian Provisional Electoral Council (CEP), in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The attack did not cause any casualties or damage and no group claim responsibility.
11/22/2000:  Unidentified assailants exploded two bombs on the highway leading to the international airport in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. At least three people were injured in the explosion. The incident occurred a few days before Haiti's national elections. This was just one of a series of bomb attacks that day in and around Port-au-Prince. No group has claimed responsibility.
05/12/0004: On May 12, 2000, campaign organizer Branor Sanon was gunned down in Port-au-Prince Haiti. The gunman was unidentified and fled immediately but the head of Sanon’s Louvri Barriere Party believes that this is another example of a politically motivated murder. The killing took place less than two weeks before elections were to take place.
11/22/2000:  Unidentified assailants exploded an improvised explosive device (IED) in the commercial center of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Robinson Clairvil, a 14-year-old boy, was killed in the explosion, and at least three people were injured. The incident occurred a few days before Haiti's national elections. This was just one of a series of bomb attacks that day in and around Port-au-Prince. No group has claimed responsibility.
05/17/2000: The Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) building in Delmas was attacked with grenades by unknown perpetrators. There were no injuries as a result of the attack.
4/10/2000: Merilus Deus, a rural assembly candidate for the Christian Movement for a New Haiti party, and his daughter were attacked by unidentified assailants in their Savanette home in Haiti. Merilus Deus was shot and hacked to death and his daughter, Michou, was critically injured with a machete. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
11/22/2000:  Unidentified assailants exploded three bombs in Petionville, a suburb of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. At least three people were injured in the explosion. The incident occurred a few days before Haiti's national elections. This was just one of a series of bomb attacks that day in and around Port-au-Prince. No group has claimed responsibility.
11/22/2000:  Unidentified assailants exploded a bomb in the downtown center of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. At least three people were injured in the explosion. The incident occurred a few days before Haiti's national elections. This was just one of a series of bomb attacks that day in and around Port-au-Prince. No group has claimed responsibility.
1/19/2001: A pipe bomb exploded in downtown Port-au-Prince, Ouest department, Haiti. No one was injured when the device exploded. This was one of several bomb attacks in and around the capital that day. The explosions occurred three weeks before the inauguration of President-elect Jean Bertrand Aristide. One person was arrested in connection with the bombings.
1/19/2001: A pipe bomb exploded near a public high school on the outskirts Port-au-Prince, Ouest department, Haiti. No one was injured when the device exploded. This was one of several bomb attacks in and around the capital that day. The explosions occurred three weeks before the inauguration of President-elect Jean Bertrand Aristide. One person was arrested in connection with the bombings.
1/19/2001: A pipe bomb exploded in a suburban open-air market in Port-au-Prince, Ouest department, Haiti. No one was injured when the device exploded. This was one of several bomb attacks in and around the capital that day. The explosions occurred three weeks before the inauguration of President-elect Jean Bertrand Aristide. One person was arrested in connection with the bombings.
03/09/2001: Two homemade bombs containing gas and a rag fuse were thrown onto the yard of the residence of Daniel Whitman, an official working at the United States embassy, in Port-au-Prince, Ouest department, Haiti. The bombs failed to ignite so no one was injured and no property damage was done. No group claimed responsibility for the attack but authorities held several suspects for questioning.
1/19/2001: A pipe bomb exploded in downtown Port-au-Prince, Ouest department, Haiti. The bomb had been hidden in a satchel that was placed in a truck. The man driving the truck was seriously injured when the device exploded. This was one of several bomb attacks in and around the capital that day. The explosions occurred three weeks before the inauguration of President-elect Jean Bertrand Aristide. One person was arrested in connection with the bombings.
05/12/2002: In an incident related to an attack on her son, Senator Pierre Sancon Prince, Dieula Prince had her house burned down with everything still in it by unidentified persons in the Cayes-Jacmel area of Haiti, while she was away in Port-au-Prince. She stated that she had previously received threats from a member of the “people’s organization” called Face to Face (Face-a-Face). No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
05/07/2002: Unknown perpetrators trying to kill Haitian Senator Pierre Sancon Prince, shot and seriously injured one of his bodyguards, Bob Blemur, while they were getting into their car in Jacmel, Haiti. Senator Prince in an interview stated that he believed the shot was meant for him because he was a controversial political figure. The incident occurred in front of a city hall building and the source mentioned that a group called the Lavalas, were present and trying to reopen the city hall which apparently had been closed for political reasons. While no group claimed responsibility for the attack, members of Fanmi Lavalas were suspected
10/01/2003: A group of unknown size attacked a customs house in Gonaives, Haiti. The building was set on fire and partially damaged. No casualties were reported during the incident. Participants were supporters and members of the Cannibal Army gang.
07/25/2003: Four persons were killed and another seriously injured during an ambush by armed strangers against a delegation from the Ministry of the Interior in Wassec, Haiti.
10/01/2003: A group of unknown size attacked a tax office in Gonaives, Haiti. Documents were taken from the building and burned in the street. No casualties were reported during the incident. Participants were supporters and members of the Cannibal Army gang.
10/01/2003: A group of unknown size attacked a state-run insurance company in Gonaives, Haiti. The building was set on fire, but the extent of damage was not reported. No casualties were reported during the incident. Participants were supporters and members of the Cannibal Army gang.
10/01/2003: A group of unknown size attacked a police station in Gonaives, Haiti. The building was set on fire and destroyed. No casualties were reported during the incident. Participants were supporters and members of the Cannibal Army gang.
03/07/2004: Jean-BertrandAristide supporters opened fire on a crowd of unarmed demonstrators in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti. Five people were reported killed and 30 injured in the incident.
02/16/2004: Fifty rebels descended on a police station in Hinche, Haiti. The rebels killed district police chief Maxime Jonas, pushed police out of the city and freed prisoners from the jail before torching the station. According to witnesses, Louis-Jodel Chamblain, a former Haitian soldier who led a paramilitary group known as the Front for the Advancement and Progress of Haiti (FRAPH), was responsible for the attack.
10/19/2005: One person was killed when an unknown group attacked a police station in Limbe, Haiti with firearms and knives. The individual killed, Lerius Patterson, was a shoe shiner who was sleeping in the police station when he was killed with a knife.
01/17/2006: Two Jordanian UN peacekeepers, Sgt. Rabi Jalal Merei and Capt. Tareq Abded Al Fattah Al Jaafreh, were killed and a third was seriously wounded when members of a gang armed with guns attacked their checkpoint in the Cite Soleil neighborhood of Port-au-Prince.
04/13/2007: Gunmen shot and killed a journalist named Johnson Edouard while he was asleep in his home in Gonaives, Haiti. Edouard had ties to ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide's political party. No one claimed responsibility for the incident.
11/06/2007: Unidentified gunmen fired automatic weapons at a TV and radio station in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. One bystander was injured. No one claimed responsibility for the attack.
05/16/2016: Assailants attacked a police station in Les Cayes, Sud, Haiti. At least seven people, including a police officer and six assailants were killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
12/25/2018: Assailants set fire to an unknown number of police officer residences in Savane Pistache, Port-au-Prince, Ouest, Haiti. There were no reported casualties in the attack. This was one of two coordinated incidents in Savane Pistache on the same day. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the attacks to the Savane Pistache gang and stated that the assailants were seeking the release of 17 people detained related to a previous attack on October 1, 2018.
12/25/2018: Assailants set fire to a police sub-station in Savane Pistache, Port-au-Prince, Ouest, Haiti. There were no reported casualties in the attack. This was one of two coordinated incidents in Savane Pistache on the same day. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the attacks to the Savane Pistache gang and stated that the assailants were seeking the release of 17 people detained related to a previous attack on October 1, 2018.
05/12/2018: Assailants opened fire at the central office of the Electricity of Haiti (EDH) in Port-au-Prince, Ouest, Haiti. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
08/20/2018: Assailants threw a grenade at the Parliament building in Port-au-Prince, Ouest, Haiti. There were no reported casualties in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
10/01/2018: Assailants opened fire on the vehicle of Eric Jean Baptiste in Carrefour-Feuilles, Port-au-Prince, Ouest, Haiti. Baptiste, the secretary general of the Rally of Progressive National Democrats (RPND) and former presidential candidate, was injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Savane Pistache gang.
07/06/2019: Assailants opened fire on the vehicle of Pedrica Saint Jean in Port-au-Prince, Ouest, Haiti. Saint Jean, a legislator and the Chief of Protocol in the Chamber of Deputies, was injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
06/10/2019: Assailants opened fire on journalist Petion Rospide in Portail Leogane, Port-au-Prince, Ouest, Haiti. Rospide was killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
08/18/2019: Assailants opened fire at Ronald Étienne, deputy of the Consortium of Political Parties, in Pestel, Grand'Anse, Haiti. Étienne and his driver were injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
10/10/2019: An assailant shot and killed Néhémie Joseph, a reporter for the privately owned stations Radio Panic FM and Radio Méga, in Bayas, Mirebalais, Centre, Haiti. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
5/18/2002: At least four unidentified gunmen abducted Reginaldo Panting, a former Honduran economy minister, near San Pedro Sula, Cortés, Honduras. Panting was driving when the assailants pulled him over, forced him into one of their cars, and drove away with him. No group has claimed responsibility for the incident and the motive is unknown.
12/25/2004: An unknown group claiming to be members of a revolutionary group opposed to the death penalty opened fire on a public bus in northern Honduras. Ten perpetrators were captured while 28 civilians were killed and 14 were injured.
11/12/2009: On Thursday evening, in the Colonia Miraflores neighborhood of Tegucigalpa, Francisco Morazan, Honduras, unknown assailants fired a rocket-propelled grenade (RPG-7M) at a building housing ballot boxes, resulting in no casualties or damage. The rocket was overshot and missed the target exploding 550 yards from the building. No group claimed responsibility.
11/04/2009: On Wednesday afternoon around 1430, at the exit for El Amatillo, Lempira, Honduras, armed assailants detonated a grenade and fired upon a vehicle transporting the mayor and deputy mayor of La Virtud, Lempira, resulting in no casualties or damage. No group claimed responsibility.
11/25/2009: On Wednesday evening, in Tegucigalpa, Francisco Morazan, Honduras, assailants used portable launchers to fire grenades at buildings, damaging the Supreme Court and Canal 10 television buildings but resulting in no casualties. No group claimed responsibility.
11/06/2009: On Friday, in Tegucigalpa, Francisco Morazan, Honduras, assailants threw a fragmentation grenade at the National Electricity Company's (ENEE) Pueblo Nuevo substation, damaging the substation but resulting in no casualties. No group claimed responsibility.
11/18/2009: On Wednesday, in Juticalpa, Olancho, Honduras, assailants launched grenades and fired upon a vehicle owned by the leader of the opposition Liberal Party, killing two bodyguards and damaging the vehicle and several homes. No group claimed responsibility.
11/22/2009: On Sunday morning around 1030, in Tegucigalpa, Francisco Morazan, Honduras, assailants detonated a bomb underneath a vehicle near the Abundant Life church, damaging the vehicle but resulting in no casualties. No group claimed responsibility.
11/05/2009: On Thursday, in Tegucigalpa, Francisco Morazan, Honduras, an improvised explosive device exploded in a men's restroom in Plaza Central Francisco Morazan, damaging the facility but resulting in no casualties. No group claimed responsibility.
11/04/2009: On Wednesday evening, in Tegucigalpa, Francisco Morazan, Honduras, assailants threw a grenade at the HRN radio station, wounding one employee and damaging the station. No group claimed responsibility.
12/6/2011:  Two unidentified gunmen shot and killed Luz Marina Paz, a journalist, in Tegucigalpa, Central District, Honduras. She was on her way to work when the assailants opened fire on her vehicle, killing her and her driver. No group claimed responsibility.
11/24/2013: Assailants opened fire on civilians near a polling station in Gracias a Dios department, Honduras. At least five people were killed in the assault. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
08/01/2013: An explosive device thrown from a vehicle detonated in front of the president of Honduras's home in El Chimbo, near Tegucigalpa city, Francisco Morazan department, Honduras. No casualties were reported. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
05/12/2014: Assailants opened fire on Rafael Barahona in Tegucigalpa, Francisco Morazan, Honduras. Barahona, a Tegucigalpa councilor, was injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
10/18/2016: Assailants shot and killed Jose Angel Flores and Silmer George, two land rights activists, in Tocoa, Colon, Honduras. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
05/12/2017: Assailants armed with firearms and sharp weapons attacked a gay couple at their residence in Tela, Atlantida, Honduras. Both victims were killed in the assault. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
08/31/2019: An assailant shot and killed Edgar Joel Aguilar, a TV reporter, in Santa Rosa, Copan, Honduras. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
07/08/2019: Assailants opened fire on Bessy Ferrera, a journalist and transgender activist, in Comayaguela, Francisco Morazan, Honduras. Ferrera was killed and another transgender activist was injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, the police briefly detained two individuals for the attack.
07/05/2019: Assailants opened fire on Santiago “Santi” Carvajal, a journalist and transgender activist, in Buenos Aires, Puerto Cortes, Cortes, Honduras. Carvajal was killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
09/27/2019: Assailants attempted to abduct Sandra Maribel Sanchez, a Radio Progreso journalist, in Tegucigalpa, Francisco Morazan, Honduras. The kidnapping was unsuccessful and there were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/17/2008: On Thursday at 17:30, several shots were fired at workers at the Budafok depot in Budapest, Hungary province, Hungary.  It was believed that the sniper was using an air gun with bearing balls. The attack, which lasted for several hours, happened prior to a 24 hour strike by the company’s workers. No casualties were reported and no claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
04/18/2008: On Friday shortly before 06:00, a Molotov cocktail was thrown into the 2nd district Szépilona transportation depot in Budapest, Hungary province, Hungary. The arson attack took place during a 24 hour strike by the  Budapest Transport Company's (BKV) employees. The petrol bomb damaged the tram but did result in any casualties. No claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
02/24/2009: On Tuesday, in Tatarszentgyorgy, Hungary, Robert Csorba and his five-year-old son were shot and killed while they were trying to escape their house, which had been set on fire. It has not been known if the attack was racially motivated. No group claimed responsibility.
01/13/2014: An explosive device detonated at a CIB bank in Budapest city, Budapest region, Hungary. There were no reported casualties or injuries; however, the building was damaged in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
09/24/2016: An explosive device detonated near a Rendorseg patrol in Budapest, Hungary. At least two officers were injured in the blast. Police arrested a 24-year old individual who confessed to carrying out the incident.
10/23/2019: Assailants set fire to Aurora community center, a Jewish center, in Budapest city, Budapest, Hungary. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Neo-Nazi extremists.
01/31/2012: An explosive device detonated near government offices in Reykjavik, Hofudhborgarsvaedhi, Iceland. The explosive device was partially detonated by a robot meant to deactivate it. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/16/2014: Assailants attempted to set a Lutheran Church on fire in Akureyri, Nordhurland Eystra, Iceland. No one was injured in the attack; however, the building was damaged. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
01/26/2000: An unsuccessful attempt was made to assassinate Congress leader Muzaffar Hussain Beig. Beig escaped uninjured, though one of his security guards was seriously injured. A grenade was thrown onto Beig’s house in Doda, pierced the roof, and exploded inside the house. No group claimed responsiblity for the attack.
03/18/2000: Three grenades were fired at the Srinagar Doordarshan Kendra broadcast center in Srinagar, India. The grenades were fired from the Rajbagh Colony from across the Jhelum river. No one was hurt in the attack. The attack caused minor damage.
01/28/2000: A bomb hidden under a car exploded in downtown Jammu, destroying four cars and breaking the windows of nearby aparments. No group claimed responsibility for this attack.
04/26/2000: A bicycle seat was found filled with RDX explosives and disarmed in Chak Mohd Yar, India. It weighed about 4 kgs, had a timing device, and was disarmed by the bomb squad. Officials suspected that civilians were the target of the attack.
8/17/2000: At least eight suspected Muslim militants opened fire on Hindu villagers in Koddara village, Rajouri district, India. Six villagers were killed in the attack. Another six villagers, including a baby, were wounded. Several of the victims were members of a village defense committee that was set up to serve a protective function against similar attacks. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
12/3/2000:  Suspected militants shot at a passenger bus in Qazigund, Anantnag district, Kashmir, India. Two young sisters were wounded in the shooting. No group has claimed responsibility for the incident.
09/15/2000: A group of unidentified gunmen stormed a Police Guard near a shrine in Bandipore. The gunmen stormed into the guard room of the Jammu and Kashmir Armed Police at Aham Sharif, near Bandipore at 8:45 pm. They shot and killed a Constable with AK-56 rifle fire, another was critically injured, and afterwards the gunmen stole their weapons. Three other constables who were supposed to be in the guard room were instead at a nearby shrine. The Constables were guarding the shrine at the time of the incident.
8/19/2000: Five suspected Muslim militants attacked at least one Hindu family in Indeh village in Udhampur district, India. The assailants entered into the home of Mir Chand and opened fire with AK-47 assault rifles. Four villagers were killed and at least one critically injured. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
07/16/2000: In one of two related incidents, the village of Rongkuri, Karbi Anglong district, India, was attacked by members of the Karbi National Volunteers (KNV), collectively resulting in 10 dead and one injured. Those killed were targeted specifically for being non-tribals in an area that the KNV was trying to establish as a tribal separatist region.
12/25/2000: A car bomb exploded outside of the Indian Army headquarters in Kashmir, India, killing eight people and wounding 23 others. Jamaat-ul Mujahideen claimed responsibility for the explosion in telephone calls to local newspapers. Within hours, however, a spokesman for the Jaysh-e Muhammad (Army of Muhammad) also claimed responsibility.
12/01/2000: Suspected Islamic militants hurled a grenade at a passing security vehicle in the Jehangir Chowk area of Srinagar, India. The grenade missed its target and exploded in a crowded street, injuring 3 civilians. The attack occurred in the context of several other grenade attacks, during a proposed cease fire.
12/01/2000: Suspected Islamic militants executed a car bomb attack in Jehangir Square in Srinagar, India. The timing device concealed under a car hood blew up, causing no casualties and no reported damage. This was the first of several related attacks and may be a response to a proposed cease fire that was seen as a propaganda ploy.
01/03/2000: A bomb exploded at a vegetable market in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir State. Eighteen people were killed, fourteen civilians and four security personnel, and at lest thirty people were injured in this attack by unknown perpetrators.
7/13/2000: Suspected members of the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) fired mortar shells at the oil refinery in Bongaigaon, western Assam, India. The mortars missed the refinery and exploded several hundred yards away, causing panic amongst the workers. The guards fired on the assailants who fled on motorcycles. The NDFB is fighting for independent homeland for the Bodo tribe.
07/16/2000: In one of two related incidents, the village of Diklam, Karbi Anglong district, India, was attacked by members of the Karbi National Volunteers (KNV), collectively resulting in 10 dead and one injured. Those killed were targeted specifically for being non-tribals in an area that the KNV was trying to establish as a tribal separatist region.
02/17/2000: Hizb-ul-Mujahidin (HM) claimed responsibility for killing Faiyaz Ahmad, a counter-insurgency unit commander, with a mine that was placed underneath his car. An associate was killed and two bodyguards were injured in the explosion as well. The attack occurred in the town of Sumbal located in India's northern Jammu and Kashmir State.
02/20/2000: Twenty-two police officers were killed by a land mine suspected to have been by People's War Group rebels in Bustar, India.
11/16/2000: Suspected tribal guerrillas shot and killed a tea executive at Fatemabad estate in the north of Barpeta district, Assam state, India. The assailants are believed to be from the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB). Authorities suspect that the victim did not meet a cash demand made by the assailants.
12/01/2000: Suspected Islamic militants hurled a grenade at a passing security vehicle in Pattan, Kashmir. The grenade missed its target and exploded in a crowded street, injuring 12 civilians. The attack occurred in the context of several other grenade attacks, during a proposed cease fire.
02/20/2000: Members of the National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) threw petrol bombs at a jeep in Bishram Ganj, India, killing two and injuring 15 others.
06/13/2000: Ghulam Muhammad Reshi, a block president of the Kashmir's ruling National Conference Party, and his Personal Security Officer (PSO) were killed by suspected Islamic militants in an ambush near a health resort in Kunzar-Tangmarg, 40 kilometers (25 miles) north of Srinagar, India.
6/25/2000: An improvised explosive device (IED) detonated in the Markas Mosque in the town of Guntur, India. The bomb had been left in a black bag inside the building and exploded shortly after evening prayers. At least one person was injured in the attack and the mosque suffered minor damage. No one claimed responsibility for the attack.
05/07/2000: Late in the evening on May 8, 2000, the Indian police forces in Srinagar, Kashmir discovered a car full of explosives approximately 500 meters from the Secretariat compound. The car contained over 150 kilograms of explosive material. No group has taken credit for the attack but the government suspected Islamic militants.
09/09/2000: On the night of September 9, 2000, suspected members of the Ranvir Sena organization raided the village of Dumariyan in Bihar Province, India. They dragged six Communist Party of India -- Marxist-Leninist (CPI-ML) supporters out of their homes and killed them. Officials stated that three of the bodies were found at Dumariyan, while the three other bodies were found in fields in Nawadhawa village. The victims were reportedly split into two groups before being killed. All of the victims had their abdomens and throats slit open by a sharp weapon. No one was arrested over the incident.
01/27/2000: At least two rockets were fired at the Jammu home of Muslim legislator from the National Conference party, Javed Shah. The unknown attackers and Shah’s police protection fought a gunfight for a few hours after the attack.
10/11/2000: Militants lobbed a grenade at a security patrol vehicle in the Residency Road area at the heart of Srinagar, Kashmir, India. The grenade missed the target and fell instead into the crowded road, injuring at least ten people including two police officers. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
10/18/2000: Kashmir rebels detonated an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) in Sopore, India. The rebels targeting an Indian Army vehicle in the incident. Many Indian soldiers died and injured in the incident (unspecified). Eight civilians also sustained injuries in the blast.
01/12/2000: Pakistani group Lashkar-e Taiba claimed responsibility for an armed attack with grenades and guns on the Rashtriya Rifles headquarters in Khannabal. Around 15 soldiers were killed, two civilians, and three militants.
12/22/2000: Pakistan-based Lashkar-e Taiba attacked the Indian "Red Fort" military post in New Delhi, India, killing 3 and wounding an unspecified number of people. The action was perceived as an effort to derail the peace process and terrorize the citizens of India.
11/25/2000: In the second of two related incidents, suspected United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) members left the village of Jagra and traveled 10 kilometers to Kumrikata, Nalbari district, India, where they went to a house and asked the inhabitants to open the door. There they killed Mohd Salim Khan and injured Rafiq Khan. ULFA denied responsibility for the killings. The All Tripura Tiger Force (ATTF) claimed responsibility, but police believed that there was no such group and the ULFA made the claim in an attempt to mislead authorities.
07/13/2000: Four Brahmins were shot dead by 60 armed men from the outlawed People's War Group in Hasker, India. The attackers first abducted the victims and later killed them. The People's War Group claimed responsibility for the attack in a note left at the scene of the crime.
09/15/2000: During late night 09/15/2000, militants detonated an improvised explosive device (IED) in Fazlabad village, Surankote District, while an Indian Army patrol was passing by. The explosion killed one Indian soldier, and injured another. The Indian Army immediately sealed off the area and searched the village for militants, but the militants were able to escape capture.
05/21/2000: National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) rebels attacked the village of Baghber, Tripura, India, in a wave of ethnic violence in the region. The militants used guns and grenades to kill 25 persons and injured several others (unspecified).
03/04/2000: Eleven extremists and two policemen died in an encounter the People's War Group and Indian paramilitary forces in Kachnara, India Twelve extremists and two policemen were injured in the incident.
05/08/2000: On the evening of May 8, 2000 two militant Hindu organizations raided the Christian girls hostel Ashramshala, India. Members of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) and Bajrang Dal entered the hostel in reaction to the viewing of a film about the life of Jesus Christ. The film projector and screen were destroyed as well as three motorcycles and a mini van. Two people were injured.
3/16/2000:  A crude low intensity bomb exploded in the crowded shopping Sadar Bazar district in New Delhi, India. At least seven people were injured in the explosion and two were in critical condition. U.S. President Clinton was scheduled to arrive in the area three days after the explosion, but authorities state that the explosion is not linked to the presidential visit. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
7/19/2000: Approximately 25 non-tribals believed to be from the Bihari community attacked the Serapathar village in Karbi Anglong district, Assam state, India. They were armed with bows, arrows, and sharp weapons. Attacking while the villagers slept, the assailants killed six locals and injured three more. They also set several huts on fire as well.
06/25/2000: Nine people were killed and two injured when unknown assailants fired on their vehicle in Lengdenpokse, India. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
8/20/2000: T.H. Brajamani Singh, the editor of the Manipur News, was shot and killed by two unidentified assailants in Imphal, Manipur state, India. Singh had been was returning to work on his motorcycle after picking up another individual when the gunmen stopped him and shot him point blank. The other individual traveling with Singh was not injured in the attack. Singh had been receiving threats and had recently challenged those threatening him to confront him directly.
05/22/2000: One person was killed and three others were injured when suspected Islamic militants fired eight grenades at the Civil Secretariat in Srinagar, in the Kashmir state of India. The grenades exploded just short of the Secretariat building.
07/24/2000: A bomb exploded on a bus in Jullundur, India, killing 7 and wounding 20. There were no claims of responsibility for the attack.
04/05/2000: A bomb exploded in front of the Civil Court in Hyderabad, India, injuring two lawyers, Ziauddin Qureshi and Inam-ul-Haq. Three cars were also severely damaged in the attack. The bomb consisted of about 1.5 kilograms of homemade explosive. The perpetrators were unknown.
05/28/2000: Two people were killed and 12 were injured as a result of a bomb blast triggered by suspected Islamic militants in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India. Police suspected that Bilal Ahmad, a militant and one of those killed in the blast, may have been the perpetrator responsible for the bombing.
06/11/2000: An Indian Christian priest, Ashish (only one name reported), was found murdered in his rented apartment in the northern Indian city of Jalandhar in Punjab state. Police officials reported that Ashish's body bore multiple stab injuries inflicted by a sharp weapon. The perpetrators were unknown.
09/23/2000: Unknown militants attacked the town of Pattapani, Kashmir, leaving five dead and two injured.
04/28/2000: One student was killed and four policemen and two civilians wounded by a bomb targeted at a police checkpoint in Sher Bagh, India. The bomb was made of plastic explosives. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
05/29/2000: Four army personnel were injured when unknown attackers threw a grenade at their patrol in Shopian, Kashmir, India.
12/01/2000: Suspected Islamic militants executed a car bomb attack in Jehangir Square in Sringara, India. The device blew as paramilitary forces cordoned off the area in response to an earlier car bomb, causing no casualties and no reported damage. This was the first of several related attacks and may be a response to a proposed cease fire that was seen as a propaganda ploy.
8/16/2000: Militants hurled a grenade at a police patrol in Bijbehara township, Jammu and Kashmir, India. The grenade missed the patrol and landed in the crowded Bijbehara Bazar, causing injury to 11 civilians. The attack occurred one day after the country celebrated Independence Day. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
5/1/2000:  Members of the National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) shot and killed two Bengali settlers as they worked their fields in Chandrathakurpara village, India. The incident incited a mob response.
7/2/2000: Suspected members of the National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) stormed the Golokpur tea estate in Kailasahar Subdivision of North Tripura, India. Bipin Behari Tandon, the manager of four tea gardens, was abducted and held for ransom. The attackers demanded ten million rupees in exchange for Tandon. Sources state that the abduction was intended to "step up pressure" on the tea garden management.
10/18/2000: Kashmir rebels threw a grenade an Indian Army bunker located in the Nawab Bazar locality in Srinagar. Two civilians were injured in the incident.
03/21/2000: About 30-40 unidentified Muslim militants massacred 35 Sikhs in Chadisinghpoora, India. Militants marched civilians from their houses and gathered them in the center of the village where they separated women and opened fire on the men. Some 34 Sikhs aged between 18 and 40 died in the attack, and one person was critically injured. In arrests which followed the attack the Indian government blamed Lashkar-e Taiba and the Hizb-ul-Mujahidin (HM)organizations for carrying out the attack.
04/19/2000: A suicide car bomber exploded his vehicle just outside of the Indian Army’s 15 Corps headquarters in Badami Bagh, India. Four army personnel and three civilians were injured, and the bomber was killed instantly. It was later discovered that the suicide bomber belonged to Jaysh-e Muhammad (Army of Muhammad).
8/12/2000: A grenade that was hidden in a garbage can detonated near a famous shrine by Dal Lake, in Srinagar, India. Four people were injured in the attack, including two Hungarian tourists. Hizbul Mujahideen (HM), a pro-Pakistan group, claimed responsibility for the attack. The group called on the public to boycott the independence day celebrations. The guerrilla group said that their people were being killed, their property was being destroyed, and the females in their region were being sexually assaulted. This incident was one of a series of attacks leading up to independence day.
8/13/2000: A powerful land mine detonated under a bus traveling near Kud between Jammu and Srinagar, India. The bus was transporting members of the Border Security Force (BSF) paramilitary. At least four soldiers were killed and 32 injured. Hizbul Mujahideen (HM), a pro-Pakistan group, claimed responsibility for the attack. The group called on the public to boycott the independence day celebrations. The guerrilla group said that their people were being killed, their property was being destroyed, and the females in their region were being sexually assaulted. This incident was one of a series of attacks leading up to independence day.
06/04/2000: Unidentified militants shot dead three civilians including an activist of Kashmir's ruling National Conference party in Bemina, Srinagar, India.
4/9/2000: Members of the National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) kidnapped the daughter of Kunja Debbarma, a Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) candidate from Amteli-Golaghati constituency, Tripura, India. This was one in a series of kidnappings of family members of candidates of the ruling Left Front who were contesting the upcoming Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (TTAADC) polls. The NLFT demanded that the candidates withdraw from the elections in return for the safety of their family members.
05/15/2000: The Jammu and Kashmir Minister of State for Power, Mr. Ghulam Hassan Bhat, and four others were killed in a powerful explosion near Mandipore in Anantnag district in India's Kashmir. Two policemen were also injured in the blast. The pro-Pakistan militant outfit, Hizb-ul-Mujahidin (HM), claimed responsibility for the blast.
02/18/2000: Seven Border Security Force (BSF) members were injured by a landmine on the Bijbehra-Pahalgam road in Kashmir, India. Kashmiri separatists were suspected in the attack.
11/03/2000: Eight people were killed when a landmine exploded along the Srinagar-Gulmarg road at Mazhama. Among the killed was former Congress leader and son of a prominent Shia Muslim cleric, Agha Syed Mahdi. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
11/30/2000: Two suspected United Liberation Front of Assam motorcycle-borne militants raided a railway laborers' colony in Bongaigaon, Indian and fired indiscriminately from AK-series rifles. They killed 16 people and injured 11 more.
10/18/2000: Kashmir rebels used rifle grenades to attack an Indian Army base in Anantnag, Anantnag District, India. The incident resulted in heavy loss of life and material (unspecified) for the Indian army.
12/11/2000: Militants claiming to belong to Jaysh-e Muhammad (Army of Muhammad) planted a mine in a bicycle and parked it on the main Srinagar-Baramulla highway, in the Qamarwari outskirts of New Delhi. When a vehicle of BSF [Border Security Force] 61 Bn passed the explosive near the Shyam Lal's filling station, militants activated the mine with a remote control device. The targeted vehicle suffered extensive damage, five BSF personnel and 3 civilians sustained injuries. One civilian, Yunis Azam Kawoosa S/o Abdul Aziz Kawoosa of Qarfali Mohalla died due to injuries sustained in the attack. A private load-carrier and a pick-up van of Forest Department were also damaged in the blast.
11/02/2000: Ten people waiting at a bus stop were killed and seven injured in a shootout between the Assam Rifles and unknown militants in Imphal.
02/18/2000: A landmine explosion in Kashmir, India, killed ten people, including nine police officers and one civilian. Six people were also injured in the blast. Kashmiri separatists were suspected in the attack.
02/27/2000: A powerful bomb ripped trough a vehicle killing the Assam forest and PWD [Public Works Department] Minister, Mr. Nagen Sharmaand and four others in Bahajan, India. The bomb, which was planted by the side of the road, was suspected to be the work of the United Liberation Front of Assam.
8/7/2000:  Two headmasters were killed in Jalpaiguri, West Bengal, India. One of the victims was a local leader of the Left Front, the ruling party in that state. Members of the Kamtapur Liberation Organization (KLO) are believed responsible. Three suspects were taken into custody. Authorities believe that the motivation behind the attack was to create terror leading up to Independence Day.
10/21/2000: The pack mule loaded with plastic explosives was sent off in the direction of a border security force post in Lapri village, in Udhampur district, India. Two Indian soldiers were killed and four seriously injured in the incident. Unknown Muslim militants were reported responsible for the attack.
06/04/2000: Militants fired at police officers in Wazirbagh, India, killing one and seriously injuring another. A Pakistan-based militant group, Jaysh-e Muhammad (Army of Muhammad)claimed responsibility for the attacks.
01/11/2000: Two policemen were killed and two injured when the People's War Group attacked with explosives the District Superintendent of Police camp office at Kagajnagar, Adilabad District.
08/10/2000: A powerful car bomb detonated in the Regal Chowk area in Srinagar, killing ten civilians and injuring at least 18. The explosion damaged nearby buildings and vehicles. Hizb-ul-Mujahidin (HM) claimed responsibility for the bombing stating that it had been targeting Indian security forces as representatives of Indian actions toward Pakistanis in Kashmir.
07/12/2000: Three Buddhist monks were killed at the Rungdum monastery in Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir State, by unknown gunmen suspected of reacting to comments made by a Buddhist spokesman.
12/17/2000:  Suspected members of the People's War Group (PWG) shot and killed four people in Brahmchack village, Bihar state, India. The four victims were supporters of the Communist Party of India-Marxist Leninist, a rival group of the PWG. Authorities believe that it may have been a retaliatory attack.
5/20/2000: Two bombs were found on Tiddim road, leading to the Imphal airport in Imphal, India. It is believed that the bombs were intended for Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and his convoy; he was scheduled to land in Imphal the next day. Some sources state that one of the bombs detonated before being discovered. The Manipur People's Liberation Army (PLA) is believed responsible for the attack.
12/01/2000: At least two suspected Islamic militants attacked the house of Gyan Singh, a village defense committee member of Jallanmarh-Sarjao, in Sarju India. The perpetrators first threw grenades and subsequently entered the house and shot dead four children and injured two others.
02/22/2000: Tribal rebels opened fire at a poling place in Manipur, India, killing three soldiers and wounding seven others, including four voters. One perpetrator involved in the incident was later arrested.
05/21/2000: Twenty-two people were injured when a bomb exploded at a Christian gathering organized by the Gospel Church Association of India in Machilipatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India. No group claimed responsibility for the attack, but four men were later arrested for setting the bomb.
01/01/2000: Members of Lashkar-e Taiba attacked the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) 68 battalion camp at Umorha Morhcamp in Udhampur, killing one and injuring two.
09/01/2000: A land mine detonated at a bridge in Sangrama, Baramulla District, in India-administered Kashmir (Jammu and Kashmir State). The target was a prominent Shia leader, Mualvi Iftikhar Hussain Ansari--he was injured in the incident, and three of his personnel were killed. The perpetrators were militants operating in the area; it is unclear which group may be responsible. The local police suspects that a member of the Hizbul Momineen was behind the explosion because they were involved in an assassination attempt on the same target in June 2000.
11/19/2000: At least 20 suspected members of the National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) stormed Boroholdi village, Tripura, India. They rounded up Bengali villagers, shooting and killing seven of them and injuring an additional six villagers. The militants proceeded to burn down approximately a dozen homes. The incident occurred during a time of increasing ethnic clashes in the area.
09/01/2000: Three militants, an Indian Army Major, and a civilian were killed during an Army patrol on the Srinagar-Leh Highway at Drahteng-Prang village in Kashmir. Heavy firing ensued. Two of the three dead militants were later identified as Farooq Master and Mohammad Shafi of the Hizb-ul-Mujahidin (HM) organization.
01/19/2000: Unknown militants blew up a goods train in the Indian state of Assam though a passenger train was the original target. At least ten cars of the train and more than 100 yards of track were damaged.
8/26/2000: Two armed militants blew up a newspaper office located in the Pan Manipur Youth League building at Konung Lampak, Imphal, India. The two men entered the office of the daily newspaper Lamyanba and ordered out the 11 trainees and 40 staff members that were in the building. 45 minutes later, the front of the building exploded, destroying the entire facade as well as a car and a two-wheeler that were in front of the building. The motive behind the attack is unknown but the assailants had told the editor that they were handed down their mission by elders.
11/24/2000: Suspected National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) extremists gunned down eight villagers - five Bodos and three Santhals - who had gone to the Lungsung forest in Kokrajhar district, India, to collect firewood.
4/19/2000:  Approximately 15 members of the National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) raided Laxmipur village in North Tripura district, Tripura state, India. The armed insurgents set fire to multiple homes, burning 19 of them; when the residents fled from the huts, the assailants opened fire on them. Eight Bengali villagers were killed and one was injured. The government states that the incident was intended to create tension and disrupt the upcoming elections, while the police suspect the incident was in retaliation for the killing of tribal youth.
09/12/2000: During the early morning hours of September 12, 2000, two militants dressed in Indian Army uniforms launched a surprise attack on an Indian Army's 34 Rashtriya Rifles Camp at Beerwa in Budgam District in Kashmir, killing 11 Military personnel and injuring at least 5 more. Among the dead was an Indian Army Major, Major Mahesh Pandey. The militants reportedly shot in all directions and because of nighttime conditions, the gunfight lasted for several hours before both militants were killed. An Indian Defense Ministry spokesman believed that the Lashkar-e Taiba organization was behind the attack, which was confirmed when Lashkar-e Taiba and Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen identified the perpetrators as Abu Bakar and Abu Tallaha, members of a "Fidayeen" (suicide/death) squad of Lashkar-e Taiba, suggesting that the incident was a suicide attack.
01/01/2000: An Oil and Natural Gas Commission (ONGC) pipeline was blown up with a time bomb in Kakotibari. It was suspected that the United Liberation Front of Assam was responsible. No one was killed or injured.
10/27/2000: Two militants from the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e Toiba group, armed with sophisticated weapons, attacked the joint camp of the Special Operations Group (SOG) of Jammu and Kashmir Police and India's paramilitary force, the Central Reserve Police (CRPF), in Surankote in Poonch district, India. The attack sparked off a gun fight in which one of the militants and one of the Indian security personnel were killed.
02/18/2000: Eight people were killed and one injured in an attack by the People's War Group on a police outpost in Tarakunda, India.
02/20/2000: Indian Aviation Minister, Sharad Yadav, and his pilot were injured when suspected National People’s Party (Rashtriya Janata Dal - RJD) members attacked his helicopter with rocks shortly after landing in Madhepura.
05/29/2000: Unknown attackers threw two grenades at police officers in a busy section of Srinagar, India, however, the grenades fell short of their target and instead injured eight civilians.
8/13/2000: A powerful land mine detonated between Jammu and Srinagar, India. The bomb was targeting members of the Border Security Force (BSF) paramilitary who were in the area inspecting an earlier blast. At least one soldier was killed and six injured. Hizbul Mujahideen (HM), a pro-Pakistan group, claimed responsibility for the attack. The group called on the public to boycott the independence day celebrations. The guerrilla group said that their people were being killed, their property was being destroyed, and the females in their region were being sexually assaulted. This incident was one of a series of attacks leading up to independence day.
11/25/2000: In the first of two related incidents, suspected United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) members attacked several individuals in the village of Jagra in Nalbari district, India. The approximately ten perpetrators arrived at the house of Sukhdeb Majhi and Patal Majhi and called them out. They shot the former, but the latter managed to escape. The rebels them moved on to another house, first calling the inhabitants out, then breaking down the door and killing Sufi Alam and Kaumi Alam. Four other individuals fled from the house. ULFA denied responsibility for the killings. The All Tripura Tiger Force (ATTF) claimed responsibility, but police believed that there was no such group and the ULFA made the claim in an attempt to mislead authorities.
07/30/2000: Suspected Islamic militants threw a grenade at a taxi carrying Hindu pilgrims in Gulmarg, Indian Kashmir, killing one and injuring five others.
8/22/2000: Members of the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) opened fire on woodcutters collecting firewood in the Mahamaya reserve forest in lower Assam's Dhubri district, India. Five woodcutters, including two women, were killed and one was injured.
06/07/2000: Unknown Jammu and Kashmir militants made an abortive attack on the heavily-guarded police headquarters in Srinagar, India. According to police sources, the attackers fired 8 grenades from grenade launchers at the building, but while four exploded in the air, three fell on adjoining houses and one on the road. The attack was reported to have caused only limited damage to structures and no casualties.
4/24/2000:  A dozen members of the guerrilla group Karbi National Volunteer Force (KNVF) attacked sleeping laborers in Khoiphuta, Assam state, India. The assailants killed five migrant workers and injured another dozen workers. The KNVF is fighting for autonomy for the Karbi tribespeople and want non-Karbi settlers to leave the tribes' homeland of Assam. Authorities believe that the assailants were making an example of the laborers who had failed to pay a fee demanded of them in the weeks before the attack.
4/9/2000: Members of the National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) kidnapped the son-in-law of Lalit Debbarma, a Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) candidate from Takarjala constituency, Tripura, India. This was one in a series of kidnappings of family members of candidates of the ruling Left Front who were contesting the upcoming Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (TTAADC) polls. The NLFT demanded that the candidates withdraw from the elections in return for the safety of their family members.
1/31/2000: Suspected members of the National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) stopped two lorries on the Umarpur-Natunbazar road, at Paharpur, Tripura, India. The insurgents abducted eight people, including the lorry drivers.
10/27/2000: Six or seven suspected militants from the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) fired indiscriminately at Hindu devotees leaving a temple in Nalbari town, 120 kilometers (74 miles) west of Guwahati, the Assam state capital in India. 10 people were killed and 5 wounded in the attack.
06/03/2000: Suspected militants of the outlawed National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) set off a landmine near Borkhola village, some 220 kilometers (136 miles) west of the state capital Guwahati, India. Seven security force personnel traveling in a jeep were on their way to carry out a raid on a militant-infested village just before dawn when militants triggered off the remote-controlled landmine. Two security force personnel were killed and five seriously injured in the attack.
3/3/2000: An improvised explosive device (IED) exploded in a Delhi-bound bus near Tarkhan Majra village, in Punjab state, India. Of the 28 passengers on board, at least eight people were killed when the blast ripped apart the bus and at least another four were seriously injured. No group claimed responsibility for the attack, but sources suspect the involvement of Kashmiri and Sikh separatist groups.
08/01/2000: Thirty-five people were gunned by suspected Islamic guerrillas on their voyage to a shrine close to Pahalgam base camp in Kashmir, India. 94 more were injured before Indian security forces had a chance to respond and retaliate. The Indian government has blamed the act on Pakistani-supported militants.
04/12/2000: A car packed with explosives was detonated by remote control by militants at Rawalpora bypass on the outskirts of Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India. The target was a convoy of vehicles carrying Indian Army personnel. One bystander was seriously injured. No group claimed responsible, and the perpetrators were unknown.
02/10/2000: Two people were killed and four wounded when a bomb exploded on the Sealdah Express Train in Baira, near Calcutta, India. No group or individual claimed credit for this attack.
01/24/2000: Islamic militants attacked the Batmaloo Indian Army camp in Srinagar with grenades and gunfire. Two soldiers were killed and six soldiers were injured and two militants were killed.
07/30/2000: A bomb set by unknown assailants exploded on a rail track in Assam, India, damaging a passing passenger train, killing 12, and injuring an unknown number.
02/08/2000: Unidentified assailants attacked the Indian Army soldiers in Gaichta-Dudsunbala, India. Four of the attackers were killed in subsequent fighting between the soldiers and the militants.
08/21/2000: National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) militants shot dead Bodo MLA (Member of Legislative Assembly] Mohini Basumatary in Gargaon village, Assam State in India.
06/08/2000: A bomb exploded in the RCM church in Tadepalliguden, Andhra Pradesh, India. No casualties resulted from the incident. Christian groups held militant Hindu organizations responsible for the bombings. This is one of four church bombings in India on 06/08/2000.
09/14/2000: On the evening of September 14, 2000, gunmen abducted a local leader of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Ilyas Ahmad Pir, in Nishat, on the outskirts of Srinagar. The gunmen took them to an unknown destination. There has been no information since about this incident.
04/18/2000: Assailants abducted three traders in Jampuijala area, Tripura state, India. The three traders were then taken to Bangladesh by the assailants. One trader, Ranjan Saha, was released around March 19, 2016; however, the fate of the remaining two hostages is unknown. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the abduction to the National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT).
02/27/2000: Eight people were injured after a powerful bomb exploded inside the Kailash guest house in Paharganj main market in New Delhi, India. There was extensive property damage. The bomb was left in the guest house by Manjit Singh.
9/18/2000: Miscreants threw a bomb at a vehicle in Nepal Tilla in Dhalai district, Tripura state, India. 15 tribal members were injured in the attack.
3/0/2000: At some point during the month of March, members of the Tamil Nadu Liberation Army (TNLA) blew up a portion of a railway track near Cuddalore, India. They left pamphlets at the site of the explosion that condemned the visit of the U.S. President, Bill Clinton.
07/08/2000: A bomb exploded near a church in Hubli, southern India, damaging the building but causing no casualties. Christian groups blamed right wing Hindu groups for the attack.
06/28/2000: Militants fired nine rifle grenades towards the Civil Secretariat of Kashmir, Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah, in Srinagar, India. Four people were injured in the attack and two vehicles were damaged. Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah was not hit by the grenades. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
09/30/2000: A mother and her four children were shot dead by five suspected Muslim separatists in Poonch, Kashmir.
1/31/2000: Unidentified armed insurgents stopped at jeep at Atharobolla in Tripura, India. The assailants opened fire on the passengers, wounding two of them. The assailants also kidnapped three of the passengers.
05/15/2000: Ghulam Hassan Bhat, a government minister for the Indian Government in Jammu and Kashmir state was assassinated on the morning of May 15, 2000. Four others were killed and 2 were injured. Hizb-ul-Mujahidin (HM) claimed responsibility.
10/24/2000: Suspected members of the United Bengali Liberation Front (UBLF) threw bombs at a jeep in Sashisangmapara, Dhalai district, Tripura state, India. One woman was killed and seven others were injured in the attack. The motive has not been identified.
11/15/2000: Members of the United Bengali Liberation Force (UBLF) threw a bomb at a jeep carrying tribal members at Suknachara in North district, Tripura state, India. Three tribal members were killed and at least five others were injured in the explosion. Bengali militants have vowed to retaliate against tribal militants for the killing of Bengali settlers.
06/08/2000: A low-intensity crude bomb exploded at the St Andrews's church in Vasco, South Goa, India. No casualties resulted in the incident. Christian groups held militant Hindu organizations responsible for the bombings. This is one of four church bombings in India on 06/08/2000.
01/16/2000: Two power transmission towers were blown up and the entire Budgam district in the Jammu and Kashmir state was without power. Lashkar-e Taiba claimed responsibility stating that the government was producing power in Kashmir that wasn’t going to Kashmiris. No injuries reported.
01/07/2000: Six Maoist guerrillas from the People’s War Group attacked the house of the ruling Telugu Desam Party Member of Parliament G. Sukhender Reddy in Andhra Pradesh. The guerrillas dragged Reddy’s mother out of the house before attacking it with explosive devices.
03/14/2000: Three to four perpetrators attempted to strike at an army post in Thanna Mandi, India. One perpetrator and a soldier were killed and another perpetrator was seriously wounded in the attack.
06/12/2000: At least 12 feudal landlords were massacred and their village looted in caste violence in the eastern Indian state of Bihar. Some 150 armed men, believed to be landless farmers, raided Asarfi village in Nawada district and gunned down residents in apparent revenge for the murder of five poor farm workers on June 3, 2000.
11/21/2000: Unidentified militants, dressed in army uniforms, gunned down five civilian truck drivers and cleaners and wounded six others on the Jammu-Srinagar national highway, 180 kilometers from Jammu, India, in an apparent attempt to undermine New Delhi's recent offer of a ceasefire in the Kashmir region. The victims were Sikhs and Hindus.
12/13/2000: Militants attempted to assassinate Ali Mohammad Sagar, the Public Works Minister, during the inauguration of a new bridge in Arwani village, Anantnag district of south Kashmir, India. The attackers threw grenades at Sagar and opened fire, but the minister managed to escape unharmed. At least 15 people, mostly police, were injured in the attack. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
07/30/2000: A bomb set on a railroad track in Assam, India by suspected members of the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) exploded, derailing 12 freight cars but causing no casualties.
1/31/2000: Armed ultras stopped a jeep at gunpoint on the Udaipur-Tainani road, in Tripura, India. The assailants then kidnapped three people.
09/24/2000: Militants fired 17 rockets, targeting an army ordnance battalion and a police post in Rajouri, Kashmir. There were no casualties.
12/07/2000: Suspected United Liberation Front of Assam militants gunned down 26 people and seriously wounded 16 in a remote forest in Tinsukia, Assam. The majority of the victims were reportedly businessmen returning from Konkua and Bhola in five trucks on the Tazukazia road, where they were ambushed.
7/30/2000:  Rajkumar, a popular movie actor, was abducted from his home in Gajanur, Tamil Nadu state, India. Three others, including his son-in-law, were abducted with him. Veerappan was the leader of the abduction; he is a notorious criminal known for numerous murders, abductions, poaching and smuggling. Veerappan demanded 12 million dollars for the actor's release. He also made several political demands, including the release of 51 sentenced criminals. Rajkumar was released on November 15, 2000; by that time, the other three abductees had escaped or been released. None of Veerappan's demands had been met.
10/23/2000: Unknown assailants ransacked a Protestant church in Nagpur, India. Four people were injured in the attack.
04/15/2000: Radio Kashmir Srinagar (RKS) was the target of a bomb attack in Srinagar, India. The bomb did minor damage to the boundary wall, but the transmitter and buildings were undamaged. The perpetrators were unknown.
03/05/2000: Kashmiri militants attacked an Indian Army post in Badampura, India. Twelve Indian soldiers were killed in the attack, and four others were injured. A major search operation to apprehend the militants was launched soon after the attack.
4/9/2000: Six members of the National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) raided the home of Manindra Reang, a Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) candidate from Birchandranagar-Kalsi constituency, Tripura, India. The assailants kidnapped Reang's wife. This was one in a series of kidnappings of family members of candidates of the ruling Left Front who were contesting the upcoming Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (TTAADC) polls. The NLFT demanded that the candidates withdraw from the elections in return for the safety of their family members.
10/26/2000: Unidentified assailants exploded a bomb on a passenger train traveling between Bhatinda and Sirsa stations, Bikaner division, Punjab state, India. Two people were killed and at least 19 were injured in the explosion. The explosive device is believed to consist of high-velocity Dawali crackers, also known as an "atom bomb", that resulted in a low intensity explosion. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack and the motive is unknown.
06/02/2000: A senior legislator from India's main Opposition Congress Party, Moulvi Iftikhar Ansari, and ten of his supporters were injured in a grenade attack near the Magam township in Indian Kashmir. Hizb-ul-Mujahidin (HM) was first claimed responsibility for the incident but later denied responsibility in an announcement.
04/28/2000: Two people were wounded by a grenade attack which was intended for a security patrol in Anantnag, India. No group claimed responsibility.
06/04/2000: Two constables of the Jammu and Kashmir armed police were gunned down by militants at a bus stand in Batmaloo, Srinagar, India. A Pakistan-based militant group, Jaysh-e Muhammad (Army of Muhammad) claimed responsibility for the attacks.
10/23/2000: Three suspected United Liberation Front of Assam militants killed four people, and injured five others at market in Naoholia, India.
09/01/2000: On the evening of September 1, 2000, Militants ambushed an Army patrol in Utrosou village, Anantnag District, in Jammu-Kashmir State. A Indian Army Junior Commissioned Officer and two civilians were injured. One civilian died in hospital. The Militants escaped.
09/18/2000: A grenade thrown by militants at CRPF Police Force vehicle in Kashmir. Two policemen were killed, another three were injured in the attack.
11/08/2000: Eight National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB)  members lined up laborers in the village of Sukrungbari in Barpeta district, India, and pumped bullets into them. Ten of them died on the spot while the number of injured was not known.
03/11/2000: Nine persons, including eight on-duty Indian soldiers, were killed in a land mine explosion in Bardhia, India. The People's War Group was blamed for the attack.
4/9/2000: Members of the National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) raided the home of Mangal Debbarma, a Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) candidate from Pekuarjala-Janmejoynagar constituency, Tripura, India. The assailants kidnapped Debbarma's wife and child. This was one in a series of kidnappings of family members of candidates of the ruling Left Front who were contesting the upcoming Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (TTAADC) polls. The NLFT demanded that the candidates withdraw from the elections in return for the safety of their family members.
09/08/2000: Unidentified gunmen forcefully entered into the house and killed a member of the Ikhwan, or pro-Indian Government militia, in Uchar Magam village, Kupwara District, Jammu and Kashmir State. His grandson was also killed. The police were reported to be investigating the incident, but no one was reported captured.
03/07/2000: Seven people were killed in an ambush by United Liberation Front of Assam militants. Nine policemen went to Barpukhuri village on a complaint that a girl had been kidnapped by a resident of that village and had returned to Sadiya with the families concerned to sort out the matter when their vehicle was ambushed by the militants. The police retaliated, and killed one militant.
12/18/2000: A bomb exploded on a bus traveling between Dimapur and Wokha, in Wokha district, Nagaland, India. The passengers on the bus were mostly students traveling home for the Christmas holidays. At least four passengers were killed and at least another 12 were injured in the explosion. Three individuals have been taken into custody in connection with the attack; however, no group has claimed responsibility.
09/30/2000: Twenty-five gunmen suspected to be of the Communist Party of India-Marxist Leninist raided Thalubigha village, killing 6 and wounding 2.
06/08/2000: An Improvised Explosive Device (IED) exploded at the Jewitt Memorial Baptist church in Ongole, Andhra Pradesh, India. One person was injured in the incident. Christian groups held militant Hindu organizations responsible for the bombings. This is one of four church bombings in India on 06/08/2000.
04/19/2000: Two people were killed and 20 injured in a grenade attack at the Iqbal market in Sopore, India. The target was a convoy of army personnel passing through the market at the time. An additional eight people were injured by automatic weapons fire when the army personnel reacted to the attack. The perpetrators were unknown.
9/13/2000:  Nine individuals were gunned down in Narkopi village in Ranchi district, Bihar state, India. Approximately 25 members of the Maoist Communist Centre (MCC) positioned themselves around the village market and opened fire. Six of the victims were Muslim landowners and three were tribal members. The MCC has been organizing against wealthy landowners in the area. In addition, some or all of the victims are believed to be connected to Ali Sena, a private army run by the landowners.
8/13/2000: An explosive device detonated on Boulevard Road in Srinagar, India. No one was injured in the attack. Hizbul Mujahideen (HM), a pro-Pakistan group, claimed responsibility for the attack. The group called on the public to boycott the independence day celebrations. The guerrilla group said that their people were being killed, their property was being destroyed, and the females in their region were being sexually assaulted. This incident was one of a series of attacks leading up to independence day.
4/9/2000: Approximately 10 members of the National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) raided the home of Dhananjoy Debbarma, a candidate for the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M), in Belbari, Tripura, India. The assailants kidnapped Debbarma's father. This was one in a series of kidnappings of family members of candidates of the ruling Left Front who were contesting the upcoming Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (TTAADC) polls. The NLFT demanded that the candidates withdraw from the elections in return for the safety of their family members.
7/24/2000: Ghulam Jeelani Wani, the president of the Jammu and Kashmir Democratic Freedom Party and general secretary of the Baramulla Bar Association, was shot and killed in Sopore, Baramulla district, India. Two unidentified assailants on a scooter shot him point blank while he was on his way to Baramulla district court. Some sources blame the killing on pro-Indian groups.
03/07/2000: Maoist Guerillas triggered a land mine near Ghatkesar, India that killed Minister E. Madhav Reddy, his security guard and driver. The guerillas triggered the land mine when the Minister's vehicle was passing through the area. Although no one claimed responsibility, Naxalites were strongly suspected.
12/10/2000: Unidentified militants fired a rocket towards the house of a Special Police Officer (SPO), Abdul Qadoos S/o Munna R/o Lalpora, Lolab, in Lalpura, India. The house was destroyed and the SPO was killed in addition to two other civilian family members.
4/9/2000: Members of the National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) kidnapped the father of Rajendra Reang, a Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) candidate from Jampui constituency, Tripura, India. This was one in a series of kidnappings of family members of candidates of the ruling Left Front who were contesting the upcoming Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (TTAADC) polls. The NLFT demanded that the candidates withdraw from the elections in return for the safety of their family members.
06/08/2000: Two low-intensity bombs exploded outside the St Anne's Roman Catholic church in Wadi, Karnataka, India. One person was injured in the incident. Christian groups said that they held militant Hindu organizations responsible for the bombings. This is one of four church bombings in India on 06/08/2000.
2/10/2000: Suspected separatist guerrillas entered a house and opened fire in Palpora, Jammu and Kashmir, India. Six people were killed in the incident, including two civilian special police officers who were aiding counter-insurgency efforts. One of the officers is identified as Ghulam Mohammed Reshi; the other is his daughter. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
01/06/2000: A bomb exploded on a passenger train stopped at the Old Delhi railway station. The perpetrators were unknown. Twenty-three people were injured but none seriously and the train compartment was significantly damaged.
08/10/2000: A Pakistani ISI agent was caught planning to detonate explosives during New Delhi’s August 15th Independence Day celebrations. Over 10 kg of RDX (research developed explosive) were found in a park after Jannat Gul, working for the Hizb-ul-Mujahidin (HM) commander Irfan and the ISI, was arrested from a guest house in Nizamuddin in New Delhi, India.
03/04/2000: Five farmers were killed by gunmen in Laxmipur Diara, India. While no further information was provided, Naxalites were suspected.
09/13/2000: Between 20 and 60 militants attacked an Indian Police convoy carrying a prisoner under trial near Borlangpha town in Assam State's Karbi Anglong district. The Police convoy arrived at a stretch of road where militants began firing from both sides of the road. A 90-minute gunfight ensued, in which 9 Indian Policemen were killed, and five more Policemen injured. The prisoner being transported, a member of the United Peoples Democratic Solidarity (UPDS) organization, was also killed. The Karbi Anglong District Police Superintendent Anil Kumar Phukan believed a joint team of National Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN) and UPDS militants were the perpetrators.
05/19/2000: Six people, including three children, were injured when a rocket fired at the Kashmir state assembly in Srinagar, India, exploded short of the target. Police blamed separatist Islamic militants for the rocket attack; but there were no claims of responsibility.
8/13/2000: An explosive device detonated near a popular pleasure garden in Srinagar, India. No one was injured in the attack, but the explosion caused minor damage. Hizbul Mujahideen (HM), a pro-Pakistan group, claimed responsibility for the attack. The group called on the public to boycott the independence day celebrations. The guerrilla group said that their people were being killed, their property was being destroyed, and the females in their region were being sexually assaulted. This incident was one of a series of attacks leading up to independence day.
09/15/2000: Around midnight on 09/15/2000, unidentified militants fired rockets at the Police Station and Fort at Thanna Mandi town in India-controlled Kashmir. Some of the rockets fired missed their targets and exploded in an nearby canal, causing no damage. One of the rockets fell in the Police Station's backyard. There were no casualties, and the Police Station and Fort suffered no damage. Indian Army and Jammu and Kashmir Police fired back at the militants, but the militants managed to escape.
08/14/2000: Ten people were killed and over 40 wounded when a bomb detonated inside the last compartment of the Muzaffarpur to Ahmedabad train in Rauzabad, India. Officials suspect that the bomb was hidden in a piece of luggage.
11/24/2000: Ten Lakshar-e-Taiba member kidnapped six Hindus from the Tali Mohalla area of the town of Kishtwar, Doda District, Jammu and Kashmir, India. The victims were taken to a forest in Kistwar where five were shot and one managed to escape.
11/17/2000: Suspected members of the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) shot and killed at least six individuals during an attack on the home of a businessman involved in the trading business near Simuluguri, in Sibsagar district, Assam state, India. Approximately ten assailants entered the house with automatic weapons and opened fire, killing family members and workers.
01/16/2000: Four people from Jirania, Tripura State, including Jagdish Debbrama, former chairman of Tripura Tribal Autonomous District Council political and Joint Secretary of Tripura Upajati Juba Samity (TUJS), were kidnapped by armed extremists. The National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) group was suspected.
03/24/2000: Four perpetrators gunned down five members of the Fateh Mohd Gujjar family and seriously wounded three others in Kot Budhan, India.
8/27/2000: Approximately ten members of the National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) broke into a temple near Jirania, Tripura, India. The assailants shot and killed Shanti Tripura, a Hindu preacher, and injured his companion. The NLFT states that it wants all tribespeople in Tripura to convert to Christianity.
10/23/2000: Suspected United Liberation Front of Assam militants attacked a market in Kakogam, India. Witnesses stated that the suspects sprayed bullets indiscriminately at the site. 10 people were killed, and four injured in the attack.
08/05/2001: Suspected Islamic militants shot and killed a village chief in Watalpora, Jammu and Kashmir, India.
08/08/2001: Members of the National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) shot and killed Uday Debbarma, a member of the local political party, in Jampuijala, West Tripura district, India. No one else was wounded.
08/26/2001: Five policemen were injured, two critically, in a landmine attack on their vehicle by Islamic militants in Lolab, Jammu and Kashmir, India.
08/08/2001: An employee of the roads and building department was shot and killed by unidentified gunmen in Frislan-Pahalgam, Jammu and Kashmir, India.
04/26/2001: Unknown militants launched a grenade into a crowd at the Goriwan Bazaar in Bijbehara, India. The attacks killed two and injured 22 individuals.
11/10/2001: A group of heavily armed unidentified perpetrators opened fire on a paramilitary patrol in Tral, Polwama District, India. The soldiers returned fire but the perpetrators escaped. Two soldiers were killed in the attack and another was injured.
08/05/2001: Six soldiers from the Central Reserve Police Force were killed and one was injured by a powerful bomb that exploded at Baur Bazaar in the Bongaigaon District of Assam State, India. Suspected National Democratic Front of Bodoland militants detonated the improvised explosive device (IED) as the soldiers passed the area. The convoy was traveling from Amguri to Bongaigaon at the time of the attack.
08/15/2001: Two explosions were detonated by Islamic militants in Noorbagh, Jammu and Kashmir, India. No injuries resulted from this incident.
08/21/2001: The Imam of a local mosque was shot and killed by Islamic militants in Dardpora, Jammu and Kashmir, India.
08/21/2001: Islamic militants shot and killed Mohammed Akbar in Dardpora, Jammu and Kashmir, India.
08/21/2001: Islamic militants shot and killed one person in Durmunah, Jammu and Kashmir, India.
09/03/2001: Suspected separatists of the Dima Halao Daoga (DHD) group kidnapped two railway officers in Assam, India. No group claimed responsibility for the kidnapping.
03/29/2001: Two Indian soldiers died and two others were seriously wounded when a bomb exploded in Ichum Lairembi, India. After the bomb exploded, militants began firing guns at the remaining troops of the 15th Jat regiment from positions in the Pheidinga Hills. Indian troops, returning fire, killed one militant. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
08/26/2001: Unidentified gunmen shot and killed Muhammad Shafi, a village defense committee member in Basantgarh, Jammu and Kashmir, India.
08/19/2001: One person was shot and wounded by an Islamic militant in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India.
1/7/2001: Suspected members of the National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) kidnapped two railway employees at Nalifapara, Tripura, India. The employees were delivering water to other workers at the time of the incident. Authorities believe that the NLFT perpetrated the incident due to the fact that they have been trying to extort money from the railway recently.
08/19/2001: A barber, Ghulam Hasan, was shot and killed by Islamic militants near his house in Takia Hail Jageer in Baramulla District, Jammu and Kashmir, India
12/1/2001: Maoist rebels from People's War Group (PWG) blew up the home of Arabinda Dhali, the Textiles and Cooperation Minister, in Poteru village, Orissa state, India. No one was injured in the attack; Dhali was not in the region and the assailants asked all members of the household to leave before they set off the bomb. The motive behind the attack is unknown.
12/01/2001: A group of People's War Group rebels blew up a district courthouse in Asifabad, India. No further information was provided.
03/05/2001: Four attackers stormed an army camp at Surankot in the Poonch District of India’s Jammu and Kashmir state, killing two soldiers and injuring six others. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
06/06/2001: Militants shot and killed two police constables near SMHS hospital in the Karan Nagar area of downtown Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir State, India. The deceased were identified as Ali Muhammad and Ghulam Rasool. Lashkar-e Taiba (LeT) claimed responsibility for the killings saying the cops were involved in anti-militant activities.
08/26/2001: Unidentified gunmen shot and killed a former militant of Hizb-ul-Mujahideen, Abdul Rasheed Wani, in Hardumadam, Jammu and Kashmir, India.
08/07/2001: Islamic militants shot and killed a woman in her home in Bundagam, Badgam District, Jammu and Kashmir, India.
08/16/2001: A policeman was wounded in attack by unidentified Islamic militants on a police post at Bharwari in Doda District, Jammu and Kashmir, India.
01/09/2001: A bomb was set off at the gate of the Central Telegraph Office in Srinagar, India. The explosion went off during the morning hours while a large number of people were gathered to deposit their telephone bills. There was property damage and a large number of injuries. Unknown militants were believed to be responsible for the attack.
03/02/2001: Militants ambushed a joint police party of Jammu and Kashmir Police and Indian Reserve Police killing 16 and injuring nine with hand grenades and rockets at Manjapu, India. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
08/11/2001: Mohammad Sikander Ganai, an Awami League leader and politician, was killed by Islamic militants who broke into his house in Frisal Kulgam of the Anantnag District, Jammu and Kashmir, India.
09/17/2001: Eleven policemen were killed and nine injured when suspected Islamic militants of the Islamic separatist group Lashkar-e Taiba attacked their police camp in Handawar in the northern region of India-Kashmir. The attackers hurled grenades and fired weapons at the Indian police camp. One militant, identified as Abu Osama, was shot dead by police. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
2/22/2001: Unidentified assailants attached a grenade to a vehicle transporting Abdul Ghani Bhat, a Kashmiri separatist leader and the chairman of the All Party Hurriyat Conference, in Tarzoo, Jammu and Kashmir, India. Bhat had just finished speaking at a public gathering and was about to get into his vehicle when his bodyguard spotted a grenade attached to the outside of the jeep. The bodyguard safely disabled the device before it could explode. No one was injured in the incident. No group has claimed responsibility; however, Pakistan blames the incident on Indian authorities.
1/7/2001: Suspected members of the United Peoples Democratic Solidarity (UPDS) attacked the family of Benson Ingti, a local Karbi tribesman, near Diphu, Assam, India. After entering the home of the tribesman, the militants lined up the seven members of the household and opened fire on them. Four were killed and three were seriously injured. The motive behind the attack is unknown.
08/29/2001: A landmine placed by Hizb-ul-Mujahideen destroyed a bus. Six soldiers and two civilians were killed and 13 wounded in the incident at Hangalpawa in Jammu and Kashmir, India.
06/07/2001: At least 12 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel were injured in a simultaneous attack by United Liberation Front of Assam militants on the CRPF camp and nearby Dhodpadara police station in Goalpara District. The militants were firing from rocket launchers and AK-47 rifles.
08/25/2001: Four people were killed in a grenade attack on a truck by members of the National Socialist Council of Nagaland-Isak-Muivah (NSCN-IM) in Kuligaon village, Assam State, India.
05/28/2001: An Indian army officer and a woman were killed and seven other people were injured when Hizb-ul-Mujahideen members detonated an improvised explosive device concealed in a bicycle near Sangrama, India. An Indian Army vehicle was also blown up in the explosion. Hizb-ul-Mujahideen spokesman Saleem Hasmi told the newspaper in Islamabad that its activists had carried out the attack.
12/01/2001: A powerful Improvised Explosive Device (IED) was detected by Indian soldiers in Kashmir Valley, India. Three militants were killed and another arrested in the botched attack.
08/05/2001: At least eighteen male Hindu villagers from Atholi, India, were kidnapped by a group of at least twelve militants and taken to Luddar village, Doda district, India, were at least fifteen villagers were shot and killed. Three of the villagers escaped. Although no group claimed responsibility, authorities blamed the Lashkar-e-Taiba organization, which denied the allegations.
03/24/2001: An attack on a civilian convoy with a paramiltary escort killed five, including two soldiers, and injured three outside of Manu town, Tripura state, India. Authorities attributed the incident to the National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT), although no group claimed responsibility for the attack.
08/20/2001: People’s War Group members exploded a landmine in an attack in Bandlamudi, Andhra Pradesh State, India, killing nine policemen and one civilian.
08/07/2001: Islamic militants shot at a home in Baramula District in Jammu and Kashmir, India. One person was wounded in the attack.
08/02/2001: Islamic militants shot and wounded Mukhtar Ahmed Hanji, near his house at Shams-ud-din Khan, Jammu and Kashmir, India.
08/24/2001: Hem Raj, a resident of Kuntwar, Jammu and Kashmir, India, was kidnapped near his home by Islamic militants. His body was found on August 27, 2001. He had been tortured and shot.
1/7/2001: Approximately 20 suspected members of the National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) kidnapped seven railway employees at Sindhukumar, Tripura, India. The employees were laying tracks at the time of the incident. Authorities believe that the NLFT perpetrated the incident due to the fact that they have been trying to extort money from the railway recently.
05/28/2001: Mahant Nritya Gopal Das, a leader of Vishwa Hindu Parishad and the vice president of the Ram Janambhoomi Trust, was injured in a bomb attack in Ahilya Ghat, India, on the bank of Saryu River. Unidentified assailants hurled bombs at the group, injuring Gopal and four other members of his group. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
08/15/2001: On the previous day, suspected members of Lashkar-e Taiba killed five Hindus in Bela village, Jammu and Kashmir, India. Two men were killed and one was wounded in an explosion on this day when they tried to move the body of one victim that had been wired with a hand grenade.
08/12/2001: Unidentified assailants were responsible for a grenade explosion at a bus station in Jammu and Kashmir, India. One solider was killed and 15 others, including 12 civilians, were wounded.
04/29/2001: A landmine 18 miles from Srinagar city in Budgam district, India, detonated when a vehicle from the Central Police Reserve Force (CRPF) drove over it. The attack killed five police officers and wounded five others.
08/24/2001: Islamic militants kidnapped a person from Amroh in Jammu and Kashmir, India. No further information was available.
10/26/2001: A grenade was thrown at a Border Security Force (BSF) vehicle in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir State, India. Three people were injured. No group was named in the attack.
08/18/2001: Islamic militants launched a failed attack on the Nowhatta police station in downtown Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India. Militants hurled a grenade towards the police station. However, the grenade fell short of the target and exploded on the road without causing any casualties or damage.
12/18/2001: One person was killed and 16 others injured in a grenade attack in Achabal, India. Muslim militants were suspected in the attack.
1/7/2001: Muslim separatists threw a grenade at a security vehicle in Sopore, Kashmir, India. The grenade missed the vehicle and fell into a crowded market place, injuring at least 26 people. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
08/28/2001: Two Hindu civilians were shot and killed by Islamic militants in Pamrod, Jammu and Kashmir, India. They were taken out of their homes at midnight by militants before being killed.
05/29/2001: Unidentified assailants threw grenades and a bomb at the residence of Father Vinay, a Christian priest in Muzaffarnagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India. No casualties resulted from the incident, and the attackers were not identified or apprehended.
11/23/2001: A Muslim militant perpetrator hurled a grenade on a security personnel vehicle in crowded Lal Chowk area, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India. The grenade missed the target and exploded on the road, killing one and injuring 22. No groups claimed responsibility.
08/24/2001: Islamic militants shot and injured a person at Ransoo-Naushehra in Jammu and Kashmir, India.
2/26/2001: Noor Mohammad Shah, the Deputy Block President for the National Conference, was killed in Latina village, Kashmir, India. No group has claimed responsibility for the incident; however, authorities believe that militants orchestrated the attack.
08/30/2001: Islamic militants shot dead a civilian in Kalaroos, Jammu and Kashmir, India. No further information was available.
05/25/2001: A remote detonated landmine exploded in Mahadev, Jammu and Kashmir State, India, while a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) vehicle was passing through a religious area. Five CRPF members were killed and two others were injured in the attack, for which Hizb-ul-Mujahidin (HM) claimed responsibility.
2/23/2001: Two bodies were discovered in Kishtwar, Dodo district, Jammu and Kashmir, India. The bodies had been shot several times and their identity is unknown. Authorities speculate that militants were involved in the shooting; however, no group has claimed responsibility for the incident.
2/3/2001: Suspected Muslim separatists opened fire on a group of Sikhs in Mahjoor Nagar, a Sikh-majority residential neighborhood in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India. Six Sikhs were killed and five were critically injured. No group has claimed responsibility for the incident.
08/07/2001: Three Islamic militants launched a shooting attack against people at the Jammu Railway Station in Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir State, India. 11 were killed and at least 30 injured. The perpetrators sprayed a carriage packed with combat troops heading for Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, and other passengers waiting for their trains
10/01/2001: Wajahat Hussain, a Pakistani national, blew himself up in a car bomb targeting the State Assembly building in Srinagar, India. Two gunmen then entered the building and began shooting. They were killed by Indian Security Forces only after several hours. 31 people were killed and at least 60 were injured in the attack and caused massive damage to the surrounding area. Responsibility for the attack was claimed by Jaish-e-Mohammed through a local wire service.
08/25/2001: Suspected Islamic militants forced their way into the house of a village defense committee member in the Basantgarh area of Udhampur District, and shot killed him and his wife. The incident occurred in Jammu and Kashmir, India. One of the assailants was shot dead by responding police.
08/31/2001: Islamic militants shot dead an alleged informer of the security forces, Mehraj-ud-Din, in Panzan, Jammu and Kashmir, India.
08/09/2001: Unidentified Islamic militants shot and killed three people, a policeman, Constable Syed Attar Mohammad, and two informers, Hayat Mir and Mohammad Ashraf Malik, while the three were riding a motorcycle in Soibugh, Budgam District, Jammu and Kashmir, India.
08/13/2001: Islamic militants shot and killed a police officer, Ishaq Ahmad, and wounded a civilian, inside a bus at the Batmaloo bus stand in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India.
08/25/2001: Women and children from the IP Mission orphanage were attacked by members of the Bajrang Dal and the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) in Jobat village, Madhya Pradesh State, India. The assailants took the keys of their jeeps and allegedly beat up the women with sticks.
05/28/2001: Unknown attackers lobbed grenades and fired guns at B.A. Nengroo’s residence in Prechu, India. Nengroo was the Junior Minister for Food and Supplies. The attack did not result in any casualties. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
08/09/2001: A group of 150 People's War Group members attacked the police station in Kalimela, Orissa State, India. The assailants also blew up the police station and took away the arms and ammunition stored there. Three police officers were killed and 15 were injured. A simultaneous assault was launched on the Motu police station in the same district.
10/25/2001: A bomb exploded at a Hindu festival in Gauripur, Assam state, India. The device was hidden under a stage designed to worship Durga Puja, the goddess of justice. At least four people were killed and at least another 24 were injured in the blast. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack; however, authorities suspect that National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) was involved.
04/20/2001: Four policemen were killed and two injured when People’s War Group militants detonated a bomb in East Godavari, Andhra Pradesh, India.
08/29/2001: Unidentified Islamic militants shot dead two civilians in Kupwara District, Jammu and Kashmir, India. One of the victims was a village headman who belonged to the ruling National Conference party in Kashmir. No further information was available.
08/07/2001: Islamic militants shot at a home in Pulwama District in Jammu and Kashmir, India. One person was wounded in the attack.
10/27/2001: Two relatives of a government minister were kidnapped by the Naxalites at Koram, Andhra Pradesh state, India. Ten men entered the house of Marthanda Rao and kidnapped him and his son-in-law Vinod. A ransom was demanded, but no amount was made public.
10/27/2001: Fifteen people were injured by a grenade which was thrown at a security patrol in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir state, India. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
12/18/2001: Muslim militants wounded one policeman, and killed another in Srinagar, India. It was not certain who was responsible for the attack.
08/10/2001: Two truck drivers, Dhamendra Singh and Ibungo Singh, were kidnapped in Dimapur, Nagaland State, India by unidentified militants. They were released on August 19, 2001.
11/24/2001: Two Lashkar-e Taiba militants, dressed as soldiers, approached a military camp around midnight and hurled grenades and fired on camp guards in Balipora, Pulwama District, Jammu and Kashmir, India. Indian army personnel returned fire, killing one militant on the spot, and pursued the second perpetrator, who they killed soon after in a second firefight. Lashkar-e Taiba claimed responsibility for the attempted attack.
08/16/2001: Islamic militants fired on a police post at Sangaldan in Udhampur District, Jammu and Kashmir, India. A woman was injured in the crossfire.
08/27/2001: Islamic militants slit the throats of two Hindu priests, Narotam Dass and Baba DeviDass, in Kali Mata temple in Surankode, Jammu and Kashmir, India. Several bombs were found and defused inside the temple.
08/20/2001: Islamic militants fired at police posted at the residence of Ghulam Mohiuddin Dar at Krusan-Lalpora in Jammu and Kashmir, India No injuries were reported.
09/28/2001: Maoist guerrillas belonging to the People’s War Group shot and killed M. Ghandi, a policeman, who was preparing to testify in a case against a member of their group in Saluru, India. The perpetrators also gunned down the policeman’s bodyguard outside the courtroom. No group claimed responsibility for the killing.
08/31/2001: A teacher was shot dead by suspected Islamic militants in Budgam District, Jammu and Kashmir, India. No further information was available.
08/15/2001: A grenade attack was launched on an Indian Independence Day celebration at school by Islamic militants in Handwara, Jammu and Kashmir, India. Five soldiers and 13 civilians were injured when a Lashkar-e Taiba member hurled a grenade at the gathering.
01/09/2001: There was an assassination attempt on Hurriyat leader Shahid ul Islam outside his residence in Srinagar, India. He was attacked by two unknown militants with guns.
12/01/2001: At least 41 people, including two policemen, were injured in a grenade attack in Bandipora, India. Suspected militants hurled a hand grenade at a patrol of India's Border Security Force (BSF). The grenade missed its target and exploded among civilians near a crowded taxi stand.
03/06/2001: Five Bodo individuals were shot and killed when their truck was ambushed at Fukkumari village, in Assam, India. Although no group claimed responsibility, sources suggest that a group of at least 10 adivasi militants carried out the attack. Authorities were investigating the incident.
04/26/2001: Militants from the National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) gunned down nine people and injured three others in West Tripura, India.
08/14/2001: Five Hindus were shot and killed and one was wounded by suspected Laskhar-e Taiba members in Bela village of Udhampur District, Jammu and Kashmir.
10/27/2001: Four policemen were killed and 3 civilians injured when members of Hizb-ul-Mujahidin (HM) blew up a police jeep with a landmine. The attack occurred in Kathua, Jammu and Kashmir, India. The group claimed responsibility for the attack in a phone call to the Associated Press.
08/06/2001: Father Oscar Mendonca of St John the Baptist Church was assaulted by members of Bajrang Dal, in the outskirts of Mumbai, India. Bajrang Dal was conducting a memorial procession when the attack occurred. Twenty-five of the members forced their way into St. John the Baptist Church and beat Father Mendonca.
02/09/2001: Suspected Muslim separatist rebels killed at least 15 members of three families in the village of Salohi (Solasi) in India’s Rajouri District. The attackers targeted three members of the Village Defense Committee, whom they shot. Reports indicate that the attackers then lobbed hand grenades into mud houses and then set them on fire. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
11/25/2001: Armed perpetrators attacked a joint security camp of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) and the Indian Reserve Police (IRP) on the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway near the Jawahar tunnel in Banihal, Jammu and Kashmir, India. The highway was closed although no damage was caused to the tunnel. Lashkar-e Taiba claimed responsibility for the incident which left three policemen and a civilian killed and five people injured.
08/21/2001: Islamic militants ambushed a police patrol in Ogaad, Jammu and Kashmir, India. One person was killed and two were injured.
2/10/2001: The house of P.L. Handoo, the state Law Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, came under attack at Anantnag, south Kashmir, India. Unidentified militants opened fire and threw grenades at the house, which was heavily guarded. Two drivers were injured in the attack. Handoo and his family were in Jammu at the time of the incident. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
08/25/2001: Al-Umar Mujahidin launched a failed assassination attempt against Dilshada Khan, deputy secretary in Kashmir's home department, as she got out of her car at the congested Sarai Bala area of Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India. One policeman was seriously wounded.
08/27/2001: Islamic militants killed the village chief and another person in Parmot, Jammu and Kashmir, India. Both were Muslims and said to have been slain on the suspicion of being informers of the security forces.
12/3/2001: Suspected members of United People's Democratic Solidarity (UPDS) threw grenades at a truck transporting polling officials near Samalangsu, Assam state, India. After the grenades exploded, destroying the truck, the assailants sprayed the remains with bullets. Eight people, including six polling officials and two police officers, were killed in the attack and another five people were injured. The officials were traveling to their respective polling stations in preparation for district elections the following day.
10/22/2001: Four men attempted to storm the Awantipora air base in Jammu and Kashmir state, India. Two people were killed and two wounded in addition to the four attackers who were killed by guards. The attackers used automatic weapons. Lashkar-e-Taiba claimed responsibility for the attack via telephone calls to six separate newspapers.
08/30/2001: Lashkar-e Taiba members entered the home of Mohammad Abdullah and shot and killed three members of his family in Garoora, Jammu and Kashmir, India. Abdullah, his son and daughter-in-law were killed, while his wife was wounded.
08/13/2001: Islamic militants shot and killed two bus passengers, Ghulam Mohammad and Abdul Ahad, near Kanihama in Jammu and Kashmir, India. The perpetrators stopped the bus and then killed the two victims.
11/15/2001: A soldier was killed and two more were injured in an ambush by militants in Manda, India. The soldiers returned fire, killing one militant.
04/04/2001: Three people were killed when unidentified militants exploded a bomb in the Dalina village of the Baramula District, Jammu and Kashmir, India.
08/24/2001: The nephew of senior National Conference leader Gulam Qadir Wani was shot and killed by Islamic militants in Ghat, Jammu and Kashmir, India.
08/24/2001: A person was killed by Islamic militants in Sirgwari-Keshewan, Jammu and Kashmir, India. No further information was available.
09/23/2001: At least 12 security personnel were killed and six others injured when their vehicles struck two landmines suspected of belonging to the Maoist Communist Center. The Indian Security Forces were in the Abroja Forest on a combing mission when their vehicles hit the mines. No group claimed responsibility for the land mines.
06/08/2001: Four Muslim worshippers were killed and at least 50 others seriously injured in a grenade attack on the compound of Charar-i-Sharif mosque, one of the holiest shrines in India's Kashmir. The mosque is located in the central district of Budgam, 35 kilometers (21 miles) from the summer capital Srinagar. No group claimed responsibility for the attack. Police blamed Islamic militants, but did not identify any particular group.
04/19/2001: Three bombs exploded, killing the three people carrying them through the village of Madhopur, Muzffarpur district, India. One person was injured. No group claimed responsibility for the incident, although this was thought to be continuing violence to disrupt the polling process in the area.
02/09/2001: Four Lashkar-e Taiba guerrillas broke into a high-security police control room in Srinagar, India, killing eight policemen and wounding six others. Two other unidentified people were killed as well. The attackers lobbed grenades and fired guns at the policemen in a battle that lasted for several hours. Indian authorities were unable to find the attackers and believed that they escaped the scene. Lashkar-e Taiba claimed responsibility for the intrusion in telephone calls to local Srinagar newspapers.
08/13/2001: Islamic militants launched an attack on the home of the Junior Minister for Tourism, Sakina Yatoo, at Damhalhanjipora in Jammu and Kashmir, India. No one was inside the home at the time and police posted at the home returned fire, causing the assailants to flee. No injuries resulted from this incident.
04/14/2001: Suspected Maoist Communist Center members killed 13 people in a raid on the eastern Beltu village of the Bihar state in India.
08/27/2001: The People’s War Group attacked the police station in Motu in Orissa State, India. The attack was beat off and no injuries occurred.
08/31/2001: Six Hindu villagers were kidnapped by suspected Islamic militants in Nowshera, Jammu and Kashmir, India. Four were shot and killed by Islamic militants and no further information was available on the other two.
10/26/2001: Two members of Jaish-e-Mohammad attacked the police station in Charura, Jammu and Kashmir state, India. They used automatic weapons and grenades. One of the attackers was killed. Three members of the security forces were injured.
06/03/2001: In India, a group of 25 woodcutters who went to remote Lungsung Reserve Forest, near Runikhata outpost, in lower Assam's Kokrajhar District, were attacked by suspected National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB). The militants opened fire on the woodcutters using automatic weapons killing 10 people on the spot. One managed to escape and reported the incident to the police after trudging through the forest for 24 hours.
11/30/2001: Suspected militants dressed in police uniforms killed at least six people in the vicinity of Kharout village, Jammu and Kashmir, India. The assailants entered the village posing as officials;  they asked for help in patrolling the area from the villagers and members of the village defence committee (VDC). Four members of the VDC and two Muslim villagers agreed to accompany them. Upon leaving the village, the villagers and VDC members were gunned down. No group has claimed responsibility for the incident and motive is unknown.
11/15/2001: Muslim militants armed with AK rifles and grenades attacked an army patrol in Ajas, India. Three policemen were killed and one was injured in the attack.
08/13/2001: Two grenades were detonated by members of United People's Democratic Solidarity at a crowded market in Bipu, Assam Province, India. Ten people were wounded in this incident.
08/04/2001: A shopkeeper, Bilal Ahmad Dar, was shot and killed by Islamic militants in Shopian, Jammu and Kashmir, India.
05/29/2001: Militants fired three rifle grenades at a building of a women's college in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India, at approximately 0700 GMT. India's junior Commerce and Industry Minister, Omar Abdullah, who had been at the college for a function, left the building ten minutes before the attack. Abdullah escaped injury, but three schoolgirls and one woman were injured in the incident. Hizb-ul-Mujahideen claimed responsibility for the attack.
03/22/2011: Unidentified gunmen shot and killed Safdar Malik, head of his village and block president of the National Conference, as he was going home from Sonapah village, Kashmir, India. Although no group claimed responsibility for the attack, sources blamed militants.
08/29/2001: Three people were wounded in a bomb explosion in a suspected Lashkar-e Taiba operation inside a bus at the terminal in Rajouri, Jammu and Kashmir, India.
08/15/2001: A landmine exploded in Mattan, Jammu and Kashmir, India, shortly after the convoy of Anantnag Deputy District Commissioner, GA Peer, passed through the town in an attack blamed on Islamic militants. No injuries resulted from this incident.
04/24/2001: An Indian soldier was killed and three others wounded when unknown militants fired upon the Rashtriya Rifles camp outside of Sopore, Kashmir.
04/10/2001: Authorities defused a homemade explosive device left on an employee's scooter near the Ministry of Finance's second gate in New Delhi, India around 8:45pm. No one was injured and no damage was done, as the batteries on the explosive had run down before the bomb could detonate. No group claimed responsibility for the incident, although authorities suggested that the Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) could be behind planting the bomb.
09/06/2001: Four soldiers were killed and 17 injured in an explosion on a bus in Digdol, India. The bomb was triggered by militants operating near the Jammu-Srinagar national highway. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
09/04/2001: Two boys, Mehraj-ud-din and Abdul Majid, were killed and six others were injured when suspected militants set off an improvised explosive device outside a school in Janbazpora, in the Baramulla District of Jammu and Kashmir, India. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
08/10/2001: Two members of Hizb-ul-Mujahideen shot and killed a National Conference member and village chief, Muhammad Sikander Khan, in the man’s home in Frisal Kulgam, Jammu and Kashmir, India.
09/09/2001: Suspected Maoists belonging to the People’s War Group (PWG) hijacked a bus and then set off a landmine at the village of Marrdmalli, India. Five policemen belonging to the Central Reserve Police Force were killed and four others were injured while pursuing the attackers. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
08/01/2001: Unidentified Islamic militants shot and killed a government employee in Anantnag district, Jammu and Kashmir, India.
09/09/2001: Six soldiers belonging to the Indian Army were killed as their Jeep rolled down a gorge after an Improvised Explosive Devise blast that had been triggered by remote-control. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/14/2001: Three unknown militants attacked an Indian security bunker at Lal Chowk in Srinagar, Kashmir. The attack killed four members of the Indian military.
12/2/2001: Suspected Muslim militants opened fire on a wedding party in Trimbli village, Jammu and Kashmir, India. Seven Hindus were killed in the attack; there were no reports of injuries to the remaining members of the wedding party. No group has claimed responsibility for the incident.
08/23/2001: Two Hindu shepherds were killed in the village of Neel, Doda district, Kashmir by Islamic militants. A group of gunmen armed with automatic rifles and grenades attacked the village and shot dead Avtar Chand and Baghat Ram. The gunmen later fled the area with the cattle the shepherds were watching.
01/26/2001: A bomb exploded on a bus traveling from Delhi just before it arrived at the bus station in Rishikesh, India. Seventy passengers exited from the bus moments before the bomb exploded inside the vehicle. The driver and the conductor of the bus were killed in the explosion. No group claimed responsibility for the attack, but local authorities suspected separatist rebels were behind the bombing since the attack occurred on India's Republic Day.
10/20/2001: Seven police officers in a police patrol were killed by a landmine triggered by the People’s War Group (PWG). The attack occurred at Jagpura, Bihar state, India.
08/07/2001: Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) claimed responsibility for an acid attack on two school girls outside their home in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India. The face of one girl, Kulsooma, was badly charred as a result of this incident.
08/24/2001: A man named Vishwamitter and his wife were kidnapped and shot and killed by Islamic militants from the Kotranaka area of Rajauri District, Jammu and Kashmir, India.
12/05/2001: Mr. Vijay Kumar Phool, a local judge, was killed in an attack by suspected militants in Krishnaghati, India. Also killed in the attack were two bodyguards of Phool.
04/03/2001: Islamic militants ambushed a police patrol on an unspecified highway in Rafiabad, 65 km north of Srinagar, India, killing one soldier and wounding five others. A Lashkar-e Taiba (LET) spokesman claimed responsibility for the attack, stating that the group had carried out the attack in revenge for the gunning down of its Kashmir field commander, Salaudin Ayubi, one week prior.
08/15/2001: Nine policemen were injured when their vehicle ran over a land mine placed by unknown assailants in Hallian, Doda District, Jammu and Kashmir, India.
10/28/2001: Five policemen were killed and four were injured when their patrol was ambushed by suspected terrorists in Dhubri, Assam state, India. No group claimed responsibility, and the perpetrators escaped.
05/10/2001: Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) militants attacked eleven community members from the Sajjar village, in the Jammu Kashmir state of India, while they were grazing cattle. Eight were killed and three sustained injuries. Indian authorities believed the incident was an attempt to disrupt the peace initiative in the state.
12/30/2001: Muslim militants killed four people in an attack in Kanthol, India. It was not certain who was responsible for the attack.
03/18/2001: Members of the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB), shot and killed six Adivasi Santhal tribal farmers and wounded another five in Ramgaon village, in the state of Assam, India. The group did not claim responsibility for the attack.
08/04/2001: Twenty-two Hindu shepherds were abducted by suspected members of Lashkar-e Taiba from the village of Shrotidar in Jammu and Kashmir, India. The victims were marched into the woods and shot. Thirteen died, two escaped, and seven were wounded in this incident.
08/11/2001: A bomb that was transported in a vehicle by suspected members of the Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) exploded on Ring Road, in south New Delhi, India. Two people were injured and damage was caused to passing vehicles.
09/15/2001: Five Indian security personnel were injured when suspected separatist Islamic militants attacked two security vehicles with hand grenades in Srinagar, Kashmir. No group claimed responsibility for the attacks.
01/21/2001: A bomb blast took place outside the National Conference Headquarters of the ruling party in Jammu, India. There was property damage but no injuries were reported. Authorities believe Muslim guerrillas were to blame.
08/10/2001: Five policemen were killed and two were wounded in an ambush of a police jeep by Achik National Volunteer Council members near Songsak, Meghalaya State, India.
08/09/2001: A police station in Motu, Orissa State, India was attacked by 80 members of the People’s War Group. Two police officers were killed and seven were wounded in the incident. A simultaneous assault was launched on the Kalimela police station in the same district.
08/11/2001: Ten people were wounded, including four Border Security Force members, when unidentified assailants launched a grenade attack against the Border Security Force patrol in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India.
01/14/2001: Muslim guerrillas fired two grenades at the Kashmir Provincal Chief, Farooq Abdullah, while he was in downtown Srinagar. He escaped unharmed but two bystanders were injured.
08/14/2001: A bomb placed by unknown perpetrators was found and defused inside a public urinal in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India.
04/23/2001: Explosions in the village of Nagma, Darbhanga district, India, killed two people and injured six more. No group claimed responsibility for the attack. It was thought that the attack might be related to ongoing elections in the area.
05/10/2001: A putative spokesperson of Al-Hamas Mujahideen called a news agency and claimed responsibility for the grenade attack on Secretary General Maulvi Mohammad Abdullah Tahri of the Democratic Freedom Party. The single grenade exploded outside the offices of the Democratic Freedom Party in Srinagar, India. There were no injuries in the attack.
04/05/2001: Three soldiers from the Central Reserve Police Force were injured by unidentified militants in a grenade attack at the Doda police camp in Kashmir, India.
08/01/2001: Unidentified Islamic militants shot and killed a shopkeeper in Baramula district, Jammu and Kashmir, India.
08/18/2001: Islamic militants attacked the home of former militant Abdul Rashid Malik at Beerwah in Badgum district, Jammu and Kashmir, India. Two of his family members were shot and killed and two were seriously wounded. Malik was not home at the time
11/03/2001: Three Indian army personnel were killed and five injured when three Lashkar-e Taiba fighters attacked an army camp in Anantnag district of South Kashmir. The attack was carried out with RPGs and grenades. A Lashkar-e Taiba spokesman claimed the attack.
05/05/2001: Suspected Hindu extremists bombed a cathedral in Muzaffarpur in the Indian state of Bihar. No one was injured in the explosions, but considerable damage was done to the cathedral. The perpetrators were unknown.
05/09/2001: Hizb-ul-Mujahidin (HM) (HM) claimed responsibility for a bomb attack in the Sena Bhawan complex, an Army headquarters, in New Delhi. A Hizb-ul-Mujahidin (HM) spokesperson called to claim responsibility and stated the objective was not to cause casualties, but to warn Indian security forces to stop committing atrocities against common Kashmiris. The blast injured one person.
07/21/2001: Militants attacked a campsite for Amarnath pilgrims in Sheshnag, India. Two IED's were set off before militants started firing on the security personnel who were guarding the pilgrims. 13 people were killed including six pilgrims, two policemen, four porters and a militant. 14 people were injured including 8 pilgrims. The Al-Omar Mujahideen claimed responsibility for the attack
07/22/2001: Suspected Islamic militants attacked the village of Chirji in Indian Kashmir and killed 15 people after they were forced from their homes. At least five others were wounded. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
10/22/2001: Twelve Naxalites, 11 men and one woman, bombed the Coca Cola bottling plant at Peda Vadlapadu, Andhra Pradesh state, India. The perpetrators used knives to threaten employees and gain entrance. Three steel drums of explosives were used in the bombing. No one was injured, but Rs 5-6 million (~$111,000-$133,000) in damage was done. The boiler plant was destroyed and three cars were severely damaged. A note was left claiming responsibility and criticizing ‘American imperialism’ and globalization.
3/13/2001: A grenade explosion wounded two individuals after unidentified militants targeted a bus stand in Baramulla district, India. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
3/1/2001: Militants shot and killed Ghulam Mohammad Bhat, a National Conference activist, in Dangerpora, Baramulla, Jammu and Kashmir, India. Specific motive is unknown.
06/25/2001: At least forty people, including soliders and pilgrims, were injured when a bomb left in a scooter detonated in the Jammu railway station in Jammu, Kashmir, India around 9:15pm. Vehicles in the vicinity of the explosion were damaged. No group claimed responsibility for the attack, although it was thought that Muslim militants were targeting soldiers and pilgrims who were sitting in the waiting area before the next train departed.
06/15/2001: Ten people were tortured, shot, and killed when individuals belonging to the People's War Group (PWG) stopped a bus traveling in Karimnagar, Andhra Pradesh, India. The individuals killed were kidnapped from the buses and then shown off to journalists in the area before they were killed. The ten individuals were thought to be members of the People's War Group and were suspected of spying for the government against the PWG. The bodies of the victims were left on farms in Nizamabad and Karimnagar districts.
08/22/2001: Members of the People’s War Group raided a village near Patna, Bihar State, India. Six people were shot and killed.
04/06/2001: Unknown militants launched a grenade at a passing security vehicle at a Bandipura Bazaar in Srinagar, India. The grenade fell short of the target and exploded, injuring 16 pedestrians.
04/03/2001: Unidentified gunmen shot and killed Abdul Salam Magraya, a former range officer and current worker for the National Conference, in Kandi, Kupwara district, India. No group claimed responsibility for the attack, although sources claimed militants were responsible.
11/02/2001: A police constable was killed and three others were wounded when rebels ambushed a police patrol near Srinagar, Kashmir. Hizb-ul-Mujahidin (HM) claimed responsibility.
08/25/2001: Islamic militants launched a failed assassination attempt on a Congress Party leader, Taj Mohiudin, by bombing his house in Baramulla District, Jammu and Kashmir, India. The bomb caused extensive structural damage but no injuries.
08/14/2001: Four people were killed and 20 wounded in a bomb explosion detonated by suspected militants on a train near Ghaziabad in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India. Initial reports said that the bomb had been accidentally detonated.
12/08/2001: Rebels attacked a military convoy in Baramullah, India. Indian soldiers fired back and in the crossfire killed one civilian and injured five others. Two militants were also killed in the attack. A total of nine people died, and 20 others were injured in the attack.
11/29/2001: In a series of related incidents, five armed People's War Group (PWG) militants blew up the Gopikrishna Granite factory in Ramanthapur, Medak district, India. The factory was owned by the Federal Junior Minister for Defence U Krishnam Raju. The PWG reportedly asked the workers to leave the factory before detonating an explosive. No casualties resulted from the incident, but a generator room and an office room were damaged from the explosion.
04/23/2001: An explosion in the vicinity of a polling center in Sitamarhi district, India, injured two people. No group claimed responsibility for the attack. It was thought that the explosion might be related to ongoing elections in the area.
03/17/2001: Unidentified gunmen shot Ghulam Mohammad Ganai, National Conference block president, in his home around 9:45pm in Kulipora village, Kashmir region, India. Ganai later died from his injuries. A police officer, Abdul Majid, was wounded in the shooting. No group claimed responsibility for the attack although sources blame suspected militants.
07/29/2001: More than 100 members of The People's War Group attacked a police station killing three people in Eturunagaram, India.
08/29/2001: Islamic militants shot and wounded a cable operator, Meraj-ud-din Shah, in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India
08/17/2001: A policeman was shot and later died from his wounds in an attack by suspected Islamic militants in Baramulla District, Jammu and Kashmir, India.
1/22/2001: At least 20 suspected members of the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) attacked woodcutters in their homes in Bishnupur-Sankuchi village, Nalbari district, Assam, India. The assailants killed five woodcutters, and injured another two. The motive behind the attack is unclear.
08/15/2001: A grenade attack was launched by unidentified Islamic militants against a police station in Doda District, Jammu and Kashmir, India. One perpetrator was killed in the attack. No other injuries were reported.
09/08/2001: Hizb-ul-Mujahidin (HM) claimed responsibility for a landmine explosion on the Jammu-Srinagar highway that killed six Indian Border Security Force soldiers.
01/21/2001: Six were killed and 22 were injured when a vehicle drove over a landmine in Srinagar, India. Muslim guerillas were suspected.
07/21/2001: Nine people were injured when a bomb strapped to a bicycle exploded. Jaish-e-Mohammed claimed responsibility.
09/25/2001: At least 100 passengers on a train were inured when suspected members of the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) remotely detonated a bomb placed under a bridge that the train was crossing over in Baghmara, Bongaingaon district, India around 7:00pm. The bomb derailed seven of the train's cars, but no one was killed. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
08/02/2001: Islamic militants intruded into the home of Muzaffar Ahmed Lone in Surigam, Kupwara district, Jammu and Kashmir, India, and dragged him to the village graveyard where he was killed.
06/02/2001: Suspected Islamic militants detonated a powerful explosion in a busy Kupwara bus stop in north Kashmir, Jammu and Kashmir State, India, killing two people, including an 11-year-old boy from the western state of Rajasthan, and wounding 32 others. The grenade missed the security personnel who were the militant's intended target. No militant outfit has claimed responsibility for the explosion. The explosion also damaged three vehicles parked near the bus stop as well as the fuel tank of a bus parked nearby. The fuel tank ignited and caused some of the injuries.
03/26/2001: Three militants entered the 88 Battalion of the Central Reserve Police Force at Gomtibagh in Srinagar, India. The militants killed three Indian soldiers and injured 5 others in an attack in which they threw grenades and fired guns indiscriminately. The militant organization Lashkar-e Taiba claimed responsibility for the attack.
09/15/2001: An Indian border guard was killed and four other guards were injured in a landmine blast planted by militants near Udhampur in India's Jammu and Kashmir State. The soldiers struck a landmine while traveling in their jeep 142 miles south of Srinagar, Kashmir. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
2/19/2001: An explosive device detonated on a playground in Lalpora, Kupwara district, Jammu and Kashmir, India. Several teenage children discovered it and were playing with it when it exploded. One 13-year-old boy was killed in the explosion and at least three more were injured. It is not known who left the device in the playground.
2/20/2001: Two unidentified gunmen shot and killed Madhusudan Saha, an opposition MLA on Tripura Congress, near his home in Sibnagar area of Agartala, Tripura, India. The gunmen opened fire on him from close range, hitting him once in the arm and twice in the head. No group claimed responsibility for the killing.
09/10/2001: Suspected Islamic militants killed one soldier and wounded six others when they ambushed an Indian Army patrol with an improvised explosive device (IED) in Ratnal in the Kupwara District of North Kashmir, India. Hizb-ul-Mujahidin (HM) claimed responsibility for the attack.
08/01/2001: Habibullah Rather and Mohammad Amin Lone were killed by unidentified Islamic militants, inside their houses at Path-Kanihama in Badgam district, Jammu and Kashmir, India.
08/10/2001: A civilian was kidnapped and killed by unidentified assailants in the Kaller-Katal area of Poonch, Jammu and Kashmir, India.
09/02/2001: Three Lashkar-e Taiba militants threw grenades and fired automatic weapons at police in Doda, Kashmir, killing Sub-Inspector, Gianchand, and injuring ten others.”
08/10/2001: A civilian was kidnapped and killed by unidentified assailants in the More Bachia area of Poonch, Jammu and Kashmir, India.
05/09/2001: Militants from Lashkar-e Taiba (LeT) attacked a military camp in Magam town in the Jammu and Kashmir state of India. The militants first attacked the camp with rockets and then two suicide bombers pushed an explosives-packed ice cream cart to the front gates of the camp and detonated it killing themselves and six civilians. Four other civilians and at least four Indian soldiers were injured by the blast.
01/16/2001: Six members of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) were responsible for an attempted suicide attack on the Srinagar airport in Kashmir, India. The group was able to fire grenades and fired indiscriminately but was killed before they were able to continue the attack. Eleven were killed, including the militants, and 14 were injured.
08/23/2001: Members of Lashkar-e Taiba attacked a police station in Poonch, Jammu and Kashmir. Seven policemen were killed. The assailants escaped with arms and ammunition
08/02/2001: Islamic militants shot and killed Mohammad Shafi Bhat near his home in Tangmarg, Jammu and Kashmir, India.
11/29/2001: In a series of related incidents, about fifteen People's War Group (PWG) militants blew up a Heritage Foods dairy plant in Pileru, India. The dairy plant was partly owned by the family of Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu of Andhra Pradesh. The PWG reportedly asked the workers to leave the plant before igniting gelatin filled buckets. There were no casualties in the incident, but the refrigeration room was destroyed.
08/23/2001: Two Hindu shepherds were shot and killed in the village of Mohmangad, Jammu and Kashmir, India by Islamic militants.
03/03/2001: 13 people, including 11 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel, were killed in an ambush by members of the National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) near the town of Bampu, India as they were returning from a patrol. The rebels used both a land mines and guns in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
11/15/2001: Two Indian border guards and a civilian were injured in a grenade attack by militants in Srinagar, India.
06/26/2001: The militants barged into the house of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) activist, Om Prakash, in the Tondu District of Doda town. Several relatives, friends and guests had assembled in Prakash's house at that time in connection with a pre-marriage ceremony. The militants first opened fire and later lobbed a grenade that injured three people and killed two others, including Om Prakash.
01/15/2001: Seven were killed and 16 injured when unknown gunmen opened fire on a group of people leaving a NDA meeting in Bihar, India.
08/00/2001: An attack was launched against a power generation unit in Tripura, Meghalaya State, India. Unidentified rebels were blamed for the assault. No injuries were reported in connection with this incident.
1/24/2001: Suspected tribal militants exploded a bomb in Diphu, Assam, India. 12 people were seriously wounded in the blast; two of the wounded died in hospital. The attack occurred shortly before Republic Day. No group has claimed responsibility for the incident.
08/01/2001: At least five people were killed and eight were injured when the vehicle they were traveling in drove over a landmine in Debatangi, Kokrajhar district, India. The group was comprised of Bhutanese students and forestry officials. Although no group claimed responsibility for the incident, authorities believed that the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) was responsible.
11/14/2001: Muslim separatists fired three grenades at a school in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India. A senior minister in Jammu and Kashmir, Ali Mohammed Sagar, was attending  a function at the school at the time of the attack. The grenades fell short of the school and no one was injured in the explosions. No group claimed responsibility for the incident and specific motive is unknown.
11/21/2001: A landmine, believed to have been planted by the People's War Group (PWG), detonated near a police patrol in Chadhata village, Gaya district, Bihar, India. The blast killed six and injured two.
04/23/2001: Three suspected Islamic militants attacked the Hurryat Conference (a conglomerate of 23 Kashmiri Muslim separatist groups) with hand grenades, as it sought to forge a response to India's latest offer of peace talks in Kashmir, India. Four separatists were injured in the attacks.
01/05/2001: The Hizb-ul-Mujahidin (HM), Lashkar-e-Taiba and Harkatul Jihad-e-Islami joined together on January 5, 2001 to attack Indian troops in Poonch, India. They killed nine and wounded fifteen with machine guns and rockets.
09/01/2001: No casualties resulted when militants triggered a series of improvised explosive devices on Srinagar-Ganderbal Road on the outskirts of Habbak, India. Local Indian authorities believed that the Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammad militant group was responsible for the attack.
06/27/2001: Two to three militants entered into the house of Sarpanch, a village headman, Mohd Sarwar Khan at Pathan Mohalla in the Morha Bachai area of Surankot at night and dragged him out. The attackers took Khan to a surrounding forrest where they shot and killed him. The perpetrators of the attack were unknown.
08/25/2001: Islamic militants shot and killed a tea seller, Bashir Ahmed Wani, at Nasrullahpora in Jammu and Kashmir, India. The victim was also believed to be a Special Police Officer.
11/29/2001: In a series of related incidents, about 20 armed People's War Group (PWG) militants blew up a Tata Coffee factory in Brahmanpalli, Medak district, India. The PWG reportedly asked the workers to leave the factory before detonating an explosive. No casualties resulted from the incident, but machinery was destroyed and two parked vehicles were burned as a result of the explosion.
01/05/2001: Twenty-seven were injured when suspected Islamic militants threw grenades at an Indian paramilitary vehicle in Srinagar, India
09/08/2001: One school girl died and twenty students were injured when a landmine near Matan blew up their bus travelling from Srinagar to Pahalgam. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
2/20/2001: Unidentified militants shot and killed Wali Mohammad Khan, a National Conference activist, in his home in Sodal village, Kupwara district, Jammu and Kashmir, India. Khan had recently filed nominations for panchayat elections; he had withdrawn them after being threatened.
11/18/2001: Perpetrators attacked the Indian soldiers on the Jammu-Srinagar highway, 112 miles east of Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir, India. The perpetrators, who were disguised as roadside vendors, lobbed grenades at the army convoy when others on hilltops opened fire. 11 soldiers were killed, 29 soldiers injured, two perpetrators killed, and three civilian passers-by were killed. The Lashkar-e-Taiba claimed responsibility for the incident.”
2/14/2001: A bomb exploded in the home of Ali Mohammad Bhat, an official from National Conference, in the Charar-i-Sharif area, Jammu and Kashmir, India. Four family members were hurt in the explosion and the house was damaged; however, Bhat was not harmed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
08/28/2001: Four Islamic militants shot and killed five family members of a Muslim trader, Basaharat Shah, at his home in Poonch, Jammu and Kashmir, India. Shah was targeted for cutting food supplies to local militants under pressure from the Indian army. He was not present at the time.
08/02/2001: Suspected Islamic militants shot and wounded two Hindu sisters in the village of Pathie, Jammu and Kashmir, India.
08/23/2001: A suspected informer for the security services was shot and killed by Islamic militants in Dardpora, Jammu and Kashmir, India.
08/07/2001: Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) members threw acid on two female school teachers, who were attacked when they were returning from a picnic in Sonmarg, Jammu and Kashmir, India. One of them received severe burns on her face and chest.
03/13/2001: Suspected members of the Kanglei Yawol Kunna Lup (KYKL) set off a crude bomb in a market in Imphal, India. The blast killed a mother and her infant child along with a paramilitary soldier. Three others were injured in the attack as well. No group claimed responsibility for the bombing.
01/03/2001: Fighting broke out in Keshpur, Midnapore District, West Bengal, India with some associated with the Trinamool Congress being subjected to stoning and shootings. Authorities believed 15 to be injured. Members of the Communist Party of India - Marxist (CPI-M) were believed to be responsible.
12/13/2001: Five or six assailants attacked the Indian Parliament building in New Delhi, India with firearms and a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device. Before the assailants could detonate the explosives, fourteen people were killed in an exchange of gunfire, including eight security personnel, a gardener, and the five attackers. Authorities blamed the attack on Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM).
03/13/2001: An Indian Army vehicle ran over a land mine This incident occurred on a road in the village of Veelu, India. One officer and five soldiers were injured in the blast which badly damaged their vehicle. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
01/30/2002: Indian soldiers foiled an attempted IED bomb attack in Kupwara, India. Muslim militants were suspected in the attempted attack.
01/01/2002: Suspected Islamic rebels killed six members of a Hindu family in Dangu Pir, India. The head of the family, a former Indian soldier, was tortured before being shot.
07/31/2002: Two people were killed and three injured in an explosion in Lazbal, India. The victims were pilgrims traveling in a taxi cab. No group took responsibility.
10/13/2002: Three people were killed and seven wounded when Islamic militants threw a grenade into a crowd of Hindus who were celebrating during a religious festival in Bongaigaon, India.
01/02/2002: Suspected Islamist militants simultaneously threw three grenades into a busy street in Kashmir near the main assembly building in Srinagar, killing one person and wounding at least 20 others. One of the grenades hit a post manned by Indian border security forces, killing one police officer.
1/31/2002:  Suspected Muslim militants detonated an explosive device in a crowded area of Reasi town, Kashmir, India. At least four people were killed in the blast and at least another five people were injured. No group has claimed responsibility for the incident.
11/20/2002: Unknown perpetrators shot and killed Ghulam Nabi Ganai near the village of Bandipora, 60 kilometers north of Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India. The victim was the elder brother of legislator Usman Majid, who was elected to the state assembly in October 2002. Two police officers and four civilians were injured. No group has claimed responsibility.
11/21/2002: Perpetrators stormed into a hotel serving as a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) camp in Regal Chowk, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India, killing six police officers and injuring 10. One suicide bomber made entry into the hotel with a grenade and detonated the grenade when confronted by a CRPF member. A second perpetrator was killed in a firefight. Lashkar-e-Taiba claimed responsibility for the incident.
07/31/2002: A prospective National Conference candidate and his colleague were killed, and four others were injured, by militants in Pulwama, India. No group claimed responsibility, but the Jamaat-ul Mujahideen were suspected.
03/23/2002: A grenade explosion killed two civilians and injured twenty more in the residential Habba Kadal locality of Srinagar (Kashmir), India. Local police suspected that Muslim militants were targeting the Border Security Force (BSF) and managed to strike passerby as well. Of the twenty people injured, eleven were civilians and nine were members of the BSF. No one claimed responsibility.
06/15/2002: Militants with the group Al-Madina [LeT Front] fired two rocket propelled grenades at a building housing the chief minister of Indian Kashmir, Farooq Abdullah. No one was harmed.
11/20/2002: Eight police officers were killed and one injured as suspected People's War Group (PWG) perpetrators blew up a police jeep with a landmine about 16 km from Betla National Park on Daltonganj-Mahuadand Road in Latehar district, Jharkhand State, India.
03/22/2002: Suspected militants threw grenades into a busy marketplace that wounded about thirty-five civilians. That attack occurred in Shopiyan, India, approximately thirty miles south of Srinagar, the capital of Jammu-Kashmir state. No one claimed responsibility for the attack, but local police and Jammu-Kashmir officials blamed Islamic extremists.
05/03/2002: Unknown assailants abducted a girl from Mahore Tehsil, India on May 3, 2002. The girl was later found dead on the bank of Ans River in Kashmir, India on May 7, 2002. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
06/27/2002: Suspected Islamic rebels lobbed a grenade into a crowded market in the town of Anantnag injuring 25 civilians and 5 Indian soldiers. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
08/07/2002: Islamic militants barged into a family house in Patrada village in Rajouri District, Jammu and Kashmir, India. They shot dead the couple and their two kids, aged 2 and 4.
01/01/2002: Suspected Kashmiri militants shot dead three Indian army personnel and seriously injured four after ambushing their vehicle at Dangu Pir in Kangra district, 90 km north of Indian state Himachal Pradesh bordering Punjab. The militants fired rockets from a mountain top and fired indiscriminately, killing two soldiers on the spot and wounding four, one of whom died on way to the hospital.
11/20/2002: Around forty suspected Maoist rebels attacked the Tumalacheruvu railway station in Guntur district, about 190 miles southeast of Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India and blasted the building with dynamite. While the building was collapsed, yet the rail was safe. There were no casualties reported.
6/16/2002: Muslim separatists attacked villagers in Balmakote, Jammu and Kashmir, India. The assailants entered the villagers' homes and opened fire, killing five Hindus and wounding three others. No group claimed responsibility and specific motive is unknown.
01/02/2002: Two grenades were hurled at the Indian Central Reserve Police Force in Jehangir chowk in Srinagar, Kashmir causing injuries to several persons including some policemen. One of the grenades exploded at Magarmal crossing as people fled the scene. A total of twenty-nine people including nine policemen sustained injuries.
07/08/2002: Three boys were killed in an explosion in the town of Indh, in Indian Kashmir. No group claimed responsibility. Indian security forces were the intended target of this attack.
06/23/2002: Two grenades exploded outside of a building housing 500 members of the ruling National Conference party in Sriringar. No one was harmed. The groups Hizb-ul-Mujahidin (HM) and Al-Madina [LeT Front] both claimed responsibility for the attack.
07/22/2002: One person was injured when a bomb exploded underneath a Central Reserve Police Force car in Srinagar, India. Hizb-ul-Mujahidin (HM) claimed responsibility for the blast.
1/31/2002: A passenger bus was hit by an explosion near Satnaur village, Punjab state, India. Two people were killed and at least four were injured in the incident. The source of the explosion is unknown; however, authorities suspect that "terrorists" were involved.
08/02/2002: Militants hurled a hand grenade at Congress Headquarters in Jammu and Kashmir, which exploded at the main entrance of the building. There was no casualties.
01/06/2002: Six members of a Hindu family, including four children, were killed by suspected Muslim militants in Indian Kashmir. The attackers threw hand grenades and opened fire on a house which belonged to a member of the village defense committee in Banihal village, 160 kilometers (100 miles) north of Jammu. The militant group could not be identified.
7/23/2002: Suspected Muslim rebels threw a grenade at a crowded area of Rajouri town, Jammu and Kashmir, India. One young woman was killed in the explosion and at least 18 others were injured. No group claimed responsibility for the incident and specific motive is unknown.
01/22/2002: Two assailants affiliated with the Harkatul Jihad-e-Islamiand the Asif Raza Commandoesorganizations attacked the American Center in Calcutta, India. Five policemen died, and 15 others injured in the attack.
11/21/2002: A bomb in a parked vehicle exploded near a popular Hindu temple in the Sarurnagar area, near Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India. At least two were killed and 19 injured. No groups claimed responsibility for the explosion.
05/03/2002: Unknown attackers killed two former Special Police Officers, brothers Mohammad Abbas and Abdul Jabar, in the village of Sadwan, India. The brothers were attending a panchayat to settle a marriage dispute when they were killed. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
05/29/2002: A bomb that was placed under the seat of a public bus exploded in Ahmedabad, India. Two other buses were also bombed at the time of this attack, which occurred at peak hour when the buses were crowded with commuters. Police suspected crude homemade bombs of low intensity were used. A total of 12 people were injured in all three attacks. Alerted by the explosions, the police launched a search of all buses and bus stations in Ahmedabad and recovered another two bombs hidden in lunch containers at two other bus stations. No group has claimed responsibility for the incident.
05/14/2002: Three Islamic militants wearing Indian Army uniforms killed 34 people and wounded at least 45 more in a gun attack that started on a bus and ended in an Indian army base in Kaluchak, Kashmir. Among those killed were women, children, and Indian soldiers. The three militants were killed by members of the Indian army, but only after the siege had lasted an hour. Indian officials suspected that the Lashkar-e Taiba had been involved in the attack. Two groups claimed responsibility for the incident, Al-Masooran, which is suspected of being a shadow group of Lashkar-e-Taiba, and the Jamiat-ul-Mujahideen.
11/23/2002: An Indian army bus hit a landmine at Lower Munda, about 60 miles south of Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India. Twelve were killed and 23 were injured in the incident. Jamaat-ul Mujahideen and the Harkatul Jihad-e-Islami claimed responsibility for the attack.
07/24/2002: Twenty people, including four policemen, were wounded by a grenade tossed at a police vehicle by militants in Kashmir, India. No group claimed responsibility.
2/17/2002: Militants fired several rockets in Rajouri town, Jammu, India. Three of the rockets hit a Himalayan private school and two fell into a nearby stream. The school was damaged but there were no reports of injuries. It is believed that the assailants were targeting the Army divisional headquarters.
10/11/2002: Unidentified Islamic rebels threw a grenade at the house of a defeated state candidate injuring him and two of his security guards while killing a third.
03/22/2002: Two suspected militants threw grenades at a bus stand in Anantnag, India, about thirty seven miles south of Srinagar, the capital of the Jammu-Kashmir state. Local authorities believed that the assailants intended to target the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) stationed in the area, but were inaccurate and hit civilians instead. The explosion killed approximately thirteen civilians and wounded seventeen others. No one claimed responsibility for the attacks but local police and Jammu-Kashmir officials blamed Islamic extremists.
4/14/2002: A bomb exploded at Dimapur, Nagaland state, India. Two people were killed in the explosion and two more were injured. One of those killed was a leader for National Socialist Council of Nagaland Isak-Muivah (NSCM[I-M]). The explosive device was "foreign made". No group claimed responsibility and the motive is unknown.
11/18/2002: People's War Group (PWG) militants detonated a landmine, blowing up a passenger bus near Chintagudam village (about 150 km from Warangal), Warangal district, Andhra Pradesh, India. The PWG insisted to have mistaken the bus to carry police officers. At least fourteen were killed and 10 injured in the incident.
05/29/2002: A bomb that was placed under the seat of a public bus exploded in Ahmedabad, India. Two other buses were also bombed at the time of this attack, which occurred at peak hour when the buses were crowded with commuters. Police suspected crude homemade bombs of low intensity were used. A total of 12 people were injured in all three attacks. Alerted by the explosions, the police launched a search of all buses and bus stations in Ahmedabad and recovered another two bombs hidden in lunch containers at two other bus stations. No group has claimed responsibility for the incident.
08/08/2002: Islamic separatist militants lobbed a grenade towards a security convoy at Bijbehara on Srinagar-Jammu national highway, Indian Kasmir. The militants missed their target and injured 15 pedestrians.
01/01/2002: Suspected Muslim militants entered the house of Mohammad Akbar Khan in Bandipora in Jammu and Kashmir, and killed him with an unspecified firearm. No one claimed responsibility for this attack.
02/01/2002: A leading Muslim politician of the Peoples' Democratic Party of India was killed in gunfire from suspected Muslim militants in Patan, India. In addition to the politician, a police guard was also killed. There was no official claim for the incident and the number of perpetrators was not noted.
06/24/2002: A grenade fired into the home of a government official injured 5 Indian army personnel in the town of Kupwara in Kashmir. The official was not harmed.
2/20/2002: Approximately 200 members of Maoist Communist Center (MCC) blocked the Patna-Ranchi national highway in Hazaribagh District, Jharkhand, India. The assailants opened fire on a large convoy of vehicles that stopped at the blockade; at least three people were killed and another six were injured. Specific motive is unknown; however, the attack occurred during a general strike called for by the MCC in protest of the Prevention of Terrorism Ordinance (POTO).
10/27/2002:  At least 15 members of National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) attacked the village of Dadgiri, Assam state, India. The assailants went from house to house, asking the men to come outside, where they were lined up and shot. 20 villagers were killed immediately and two more died of their wounds shortly after the incident. At least 12 people were injured in the assault. Specific motive is unknown; however, authorities believe that the attack was an "ethnic cleansing".
08/15/2002: Three low-power crude bombs hidden in bags exploded in a passenger train near Kotalpukur railway station, Northwest India. 15 passengers were injured in the blast, some of them critically. The Police rruled out extremists as the perpetrators of the attack, however the perpetrators remain unknown.
01/06/2002: Two Border Roads Organization (BRO) personnel were killed and three were injured in an attack by suspected Muslim militants in the northern Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. The United News of India (UNI) reported that a group of suspected Muslim militants opened fire at a BRO camp in Jamslam in Udhampur district.
1/30/2002: Militants attacked the home of Suresh Singh, a Congress candidate, in Wangjing Tengtha, Manipur state, India. Singh was not harmed in the attack but one of his party workers was shot and injured. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
8/25/2002: H. Nagappa, a former state government minister, was kidnapped from his house in in Chamrajnagar district, Karnataka, India. He was abducted by M. Veerappan and seven of his men; Veerappan is an infamous criminal who carries a four million rupee price for his capture. At least one of Nagappa's bodyguards were also abducted. Veerappan sent an audiotape to authorities that contained his demands; however, the details of the demands were not released.
04/16/2002: An explosion occurred at a bazaar on the Srinagar-Jammu National Highway in Avantipura. The bomb was attached to a bicycle, and was detonated as an Army convoy passed through. Three civillians were killed and at least 16 others injured. There were no claims to responsibility.
06/15/2002: Islamic radicals threw grenades and shot at Hindu pilgrims in the Kisthwar region of Jammu in Kashmir. Six people were killed and another 7 were left wounded by the attack.
12/02/2002: Unknown perpetrators attacked the house of former Tourism Minister, Sakine Itoo, in Damhal-Hanjipora, India, with grenades and assault rifles. No casualties resulted form the attack
08/22/2002: An explosive device was detonated under a bus carrying police officers in the village of Maladhara, India. Five people were killed and 10 others were injured in the explosion. No claim of responsibility was made for the attack, although local authorities believed that the United Liberation Front of Assam was behind the incident.
09/01/2002: At approximately 11:30pm local time, unknown perpetrators entered the house of Mohd Qayoom, a Revenue Department official on election duty, in the village of Gounthal, Jammu and Kashmir, India and open fired. The attack killed two of Qayoom’s children, Ruksar Ahmed, 10 and Zaheen Akhter, 12, and seriously wounded one other, Ruksana Kausar, 8. The perpetrators then escaped the scene.
05/29/2002: Alerted by the explosions of three other buses, police launched a search of all buses and bus stations in Ahmedabad, India, and discovered and defused a bomb hidden in a lunch container at a bus station. No group has claimed responsibility for the incident.
01/02/2002: Two Indian soldiers were killed and at least five injured when suspected Islamic militants opened fire on soldiers in Pathankot, 280 miles north of New Delhi.
01/01/2002: An Indian army camp was attacked by militants at Waripora Tangmarg, India. The militants escaped after firing on army personnel with automatic weapons. No injuries or casualties were reported. No group claimed responsibility.
05/21/2002: A prominent Kashmiri political leader, Abdul Ghani Lone, was assassinated in the city of Srinagar, Kashmir. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
05/20/2002: A land mine, detonated in the Kashmiri town of Ramsu, killed one Indian soldier and injured another two. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
09/26/2002: Unidentified militants threw a grenade at an Army vehicle in Srinagar, India, but it missed and landed in a crowded market place. Fourteen people, including two Army personnel, were injured in the attack.
12/05/2002: Unknown perpetrators threw a grenade at a patrol of the federal Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) in Pulwama, India, injuring 10 people but killing none.
5/29/2002: Three unidentified gunmen shot and wounded Zafar Iqbal, a reporter for the newspaper Kashmir Images, in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India. The assailants entered the newspaper offices demanding to speak to Iqbal; they gave him a letter to sign and then shot him. The gunmen were agitated about an article concerning Indian soldiers helping a family; the article could be construed as pro-military. Before fleeing, the attackers damaged equipment and windows.
12/18/2002: Suspected rebels killed one soldier in an attack on an Indian army patrol in southern Udhampur district. This was one of four related attacks in Jammu and Kashmir on December 18. The attacks were believed to be in retaliation to the sentencing to death of three Kashmiri men in New Delhi for their role in an attack on the Indian parliament in December of 2001.
02/16/2002: Eight Hindus were killed by suspected Kashmiri separatists in the village of Nirlaa Kalkot in Jammu and Kashmir, India. The Mutahidda Jihad Council, an alliance of Kashmiri militant groups denied responsibility for the killings and instead accused the Indian government of being responsible.
08/13/2002: Militants hurled a hand grenade towards a paramilitary patrol near Srinagar, capital of Jammu & Kashmir. They missed their target one civilian and injured 21 others, including 4 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF).
06/01/2002: Anti-Indian guerrilla forces killed 1 and injured 13 in overnight grenade attacks in the Kashmiri town of Srinagar.
05/29/2002: Alerted by the explosions of three other buses, police launched a search of all buses and bus stations in Ahmedabad, India, and discovered and defused a bomb hidden in a lunch container at a bus station. No group has claimed responsibility for the incident.
8/24/2002: Militants attacked Muslim villagers in Dudansaballa, Jammu and Kashmir, India. The assailants opened fire on the villagers, killing eight people. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
02/11/2002: Naxalites shot and killed local Congress leader Malu Bogami after stopping his jeep in Nagpur, India.
06/27/2002: Suspected militants blew up a jeep with an improvised explosive device in the town of Frislan killing 3 Indian soldiers. Hizb-ul-Mujahidin (HM) has claimed responsibility for the attack.
2/20/2002: Members of Maoist Communist Center (MCC) blew up the railway tracks between Parasnath and Nimiaghat railway stations, Jharkhand, India. Twelve cars on the Patna-Hatiya Express train were derailed as a result of the explosion. Eight people were injured in the attack. Specific motive is unknown; however, the attack occurred during a general strike called for by the MCC in protest of the Prevention of Terrorism Ordinance (POTO).
04/01/2002: The Baramulla National Conference leader, Ghulam Mohiuddin Dar, was killed by militants at his home in Kachumuqam. Militants entered his home and fired their weapons at close range, killing Dar instantly. No others were killed. No suspects have been found.
02/15/2002: Assailants abducted Sanjay Singh in Rehal, Bihar, India. Singh, the local District Forest Officer (DFO), was killed later the same day. No group claimed responsibility; however, five Maoists were convicted for their involvement in the attack on June 21, 2017.
2/12/2002: Unidentified militants opened fire on the private home of L Ibomcha Singh, a member of the Federal Party of Manipur, in Keisamthong, Manipur, India. No one was injured in the attack. The assailants also opened fire on the home of Singh's political rival. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
11/13/2002: In a series of related incidents, a bomb was exploded at the place where an Improvised Explosive Device was detonated one hour ago in Lasana, Poonch district, Jammu and Kashmir, India. Two police officers were injured from the blast. Perpetrators also fired from across a nearby river, but no one was injured from the gunshots. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
11/13/2002: In a series of related incidents, an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) was detonated in an abandoned vehicle when a civilian bus and an army jeep near it in Lasana, Poonch district, Jammu and Kashmir, India. Four civilians and one soldier were injured and vehicles were damaged in the incident. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
03/18/2002: Militants belonging to the Pakistani-based Lashkar-e Taiba fired rifle grenades at the Border Security Force Kashmir Frontier headquarters in Srinagar City, India. No one was reportedly killed or injured in the attack; the militants were not apprehended.
12/09/2002: Unknown perpetrators shot and killed four Indian paramilitary soldiers and wounded three others in an ambush near New Heaven village, 40 kilometers (25 miles) north of the state capital Imphal, India. A police official reported the attack could be the carried out by either the National Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN) or some tribal Kuki perpetrators (unspecified).
11/02/2002: In a series of related attacks, Srinagar's police colony was attacked with rifle grenades. Two grenades hit an electric pole and did not cause any damage. No casualties were reported. The al-Madina regiment claimed responsibility for the incident.
09/15/2002: At approximately 12:30pm local time, Jammu and Kashmir Tourism Minister Sakeena Itoo survived an assassination attempt in the Anantnag district of Jammu and Kashmir, India, while on her way to Danev-Kandimarg for an election rally. Unknown militants detonated an improvised explosive device (IED) and open fired on the Minister’s motorcade; one person in the convoy was killed and two others were wounded in the attack.
05/29/2002: A bomb that was placed under the seat of a public bus exploded in Ahmedabad, India. Two other buses were also bombed at the time of this attack, which occurred at peak hour when the buses were crowded with commuters. Police suspected crude homemade bombs of low intensity were used. A total of 12 people were injured in all three attacks. Alerted by the explosions, the police launched a search of all buses and bus stations in Ahmedabad and recovered another two bombs hidden in lunch containers at two other bus stations. No group has claimed responsibility for the incident.
10/01/2002: Suspected Islamic militants opened fire on a bus in Hiranagar after it crossed into the Kathua district in Kashmir. At least 4 people were killed in the attack, which was motivated by state elections that militants had vowed to disrupt.
12/19/2002: Three women were killed in their homes by suspected Muslim militants in the Rajouri district, Jammu and Kashmir. Two of the women were shot dead, while the third was taken away and beheaded. Authorities said there was a possibility the killings were linked to posters erected by the small group Lashkar Jabbar which advised women not to wear veils. It was unclear if the attackers were affiliated with Lashkar Jabbar, and it was unknown if the women were attacked together or separately.
07/17/2002: Three people were killed and six wounded by a bomb blast in Srinagar, India. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
12/18/2002: Militants threw a grenade at a car belonging to India’s Border Security Force in Kulgam. Three soldiers and fifteen civilians were injured, and the vehicle sustained extensive damage. This was one of four related attacks in Jammu and Kashmir on December 18. The attacks were believed to be in retaliation to the sentencing to death of three Kashmiri men in New Delhi for their role in an attack on the Indian parliament in December of 2001.
05/20/2002: Unidentified perpetrators opened fire on a training camp of the Indian Army’s counterinsurgency forces in the town of Manjakot, Kashmir. One soldier was killed and another nine were injured in the ambush.
08/13/2002: Separatists militants attacked a truck carrying civilians near Raksamgiri village, in India’s northeastern state of Meghalaya. They lined up passengers on the road and started shooting at them from a close range. 12 people died and 20 others were seriously wounded. This attack occurred one day before the Indian annual celebration of Indian Independence Day. The attack was reported to be a joint attack by militants of the Achik National Volunteer Council (ANVC), the United Liberation Front of Assam and the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB). They warned people not to take part in the celebrations.
02/04/2002: Nine policemen of the Chatra District, India, were killed and five others were injured in an ambush by the Maoist Communist Center. The Maoist Communist Center apparently blocked a road with a truck and opened fire on the police officers. None of the perpetrators were captured.
12/19/2002: Militants threw a grenade at a Central Reserve Police Force formation at Pamposh Hotel in New Delhi. The grenade fell short of the police officers and injured one civilian.
11/4/2002: A grenade exploded at the Sharan Hotel in Rajouri, Jammu and Kashmir, India. At least fourteen people were injured in the explosion. No group has claimed responsibility for the incident and motive is unknown.
11/02/2002: In a series of related attacks, two perpetrators shot dead a Congress Party leader, two security guards, and a police officer in Srinagar, Kashmir, India. The al-Madina regiment claimed responsibility for the incident.
07/13/2002: 28 Hindu civilians were killed in a grenade attack by suspected members of the Lashkar-e Taiba in Jammu, India.
1/17/2002: A bomb exploded outside of a grocery story in Kanak Mandi market in Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir, India. One 15-year-old boy was killed immediately and a second person died on the way to the hospital; another eight people were injured. The incident occurred as United States Secretary of State Colin Powell arrived in New Delhi to discuss tension between India and Pakistan. No group has claimed responsibility for the incident; however, authorities suspect that Muslim militants are involved.
07/30/2002: One policeman was killed and three other security personnel were injured by militants in Khrew, India. No group claimed responsibility.
02/11/2002: Fifteen People's War Group rebels blew up an engine of a goods train and the office of the station's assistant master at the Chelma train station in Kunrool, India, amounting to $3 million worth of damage. The group forced everyone out of the station and said that the attack was to avenge the arrest of two of its members last week. The rebels then destroyed a projector room of a nearby theater owned by a member of Parliament.
11/25/2002: Suspected People's War Group (PWG) blew up a bus in Mukinda village, Guntur district, Andhra Pradesh, India. The perpetrators took the passengers off the bus and threw five hand grenades into the bus, which burned it out. No casualties were reported in the incident.
06/24/2002: Armed militants with the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) and Dima Halao Daoga (DHD) attacked a vehicle convoy of officials from the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation in the village of Dolodoli. Six people were killed in the attack.
12/20/2002: The newly elected People's Democratic Party member Abdul Aziz Mir of the Indian Legislative Assembly was shot dead by an unknown assailant after the Friday prayers in Konibal, Pompore in Jammu and Kashmir. Save Kashmir, an unknown militant organization, claimed responsibility for the assassination in a telephone call to a local news agency. The group stated that all who worked for India would meet the same fate as Abdul Aziz Mir.
08/13/2002: Kashmiri militants ambushed a bus filled with Indian servicemen in Sophian area of Pulwama district, South Kashmir. The assailants fired a rocket towards the bus and then opened fire. 4 soldiers were killed, including 2 officers, and 17 others injured. Besides, 6 civilians were also injured. Soldiers returned the fire but the militants managed to escape. No claim of responsibility has been made.
12/18/2002: Suspected rebels shot dead a Muslim member of the Indian army from point blank range in northern Baramulla district. This was one of four related attacks in Jammu and Kashmir on December 18. The attacks were believed to be in retaliation to the sentencing to death of three Kashmiri men in New Delhi for their role in an attack on the Indian parliament in December of 2001.
07/30/2002: One policeman and three others were killed in a "suicide squad" attack on a police post in Pulwama, India. The perpetrators escaped, and no group claimed responsibility.
9/24/2002: At least two gunmen stormed the Akshardham Hindu temple complex in Gandhinagar, Gujarat state, India. The assailants climbed the walls of the temple, entered the compound, and opened fire with AK-47's. They also threw hand grenades. Commandos successfully regained control of the complex after 14 hours of exchanging gunfire with the attackers. 33 people were killed, including the two assailants, and at least 70 were injured. Officials believe that the attack was linked to state elections in Jammu and Kashmir state.
12/18/2002: A civilian was injured when suspected rebels hurled a hand grenade at a police camp in Srinagar. This was one of four related attacks in Jammu and Kashmir on December 18. The attacks were believed to be in retaliation to the sentencing to death of three Kashmiri men in New Delhi for their role in an attack on the Indian parliament in December of 2001.
08/27/2002: Haji Aziz Bhat, a pro-Indian National Conference activist was shot and killed by suspected militants close to his home near Palhalan, in Jammu and Kashmir, India.
10/08/2002: Suspected Islamic militants from the Lashkar-e Taiba lobbed grenades into a polling station in Doda, India before opening fire. This attack occurred just after voting began. Two security personnel and one of the attackers were killed.
05/01/2002: Ten members of the group Porattom, which was reported to be the cultural wing of the Maoist Cultural Center (MCC), stormed the Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) consultancy office in Kerala, India, destroying almost all of its property. A Bangladeshi staff worker was assaulted during the attack as well. The attack was said to be a protest against the ADB who was about to extend a large loan to the Kerala State. The attackers made a false claim of having bombs before they were arrested.
9/1/2002: Suspected Muslim militants abducted Ghulam Mohammad Bhat from his home in Ayhtmulla village, Jammu and Kashmir, India. Bhat was a leader of the National Conference (NC). His decapitated body was found the next day in a field near his village; it took several hours of searching to locate his head in the same area. The incident occurred two weeks ahead of state elections.
11/24/2002: Two perpetrators attacked the Raghunath Temple with guns and grenades in Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir, India. As the Indian army followed them into the temple, one perpetrator was killed and the other fled to the nearby Panchvaktar Temple. The other perpetrator was killed by the Indian army on November 25. Eleven were killed, including two Indian soldiers, and 52 were injured in the incident. Lashkar-e Taiba claimed the responsibility for the incident.
11/11/2002: A landmine was exploded when The Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) bus, carrying police officers from Srinagar to Jammu, drove over the mine in Ramsu village, Doda district, Jammu and Kashmir, India. Seven police officers were killed and five injured. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
11/25/2002: Suspected People's War Group (PWG) attacked the Pondugula railway station on Guntur-Secunderabad section, about 200 km east of Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India. The perpetrators blasted the building with dynamite after evacuating it. Though the building was collapsed, there were no casualties reported.
09/28/2002: At approximately 2:30pm local time, unidentified militants detonated a powerful improvised explosive device (IED) on the Kulgam-Devsar road in the village Pahloo, targeting the vehicle of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) candidate, Khalida Mushtaq, was preparing to address a rally. Mustaq and one other person were seriously injured and four people were killed in the attack. Al-Aarifeen claimed responsibility for the attack.
03/30/2002: Two Islamic militants attacked the 150-year-old Hindu Raghunath Temple in Indian-controlled Jammu. The assailants detonated several grenades directly outside the temple as well as shot passersby and worshippers with AK-47 rifles. Four policemen, four civilians and the two attackers were killed. Twenty more people, predominantly civilians, were wounded. The Islamic Front, a Kashmiri rebel group based in Pakistan, claimed responsibility for the attack. In a phone call to the Associated Press after the incident, Bilal Beg, who claimed to have been the group’s leader, stated that the attack was in retaliation to the violence against Muslims in India.
6/27/2002: A bomb exploded in the Patna-Hatia Superfast Express train minutes after it had left Chandrapura railway station in Jharkhand state, India. An unidentified person was spotted leaving a bag in the third to last coach of the train while still at Chandrapura railway station. At least one person was killed and at least eight people were injured in the explosion. No group has claimed responsibility and motive is unknown.
11/06/2002: Unknown perpetrators hurled a grenade at a police patrol in a market in Anantnag, a town of 31 miles south of Srinagar, Kashmir, India. The grenade missed the target and exploded among civilians, killing one and injuring 13. No group claimed responsibility for the blast.
08/17/2002: Assailants opened fire on a Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) office in Dhupguri, West Bengal, India. At least five people were killed and 11 other people were injured in the assault. The Kamtapur Liberation Organization (KLO) claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/12/2002: Armed men attacked the Indian Border Security Force camp at Gaibas Village in the Rajouri District. Two BSF members were killed and another was injured in the attack. The suspects escaped, but one was killed in later search operations. No one was arrested in connection with the attack.
04/25/2002: An improvised explosive device (IED) was detonated on a bus in Grat Mode, in the Doda district of Jammu in India. The bus driver was killed and 21 civillians were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility.
11/11/2002: Unknown perpetrators hurled a grenade at the office of the Democratic Freedom Party (DFP) in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India. There was no damage and no casualties. Al-Umar Mujahedin claimed responsibility for the incident. The leader of the DFP, Shabir Shah, was considered a leading moderate.
4/8/2002: A bomb exploded in a sweets shop in Rajouri, Jammu and Kashmir, India. At least two people were killed and at least 12 were injured; in addition, the back of the shop was destroyed in the explosion. Authorities believe that Muslim militants are responsible for the incident.
11/03/2002: Two heavily-armed perpetrators, hiding in the basement of the Ansal Plaza shopping mall, were shot dead by the Indian police in New Delhi, India, where people were shopping on the eve of the annual Hindu festival of Diwali. Some policemen were injured, yet there were no civilian casualties. The perpetrators were suspected to belong to Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba.
12/16/2002: Militants in Kashmir threw a hand grenade into a crowded marketplace killing one and injuring at least five. The assailants fled. The grenade exploded near the Jammu and Kashmir Cooperative Bank in the town of Rajouri. There was some damage to the nearby buildings and shops.
8/25/2002: Two suspected Muslim militants attacked the family of a police officer near Iqbal Nagar village, Jammu and Kashmir, India. The assailants broke into the officer's house and opened fire, killing four people and seriously wounding another three. No group claimed responsibility for the incident and the motive is unknown; however, the attack occurred in the lead up to provincial elections.
9/5/2002:  Suspected Muslim militants shot and killed Mohammed Amin from the People's Democratic Party in Wanabal, Jammu and Kashmir, India. The assailants knocked on the door of a house belonging to a party candidate, Mohammed Abbas Khan; when Amin opened the door, they shot him. Police believe the attackers mistook Amin for Khan. The assailants fled and no group claimed responsibility for the incident. Violence has been escalating in the lead up to the state elections.
9/2/2002: Suspected militants opened fire at a National Conference election rally in Sheikhpora, Jammu and Kashmir, India. The assailants targeted a motorcade that was transporting Sheikh Mustafa Kamaal, state Industries Minister, after he had addressed the rally. No one was killed in the attack; however, one National Conference activist was injured and at least one vehicle was damaged. No group claimed responsibility for the incident, which occurred two weeks before state elections were scheduled to begin.
2/23/2002: Members of People's War Group (PWG) attempted to assassinate Arabinda Dhali, the state Co-operative and Textiles Minister, near Telerai village, Orissa state, India. The assailants triggered a landmine hidden in a culvert when the minister's car was in the vicinity; they then opened fire on Dhali's car. Dhali was not wounded in the attack.
09/06/2002: Suspected Islamic militants killed Sheikh Abdul Rahman, a Bahujan Samaj Party candidate for the State Assembly, as well as his driver, Ghulam Mohiuddin Teli, and his nephew, Nazir Ahmad Sheikh. The perpetrators began shooting at the victims as their convoy reached Gori on the Bandpora-Daripora road in Jammu and Kashmir, India. Another nephew of Rahman, Abdul Aziz Sheikh, was injured and later died after being rushed to the hospital. Mohammad Ramzan Sheikh and another person were also injured in the attack. Jamaat-ul Mujahideen claimed responsibility for the incident.
08/06/2002: Militant assaulted with bombs and firearms a camp of Amarnath Yarta (Hindu pilgrimage) pilgrims at Nanwan in Pahalgam, Jammu and Kashmir. In the attack, eight pilgrims were killed and about twenty others injured. One of the perpetrators was also killed in the retaliatory fires by the security forces. This attack was reportedly carried out by the Lashkari-i-Taiyibah militants.
11/08/2002: An unknown perpetrator shot dead a former Special Police Officer in an unspecified town within the Anantanag District, 31 miles south of Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India. The victim was praying in a mosque on the first Friday of the Ramadan. Three police officers were injured. The perpetrator was captured by local people and handed over to the police.
12/01/2002: Two Lashkar-e Taiba members were killed when they tried to ambush Indian soldiers belonging the special counter-insurgency unit, Rashtriya Rifles. Two army soldiers and a civilian were killed while three others were injured in the attack in Bilalabad Mohalla in Bun Doda, Kashmir.
12/02/2002: Two people were killed and 36 more injured when unknown perpetrators detonated a bomb on a bus in Mumbai, India.
07/13/2002: Three Lashkar-e-Taiba militants fired indiscriminately at the labor colony situated at Kanshipur near the city of Jammu, killing 27 civilians and injuring 35 others.
7/14/2002: Members of National Democratic Front of Bodoland raided the Bhumka Maligaon relief camp in Assam state, India. The assailants entered the camp and opened fire, killing nine refugees from the Adivasi tribe and injuring another five. Bodos and Adivasis have a violent history and are rival tribes.
10/23/2002: Suspected Islamic militants threw a grenade into a market in Anantnag, Kashmir wounding seven people. No specific group claimed responsibility for this attack.
1/16/2002: At least ten members of National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) attacked villagers in Dailongjhar, Assam state, India. The assailants randomly opened fire on the villagers, killing at least 13 residents and seriously wounding at least five. The attackers escaped through the forest.
3/18/2002: Approximately 40 separatist rebels ambushed Yambem Thamkishore, Chandel's deputy commissioner, as he was traveling from Imphal to Chandel in Manipur state, India. The assailants halted his convoy, disarmed his bodyguards, and abducted him at gunpoint. Authorities believe that National Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN) is responsible for the incident; however, the family received a ransom demand from United Kuki Liberation Front (UKLF), which has close ties to the NSCN.
09/21/2002: Jammu and Kashmir Minister of Tourism, Sakina Itoo, escaped an assassination attempt when unknown militants detonated a landmine and opened fire on her convoy at Mirhama in Kulgam. Two people were killed in the attack and five other people were injured.
10/27/2002: Suspected rebels fired a mortar at a housing complex in Dispur area of Guwahati, Assam state, India. The complex houses state ministers and bureaucrats. No one was injured in the attack; however, the mortar damaged several cars. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
9/5/2002:  Suspected Muslim militants attacked Mustafa Lone, a member of the National Conference ruling party, at his home in Kunzer, Jammu and Kashmir, India. The assailants stormed into Lone's house, shooting and killing him. The assailants fled and no group claimed responsibility for the incident. Violence has been escalating in the lead up to the state elections.
02/14/2002: Unknown separatists attacked a Border Security Force (BSF) patrol near Moirangpural village, India, killing two policeman and injuring 8 others. The police were patrolling near an election poll.
4/9/2002: Muslim militants attacked a family near Gandoh, Jammu and Kashmir, India. The assailants came to the house of Noor Gujjar, whom they suspected of collaborating with security forces. Noor Gujjar was not home at the time of the incident; however, the assailants opened fire on Gujjar's Muslim family members. Five people were killed and four more were injured.
11/08/2002: Unknown perpetrators shot and injured a former Special Police Officer among prayers in a mosque in the Wawoora village of Kupwara District, Kashmir, India. The victim was praying in a mosque on the first Friday of the Ramadan. A second person was injured and a third killed in the incident. No group claimed responsibility.
01/09/2002: Three militants' dressed as Indian army soldiers carried out a suicide strike on a brigade headquarters in Kupwara in Indian-controlled Kashmir. One of the militants lobbed a hand grenade and another fired a UBGL grenade, killing a soldier. Two soldiers sustained injuries. Two of the militants were killed.
05/29/2002: Militants killed two Indian policemen during an attack on the District Police Lines in Doda, India. Authorities believed that Lashkar-e Taiba was responsible for the incursion.
9/9/2002: A man from Bombay attempted to hijack an Air Seychelles flight bound for Seychelles from Bombay, Maharashtra state, India. The plane had already taken off from Bombay when the knife-wielding hijacker attempted to access the cockpit. The cabin crew seized the man, tying him to a passenger seat until the plane landed in Male, Maldives, and he could be arrested. One crew member was injured in the scuffle; there were no further injuries. The motives behind the attempted hijacking are unknown; however, the assailant stated that he wanted to redirect the plane to another location. Nine other passengers were taken into custody for questioning.
07/05/2002: A state politician was injured when he was attacked by gunmen in his office in Srinagar, India. His associate was killed and a civilian injured in the attack as well. No group claimed responsibility.
9/11/2002: Suspected Muslim rebels opened fire on a bus stand in Surankote, Jammu and Kashmir, India. Twelve people were killed in the attack, including civilians, police, Border Security Force members, and two of the assailants. Another 18 people were injured. The motive behind the attack is unknown; however, the bus stand was located near to an election rally. Violence in the area has been escalating leading up to the state elections.
9/19/2002: Suspected militants shot a National Conference worker in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India. Azad Ahad Khan was shot from close range and died later in hospital. The group Al-Arifeen claimed responsibility for the incident. The incident occurred during escalated violence leading up to the second round of state elections.
08/11/2002: A landmine planted near the Gathalpadar village, Eastern state of Orissa, India, killed 7 Indian security men and seriously wounded 4 others, while their vehicle ran over the device. The Maoist group, People's War Group, is suspected of being responsible for this terrorist attack.
03/15/2002: Suspected militants from the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) shot dead four civilians in Manipur's Churachandpur district in northeastern India. The ULFA was established in 1979, and has been fighting to establish an independent Assam state.
01/02/2002: Two Indian soldiers were killed and seven injured when terrorists ambushed an Army convoy near Darhal, Rajouri District, India. The area has been cordoned off for continued searches. Army vehicles are the prime target of militants in the area.
08/07/2002: Unknown militants shot dead a tehsil (administrative subdivision of Indian districts) president and official of Kashmir’s National Conference party, Ghulam Hassan Jan, in Tral, 40 kilometers south of Srinagar, Indian Kashmir. This attack occurred just before stat polls that were to start on September 16, 2002.
12/01/2002: Unknown Muslim guerillas ambushed an Indian army convoy in Kashmir, India. Four guerillas and six Indian security personnel were killed in the attacks. No injuries were reported.
11/4/2002: Militants threw a grenade at a vehicle that was traveling near Lassana village, Jammu and Kashmir, India. When the vehicle stopped, the heavily armed militants opened fire. The vehicle was transporting the body of Mohammad Sadiq, who had died from an accident that day. Four people were killed and one person was injured in the attack; all of the victims were Muslim. No group has claimed responsibility for the incident and motive is unknown.
11/30/2002: A device was exploded near a Border Security Force camp in the Khanyar area of Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India, injuring 6 civilians and 3 police officers. A police vehicle and nearby houses were damaged. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
09/11/2002: Mushtaq Ahmed Lone, the Kashmir Law Minister, was assassinated at an election rally in Kupwara, India, by suspected Islamic militants. Security officials said a militant, clad in a burqa and seated in the segregated women's enclosure, took an AK-47 assault rifle from under his robe and opened fire on Lone as he rose to address the rally. At least two other gunmen in the crowd also opened fire simultaneously, killing the Minister's two bodyguards and wounding the five others, who were standing nearby. All three militants escaped in the ensuing confusion. Lashkar-e-Taiba, Al Barq and Al-Ariseen each claimed responsibility, but the actual party responsible has not been verified.
9/19/2002: Militants stormed into a government high school in Jamalsan, Jammu and Kashmir, India. The assailants separated the Hindu teachers and students from the rest of the group; they opened fire on the Hindu group. One teacher and one student were killed in the attack. The attackers fled following the incident and no group claimed responsibility. The attack occurred during escalated violence leading up to the second round of state elections.
10/02/2002: Islamic militants shot dead three political activists in Jaktial, India. The perpetrators followed this attack with a threat to kill anyone taking part in the elections in Kashmir. The activists were a part of the ruling National Conference Party. One was the village head while the other two were on the village committee.
05/01/2002: Unknown militants threw a grenade at Zirpora Market in Bijbehara, a town in the Kashmir region of India. There was one fatality, Farooq Ahmad Bhat, and four others sustained splinter wounds. No perpetrators claimed responsibility for the attack.
01/24/2002: An IED was detected and defused by Indo-Tibetan Border Police and local police along the Srinagar-Jammu highway in Awantipora, India. Muslim militants were suspected in the attempted bombing.
07/27/2002: Four people were killed and two more injured in a grenade attack in Badgom, India. No group claimed responsibility.
08/06/2002: A suicide attack was carried out by two militants earlier on an army post in Kupwara District of North Kashmir injuring two soldiers. The attackers were suspected to be Al-Mansurian [LeT Front], which is the front organization of Lashkari-i-Taiyibah.
08/06/2002: A separatist militant threw a grenade at a crowded marketplace in Rajouri District of Jammu region in Indian Kashmir. 15 people were injured.
05/27/2002: Militants ambushed and killed 11 members of the Assam Rifles Battalion in the Indian town of Manipur. Officials have speculated that the attack was perpetrated by members of the Kuki Revolutionary Army.
12/12/2002: Seven Indian soldiers were injured when suspected Islamic militants exploded a powerful bomb attached to a bicycle in Srinagar, India. According to a local news agency, two little-known militant groups, Save Kashmir Movement and al Naseereen, claimed responsibility for the attack.
07/30/2002: Two people were killed and three injured by a grenade attack on their taxi in Anantnag, India. The victims were Hindu Pilgrims. No group claimed responsibility.
05/19/2002: At approximately 2:00 am local time, unidentified perpetrators fired rocket-propelled grenades at the Chasana Army camp in Udhampur district, India. At least five people, three soldiers, one Central Reserve Police Force officer and one assailant, were killed in an ensuing firefight. The perpetrators of this incident were not known.
02/03/2002: Suspected Muslim militants invaded the house of an Indian man in Indian-administered Kashmir and cut off his ears, lips and nose. The man was taken to the hospital and survived the attack. No groups claimed responsibility and it was unknown why this particular individual was targeted.
11/02/2002: Perpetrators fired two grenades on the residence of the newly appointed Minister Sayeed Nowgam in outskirts of Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India, hours before he was due to be sworn in. Mr. Sayeed was not injured, but a police officer was injured in this incident. The Al-Omar Mujahedin was suspected responsible for the attack.
01/24/2002: An IED was detected and defused by local police along the Jhangalwar bridge in Jammu region's Doda district. Muslim militants were suspected in the attempted bombing.
11/28/2002: Perpetrators fired a rocket at a state-owned radio station, All India Radio, in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India, damaging some equipment and the exterior of the building. Pro-Pakistan al Badr claimed responsibility for the incident, which claimed no casualties.
07/29/2002: Fourteen civilians were injured by a grenade explosion in Pulwama, India. The Border Security Force Battalion was the intended target. No group claimed responsibility.
2/12/2002: Unidentified militants opened fire on the private home of L Jayanta Singh, a Congress candidate, in Keisamthong, Manipur, India. No one was injured in the attack. The assailants also opened fire on the home of Singh's political rival. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
9/16/2002: A bomb exploded near a polling station in Batpora, Jammu and Kashmir, India. Two men were wounded in the explosion; it is unknown whether they were voters or passers-by. No group claimed responsibility; however, authorities believe that militants are responsible for the incident. Separatist Muslim militants have threatened to escalate violence in order to derail the election process.
04/16/2002: Gunmen killed five civilians and injured two others in the Balhama Panzala village, located in the Baramulla district of Jammu and Kashmir, India. Gunmen attacked the home of Mahada Sheikh, though the motive was unknown. Two of the attackers were arrested.
10/2/2002: Bangladeshi miscreants and members of National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) attacked Bishnupur village, Tripura state, India. The assailants abducted eight members of the village, killing one of them when he resisted the abduction. The captors took the abductees across the border into Bangladesh. Specific motive is unknown.
9/8/2002: Two suspected Muslim militants attacked a Hindu family in Dodasanpai village, Jammu and Kashmir, India. The militants stormed the family's home and opened fire, killing two women and three men. Indian officials state that the militants were trained by Pakistan and are motivated to prevent the Indian public from voting in the state elections.
10/3/2002: A miscreant shot and killed C K Pradhan in Kalimpong, West Bengal, India. Pradhan was the former Executive Councilor of Darjeeling Gorkha Hill Council. The assailant fled; no one claimed responsibility for the attack.
07/10/2002: The Editor of a leading daily newspaper was shot and critically wounded by gunmen in Srinagar, India. No one claimed responsibility.
07/10/2002: A journalist was critically injured by two gunmen in Channapora, India, located in the Kashmir Valley. No one claimed responsibility.
02/13/2002: Suspected Lashkar-e Taiba militants mutilated and tortured Mohammad Tanzeem before killing him in the woods of the Kashmir town of Bachay, India. The militants seized Tanzeem after they could not locate their original target -- Tanzeem's son, SPO Mohammad Yasin.
01/12/2002: Armed militants surrounded a market in Tripura, India and fired into the crowd, killing 12 people and wounding 13 others. Two groups of militants of the outlawed National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) surrounded the market in the Singicherra area in Tripura and opened fire. The militants then escaped. The wounded were admitted to hospitals in Agartala. Ten were reportedly in serious condition.
02/14/2002: Suspected Jaish-e-Mohammad separatists chopped off the ears and nose of National Conference activist Abdul Hafeez Mirza before shooting him to death and leaving him in a forest. The perpetrators then burned down Mirza's home in Bathian, India. Authorities suspected Jaish-e-Mohammad because the group had warned people against participating in an upcoming electoral process.
02/20/2003: At around 11:00AM local time, an IED exploded at the main public market of Tehsil Chowk, Baramulla District, Kashmir. Four to five people were killed, and four more were injured. The police said no militant organizations had claimed responsibility, but suspected that militants planted the IED in order to target a military convoy that passed by the town earlier. The IED was hidden under the snow, and detonated when a snow-cleaning machine was clearing the road.
3/28/2003: Muslim militants fired rockets at an army camp in the Kashmir village of Wagad, India, killing one soldier and injuring five others.
04/12/2003: Unidentified militants threw a grenade into the Punjab National Bank in Lalchowk, India, injuring 17 people.
05/12/2003: Islamic militants attacked an army vehicle with grenades and automatic rifles in Nasu, India. The attack left a marine commando dead and an Indian soldier injured. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
07/12/2003: In Kaloosa, India, a bomb on the rear of a bus exploded while carrying students through the town. Six Hindu girls on the bus and three Kashmiri Muslim pedestrians were injured in the blast. No group claimed the attack and authorities did not name a suspected group.
05/09/2003: Ghulam Ahmed Rather, a worker of the state's National Conference party, was shot dead by suspected rebels in Khrew, India. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
11/03/2003: Unknown perpetrators shot and killed Zonal President of the People's Democratic Party, Ghulam Mohammad Ganai, in Pulwama District, Jammu and Kashmir, India. Ganai, a contractor, was supervising construction work when he was shot. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
01/25/2003: Members of the People's War Group killed Venkatrami Reddy, a Congress Party leader, in Kundlakunta village inside the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.
09/28/2003: Militants in Indian-administered Kashmir killed four people, including a counter-insurgent informant, Muneer Hussain, and two children in a reprisal attack. Members of the banned group Hizb ul Mujahideen were blamed.
05/12/2003: Rebels attacked police stationed outside a regional bank in Shopian, India, killing two policemen and injuring three civilians. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/09/2003: An Indian Home Guard member, Mohammad Afzal Bhat, was kidnapped by suspected unknown militants from his home in the middle of the night and then killed. The next day, the body of Bhat was found with his throat slit near a mosque in Kanthpora Sogam, Kupwara district, India.
01/16/2003: Suspected members of the Peoples' War Group blasted a newly constructed Police post with dynamite in the Indian district of Orissa. There were no reported injuries.
12/08/2003: A bag exploded minutes after being handed over to a hardware shop owner in Makum town, Assam state, India, killing Hindi-speaking bystanders.
03/28/2003: About seven Islamic militants sliced off the noses of five civilians, including a woman, in the Kashmir village of Banihati, India. The militants accused the victims of being informers for the Indian army.
01/20/2003: Maoists of the People's War Group (PWG) assaulted a Transco sub-station in the Indian village of Isaipet. The rebels reportedly ordered the operators to exit the premises before torching electric meters, wireless sets, and records.
05/12/2003: Rebels fired at a group from the Central Reserve Police Force in the main market of Kupwara, India. Four policemen, two army soldiers, and one shopkeeper were injured in the 15-minute shootout. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
03/28/2003: Militants shot to death a man and his son in the Kashmir town of Poonch, India.
07/22/2003: Six people were injured by a grenade thrown by suspected militants at a camp of the pro-Indian militant group Ikhwan in the main market of Qazigund township, 50 miles south of the summer capital of Srinagar in Indian-controlled Kashmir. The grenade fell short of the intended target and exploded among pedestrians, injuring six of them.
04/12/2003: Unidentified militants threw a grenade at a crowded bus stop in Qazigund, India. The attack injured 24 people and killed one, Dr. Abdus Salam Qazi.
11/03/2003: An assistant commandant of India’s Border Security Force, Yashpaul Singh, was injured when perpetrators detonated a bomb that had been placed inside an auto-rickshaw located in the Rambagh area of Srinagar, India. Although Singh suffered minor injuries, the explosion damaged his police vehicle. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
01/25/2003: A land mine triggered by a passing police vehicle in the village of Ashmuqam, located in Indian controlled Kashmir, resulted in a dead policeman and six other policemen wounded. The attack, claimed by Hizb-ul-Mujahidin (HM), took place on the day before India’s Republic Day.
03/30/2003: People's War Group rebels planted and detonated a land mine at the Revenue Divisional Office in Kamareddy, India, damaging the front part of the building, but causing no injuries.
01/20/2003: Maoists of the People's War Group assaulted a Transco sub-station in the Indian village of Chukkapur. The rebels reportedly ordered the operators to exit the premises before torching electric meters, wireless sets, and records.
11/05/2003: Two Indian Army soldiers were killed and three others were injured in bomb explosions triggered by suspected members of the United National Liberation Front rebels in the Chandel District of India’s Manipur State. The bomb exploded when members of the 37th battalion were returning to their camp. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
10/20/2003: A grenade was thrown into a town square in Anantnag, India. One person was killed and seven others were injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
09/02/2003: Islamic militants staged several reprisal attacks in concert in Indian Kashmir. In the third attack militants attempted to raid a Border Security Force base. Two BSF personnel were injured in the attack.
09/08/2003: Twelve people were killed in a targeted landmine blast in the Indian state of Bihar. Maoist insurgents of the banned People's War Group were blamed for the attack.
05/13/2003: Unknown rebels opened fire from close range at a police patrol in Karan Nagar, India, which left one sub-inspector dead. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
03/23/2003: About 12-15 gunmen dressed in army uniforms killed 24 Hindus, including two children and eleven women, in the Kashmir village of Nadi Marg, after overpowering village guards and using their automatic weapons to get people out of their homes. No one claimed responsibility, but India blamed Pakistan-based Islamic militant groups Lashkar-e Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammad for the attack, while Pakistan blamed India for training local militants.
07/22/2003: Three Islamic separatists dressed in Indian army uniforms struck an Indian army base in Tanda, Jammu, killing eight soldiers, including a brigadier-general, and wounding two other top army generals in a suicide attack. A group calling itself the Al-Shuda Brigade of Jammu and Kashmir claimed responsibility.
03/17/2003: Suspected Tehreek-ul-Mujahedeen rebels shot and killed a police officer and a security force informer after attacking a patrol station in the Kashmir village of Puhroo, India.
01/25/2003: Members of the People's War Group abducted, attacked, and killed Telugu Deam Party leader Syed Dawood in a forest region of Yeturnagaram inside India’s Andhra Pradesh. Dawood died of multiple injuries inflicted in the beating.
01/03/2003: In India, Maoists blew up the house of a Mandal Praja Parishad president in the interior Mulugu forest area of Warangal district. A local guerrilla squad lead by Swarnakka attacked the house of D. Rameshwar Rao at Ghanpur village, called the inmates out, planted mines around the hamlet, and detonated it. There were no reported fatalities.
02/26/2003: Militiamen killed six people of a polling party at a police station at Santarampada Village in Tripura State, India. Five of the killed were Border Security Force (BSF) guards, and officials suspected the National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) of being behind the attack.
09/06/2003: A powerful improvised explosive device (IED) detonated at a fruit market in Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian-administered Kashmir. At least six people were killed and 25 injured. Hizb ul Mujahideen claimed responsibility.
12/06/2003: Police intercepted four individuals on a motorcycle carrying petrol, iron rods and other weapons, apprehending two of them. According to the police, the individuals were on their way to attack a temple at Vettiyar.
01/16/2003: Indian Border Security Forces operating in Kashmir detected a large bomb planted in the main road running though Hajan township. The explosive, composed of roughly 20 kilograms of RDX explosive, was also rigged with eleven hand grenades to prevent tampering. Indian authorities suspect that the bomb was meant to target Akbar Lone, a member of the state assembly and local leader of the National Conference party, who was set to visit Hajan within the following few days.
05/31/2003: Two Border Security Force (BSF) members and 11 civilians were injured in a grenade explosion in Khudwani, India. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
07/15/2003: Maoist Communist Centre (MCC) activists detonated dynamite to blow up tracks near Nadda, India on Narkatiaganj-Gorakhpur section under Samastipur division of East Central Railway (ECR). The damage to the tracks caused the derailment of an engine and three coaches of the Gorakhpur-Narkatiaganj passenger train in Bihar State, but there were no deaths or injuries. This was one of four connected attacks carried out by MCC on trains on the same day.
02/16/2003: Maoist guerrillas (Naxalites) shot dead a former village head in Srigeri Pado Village, Guntur District, Andhra Pradesh State, India. The Naxalites accused the village head of being a police informer. In the same incident, the Naxalites attempted to blow up a telephone exchange which was inside the former village head's building.
03/08/2003: United Liberation Front of Assam separatists blew up a crude oil pipeline in Kathalguri, India. The attack occurred not far after United Liberation Front of Assam separatists set fire to the Digboi Refinery. There were no injuries.
04/22/2003: A landmine placed in a wall killed six civilians and injured 12 others in Goriwan in the outskirts of Tral and Pulwama district, Jammu and Kashmir. Reports attributed the attack to militants. The improvised explosive device went off as people were taking their cattle to graze.
01/26/2003: Election meetings held in four houses in Mandai, located in India's northeastern state of Tripura, were attacked by militants of the National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) resulting in eleven killed and eight more wounded. The victims were members of Tripura's ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM).
03/16/2003: Suspected United Liberation Front of Assam rebels triggered a land mine on Highway No. 7, near the village of Bamungopha, India, hitting a bus and killing seven and injuring 55 others. Police suspect that a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) convoy was the target, but a private bus coming from the opposite direction passed the convoy and took the impact of the explosion instead. Police speculated that the United Liberation Front of Assam was celebrating its "Soldier's Day," the founding day of its military wing, and wanted to demonstrate its firepower.
01/03/2003: Five Border Security Force (BSF) members were killed and two more were wounded when National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) insurgents detonated a land mine and attacked with small arms fire. This attack took place in the Chaplingcherra area of South Tripura State, India.
03/15/2003: Suspected Muslim militants set fire to the entire Kashmir village of Nerojal in India, destroying 16 houses belonging to Hindus, but injuring no one.
04/08/2003: Suspected Muslim rebels shot dead Abdul Razzaq, a local official for the People’s Democratic Party, at his home in Khudwani Puhroo of the Anantnag district, India.
01/24/2003: A convoy carrying Manipur State Ministers K. Ranjit Singh and Korung Thung was attacked with automatic gunfire directed from a hill in the Indian village of Thingkhangpi. There were no reported injuries.
09/13/2003: Suspected Islamist insurgents attacked an Indian Army camp in Kashmir with grenades and automatic rifles. Four soldiers, including an officer, were killed and six injured.
01/20/2003: Presumed members of the United People's Democratic Solidarity (UPDS) movement detonated a bomb on a crowded train in Karbi Anglong within India’s Assam state causing the train to partially derail. There were no reported injuries. Police suspected that the rebels were trying to cause panic before the upcoming Republic Day holiday.
05/05/2003: Ghulam Ahmed Saloora, a pro-India politician affiliated with Indian Kashmir's long-ruling National Conference Ruling Party, was injured in a grenade explosion triggered by suspected Muslim rebels in Duderhama, India.
01/09/2003: Manzoor Ahmed was shot and killed in the village of Ahem Sharief in Indian Kashmir by suspected Muslim militants.
03/08/2003: United Liberation Front of Assam separatists killed three and injured four in the village of Rangjuli, India, hours after blasts at an oil refinery and a pipeline.
02/25/2003: At around 9:35 PM local time, three youth gunmen attacked a shop owned by Hindus in Rai Sehot village, near Sunderbani town, Jammu and Kashmir Province. The three militants entered a provisional store and asked to buy three pairs of underpants. The store owner's brother-in law and sister, raised the alarm after seeing rifles under the shawls of the militants. A struggle ensued over the guns, ending when the militants opened fire at the shop and killed three civilians, and critically wounding another, who later died in hospital. As the perpetrators fled, they sprayed a passing truck with bullets, injuring the driver and two others on board. The truck managed to safely speed away. The militants fled 20 minutes later.
09/30/2003: Maoist insurgents killed six people and injured three others in the eastern Indian state of Tripura. The banned group known as the National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) is blamed.
10/21/2003: A grenade was thrown at a bus stand in Kulgam, India. Fourteen people were wounded in the explosion. No claim of responsibility was made in the attack.
04/12/2003: Unidentified militants lobbed a grenade at a bus stand in Kulgam, India, injuring five people.
01/03/2003: Three extremists belonging to the Praveen Dalam group gunned down Telugu Dessam Party (TDP) leader Katta Narayana at Gambirpur village in Kathalapur mandal, Andhra Pradesh State, India.
11/14/2003: Suspected militants attacked members of India’s Border Security Force who were patrolling part of Naseem Bagh in Jammu and Kashmir, India. Two soldiers and two civilians were injured when a rickshaw, which had been rigged with an improvised explosive device, exploded. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
11/12/2003: Separatist rebels belonging to the group United People’s Democratic Solidarity kidnapped and beheaded four schoolboys in India’s Assam State. The children, belonging to the Kuki tribe, were decapitated after attackers abducted them from their school. The bodies were found lying near a river in Manja, India.
06/17/2003: Unknown attackers detonated an improvised explosive device outside of a shop selling chickens in Shopian, India. The explosion injured five people and damaged two shops. Authorities suspected that the intended target of the bomb was an Indian police patrol. However, the bomb detonated after the patrol had passed. No group claimed responsibility for the bombing.
05/19/2003: Unknown perpetrators shot dead a Muslim policeman in Awantipora, India. No group took responsibility for the attack.
11/22/2003: Eight laborers were killed and two more wounded when six suspected members of the United Liberation Front of Assam fired AK-47 assault rifles indiscriminately at them in Tinsukia, India.
02/23/2003: During the night, a number of mortar bombs were hurled at an Indian Air Force base near the Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport in Guwahati, Assam State, India. The mortar bombs were thrown in a vacant area near the Air Base's boundary wall, went through the asbestos roof of the mess hall, and landed on a veranda. Local police described the mortars as those that the Pakistani and Chinese militaries used, and surmised that the mortars were acquired from Pakistani intelligence, and smuggled from Bangladesh. Police also suspected that the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) was behind the attack. 20 people were arrested who were suspected of association with the attack, and recovered a live mortar believed to be left heading from a village near the airport.
07/15/2003: Maoist Communist Centre (MCC) activists damaged tracks in Rambhadrapur in Bihar State, India. The damaged tracks caused the 521 Kurla-Darbhanga express to derail, damaging three coaches. There were no reported injuries or deaths. This was one of four connected attacks carried out by MCC rebels on trains on the same day.
01/20/2003: A three wheeled taxi loaded with explosives detonated near an Indian army vehicle resulting in one death and one injury inside the Indian Kashmir town of Baramulla. Responsibility for the attack was claimed by Islamic Fateh in a statement to a local news agency.
05/03/2003: At least fifteen civilians were injured in a grenade blast triggered by unknown militants at a crowded bus stand in the Anantnag district, India. The grenade was aimed at a police vehicle but missed its target, landing among pedestrians.
10/28/2003: A grenade was thrown at the central telegraph office in Srinagar, India. The attack injured at least 36 people. The Kashmir Freedom Party claimed responsibility for the attack.
01/05/2003: In the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, three policemen were killed by members of the People's War Group (PWG) in the Guntur District. The three motorcycle policemen were killed by a land mine blast triggered when the police were escorting government officials returning to Kothur after attending the state government's ongoing Janmbhoomi program.
11/15/2003: Suspected Islamic militants hurled a grenade into the Good Shepherd Christian Missionary School’s yard in Pulwama, India. Three people, including two teachers and a security guard, were injured in the explosion. No group claimed responsibility for the attack, but Islamic militant groups in Kashmir were known to have threatened and attacked non-Muslim institutions, especially Christian missionary schools in the region. Local Islamic militants opposed these schools’ efforts to convert local people to Christianity.
01/24/2003: Nasir Bandey, brother of a local leader of India's main opposition Congress party in nearby Shopian township, was shot and killed by at least five rebels who stopped his car in the village of Nagshereen inside Indian controlled Kashmir.
01/03/2003: In India, Maoists presumably representing the People’s War Group set off a land mine to stop a convoy of government officials involved in the Janmabhoomi program shortly before kidnapping 4 of them. The ambush took place in the Guntur District inside Andhra Pradesh between the remote villages of Bodhanam and Chityala. No fatalities were reported and the hostages were released shortly after.
05/06/2003: Two civilians were injured in an explosion triggered by suspected Islamic militants in Lasjan, India. The militants supposedly were targeting a security forces vehicle in the incident.
07/03/2003: In Gaya District, Bihar State, India, the Paraiya Police station was attacked by suspected Maoist Communist Center (MCC) guerrillas. The militants stormed the police station firing on the police officers, killing Assistant Sub Inspector Sitaram Singh and Constable Arjun Paswan. The militants locked Suresh Paswan, the officer in charge, in a room and burnt him alive. Three other policemen were injured in the attack. Inspector General Neelmani claimed the militants raided the police station to loot arms.
11/18/2003: Two members of Al-Mansoorian attacked an Indian Central Reserve Police Force battalion camp in Srinagar, India. The perpetrators fired automatic weapons killing one policeman and injuring two others. Al-Mansoorian claimed responsibility for the attack in phone calls to local media outlets after the attack.
09/11/2003: Suspected Islamic militants lobbed a grenade at an Indian Border Security Force (BSF) bunker in a busy part of Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian administered Kashmir. One woman was killed and as many as 20 injured. Hizb-ul-Mujahidin (HM) later claimed responsibility for the attack.
05/19/2003: Unknown militants shot dead a Border Security Force member in Srinagar, India. No group took responsibility for the incident.
09/06/2003: Three unknown militants attacked a police station in Jammu, the winter capital of Indian-occupied Kashmir. At least one policeman and one civilian were killed.
02/10/2003: At around 11AM local time, perpetrators from the Maoist Communist Center (MCC) extremist group ambushed a police patrol near Chandawa police station in Latehar District, Jharkhand State, India. Reports conflict over injuries and deaths, ranging from one to four Central Reserve Police Force soldiers killed, and none to four members of the MCC killed. Reports indicated either five or six police injured, at least two critically. The MCC stole firearms under the cover of the gunfight fro the police station. An incident later on 02/10/2003 in the Amjharia Valley is related to this incident, as a police convoy sent to reinforce Chandawa was attacked.
01/21/2003: Unidentified bandits traveling in a jeep opened fire at a group of tourists at Kalinjer Fort inside India’s Banda district resulting in eight deaths.
11/12/2003: Members of the tribal separatist group called the Kuki National Front kidnapped and murdered Lungnila Elizabeth, the daughter of Manipur State’s Taxation and General Administration Minister Francis Ngajokpa in Imphal, India. The attackers kidnapped the girl as she left school on November 5, 2003. Her body was found on November 12, 2003 stuffed in a bag that had been thrown into a local pond. The girl had been shot several times. A man identifying himself as part of the tribal separatist Kuki National Front had called Ngajokpa demanding ransom for the release of his daughter earlier in the week. Reports do not indicate if any ransom had been paid during the incident.
3/26/2003: A bomb exploded in an oil tanker in Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir, India. The oil tanker was parked outside of an oil depot at the time of the explosion. One person was killed and five were injured. No group claimed responsibility for the incident and the specific motive is unknown.
03/08/2003: United Liberation Front of Assam separatists launched a mortar attack and set a fire that lasted forty hours at one of the world's oldest operating oil refineries in Digboi, India. There were no injuries.
01/03/2003: In India, Maoists belonging to the Tataiah group detonated the Telugu Dessam Party forest office at Ajamnagar in Kataram mandal headquarters inside of Andhra Pradesh State. There were no reports of fatalities.
07/21/2003: At least seven Hindu devotees died and 42 others injured in an attack on crowds gathered to receive free food near a famous temple shrine of Mata Vaishnodevi in Katra, Kashmir, India. Reportedly, militants hurled two grenades at the Hindus as they queued for food at a community kitchen.
05/30/2003: At least two children were killed when suspected Muslim insurgents triggered a blast in Thanamandi, India. It was not known who was specifically responsible for the attack.
04/17/2003: Suspected Islamic militants opened fire on a police post in the Udampur district of Kashmir. One police constable was killed and another police officer was seriously injured. Indian police estimated that 30 militants attacked the post that was housing 50 police officers.
04/26/2003: A car bomb and ensuing gun battle outside the state radio and television station in Kashmir killed two soldiers and injured three paramilitary officers. The three suspected Islamic militants who perpetrated the bombing were also killed. Police found explosives strapped to the bodies of two of the dead attackers. Two different Pakistan-based Islamic rebel groups claimed responsibility for the attack.
10/20/2003: In a series of related attacks, a grenade was thrown into a bus station in Batmalloo, India. Two people were killed and 58 were injured in the attack. No claim of responsibility was made in the attack.
08/07/2003: Islamic separatists attacked an Indian Border Security Force convoy in Srinagar, India. The perpetrators threw grenades inside a convoy vehicle, killing two soldiers and injuring six others. Two civilians were injured in the attack as well. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
02/12/2003: During the night, five civilians were kidnapped from Bonkoot village, Bandipore, Jammu and Kashmir. On 02/13/2003 two bodies were found in the Bonkoot area with their throats slit and decapitated. On 02/14/2003, the butchered and decapitated body of a third kidnapped person was found in the same area. On the same day, a fourth civilian escaped and reached home. On 02/15/2003, the last person was set free. The Indian Army and Police had commenced a massive manhunt to find the perpetrators. One of the civilians with his throat slit, Bashir Ahmed Tantray, was a former militant. Indian officials believed that the victims were kidnapped by a Jihadi outfit from their homes, and the three killed were properly under suspicion by the militants for being informants to Indian Security Forces. The killings reportedly set a large shockwave of fear throughout North Kashmir, as the kidnapping came around the time of Eid-ul-Adha, one of the most holy days of the Islamic calendar.
07/15/2003: Maoist Communist Centre (MCC) activists destroyed 70 meters of track near the Pipra Railway Station in Bihar State, India. The Raxual-Muzaffarpur train applied its emergency brakes in time to prevent derailment. Upon investigation, at least five bombs were stilly lying on the tracks. There were no deaths or injuries. This was one of four connected attacks carried out by MCC rebels on trains on the same day.
01/10/2003: Barkat Bibi and her son Mohammed Shakeel were shot dead in their Poonch district house in Indian controlled Kashmir by unknown Muslim militants.
07/15/2003: Maoist Communist Centre (MCC) activists removed the train tracks along the Samastipur-Darbhanga section in Barginia in Bihar State, India. This caused an engine car and two coaches to derail. There were no reported injuries or death in the incident. This was one of four connected attacks on train railways in Bihar State by MCC rebels.
06/01/2003: Members of the People's Revolutionary Party of Kangleipak (Prepak) attacked an Indian Central Reserve Police Force post in the Tuinem area of India’s Manipur State. No casualties resulted from the 30-minute gun battle. An unknown caller claimed that the People's Revolutionary Party of Kangleipak (Prepak) was responsible for the attack.
01/19/2003: Unknown Islamic militants in the Indian Kashmir town of Kulgam tossed a grenade towards a bus carrying police officers. The bomb missed its attended target and instead struck a civilian bus, resulting in twenty one injured.
01/06/2003: In Srinagar, inside Indian controlled Kashmir, wine store owner Abdul Hamid Sheikh was shot and killed by unknown gunmen on his way home from his store. Abdul was said to have defied threats from militants to close down his store.
03/17/2003: A policeman and a taxi driver were injured in a bomb explosion in the Kashmiri town of Bijbehara, India. The perpetrators were unknown.
03/14/2003: One Lashkar-e Taiba militant took nine people hostage in the Anand Hotel in Poonch, India, eventually killing five people and wounding 8 more, before police killed him. The militant fired guns and grenades from the third floor of the hotel into the marketplace below, where a Muslim festival procession was taking place, exchanging crossfire with police for more than four hours. Two policeman were killed, 8 people were injured, and extensive damage was caused to the hotel as a result of the crossfire. After four hours, police stormed the hotel and found 3 hostages dead and one militant. The Daily Excelsior said that the militant targeted the Muharram procession in an attempt to kill the civilians and police and to stir up trouble in Poonch.
04/17/2003: Unidentified assailants detonated an improvised explosive device outside a hospital in Magam, Badgam district. One policeman was killed and nine persons were injured.
05/19/2003: Militants attacked the Indian security forces in Srinagar, India. No soldier was hurt in the attack, but 14 pedestrians were wounded. No group took responsibility for the incident.
09/24/2003: Maoist rebels killed two village chiefs in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. The People's War Group has been blamed for the killings.
03/15/2003: About 10-15 Muslim militants attacked a police post in the Gool area of the Udhampur District in Kashmir, India, killing 11 people and wounding 9 others. The militants then escaped and took four other police officers hostage; two escaped from the militants, while the other two were killed. In total, eleven policemen and two civilians were killed in the attack; it was unclear when the two hostages were executed. Local Kashmiri fighters from three separate Muslim groups, Hizb-ul-Mujahidin (HM), Harakat ul-Mujahidin (HuM) and Harkatul Jihad-e-Islami, were responsible for the attack. A Hizb-ul-Mujahidin (HM) spokesman claimed responsibility for the three groups and said that the attack was in retaliation of the killing of Hizb-ul-Mujahidin (HM)'s district commander and three other fighters by the Indian army.
03/11/2003: A bomb exploded outside a sweet shop in Rajauri in the Kashmir region of India, killing one and injuring eleven. Muslim rebels were suspected.
05/19/2003: Militants launched a grenade at security forces in Srinagar, India. The perpetrators missed their target, but caused no casualties. No group took responsibility for the incident.
05/31/2003: Suspected rebels shot dead Gul Mohammed, a worker with India's main opposition Congress, in the village of Bragam, India. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
09/02/2003: Islamic militants staged several reprisal attacks in concert in Indian Kashmir. In the second attack a remote detonated mine exploded as a police convoy passed. Exact casualty numbers are unknown.
05/13/2003: Unknown Muslim rebels, armed with assault rifles and grenades, launched an attack on an Indian army vehicle in Thanamandi, India. One soldier was killed and four injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
05/28/2003: An Indian army soldier was killed and two other people injured when Muslim rebels ambushed a convoy with assault rifle fire and grenades in Dangiwachi, India. The perpetrators of the incident was unknown.
04/13/2003: Suspected People’s War Group rebels shot dead four people in Karpi, Jehanabad district, India.
01/31/2003: An Indian Border Security Force patrol in Anantnag, Kashmir was the intended target of a grenade attack by suspected Muslim rebels. The grenade missed its target and detonated among civilians in the Lal Chowk marketplace resulting in the death of Ajaz Ahmed and fifteen more wounded.
05/07/2003: Suspected members of the All Tripura Tiger Force (ATTF) armed with assault rifles and machetes dragged sleeping villagers from their houses, lined them up, and shot them at close range in Fimnacherra, India. Nineteen people died on the spot and eight villagers were severely injured.
06/23/2003: Unknown attackers kidnapped Rani Begum from her home and injected her with a fatal does of poison in Dodi, India. The woman was related by marriage to the former political leader, Choudhary Aslam. No group claimed responsibility for the assassination.
04/14/2003: Four civilians and two security personnel were injured when suspected militants threw a grenade on Hari Singh High street in Srinagar, India.
05/17/2003: Suspected Muslim rebels shot dead two policemen in Srinagar, India. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
09/07/2003: Unknown militants exploded a land mine along the route of a former chief minister of Jharkland. Three people were killed in the attack.
05/05/2003: A grenade hurled at a group of police missed its target and exploded in a bus stand in Doda, India. Twenty persons were injured and one killed in the incident. Police suspected that Hizb-ul-Mujahidin (HM) was responsible for the attack.
03/29/2003: Six People's War Group rebels exploded mines after asking the staff to leave at the Gomanda railway station in the Vizianagram district of India, causing damage, but no injuries. The rebels said the attack was to protest the arrest of People's War Group activists in the area.
03/08/2003: United Liberation Front of Assam separatists threw mortars at a police armory in Bongaigaon, India. The rebels missed their target and torched a small house, causing no injuries. The attack was the fourth in a series of attacks on an oil refinery, pipeline and civilians.
06/16/2003: Suspected members of the People’s War Group (PWG) planted a landmine that exploded when a group of 20 policemen inadvertently set it off as they were returning from a patrol of the village of Nemallipuri in India’s Andhra Pradesh State. Three policemen were killed and another was injured when the mine exploded. No group claimed responsibility for planting the mine, but the PWG had raided the village the previous night.
03/08/2003: Hizb-ul-Mujahidin (HM) militants triggered an explosive device in the Doda district of Kashmir, India, injuring seven army soldiers.
06/16/2003: Suspected members of the People's War Group (PWG) attacked and possibly kidnapped four policemen in Andhra Pradesh State’s Khammam District in India. The policemen had crossed into Andhra Pradesh from neighboring Chattisgarh State to visit a market when they were attacked. The outcome of the incident was not known. No group claimed responsibility for the kidnappings.
04/23/2003: Kashmir's finance minister, Muzaffar Hussain Beig, survived an assassination attempt in Baramulla, Jammu and Kashmir. The minister was inaugurating a branch of a government bank when a remote-controlled device exploded. There was no claim of responsibility for this incident.
10/01/2003: A series of claymore mines were exploded near the passing motorcade of Chandrababu Naidu, the chief minister of India’s Andhra Pradesh state. The attack occurred on a forest road about three kilometers from the village of Tirupati, India. There were no fatalities, but five people were wounded. Both the chief minister’s vehicle and an escort vehicle were destroyed. The Peoples' War Group was suspected to be involved in the attack to boost the morale of their cadre and increase publicity.
01/28/2003: Suspected Muslim militants in the district of Chatroo, located inside Indian controlled Kashmir, shot and killed Farooq Ahmed and his Hindu bodyguard after abducting the pair from their car. Farooq was an official in the National Conference political party.
07/29/2003: Suspected rebels barged into the home of Fayaz Ahmed, an employee of India's Tourism Department, and shot him dead near Kokernag, India. The suspected militants had reportedly accused Ahmed of working for Indian security forces.
03/14/2003: Police defused six bombs outside of the main train station in New Delhi, India, a day after a train blast in Mumbai that killed 11 and injured 64 others. A pedestrian alerted police after noticing the bombs in a plastic bag, which were to be triggered by heat.
05/07/2003: Fifteen alleged members of All Tripura Tiger Force (ATTF) attacked a market place in Mohorcherra, India, killing nine persons. All the victims of the incident were non-tribal Bengalis.
06/28/2003: Two suspected Islamic militants attacked the Sunjiwan army cantonment on the outskirts of Jammu, India. The perpetrators killed 12 to 14 Indian Army personnel and injured 7 others. The militants hurled grenades and fired indiscriminately at guards posted at the main gate. Then they entered the barracks and fired on sleeping soldiers. Both militants were killed during the armed intrusion. No group claimed responsibility for the apparent suicide attack.
01/10/2003: A mosque in Kheora, Jammu was the target of a late night grenade attack by an unknown perpetrator. The temple was empty at the time and the grenade, which landed against the outer wall, caused minor damage and no casualties.
02/10/2003: At around 5PM local time, extremists from the Maoist Communist Center (MCC) ambushed a police convoy of four vehicles near Amjharia Valley, on the Ranchi-Palamau Road. Five Central Reserve Police Force (CRFP) soldiers were killed and two more injured. This incident is linked to an incident on 11AM on 02/10/2003 when MCC elements attacked the Chandawa police station, also in Latehar District.
09/09/2003: A grenade was lobbed at a police station in Indian Kashmir. A young girl was killed on the spot and eight others injured. The perpetrators were unknown.
02/10/2003: Late in the day, a contingent of heavily armed militants fromKanglei Yawol Kanna Lup (KYKL) separatist group attacked a foot patrol of the Border Security Force (BSF), near Lokchao in Manipur State. A "big group" attacked the patrol, killing five of the BSF officers, and seriously injuring another. The attack occurred not far from the BSF camp in the area. The BSF officers returned gunfire for over an hour, after which the KYKL elements fled the area. Manipur's Additional Director General of Police confirmed that the KYKL were behind the attacks, and attacked to "make their presence felt."
09/07/2003: Unknown militants exploded a grenade in a busy area of Guwahati, the capital of the Indian state of Assam. Six people were injured, two critically.
06/17/2003: Suspected Islamic militant gunmen entered the house of Ali Mohammed Bhat in the village of Khiram, India, shooting and killing Bhat’s son. Bhat worked for the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP) and authorities believed that he was the intended target of the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the shooting.
12/02/2003: Suspected Islamic militants threw a grenade at the district police office in Indian Kashmir, wounding nineteen members of the police, including Abdul Qayyum Manhas, the district police chief, and two civilians. The location was described as the "most highly visible target since the truce began" between India and Pakistan on November 26th, 2003. The assailants were pursued, but not found.
03/13/2003: Unknown militants attacked a van on the Jammu-Poonch highway in Kashmir, India. Two passengers were killed and another two were injured by gunfire. This attack occurred hours after a bomb attack on a bus in Rajauri.
03/05/2003: Unknown gunmen shot and wounded a political worker of the Communist Party in Kulgam, India. Police suspect separatist militants who were fighting for Kashmir's independence from India.
06/23/2003: A suspected member of Islamic guerrillas hurled a grenade into a crowded bus station in India's portion of Kashmir, killing 2 civilians and wounding 48 others, many seriously. The attack took place in Shopian, a town about 55 kilometers (35 miles) south of Srinagar, summer capital of India's Jammu-Kashmir state.
06/23/2003: Suspected Islamic militants shot and killed three members of a family in Sogam, India. The perpetrators invaded the home of Abdul Ahad, killing him, his son, and a male relative. Ahad's daughter was also injured in the shootout and possibly succumbed to her injuries in hospital. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/15/2003: Five Indian policemen were killed when suspected Maoist Communist Center rebels detonated a mine near the policemen in Govindpur, Nawada district, India.
01/28/2003: Suren Brahma, along with four other family members, were lined up against a wall and shot with automatic weapons in the Indian village of Bogoribari by tribal militants of the Bodo Liberation Tigers (BLT). Police suspected that Suren, a member of the BLT, had tried to defect to the more militant National Democratic Front of Bodoland.
01/05/2003: At least 35 people, including four Central Reserve Police Force personnel, were injured when suspected militants lobbed a grenade at a CRPF patrol party in the crowded Kulgam bus stand in South Kashmir. There were no fatalities.
01/02/2003: The Vice-President of Mandal Praja Parishad (MPP), T Ramaiah, was brutally murdered in front of his mother by an unknown number of assailants wielding an axe. This attack took place in the Khammam district of Bayyaram located within the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.
03/14/2003: Suspected militants shot and wounded an activist of Kashmir's ruling People's Democratic Party.
05/01/2003: Three Islamic militants dressed in police uniforms opened heavy fire and lobbed hand grenades at an Indian border camp in Tral, 25 miles south of Srinagar, India. One rebel was killed in the incident.
08/25/2003: Suspected Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) radicals detonated two car bombs, timed seven minutes apart, in southern Mumbai, India, killing 52 people and injuring 150 others. near a holy Hindu Temple close to the Gateway of India monument in Mumbai, India. One explosion was at the Gateway of India, a famous seaside landmark and tourist attraction, while the other bomb targeted the Zaveri Bazaar, a crowded market of jewelry stores. The Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) was suspected in the attack.
01/02/2003: A Muslim carpet-weaver was shot and wounded by suspected Muslim militants in the village of Sailya, near the well-known picnic spot of Pahalgam, 100 kilometers (62 miles) southeast of Srinagar, the summer capital. Before his death, the victim stated that the militants believed he was working with Indian troops stationed in Indian Kashmir.
05/07/2003: Suspected members of the National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) shot dead two people near Agartala, India.
07/28/2003: A bomb exploded on a crowded bus in Ghatkopar, India, a Mumbai suburb, killing five people and injuring at least 31 more. The blast completely destroyed the rear portion of the bus and also damaged some vehicles nearby, including two motorized tricycles and another bus. The blast occurred when the bus was moving along the bustling Lal Bahadur Shastri Marg in Ghatkopar. Another bus coming from the opposite direction was damaged by splinters from the targeted vehicle. The perpetrators were unknown.
01/27/2003: A bomb exploded in the Ville Parle suburb of Bombay, India as part of a pair of bombings through the city. The blasts, which resulted in 27 injured, was blamed on the Students' Islamic Movement of India (SIMI).
01/28/2003: Suspected Muslim militants in the township of Shopian, located inside Indian controlled Kashmir, fired a rocket at the residence of National Conference party official Mohammed Shafi. No one was injured in the attack, despite Shafi being at home at the time of the attack.
07/27/2003: Manipur Chief Minister Okram Ibobi Singh escaped a militant assassination attempt, but two security guards were killed and four others seriously wounded at Wangjing, about 35 kms from Imphal, India. The militants struck around noon when the Chief Minister was returning to Imphal after inspecting construction of a dam at Sangaiyumpham in Thoubal district. The militants fired at his convoy, a few seconds after it had left the Wangjing area, but he escaped unhurt. The four security personnel, in another vehicle, were injured.
01/27/2003: A bomb exploded in the city of Bombay, India as part of a pair of bombings through the city. This bomb, which resulted in no one being injured, was blamed on the Students' Islamic Movement of India (SIMI).
03/14/2003: Suspected rebels shot and killed Abdul Gani Bhat, an activist of the opposition National Conference party.
04/14/2003: Two people were injured when suspected rebels threw a grenade into the Nishat garden in Srinagar, India.
01/09/2003: Abdul Rashid Khan was killed in the village of Sumblar in Indian Kashmir by suspected militants. Found with his throat slit, police said Khan was suspected of passing along information to Indian troops.
03/26/2003: Two unknown assassins shot and killed Haren Pandya, a senior leader of paramilitary Hindu nationalist group BJP, in Ahmedabad, India, when he was returning to his car from a morning walk.
02/06/2003: Two militants with sophisticated weapons fired upon Ikhwanis (former insurgents turned counter-insurgents) at Frisal village. Two civilians died in the incident, and two Ikhwanis and a child were injured when they returned fire. The militants quickly left the village as Indian security forces arrived. Hizb-ul-Mujahidin (HM) claimed responsibility via a local news agency CNS.
11/07/2003: Suspected Islamic militants assassinated Zulfikar Ali, leader of a local section of the People's Democratic Party in Anantnag, India. The perpetrators shot Ali when he answered them knocking at his door. No group claimed responsibility for the assassination.
05/06/2003: Twenty-three civilians were injured when suspected Islamic militants hurled a grenade at a police patrol, which instead exploded among civilians in Pulwama, India.
07/17/2003: Members of the outlawed militant National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) raided Thanabulhalampara, 170 kilometers (106 miles) east of Tripura’s state capital Agartala. Heavily armed NLFT guerrillas killed two civilians with automatic weapons. All the victims were non-tribal Bengalis.”.
07/27/2003: Fourteen civilians were hurt in a grenade blast at one of Indian Kashmir's busiest picnic spots. Suspected Muslim militants hurled a hand grenade at a security patrol at the main market of Kokernag, 44 miles south of Srinagar, but missed their target, hitting the civilians instead.
03/23/2003: Kuki Liberation Army (KLA) separatists kidnapped German humanitarian worker Heinrich Wolfgang in the Indian village of Maphou, releasing him more than two weeks later on April 9, 2003. Wolfgang worked for the Lutheran Development Service, a German NGO, that was providing relief and rehabilitation work in the area for refugees displaced by the ethnic conflict between the Kukis and Nagas. A KLA spokesman said that the group abducted Wolfgang because there was discrimination against the Kukis in the implementation of the NGO-funded development program. The group demanded a ransom of $212,800; it was not clear if the amount was paid.
07/29/2003: Militants belonging to the outlawed National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) dragged out a family of four people from their home and killed them in the village of Champahaur, India. The militants reportedly lined up the four - an elderly mother, her two daughters and a teenaged son - and shot them dead from close range using automatic weapons. The rebels reportedly targeted the family because two of their sons, who were earlier NLFT cadres, had surrendered to authorities.
03/13/2003: A bomb exploded on a parked bus outside a bus terminal in Rajauri, India, killing four and injuring at least 20 others. Police suspected that Muslim militants planted the bomb overnight on the Jammu-bound; no one claimed responsibility for the attack.
11/12/2003: Suspected Islamic militants ambushed an Indian Army patrol with automatic weapons and grenades, killing one soldier and injuring two others near the town of Bandipora, India. No group claimed responsibility for the assault.
01/23/2003: Saraipul, located inside Indian controlled Kashmir, was the location where suspected Islamic militants stopped a passenger bus and removed Ghulam Rasool Dar, a National Conference party activist, and Ghulam Mohammed Dar, a civilian. Both individuals were shot at point blank range killing them.
09/22/2003: At least three people were killed and 10 injured when a bomb exploded in the central part of Rajauri town in Indian-administered Kashmir. No responsibility was claimed but Lashkar e Taiba or Jaish e Mohammed are suspected.
01/26/2003: Thirteen members of the People's War Group (PWG) invaded the Raghunath cinema inside the Indian town of Atmakur in a late night assault. The assailants disarmed the night watchman and proceeded to detonate the theater causing heavy damage. No one was injured in the attack.
11/27/2003: Suspected militants hurled a grenade at a security checkpoint in Lal Chowk, Srinagar's commercial hub. The grenade missed the checkpoint and hit a shop, killing its owner and wounding 10 other civilians. Police suspected that the attackers were Kashmir separatist rebels. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
03/26/2003: Islamic militants shot dead a couple, which were related to a pro-government militant, in the Kashmir village of Malikpora, India.
01/28/2003: Suspected Muslim militants in the Budgam district, located inside Indian controlled Kashmir, attacked the house of a local National Conference activist with hand grenades. No one was reported injured in the attack.
02/02/2003: At around 10 am local time, Maoist guerrillas belonging to the Peoples' War Group (PWG), often referred to as Naxalites, attacked a private bus carrying between 39 and 43 passengers, between Basaguda and Abhapalli towns (eight miles from Abhapalli) in Chhattisgarh state. Policemen on the bus returned fire as passengers got off and escaped. Eventually the guerrillas threw a petrol bomb to set the bus alight, killing four policemen, including their Company Commander. The remaining two policemen killed one of the perpetrators, forcing the others to successfully flee. One rifle was recovered from the guerrillas. Reports indicated that the guerrillas had planned to hijack the bus anyways in order to demand the release to top communist leaders held by the Andhra Pradesh (state) government.
01/15/2003: An IED (improvised explosive device) detonation in the Baramulla district of Indian controlled Kashmir left BSF [Border Security Force] officer Puran Lal dead and two more BSF troops wounded. The explosive was detonated as a military vehicle struck it. No militant group has claimed responsibility.
01/31/2003: Parvaz Sultan, editor of the News and Feature Alliance in the Lal Chowk portion of Srinagar inside Indian controlled Kashmir, was shot and killed by an unknown assailant outside his office.
01/11/2003: Abdul Gani, an innocent bystander, was shot and killed in Baramulla in the Indian State of Kashmir when an unknown militant opened fire at a suspected police informant standing at a bus stand.
09/20/2003: Militants in Indian Kashmir kidnapped and then killed at least five civilians. It is not known if all victims were killed by the same group or which group perpetrated the killings.
03/23/2003: Jaish-e-Mohammad militants shot and critically wounded a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel in the Kashmir town of Batamaloo, India.
05/07/2003: Militants ambushed an Indian patrol at an unspecified remote village in the Baramulla district, India. The attack left two soldiers dead and five injured. Al-Mansoorian claimed responsibility for the attack. Two of the perpetrators were killed after the Indian patrol returned fire in the incident.
01/13/2003: Joseph Cooper, a 60 year old Protestant Missionary, and seven companions were attacked in the Indian state of Kerala's capital Trivandrum by ten members of the radical Hindu movement Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. The group sustained light injuries after being assaulted with swords, sticks, and a crowbar.
07/17/2003: Members of the outlawed militant National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) raided Rathinjaihalampara, 170 kilometers (106 miles) east of Tripura’s state capital Agartala. Heavily armed NLFT guerrillas killed two civilians with automatic weapons. All the victims were non-tribal Bengalis.
03/13/2003: A bomb exploded on a crowded suburban commuter train during rush hour in Mumbai, India, killing 11 passengers and injuring 64 others. Police suspected members of the Students' Islamic Movement of India (SIMI); two months later police arrested six men linked with Lashkar-e Taiba for planning the attack. The attack came a day after the 10-year anniversary of a series of bomb blasts in Mumbai that killed more than 250 people and injured more than 1,000 others.
09/02/2003: Islamic militants staged several reprisal attacks in concert in Indian Kashmir. In one attack a local Hindu politician was gunned down along with four associates.
06/21/2003: Rani Begum was killed when he was injected with cyanide in Todi-Poonch, Kashmir.
11/29/2003: At least six people were killed and several others were wounded in an attack on the Karbi tribe in Karbi Anglong, India. The attackers, who were members of the Kuki Revolutionary Army, shot and hacked at members of the Karbi tribe whom they were attacking. The perpetrators then set fire to approximately 100 houses belonging to their victims.
03/23/2003: Jaish-e-Mohammad militants shot and killed a cop helping children cross the street near Briscoe School in Srinagar, India.
01/13/2003: Two brothers, Miru and Ismail Katarai, were abducted before being shot and killed by Muslim separatists in the village of Panar inside Indian controlled Kashmir. The bodies of the victims displayed marks of torture.
11/27/2003: Five policemen were injured and their jeep was damaged when they drove over a land mine in Salboni, India. The device was believed to have been planted by members of the People’s War Group. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
01/11/2003: Dachepalli Mandal inside the Indian State of Andhra Pradesh had its local office blasted with explosives by members of the People’s War Group. There were no reported casualties.
01/12/2003: Members of the People’s War Group approached the residence of P. Mogili and shot him dead after branding him a police informant in the Indian village of Peddaktnta.
01/11/2003: The village head of the Bharatiya Janata Party in Madimalla village inside India, Vidyasagar Rao, was shot and killed at close range by suspected members of the People’s War Group after being called out of his residence by about ten armed men. Mr. Rao was suspected of being a police informant.
01/12/2003: Maoists from the People’s War Group destroyed a truck belonging to a private sand company, radio relay equipment, and a private guesthouse in the Indian village of Peddaktnta. There were no reported casualties from this action.
07/04/2003: Outside of a school in Larnu, part of the Indian-controlled Jammu-Kashmir State, a grenade was tossed at a meeting between Rural Development Minister Peerzada Mohammed Sayeed and health officials. Following the grenade explosion, the attackers opened fire. At least three people were killed and 27 were injured. Indian officials claimed the attack was an attempt to assassinate the state minister.
09/10/2004: Militants barged into the house of Lal Hussain in the Rajauri district of India and assaulted three women Jan Begum, Shahida Begum and Bala Dee. The Militants also set fire to six huts before fleeing. So-called "ULTRAS" - Indian colloquialism for extremists, in this case Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) - are suspected.
02/15/2004: An improvised explosive device exploded as an Indian Army convoy reached the market area at Qazigund, on the national highway in south India-controlled Kashmir. Fourteen security force personnel were wounded as well as three civilians. No group claimed the responsibility for this attack.
02/27/2004: One person was killed and three more injured in a grenade attack in Kashmir, India. The people were attending a government rally. The explosives were described as rifle grenades. Muslim militants were believed to be responsible.
08/31/2004: Suspected insurgents hurled a hand grenade at policemen walking near a bus station in the India-controlled part of Kashmir, killing a school teacher and wounding three policemen and 16 civilians.
08/14/2004: The United Liberation Front of Assam was blamed for a grenade blast at a cinema in the Assam town of Gauripur on India's independence day. The blast injured about 20 movie goers. The strike was in protest of New Delhi's rule over the northeast which is rich in oil, tea, and timber.
04/27/2004: A grenade was tossed at a Central Reserve Police Force vehicle but fell short and injured 14 people. 12 civilians and 2 officers were among the injured. The attack occurred in Pampore in Indian-administered Kashmir. No group claimed responsibility for the attack. The attacks took place during staggered national elections.
10/08/2004: The motorcade of a leading opposition figure of Indian-controlled Kashmir came under fire on a highway near Sherbibi by suspected militants. The Pakistani-based militant group Harkut-ul-Mujahedeen claimed the attack, though the politician was able to escape unharmed.
10/05/2004: Six heavily-armed separatists opened fire, in the early evening, on the Jalabela village square in India, which resulted in 12 people from the Muslim minority being killed and seven more wounded. The militants then fled into the jungle.
09/10/2004: A group of militants raided Goon Dhar village in Doda district of India. They set fire to homes, assaulted four women and abducted three villagers at gunpoint. The villagers managed to escape from their captors. So-called "ULTRAS" - Indian colloquialism for extremists, in this case Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) - are suspected.
06/30/2004: Suspected Muslim rebels shot dead a Muslim student and in a separate grenade attack injured nine people in Indian Kashmir. Five civilians and four Indian paramilitary troopers were injured in a grenade attack by rebels in the heart of the summer capital Srinagar. The grenade was hurled at a paramilitary patrol but splinters also hit late evening pedestrians. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
06/05/2004: A special police officer was killed when militants lobbed a grenade at a police patrol party in Doda District of Jammu and Kashmir. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
06/28/2004: Suspected Islamic militants shot dead a pro-Indian politician and a Muslim policeman in continuing violence in Indian Kashmir. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
10/02/2004: An activist of the ruling People's Democratic Party, was killed in southern Kashmir by suspected Lashkar-e-Tayyaba militants ahead of the state by-election on October 13. Gulam Muhammad Chichi was abducted from his home and later shot.
07/03/2004: In one of two related attacks in Jammu and Kashmir on July 2, suspected militants hurled a grenade at Indian paramilitary forces in a crowded market in Anantnag. Three troopers and 20 civilians were injured in this incident. Authorities suspected the attack was in retaliation for a recent crackdown on the militants.
06/16/2004: Suspected Islamic militants in Indian Kashmir abducted eight ruling party workers and shot four of them, one of whom died in hospital. The eight, all Muslims affiliated to the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), were abducted from Ashmuqam village in southern Anantnag district. No one else was killed or injured in the attack.
03/20/2004: A motorbike exploded as an Indian convoy passed by near the town of Manasbal, Jammu and Kashmir, India. The explosion killed two soldiers and wounded at least 40 civilians. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
01/27/2004: In Majra Bambal, Rajouri district, Jammu and Kashmir, India, a group of militants belonging to Lashkar-e Taiba entered the house of Faqir Mohmmad Gujar and assaulted him and his wife Nazira Begum. Gujar was injured and the militants killed Begum before fleeing.
11/08/2004: A suicide bomber blew himself up at the entrance of an Indian army camp in Sundervani village, in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. Four Indian soldiers were injured and there were no claims of responsibility.
07/15/2004: A grenade exploded along a road in Kashmir near the District Commissioner's office in Anantnag. The bomb resulted in injuries to six people, but no one was killed in the attack. The timing of the attack coincided with a Hindu pilgrimage expected to draw thousands of civilians along the road. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
05/21/2004: Suspected members of Hizb-ul-Mujahidin (HM) exploded a bomb nearby a Border Security Force (BSF) position in Chadoura, Budgam District, Jammu and Kashmir, India. Three civilians were killed and twenty-two injured in the incident.
01/14/2004: Suspected rebels riding motorcycles opened fire on a crowd leaving a movie in the eastern Indian village of Beltapara. The attack killed four people and injured five. The Kamtapur Liberation Organization (KLO) was allegedly involved as they seek independence from India in a territory near the location of the attack.
11/01/2004: Suspected militants lobbed a grenade near the Jama Mosque square in Shupiyan, Jammu and Kashmir, India. Twenty-one people were injured in the resulting explosion.
01/15/2004: Members of the rebel groups Hizb-ul-Mujahidin (HM) and Al-Mansoorian claimed joint responsibility for detonating a car bomb in the Hyderpora suburb of Srinagar, India. Seven Indian soldiers, part of a military convoy that was passing by when the explosion occurred, were injured in the attack. The blast occurred as leaders of the Hurriyat Conference, an umbrella organization of Kashmiri separatist groups were meeting to decide on who would a attend first-ever talks on the future of Kashmir with the Indian government the following week.
07/15/2004: Suspected members of the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) bombed the Machkhowa bus stand in Guwahati, India. Two civilians were injured in the bombing. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
07/15/2004: Militants threw at least one grenade at an Indian police station in the Punch district of Jammu and Kashmir, killing two people, at least one of whom was a policeman. At least one other person was injured. There was no claim of responsibility for the attack. It is unclear how many perpetrators participated in the attack.
10/02/2004: An explosion tore through the market in the small town of Dhekiagula in India's northeastern region of Assam, resulting in three deaths. Police suspected that the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) and the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) were behind these attacks.
06/26/2004: Suspected Islamic militants shot dead 12 people overnight in Indian-administered Kashmir in the border district of Poonch, 580 kilometres (360 miles) from Kashmir's summer capital Srinagar. The militants opened fire indiscriminately at the residential houses, killing 12 people and wounding 10 others No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
08/13/2004: Two unidentified militants entered the home of Fazal Hussain and killed him in the Thanamandi area of Rajouri district, India. It was suspected that the militants may have killed Mr. Hussain because his two sons were in the Indian army.
10/04/2004: A group of militants descended on the village in the early morning in Gelapukhuri, a village 130 miles north of Assam's capital of Gauhati, India. They proceeded to wake up some villagers, force them to stand in line, and then shot them indiscriminately. Six individuals were killed, and another nine wounded. The militants were suspected members of the rebel National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB).
04/23/2004: Unknown perpetrators targeted a campaign car with a bomb in Srinagar, India, injuring four people in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the blast.
04/23/2004: Unknown perpetrators lobbed two grenades at the Congress Party office in Srinagar, India, injuring one police officer and one soldier in the aftermath. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
06/20/2004: Two Indian soldiers were killed and two critically injured as unidentified heavily-armed militants ambushed an army patrol party in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir in northern India.
01/12/2004: Militants lobbed a grenade at a group of Kashmiri police as they left Sherbagh police station in Anantnag, India. The attack was an attempt to kill Deputy Superintendent Abdul Rouf. Rouf escaped with minor injuries, however his personal security officer was killed in the explosion. Thirteen others were injured in the attack, mostly other police officers. After the grenade attack an ensuing gun battle took place between Kashmiri police and the militants.
12/29/2004: Unknown perpetrators shot and killed National Conference Party leader Farooq Zargar while he was mourning a family member's death at a relative's residence in the Watal Kadal neighborhood of Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India.
02/07/2004: Suspected Muslim militants threw a grenade at an Indian Security Forces Patrol in the market of Shopian town, in India's Jammu and Kashmir State on Saturday, February 7, 2004. The grenade missed the patrol and exploded in the street. One civilian was killed on the scene, and two died later of injuries sustained from the explosion. 25 civilians and 5 soldiers were also wounded.
08/27/2004: Unknown attackers threw a grenade at a vehicle carrying three National Conference members of India’s Legislative Assembly. The attack occurred in Seri while the three were driving on the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway. The grenade failed to hit the vehicle and the occupants escaped unharmed. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
06/30/2004: Suspected Muslim rebels shot dead a Muslim student and in a separate grenade attack injured nine people in Indian Kashmir. The student was shot dead by suspected rebels in the northern Kashmir district of Baramulla.
10/02/2004: An explosion rocked the crowded Dimapur train station in the Nagaland region in northeastern India, resulting in more than 20 fatalities. Simultaneously militants attacked the local Chinese import market, which also resulted in numerous fatalities. Police suspected that the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) and the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) were behind these attacks.
09/03/2004: Two Islamic rebels killed an Indian soldier during a fire fight with Indian police in Sheendara, India. The rebels were barricaded in a mosque and were holding two women hostage.
07/03/2004: In one of two related attacks in Jammu and Kashmir on July 2, suspected militants set off a timed explosive on Maulana Azad road, a main thoroughfare in Srinagar frequented by tourists. At least two civilians were killed in the blast, and at least another 15 were injured. Officials noted that all of the were local Kashmiris. Authorities suspected the attack was in retaliation for a recent crackdown on the militants.
07/15/2004: Members of the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) bombed a gas pipeline belonging to the Assam Gas Company in Bismile, India. The explosion did not result in any casualties, but led to a large fire which authorities were able to extinguish after three hours. No group claimed responsibility for the bombing.
06/09/2004: At least 23 people were injured, some of them seriously, in a grenade explosion inside a cinema hall in Tinsukia District in Assam State, India. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
11/03/2004: Unidentified militants shot and killed Nazir Ahmad Raina, a People's Democratic Party worker, near Kangan in India's Jammu and Kashmir state.
01/14/2004: Six worshippers were abducted out of which four were killed, and the remaining two wounded, when The People's War attacked prayer goers in Mirjapur, India. The victims were supporters of the Ranvir Sena and were offering prayers in a temple when they came under attack. The militants fired on the devotees and then proceeded to abduct them. The militants shouted slogans suggesting the attack was in retribution for an attack on a group of Dalits, supporters of The People's War. The two surviving abductees were released on 01/15/2004.
08/26/2004: Members of the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) threw a grenade into a crowded market in Tangla, India. Seven people were injured in the explosion. ULFA claimed responsibility for the attack.
01/10/2004: Separatists in India's restive northeastern state of Assam blew up a crude oil pipeline near Kunwarpur, 223 miles east of the state capitol Guwahati. The attack was attributed to the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) who used a landmine to attack the pipeline. There were no injuries in the attack and crude oil production was not significantly affected.
01/09/2004: Suspected Islamic rebels hurled a grenade into a crowded mosque in the Peermitha area of Jammu, the winter capital of Indian administered Kashmir. As some 200 worshippers exited the mosque after Friday prayers the grenade killed 2 and injured 20. Several pro-Indian politicians were among the worshippers although they escaped the attack unharmed. No group claimed responsibility for the attack, however, it is likely a part of the continued Islamic insurgency fighting against Indian control of Kashmir.
12/24/2004:An unknown number of assailants in an unknown group used a hand grenade to attack a police camp in a busy market in Indian Kashmir in the city of Pakharpora. Two were killed and 39 were injured
10/14/2004: Suspected members of the People’s War Group killed four Indian paramilitary soldiers in India’s West Bengal State. The attackers fired guns at the paramilitary group as they were patrolling West Midnapore District. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
08/15/2004: The United Liberation Front of Assam was blamed for an explosion at Dhemaji College in the northeastern state of Assam which killed at least 12 people and injured many others. The bomb was remotely detonated. The attack took place during a flag-hoisting ceremony during celebrations for India's independence day.
07/25/2004: In Rajouri, India, suspected Lashkar-e Taiba rebels barged into the home of Mohammad Shafi, beheading Shafi and his two children, and leaving his wife seriously injured. The rebels believed that Mohammad Shafi was a police informant.
08/26/2004: Members of the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) detonated two bombs in Guwahati, India. Both explosions occurred near a refinery belonging to the state-run Indian Oil Corporation. No casualties resulted from the bombings. ULFA claimed responsibility for the attacks.
10/02/2004: In the small town of Makri Jhoda, India, separatist militants fired at crowd in the marketplace, which resulted in fifteen deaths and dozens injured. Police suspected that the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) and the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) were behind these attacks.
10/03/2004: A natural gas pipeline, near the town of Borhat in the Assam region of northeastern India, was damaged by a landmine placed by militants. Near the same town a bomb exploded at a plantation resulting in the death of a worker. Police suspected that the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) and the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) were behind these attacks.
07/02/2004: Seven people were killed and four others were injured when Muslim militants ambushed the motorcade of a Kashmiri member of the Indian parliament, Lal Singh, in southern Doda district, Jammu and Kashmir. Singh escaped unharmed. The amount of property damage was unknown.
04/08/2004: A grenade exploded during an election rally held by the People's Democratic Party in the city of Uri, just before India's Tourism and Finance Ministers were scheduled to speak. At least 30 people were injured, and nine people were killed. The single perpetrator claimed responsibility for the attack in a post-incident call, and also noted he was associated with the Save Kashmir Movement, a small rebel group that operated within India.
06/23/2004: At least 19 people were injured in a grenade attack in Anantnag District of Jammu and Kashmir. Militants hurled a grenade at a security picket at Bijbehara in the district. It missed the target and exploded on the roadside causing splinter injuries to pedestrians. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
03/09/2004: Two Al-Mansurian (LeT Front) militants stormed a building housing the Press Information Bureau and Jammu and Kashmir Information Office in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India. A stand-off with police ensued, which ultimately resulted in at least four deaths, including those militants, and six wounded.
04/20/2004: Suspected Maoist Communist Center guerrillas injured several policemen and killed magistrate Ajay Kumar who was on duty at a polling station in Dhanbad, India. The incident was one of several attacks against polling stations in India on April 20, 2004. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/05/2004: Islamic militants threw a grenade at a passing military vehicle in a busy part of Pulwama, India. However, the grenade missed the military vehicle and bounced into a crowded bus station. The grenade exploded killing eight people and injuring about 57. No group has claimed responsibility for the action.
01/10/2004: Suspected Islamic rebels killed a married couple in Lurgam village within Indian controlled Kashmir. The gunmen barged into the family home, dragging Farooq Ahmed Mirza into the street and shooting him. Mirza's wife pleaded for his life, and was subsequently also killed. The assailants decapitated Mirza's body and took his head from the scene. No group claimed responsibility for the attacks. Islamic rebels were suspected because of the political leanings of the Mirza family. The family had ties to counter-insurgency groups and pro-India political parties. Also five members of the couple's close family have been killed recently, leading to the conclusion that the family was a target of the insurgency.
02/23/2004: An Indian Border Security Force officer was killed by a roadside bomb in Kashmir, India. Another officer was injured. Muslim militants were believed to be responsible. That was one of many attacks in Kashmir around the same time.
04/08/2004: As policemen were returning from patrols several land mines were detonated in Saranda Forest. The explosion killed about 26 police officers. The landmines were planted and possibly detonated by the People's War Group.
07/27/2004: Two militants attacked the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) at Dal Lake, India, using AK rifles and grenades. Five CRPF personnel and the two militants were killed and two other policemen were wounded. Al-Mansoorian claimed responsibility for the attack.
08/27/2004: At least 16 people were wounded when bombs exploded during Friday prayers at two mosques in western India's Maharashtra state. No one was killed, and no group claimed responsibility for the attack.
06/03/2004: Three people including a ruling party politician were killed and seven policemen were injured in a grenade attack in Indian-administered Kashmir. Rebels systematically targeted politicians of parties that participate in the Indian-administered government in Kashmir, though no group claimed responsibility for the attack.
06/15/2004: Islam ic militants shot dead the brother of a Muslim lawmaker in Kashmir. No one else was injured in the attack, and no group claimed responsibility.
04/01/2004: The Al-Arifeen organization claimed responsibility for bombing a government building in Srinagar, India. The device was placed in the restroom of the building and the explosion injured one person. The group claimed that they could have killed more people but this was just a warning for the employees of the corporation not to take part in preparations for countrywide elections during the month of April.
01/06/2004: Suspected Muslim militants attacked a car carrying a senior Indian police official in Shopiyan, India. Although the official escaped unharmed a civilian was killed in the ensuing crossfire between the guerillas and the officer's guards. The attack was carried out in spite of an agreement to begin peace talks over Kashmir, between the governments of India and Pakistan.
12/08/2004: Unknown perpetrators detonated a grenade exploded in a crowded market, in Anantnag, Kashmir. The explosion, which was meant to target an Indian police patrol unit, injured 26 civilians.
04/20/2004: Suspected Maoist Communist Center members triggered a land mine blast on the Bandipora-Sumblar road in India’s Jammu and Kashmir State, critically injuring a policeman and three polling station workers. The attack was one of several attacks against polling stations throughout India on April 20, 2004. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
08/25/2004: At least seven people, including two policemen, were injured in a grenade attack outside a movie theater in India's northeastern Assam State. The attack took place in the town of Dibrugarh when suspected members of the outlawed United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) threw a grenade into a crowd of people standing outside of a local movie theater.
04/14/2004: Unidentified militants threw a grenade from the top of a roadside bridge into a crowded market in Guwahati, India. The explosion injured four policemen and two civilians who were rushed to the hospital. There was no claim of responsibility for the act and police did not arrest anyone. The incident came just days before an election and during the Assamese New Year.
04/21/2004: Suspected Islamic militants hurled a grenade at politician Ghulam Mohi-u-din’s car while he was campaigning for a parliamentary seat in Pulwama, India. Although Mohi-u-din was unhurt in the attack, the grenade injured 11 other people. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
08/25/2004: The United Liberation Front of Assam triggered two separate blasts in India, the first in a bus at Gossaigaon in Kokrajhar district in which one person was killed and 37 were injured, and the other in a bus carrying BSF personnel and their families from Tura to Guwahati railway station.
03/11/2004: Suspected Islamic militants raided a girls’ school in Pulwama, India. Initially the rebels released all 173 of the students; however, 4 people ultimately lost their lives.
06/10/2004: Four members of a Kashmiri Muslim family were shot dead by Islamic militants in the restive Himalayan region. The attack took place in rugged Jamsalan area of Udhampur district, 110 kilometres (68 miles) northeast of Indian Kashmir's winter capital Jammu. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
06/23/2004: Six Indian policemen were killed when their vehicle was blown up by a landmine planted by suspected Maoists in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand. No one else was injured in the attack.
06/24/2004: Five people were killed and 17 injured when suspected militants triggered a bomb inside a crowded bus in the northeastern Indian state of Assam. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
05/29/2004: Save Kashmir Movement members threw a grenade into the home of a Kashmiri separatist in Srinagar, India-controlled Kashmir. No casualties resulted from the incident.
05/23/2004: Unknown attackers used a grenade to attack a police camp in Srinagar, India-controlled Kashmir. The grenade fell short of the camp and instead injured 13 civilians and a police officer.
06/12/2004: Four people were killed and 28 injured; most of them tourists, when unidentified militants hurled a grenade at a hotel in Pahalgam, a popular holiday spot in restive Indian Kashmir. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
03/03/2004: Unidentified gunmen attacked security personnel at a prison in Jammu, India, in an attempt to liberate Pakistani terrorists. Six people were reportedly killed in the exchange of gunfire.
01/01/2004: A homemade explosive was detonated near a state sponsored peace rally in Srinagar, India. There are conflicting reports as to the specific target of the explosion. However, there was a high profile state sponsored peace rally not far from the actual location of the explosion. It seems the bomb was detonated prematurely, and the intended target was in fact the peace rally. The group affiliation of the perpetrator is unknown, however, Muslim groups protesting Indian control of Kashmir are suspected of involvement. The peace rally was an attempt to promote upcoming peace talks between India and Pakistan over the status of Kashmir.
07/19/2004: Suspected Islamic militants shot and killed five members of the same family in the village of Gurdan in India’s Jammu and Kashmir State. The attackers believed that Abdul Gani, a retired member of India’s Border Security Force, was working with the local police. Gani’s youngest son survived the attack but was wounded. Although no group claimed responsibility for the murders, the area was known to be a stronghold of Lashkar-e Taiba.
09/25/2004: Four nuns and three brothers belonging to the Missionaries of Charity were attacked by a 40-member gang of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh  members, chanting the group's slogans in Nallalalam, India.
01/03/2004: A landmine was detonated at the Chaplingcherra border outpost in Southern Tripura, killing five Indian border guards. As the guards arrived at the outpost a remote detonation occurred. The mine was remotely detonated just as the soldiers exited a vehicle and was timed to inflict maximum casualties. The National Liberation Front of Tripura was suspected of being responsible for the attack. The outpost carries particular significance because of the NFLT's hopes for succession from India.
04/21/2004: At approximately 4:00pm local time, unknown attackers detonated a hand grenade in Pulwama, India injuring 10 civilians. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/20/2004: Unknown perpetrators killed two Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) supporters and injured four others in an incident related to the day’s parliamentary elections in India’s Bihar State. The attackers used guns and explosive devices. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
08/25/2004: Members of the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) triggered two separate bomb blasts in India. The second of the two bomb attacks occurred on a bus carrying Indian Border Security Force personnel and their families from Tura to the Guwahati railway station. At least three people were killed in the second bombing. ULFA claimed responsibility for the attacks.
12/14/2004: A series of explosions hit multiple locations near Nagaon in India's Assam region, which resulted in two fatalities and forty four injuries. The perpetrators were suspected to be members of the United Liberation Front of Assam.
06/10/2004: Eleven people including a family were killed in separatist violence in Kashmir, where a 27-hour siege near a mosque ended violently. Muslim militants were suspected in the attack.
04/14/2004: In Kashmir, India, an Islamic militant threw a grenade off the top of a building into a crowd at a political rally in support of the Congress Party. The unidentified attackers were not apprehended, but police believed that it was in retaliation against the killing of a rebel commander of the pro-Pakistan Lashkar-e-Taiba militant group. The grenade exploded and killed one civilian, while injuring 22 others, including two police officers.
05/23/2004: Hizb-ul-Mujahidin (HM) militants bombed a bus with an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) near al-Jawahar tunnel in Woodsa, India-controlled Kashmir. Twenty-eight security personnel died in the attack. Hizb-ul-Mujahidin (HM) claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/14/2004: Maoist rebels planted a landmine in the path of a police patrol in Patna, India, but the landmine was tripped by a bus transporting nine civilians instead. Three people were killed and six were injured in the attack.
12/05/2004: Hizb-ul-Mujahideen claimed responsibility for a explosion that detonated in Pulwama, Kashmir and resulted in 12 fatalities. The bomb was planted in an underground pipe and went off at approximately 5:00pm local time when a jeep carrying security personnel drove over it, killing 11 Indian soldiers and one civilian. Eyewitnesses said the blast created an eight-feet-deep crater on the road, and lifted the vehicle several meters in the air.
01/02/2004: In an attempt to attack Indo-Tibetan Border Police suspected Muslim rebels hurled a hand grenade at a military convoy as it was passing through Bijibehara, a town within Indian controlled Kashmir. The grenade missed and exploded near a busy highway injuring eight civilians. The highway links the dual capitals of Srinagar and Jammu, and has been a frequent site of separatist attacks against government forces.
08/18/2004: The Congress Party office in Bhubaneswar, India, was partly damaged when attackers hurled crude bombs at its premises. The attack came hours after the party's new Orissa president addressed a press conference. A party leader, Ranjit Rout, suffered slight injuries in the leg and windowpanes were shattered in the bomb attack. No group claimed responsibility for the bombing.
05/10/2004: Islamic militants killed one and wounded 11 in a hand grenade attack in a market in India-controlled Kashmir.
04/20/2004: Suspected members of the Maoist Communist Center killed four Indian paramilitary personnel and injured three others in an attack on a polling facility in India’s Manipur State. No group claimed responsibility for the incident that was one of several attacks against polling facilities in India on April 20, 2004.
08/18/2004: Four members of a family were massacred by suspected Lashkar-e Taiba militants in Malachamlan, India. Two or three perpetrators barged into the house of Ghulam Hussain Gujjar firing their guns. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
07/19/2004: Suspected Islamic militants threw a hand grenade into a crowd of people who had gathered to listen to Deputy Chief Minister Mangat Ram Sharma speak in Dora, India. The bomb killed three people and injured between 20 and 40 others. Sharma escaped injury, but Asgar Samoon, the civil administrator for Anantnag District was injured in the explosion. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/20/2004: Suspected members of the Maoist Communist Center detonated a land mine and fired guns at Indian security personnel in Bastar, India. Four Indian paramilitary soldiers were injured in the attack. The perpetrators stole electronic voting machines during the incident as well, which resulted in a suspension of voting in the area. No group claimed responsibility for the attacks.
04/10/2004. A bus carrying 12 policeman and about 50 civilians was attacked in a forest in Guntur, India. Maoist rebels attempted to blow up the bus by planting a land mine in its path; however, when the bomb did not explode, the rebels began shooting and throwing bombs at the bus. During the 30-minute firefight the land mine eventually went off, killing two policemen. One civilian on the bus was also hurt during the crossfire.
01/01/2004: Unidentified militants disguised themselves as Indian soldiers and attacked commuters at the Jammu rail station. The ensuing gun-battle lasted several hours with both perpetrators killed, as well as 4 Indian police. The attack comes one day before a regional summit on the status of Kashmir and is believed to be an effort to derail the summit. The attackers are suspected Muslim militants with potential ties to Pakistan.
06/18/2004: In Jammu and Kashmir, six security personnel and a civilian were injured in a grenade blast at Azadgunj Chowk near Baramula. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
12/03/2004: Five Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) officers were killed when at least two separatists attacked an elite Indian police camp in Kashmir. The attack occurred in the town of Sopore which is located in the Baramullah District of northern India's Jammu and Kashmir state. A terrorist organization calling itself Al-Mansurian [LeT Front] claimed responsibility for the attack after the incident.
07/26/2004: An unidentified person threw a grenade toward Indian border security force personnel outside the Baramulla hospital in India. One person was killed and 34 others were injured, five critically. No group claimed responsibility for the attack and officials did not name a suspected group.
08/03/2005: Suspected Islamic militants kidnapped and killed a soldier in the Indian Army in India’s Jammu and Kashmir State. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
07/10/2005: In India, the armed wing of the Revolutionary People’s Front claimed responsibility for a roadside bomb that killed two Assam Rifle members.
10/17/2005: 20 to 25 unidentified militants attacked two buses passing through the village of Charsing in India’s Assam State killing 15 of the passengers and setting the vehicles on fire. The perpetrators then moved on and attacked a nearby village killing another 10 people and setting fire to 30 houses. Four people were injured during the attack as well. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
11/15/2005: Unidentified perpetrators attacked a political rally in which Ghulam Hassan Mir, a former Tourism Minister, was speaking in Tangmarg, India. The perpetrators threw a grenade into the crowd of about 5000 people then fired guns killing two bystanders and injuring 60 others including Mir. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
11/14/2005: Two unidentified perpetrators launched an attack on a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) compound in Srinagar, India killing four people including two soldiers. 13 civilians were injured in the hour long battle between the perpetrators and the CRPF officers as well. Two groups, Al-Mansoorian and Islamic Front, claimed responsibility for the attack.
08/03/2005: Suspected Islamic militants kidnapped and later killed an Indian police officer in India’s Jammu and Kashmir State. No group claimed responsibility for the murder.
03/09/2005: Suspected members of the United Liberation Front of Assam planted a bomb under the Abhayapuri Police Station in India’s Bongaigon (District). The bomb exploded while a police bomb disposal expert attempted to defuse the device. The bomb disposal expert was killed and another officer was injured in the explosion. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
10/15/2005: Unidentified rebels attacked the Indian Army's headquarters in Kathua (District) killing two soldiers and injuring six others. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
05/14/2005: Unidentified gunmen shot and killed Abdul Gani Bhat, the brother of the chairman of the moderate separatist group Salvation Movement, in the city of Srinagar in Kashmir, India. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
03/09/2005: Suspected members of the United Liberation Front of Assam bombed a section of gas pipeline belonging to Oil India Ltd. in Butibari, India. The perpetrators destroyed a portion of pipeline located under the Lankshi police outpost. Although the bomb did not cause any casualties, the explosion did start a fire in the area. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
05/28/2005: A remotely-triggered car bomb exploded near a convoy carrying members of the Central Reserve Police Force, injuring 7 troopers and 12 civilian bystanders in Anantnag, India in South Kashmir. The group Hizb-ul-Mujahideen claimed responsibility for the attack in a telephone call to a newspaper.
08/12/2005: 50 members of the Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-M) attacked a police station in Chabilapur, India, killing two people and injuring three others. The perpetrators left a note at the scene claiming responsibility for the attack.
09/09/2005: Lashkar-e Taiba members fired at an Indian military convoy south of Srinagar, India killing three soldiers and wounding four others. Lashkar-e Taiba claimed responsibility for the attack in a telephone call to a local news agency.
09/09/2005: Suspected Hizb-ul-Mujahideen militants stormed into houses of three families and proceeded to open fire on the occupants in a remote village in India’s Jammu and Kashmir State. They dragged the families out of their houses then shot at them killing six people and wounding eight others. The six persons killed were local Village Defense Committee members (VDC).
01/01/2005: Unknown attackers detonated an improvised explosive device (IED) hidden on a scooter in an attempt to assassinate Ravinder Kotwal, an Indian Deputy Inspector General. The IED detonated via remote control as Kotwal was passing by the scooter in his vehicle in Anantnag, India. The explosion injured 17 people including Kotwal and nine other policemen. Several surrounding buildings were damaged in the explosion as well. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
11/16/2005: Four people were killed and 45 injured when a car exploded near the Jammu-Kashmir bank in the Lal Chowk area of Srinagar, India. The group Al-Arifeen claimed responsibility for the explosion in a telephone call to the Kashmir News Service.
10/29/2005: Members of the group Mahaz-e-Inquilab claimed responsibility for three explosions in New Delhi, India that killed a total of 61 people. The third attack occurred when a bomb exploded on a New Delhi Transport Corporation bus in the Govindpuri area of the city.
10/22/2005: Unidentified perpetrators used grenades to bomb the Batamalu and Balgarden neighborhoods of Srinagar in India. The grenades injured 18 people including four Indian soldiers. No group claimed responsibility for the bombings.
08/22/2005: Suspected Islamic militants shot and killed a Village Defense Committee (VDC) member, Mohammad Ishaak, along with his brother and father in Udhan Phera, India. No group claimed responsibility for the incident, but police said the attack appeared to be the work of organizations like Harkatul Mujahideen and Hizbul Mujahideen Pir Panjal Range (JMPPR) that had recently threatened other VDC members in the area.
01/05/2005: Unknown militants threw a grenade a Central Reserve Police Force installation in Kashmir, India. The grenade missed the police installation and exploded in a nearby street injuring five people including two police officers. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
06/02/2005: Four people from two families, including one policeman, were abducted late at night from their homes outside Srinagar, India, and were found beheaded the next morning. The victims were Police Constable Abdul Majid Khan, his brother Ijaz Khan, Mushtaq Ahmad and his brother Shabir Ahmed Bajran. The father of Abdul Majid was also injured in the attack. Militants were suspected, but no group claimed responsibility for the incident.
01/27/2005: An unknown perpetrator threw a grenade at the Jammu and Kashmir State Finance Minister, Muzaffar Hussain Baig in Sumbal, India. The grenade did not explode and Baig was unharmed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
06/21/2005: Naxalites, Maoist guerillas, attacked villagers in the Dantiwara district of Chattisgarh, India. Eight villagers were killed and 30 tribesmen injured in two attacks in two days. Twenty-four tribesmen were missing after the attacks.
01/19/2005: Members of the United Liberation Front of Assam set off a bomb in India’s eastern (District) of Karbi Anglong injuring three people. The United Liberation Front of Assam claimed responsibility for the bombing in phone statement made to a local newspaper later in the day.
05/23/2005: Suspected militants of the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) detonated remote-controlled explosives on a railway track near an oil refinery in Guwahati, India, wounding 3 Indian paramilitary troopers. There was no official claim of responsibility for the attack.
06/19/2005: Near Kotrapal Village, Dantewara, Chhattisgarh, India, perpetrators attacked villagers with land mines, firearms, and bows and arrows, killing eight civilians and injuring approximately 100 more. The attack was staged against approximately 3000 villagers who were meeting to boycott the Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-M), who had just imposed a ban that was affecting tribal income. No group claimed responsibility for the attack, but it was widely believed that the Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-M) was responsible.
09/25/2005: National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) members shot and killed eight Bengali villagers and wounded two others in Hazrapara, India. A group of six or seven NLFT members woke the villagers, lined them up, then gunned them down. No group claimed responsibility for the executions.
05/11/2005: Three members of Al-Nasireen Group car bombed a private clinic in a heavily populated neighborhood of Srinagar, India. The explosion killed 8 people including two soldiers and the three perpetrators. Another 36 people were injured in the blast which also damaged 12 houses, a school and a nearby bank. Al-Nasireen Group claimed responsibility for the attack stating that the intended target of the bombing had been the Indian Central Reserve Police Force.
08/08/2005: Police defused a powerful explosive device shortly before the set detonation time near a school in Jorhat, India. No group claimed responsibility for the attempted bombing.
07/09/2005: Three Indian troops were injured in a grenade attack in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. No one claimed responsibility for the attack, but authorities suspected rebels were to blame.
06/28/2005: A Hizb-ul- Mujahideen militant, Bilal Ahmed Magray, was arrested by police as he attempted to throw a grenade at senior PDP (People's Democratic Party) leader and Minister of State for Home Abdur Rehman Veeri near Bijbehara town in Kashmir, India. During interrogation, Magray admitted that he had thrown a grenade at a crowded place in Bijbehara on June 22 and killed one and injured fourteen people. He had also thrown a grenade at Sangam, Bijbehara, about nine months previous to June 28, 2005. Magray said that he had been throwing grenades for payment of Rs 400 from his organization.
01/07/2005: Members of Al-Mansoorian attacked the Income Tax Building in Srinagar, India. The perpetrators attacked the building using guns and grenades, killing three government security personnel including and Indian Border Security Force Deputy Commandant. Four other people, including three senior Indian police officers, were injured in the attack as well. Security personnel killed two of the perpetrators during the attack. The building caught on fire during the attack. An Al-Mansoorian spokesman claimed responsibility for the attack later in the day when calling a local media outlet.
06/28/2005: Unidentified gunmen kidnapped Taja Ghulam Hassan Mir in Dardsun Kupwara in the Kashmir province of India and shot and killed her. Militants had suspected that she was an informer for security forces.
04/06/2005: Unidentified assailants attacked a newly inaugurated bus center in India’s Jammu and Kashmir State. Several people were injured in the attack. Al-Nasireen Group, Al-Arifeen, Save Kashmir Movement and Farzandan-e-Millat organizations claimed responsibility for the attack.
12/16/2005: Shaukat Bandey, a member of the People’s Democratic Party, which belonged to the ruling coalition in India’s government’s, and eight others were killed in Baramulla, India when a group of unidentified perpetrators opened fire on Bandey’s motorcade. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
01/19/2005: Members of the United Liberation Front of Assam set off a land mine in India’s Assam State that blew up a crude oil pipeline belonging to the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC). A United Liberation Front of Assam spokesperson claimed responsibility for the attack in a telephone interview with a local newspaper.
08/11/2005: Suspected members of the United Liberation Front of Assam hurled a grenade into a police station in Sonari, India, injuring two police officers. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
03/01/2005: Members of Hizb-ul Mujahideen kidnapped then killed two Indian soldiers Matribugh, India. Three Indian soldiers were reported to have been injured in the attack as well. Also, three Hizb-ul Mujahideen members were killed in the gun battle. Soldiers belonging to the Indian Army Rashtriya Rifle company were conducting a search operation in the Matribugh village on the night of February 28, 2005 when Hizb-ul Mujahideen members began firing on them. The soldiers were continuing their search of the village the next day when the Hizb-ul Mujahideen fighters again attacked them.
07/19/2005: In Kashmir, six civilians were killed in their home by gunmen. The victims were all related. Islamic guerrillas were suspected to be responsible for the attack.
07/20/2005: Hizb-ul-Mujahidin attackers detonated a car bomb as a military convoy passed a stadium in Srinagar, a town in India's Jammu and Kashmir State, killing 8 people and injuring more than 16 more. The group claimed responsibility for the attack.
07/07/2005: Suspected Maoist rebels killed five civilians in the eastern Indian state of Orissa. As many as thirty rebels were involved in the attack, but no group claimed responsibility.
05/19/2005: Six were abducted and four killed in the northern Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. Officials believed the militant group Lashker-e-Toiba to be responsible for the incident.
06/01/2005: People's Democratic Party worker Abdul Salam Dar was shot and killed at Tuli-Nowpora in the Kulgam area of Anantnang (District), Jammu and Kashmir State, India. Authorities suspected militants, but no militant group opposing Indian rule in Kashmir claimed responsibility.
02/11/2005: Suspected Maoists killed six policemen during an attack on a school building in which local police were sleeping in India's Karnataka State. The perpetrators threw hand grenades during the attack which caused explosions that collapsed a portion of the building.
04/20/2005: Unidentified militants threw a grenade at an Indian Border Security Force (BSF) patrol in Ashpeer, India killing two civilians and injuring 10 others. The grenade missed the BSF patrol and exploded on the roadside. No group claimed responsibility for the bombing.
01/27/2005: Unknown perpetrators fired a grenade at Zahoor Ahmed Mir, a People’s Democratic Party member of India's Legislative Assembly from Pampore in Jammu and Kashmir State’s Pulwama (District). Although Mir escaped unharmed, 26 people were injured in the attack including four policemen. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/10/2005: Villagers shot and killed, Javed Ali, a Lashkar-e Taiba commander in Rajauri, India.
11/02/2005: Five people were killed and 18 others wounded in a suicide car bomb attack on the outskirts of Srinagar in India’s Jammu and Kashmir State right before the swearing in of the regions new chief minister. A group called Jaish-e-Mohammad claimed responsibility for the attack.
01/19/2005: Members of the United Liberation Front of Assam set off a bomb near the village of Sagolia, India. The bomb, which had been placed underneath a truck, killed one person and injured nine others. A spokesperson for the group claimed responsibility for the bombing in a call to a local newspaper later in the day.
10/20/2005: Suspected Islamic militants shot and killed a Muslim civilian in the Anantnag (District) of India’s Jammu and Kashmir State. No group claimed responsibility for the shooting.
08/18/2005: Unknown perpetrators shot and killed contractor, Ghulam Bhat, in his house in India's Pulwama (District). No group claimed responsibility for the shooting.
05/10/2005: Suspected Islamic militants opened fire on a crowd exiting a village mosque in Chakka in the Doda district of Kashmir, India, killing 4 civilians, including a former militant who had previously surrendered to local security forces. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
08/07/2005: United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) members bombed a power transformer in Narengi, India, leading to a temporary power breakdown in several towns in Eastern Assam. No one was harmed in the attack. ULFA claimed responsibility for the bombing.
01/16/2005: Two members of Al-Mansoorian attacked a stadium complex housing an Indian military barracks in Srinagar, India. The perpetrators stormed the facility killing two soldiers and injuring six others. The attackers also threw grenades at a regional passport office, housed in the complex, which set the office on fire. Indian security forces counterattacked and killed both perpetrators.
10/29/2005: Lashkar-e-Taiba militants under the command of Ali Khan alias Ali Baba alias Abu Hufeza detonated three explosive devices in the Sarojini and Paharganj marketplaces of New Delhi, India. The attack killed 55 and wounded 155. The extent of property damage was unknown.
07/29/2005: A group of suspected Islamic militants killed five Hindu villagers in an attack in the Dhoob village of India’s Jammu and Kashmir State. The militants raided the village and then divided the residents into groups based on religious beliefs. No one claimed responsibility for the attack.
07/06/2005: Gunmen attacked a senior government official’s motorcade in the Lal Chowk area of India’s Jammu and Kashmir State. Syed Bashir, the state public health minister, was unharmed, but two guards were injured by the gunfire. No one claimed responsibility for the attack.
03/07/2005: Suspected members of Lashkar-e Taiba kidnapped and killed a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) activist, Ghulam Nabi Ganai, in Kulgam, India. His body was found the morning of March 8, 2005.
01/06/2005: Seven police were killed in a remote-controlled, land mine explosion in Munger, India. According to local police, Maoist guerrillas were responsible for the explosion. However, no group claimed responsibility for the attack.
08/07/2005: United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) militants planted a bomb on rail tracks in Nagaon (District), India. The device was discovered and defused before it exploded. ULFA claimed responsibility for the attempted bombing.
01/19/2005: Members of the United Liberation Front of Assam planted a time bomb in a telephone exchange in India’s Assam State. Local police discovered and defused the bomb. A spokesperson for the United Liberation Front of Assam claimed responsibility for the attempted bombing in a telephone statement made to a local newspaper.
05/17/2005: Unidentified perpetrators threw a grenade then fired guns at a gathering of people who were mourning the assassination of Abdul Gani Bhat in Srinagar, India. Two youths were killed and 20 other people were injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
05/01/2005: The nephew of the Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister, Atiqullah Shah, was shot by two militants in Bijbehara, India and later died of his injuries. The group Al-Mansoorian claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/28/2005: Suspected Islamic militants killed a police officer after taking him out of his home and slitting his throat in Srinagar, India. No group claimed responsibility for the murder.
07/29/2005: Militants in the Indian State of Jammu and Kashmir attacked a business center in the Budshah Chowk area, killing two people and injuring 18 more. The al-Mansoorian and Jamaat-ul Mujahideen groups claimed joint responsibility for the attack.
08/07/2005: United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) militants bombed a bombed a power transformer in Narengi, India, leading to a temporary power breakdown in several towns in Eastern Assam. ULFA claimed responsibility for the bombing.
02/24/2005: Two Islamic militants attacked Indian Kashmir’s Administrative Headquarters in Srinagar, India. The perpetrators stormed the complex trapping more than 250 employees inside. Indian police rescued the trapped civilians after two hours of captivity inside the complex. The two perpetrators, three policemen and two civilians were killed in the fighting. Both Al-Mansoorian and Al-Badr claimed responsibility for the attack.
09/04/2005: 24 Indian paramilitary soldiers were killed when a powerful land mine exploded as the vehicle carrying the soldiers passed by in Bijapur (District), in the State of Chattisgarh, about 700 miles southeast of New Delhi. Only three soldiers survived the blast, each sustaining severe injuries. Authorities suspected that the Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-M) had perpetrated the attack.
06/11/2005: Militants opened fire on policemen on patrol in Tata Draman area of Doda district in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, killing one and wounding another. No one claimed responsibility for the attack, but authorities attributed it to militants in the Kashmir conflict.
10/29/2005: Members of the group Mahaz-e-Inquilab claimed responsibility for three explosions in New Delhi, India that killed a total of 61 people. The first attack occurred when a bomb exploded in the city's Paharganj market.
10/29/2005: Members of the group Mahaz-e-Inquilab claimed responsibility for three explosions in New Delhi, India that killed a total of 61 people. The second of the attacks occurred when multiple bombs exploded at the Sarojini Nagar market.
07/05/2005: Three Indian Army soldiers were killed and two more were injured when their patrol was ambushed in the Kupwara district of India’s Jammu and Kashmir State. No one claimed responsibility for the attack.
01/31/2005: Unknown perpetrators threw a grenade at the Government Girls High School in Srinagar, India injuring one person. The perpetrators were suspected of targeting a polling booth housed within the school. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/02/2005: United Liberation Front of Asom militants triggered a grenade blast that seriously injured five people near a hotel in Guwahati, India.
05/03/2005: Unidentified perpetrators suspected of being separatist militants threw a grenade at a Special Operations Group police vehicle in Pulwama, India killing one officer and injuring three others. The explosion also hurt nine civilians who were waiting at a nearby bus station. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/07/2005: A rifle grenade was shot at bus, missing the intended target, in Singhpora, India. Kashmiri militants were suspected to have perpetrated the attack.
11/23/2005: Two suspected Islamic militants fired automatic weapons and threw grenades at a Central Reserve Police Force training camp in Srinagar, India killing five Indian paramilitary officers and injuring four others. Two civilians were injured in the attack as well. The police killed both perpetrators during the battle. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
10/22/2005: Unidentified perpetrators fired guns at an Indian Army post in Wadwal, India killing three soldiers and injuring another. No group claimed responsibility for the pre-dawn attack.
08/10/2005: United Liberation Front of Assam members bombed a vital section of railway track near Tihu, India. The bomb did not result in any casualties, but a section of track was damaged in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
05/04/2005: Suspected Islamic militants threw two grenades at a wedding party in Indian Kashmir, killing two teenage girls and injuring 16 others. No group claimed responsibility for this attack.
01/17/2005: Suspected Islamic militants killed two people in India’s Anantnag and Baramulla (District)s. The perpetrators suspected that the victims were working for Indian security forces. No group claimed responsibility for the killings.
09/05/2005: Suspected Islamic militants threw a grenade at members of the Indian Army’s Rashtriya Rifles who were on patrol in the village of Batpora in India’s Pulwama (District). The grenade missed army patrol, but landed on the road injuring 16 people. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
07/05/2005: Assailants beheaded three Shanti Sena members in Khairpani, Gumla, Jharkhand, India. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist).
08/15/2005: Suspected Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-M) members killed an Indian lawmaker and nine other people who were returning home after attending an Indian Independence Day celebration Narayanpet, India. The attackers fired automatic weapons at the victims' car. Narsi Reddy, an influential legislator belonging to the Congress Party and Ram Mohan, Narayanpet's Municipal Commissioner were among those killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the shooting.
08/07/2005: Members of the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) bombed a gas pipeline in Assam State, India, later claiming responsibility for the attack.
08/02/2005: Suspected Islamic militants kidnapped and killed a man, Sain Gujjar, from his house in Sarwan, India. His body was recovered later in the day from a nearby canal. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
09/29/2005: Unidentified perpetrators threw a grenade at the main gate of the Kashmir Haat near the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly complex in Srinagar, India injuring 20 people including four security personnel. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
06/16/2005: A grenade thrown at the car of Abdul Rehman Veeri, a minister in Kashmir who was not in the car at the time, missed its target and wounded eleven people in Avantipore in Kashmir, India. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
08/06/2005: Suspected members of the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) detonated two bombs in Guwahati, India. The two bombs resulted in three casualties. ULFA denied responsibility for the attack.
10/19/2005: Unidentified gunmen attacked a police party in Pampore Township located in India’s Jammu and Kashmir State. The perpetrators killed two civilians and injured 10 others including one policeman. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
08/07/2005: United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) militants bombed a power transformer in Narengi, India, leading to a temporary power breakdown in several towns in Eastern Assam state. No one was harmed in the attack. ULFA claimed responsibility for the bombing.
06/30/2005: Suspected Muslim militants came into a house in the district of Udhampur in Kashmir, India and fired upon the residents and killed five people. The identities of the gunmen and the motive was unknown.
05/03/2005: Four suspected militant separatists shot and killed the Pattan Municipal Committee Chairman, Mian Ramzan, in Pattan, India. The perpetrators also killed two of Ramzan’s bodyguards and a policeman who tried to apprehend them after the shooting. No group claimed responsibility for the assassination.
02/08/2005: Suspected Islamic militants shot and killed municipal councilor, Mohiudin Mir, in the Budgam (District) of India’s Jammu and Kashmir State. The victim had been traveling to Srinagar when he was killed. No group claimed responsibility for the assassination.
08/12/2005: Suspected Islamic militants killed at least five people and injured nine others in an attack on Sajroo village in Indian Kashmir. The perpetrators appeared to be targeting members of the village's defense committee. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
07/02/2005: One person was killed and 12 more, including six policemen, were injured when a bomb was detonated in a government hospital in Warangal, a city in India’s Andhra Pradesh state. No group claimed responsibility for the attack, but authorities believed Naxalites were to blame. There were no reports of damage.
08/15/2005: A bomb exploded in Patan, India, near the venue of a ceremony celebrating Independence Day. The explosion did not cause any casualties or damage. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
08/14/2005: Suspected Lashkar-e Taiba members abducted, tortured and maimed a villager in the Sariliya-Sumi area in India's Doda (District) after accusing him of being a government informant. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
08/15/2005: Suspected Islamic militants bombed Iqbal Park near Bakshi Stadium in Srinagar, India. Two bombs exploded about an hour before Chief Minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed was to attend Independence Day celebrations at the stadium. The explosions did not cause any casualties. No group claimed responsibility for the bombing.
07/03/2005: A landmine targeting the convoy of two state ministers in India’s Jammu and Kashmir State injured six policemen who were serving as escorts. The blast near the town of Sopore also damaged a vehicle, but the two ministers escaped without injury. Two other politicians riding in the convoy were unhurt as well. No one claimed responsibility for the attack.
05/22/2005: In one of two related incidents, a bomb exploded inside a cinema house in New Delhi, India, killing 1 person and injuring at least 43 others. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
06/03/2005: Municipal Councilor Mohammed Ashraf, a member of the main opposition National Conference, was killed in the city of Srinagar of Indian Kashmir while on the way to his municipal office. He was gunned down by suspected Muslim rebels in an ongoing string of political assassinations that had been going on in the area, which continued the 15-year long insurrection in Indian Kashmir. Militants had previously threatened those who participated in elections and had succeeded in assassinating several elected officials already.
01/31/2005: Unidentified perpetrators threw a grenade inside a personal residence in Nachala, India. The grenade killed four people and injured two others. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/12/2005: Sopore municipal councilor, Ghulam Nabi Changa, was the target of a botched assassination attempt in Sopore, India. Changa was uninjured in the attack, although his friend sustained a gunshot wound. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
07/28/2005: A bomb exploded on a train near Jaunpur, India, killing seven people and injuring 50 others. Specific reports of damage were not given, and no one claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/28/2005: A police superintendent escaped a mine attack in Ongole, India that left one person dead and nine others injured. Following the explosion, the perpetrators fired at policemen in the area sparking a gun battle. Authorities blamed Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-M) members for perpetrating the attack.
03/14/2005: Suspected members of Lashkar-e Taiba threw a grenade at the Punjab National Bank in Poonch, India. 11 people, including nine civilians, were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/28/2005: Suspected Islamic militants killed a policeman while he was on duty near Kashmir's central jail in Srinagar, India. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
03/11/2005: Assam Governor narrowly escapes an attack that killed 1 and injured at least 6. Militants on motorcycles lobbed a hand grenade into crowded street in Guwahati, India minutes before the Governors motorcade passed. There was no claim of responsibility for this attack.
08/11/2005: Suspected local Karbi tribal rebels hurled a grenade at a crowded market in Dokmoka, India, killing one person and wounding six others. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
08/27/2005: Suspected insurgents attacked a convoy carrying Kashmir Forest Minister Ghulam Mohi-ud-Din Sofi near Handwara, India. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
06/17/2005: Grenade explosion in India injures 15 people including two police officers.
05/22/2005: In the second of two related incidents, a bomb exploded inside a cinema house in New Delhi, India, injuring at least 7 people. The blast came 15 minutes after a similar explosion at a nearby theater. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/02/2005: Two Central Reserve Police Force personnel one policeman were injured in a bomb blast in Dibrugarh, India. ULFA militants were suspected in the attack.
08/02/2005: Suspected Islamic militants gunned down a woman, Aisha Bi, in her home in Sanglow village located in India’s Jammu and Kashmir State. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
01/31/2005: Suspected Harkatul Jihad-e-Islami members fired on a police patrol in Gainad, India. The police with the support of the Indian Army returned fire killing three of the perpetrators. No group claimed responsibility for the ambush.
12/25/2005: Between 10 and 60 Maoists armed with guns and grenades attacked a train in India’s Andhra Pradesh State. Four Indian policemen were killed and six others injured during the attack. The perpetrators also stole several boxes of cash, eight rifles and ammunition and reportedly escaped to their ‘hideout’ in the forests of Orissa.
08/09/2005: Two suspected Maoists detonated at least one bomb at a bus station in Karimnagar, India, injuring at least 20 people. The Maoists, however, denied having had any involvement in the attack. Lashkar-e Taiba members were also suspected in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the bombing.
12/28/2005: An unidentified man using an AK-56 fired about 50 rounds into a crowd of scientists at the Indian Institute of Technology in Bangalore, India. One professor was killed and four others were wounded in the attack for which the Indian government suspected either Lashkar-e Taiba or Harkatul Jihad-e-Islami were responsible.
06/22/2005:Militants threw a grenade in Bijbiara in Kashmir, India and injured seventeen people. It was not reported if the identity of the perpetrators were known.
01/24/2005: Suspected members of the United Liberation Front of Assam threw a grenade near the Disper capital complex in Guwahati, India. Six people were injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the grenade attack.
04/28/2005: Suspected Islamic militants shot and killed a policeman inside his home in Srinagar, India. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
07/06/2005: Militants shot and killed five people, including two Indian soldiers, along the border between India and Pakistan in the disputed region of Kashmir. No one claimed responsibility for the attack.
08/07/2005: Members of the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) claimed responsibility for the bombing of a steel bridge in Tinsukia (District), India. No one was injured in the bombing.
03/11/2005: Suspected United Liberation Front of Assam members planted an RDX, cyclotrimethylenetrinitramine, explosive device and a bomb on railroad tracks in Assam State’s Tinsukhia and Bongaigaon (District)s. Indian police officers successfully defused the devices.
08/02/2005: Suspected Islamic militants shot and killed a farmer, Bashir Ahmad Wani, in Maniwaz-Kakipora, India as he was returning to his home. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
10/17/2005: Approximately 25 suspected Maoists launched an hour-long attack against eight policemen on duty in Badrama village in India’s Orissa State killing one officer and injuring four others. Although no group claimed responsibility for the attack, Maoists had previously claimed nearby forested areas as ‘liberated zones.’
07/05/2005: A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden vehicle at a disputed religious site in Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh, India. Following the blast, additional assailants entered the area and opened fire on security personnel. At least three civilians and five assailants were killed and seven security personnel were injured in the ensuing clash. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the incident to Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT).
02/13/2005: Suspected Islamic militants threw a grenade into a market in Shopian, India injuring 25 people. The perpetrators threw the grenade at Indian soldiers riding in a Jeep, but it missed the vehicle and exploded in the market. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
01/21/2005: Unknown perpetrators threw a grenade the home of Rafiq Ahmed Dar, a local political candidate in Old Baramulla, India. The grenade detonated on the roof of Dar’s house, but he was unharmed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
08/07/2005: Members of the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) claimed responsibility for the bombing of a steel bridge in Tinsukia (District), India. No one was injured in the bombing.
10/18/2005: Two unidentified perpetrators fired guns and threw grenades at the private residence of Jammu and Kashmir’s Minister of Education, Ghulam Nabi Lone in Srinagar, India. Lone died after having been shot during the attack. The two perpetrators first mistakenly attacked a neighbor’s house before moving on to Lone’s residence. One perpetrator and two security personnel died in the attack as well. Both Al-Mansoorian and Islamic Jihad Front claimed responsibility for the assassination.
04/12/2005: Suspected militants killed an Indian soldier near Hari-Bhudda in India’s Jammu and Kashmir State. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
05/12/2005: Suspected Islamic militants threw a grenade that landed outside of a missionary school in Srinagar, India. The explosion killed two people and injured 59 others including 13 school children. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
08/06/2005: Suspected members of the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) detonated two bombs in Guwahati, India. The two bombs resulted in three casualties. ULFA denied responsibility for the attack.
08/07/2005: United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) members bombed an oil pipeline in Duliajan, India, later claiming responsibility for the attack.
01/31/2005: Suspected Islamic militants hurled a grenade at a house in Nashla village, Doda (District), Jammu-Kashmir, India. A woman and three children were killed and two family members injured. No group claimed formal responsibility
10/26/2005: A roadside bomb exploded as a bus carrying border guards was approached Zainakote, India. One guard was killed and 15 others were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the bombing.
09/12/2005: Over 100 Suspected Maoist insurgents attacked a village in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand killing 15 local villagers and injuring six others. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
08/02/2005: Suspected Islamic militants abducted then killed a woman, Isha Begum, in the Nandiyal area of India’s Jammu and Kashmir State. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
08/07/2005: 15 United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) militants bombed a crude oil pipeline in Sibasagar, India, later claiming responsibility for the attack. The militants planted four bombs causing significant damage to the pipeline.
06/30/2005: Unidentified assailants threw a grenade near Pratap Park Lal Chowk in Kashmir, India and injured 15 people. Both Al-Mansurain outfit Abu-Aqeel and Islamic Front claimed responsibility.
08/07/2005: Suspected members of the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) detonated a bomb in a market in Boko, India, killing four people and injuring at least nine others. The group later denied any involvement in the attack.
06/13/2005: A car bomb using an improvised bomb with almost 40kg of research department explosives (RDX) exploded outside a government school near a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) camp in Pulwama in Indian Kashmir, resulting in as many as 15 dead, including three CPRF personnel and two schoolchildren, and as many as 100 injured The bomb also damaged several nearby businesses, homes, cars, and the school. Indian officials blamed Kashmiri militants, but Kashmir's main militant group, United Jihad Council, denied responsibility and condemned the attack.
08/30/2005: Two suspected United Liberation Front of Assam members shot and killed a Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) leader Sukleswar Medhi in Nalbari, India. Authorities pursued the perpetrators capturing one and killing the other. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
08/30/2005: Unidentified perpetrators threw two grenades at political rally for Irrigation Minister Qazi Afzal near Patan, India. A policeman was injured when one of the grenades exploded near him. The other grenade did not explode. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
03/25/2006: A landmine exploded in Ghodagaon village, Kanker, Chhattisgarh, India, killing 13 and injuring four others. Three vehicles were damaged in the attack, which the perpetrators had mistaken for police vehicles. The Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-M) claimed responsibility.
10/28/2006: Suspected Islamic militants threw a grenade at a police patrol that had stopped in a busy Sopor market in Indian Kashmir. One civilian was killed while three police officers and twenty civilians were wounded. There was no claim of responsibility issued.
10/28/2006: Two bombs detonating just minutes apart on the outskirts of Guwahati, India killed 4 and wounded 21. Police suspected the United Liberation Front of Asom for the attack.
08/06/2006: Muslim rebels attacked a town in Indian Kashmir, India, using grenades. One person was killed and seventeen were injured. No claim of responsibility was reported.
04/04/2006: The Manipur, India Education Director, near Chongtham Jayanta, was shot at and put in critical condition by a bullet after two unidentified gunmen on a motorcycle near his Top Leirak residence in Imphal West (District) fired nearly 6 to 7 rounds at him. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
01/25/2006: In a series of related incidents, Naxalite rebels carried out a string of bombings and other strikes in various parts of Jharkand state, India, hours before the start of annual Republic Day celebrations. The targets were railway tracks, railway stations, and roads. The property damage resulting from the attacks was considerable, and the number of injuries and deaths was unknown.
04/14/2006: An attack with an explosive was made on a CRPF post at Hari Singh High Street in Srinagar, India, but fell short of the target, killing two civilians, a Nepalese woman and a Kashmiri man, and injuring at least thirteen. No group claimed responsibility for the attack, but the involvement of Lashkar-e Taiba is suspected.
05/11/2006: Three suspected Islamic militants shot and killed 2 policemen in Srinigar, Kashmir, India. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
08/06/2006: United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) exploded a grenade targeting a police patrol at jonai town in Assam, India, which injured sixteen civilians near a market. No claim of responsibility was reported.
08/18/2006: Police constable Fayyaz Ahmed Batt was shot at point blank range and injured by a member of Jaish-e Muhammad in Kashmir, India.
06/15/2006: A group of 7 to 8 unidentified assailants cut off the noses and ears of 13 Muslim residents of a remote village in Jammu and Kashmir's Udhampur district, India. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
12/03/2006: An unknown number of maoist insurgents (Naxalites) blew up vehicles containing security personnel in Kanchkir village near the city of Bokaro in India, killing fourteen policemen and injuring three others. No claim of responsibility was reported.
04/14/2006: Two low-intensity bombs kept in plastic bags detonated in quick succession near the water tank in the main courtyard of the Jama Masjid, India, when around either 1,000 people or far fewer depending on different sources had gathered for evening prayers. The first bomb exploded at 5:26 p.m. near the ablution pond, doing the most damage and causing panic when the second one went off seven minutes later about 15 ft. away, wounding 14 people in all. No group claimed responsibility for the attack, but investigators suspect the involvement of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) bomb-maker Abdul Karim Tunda.
04/09/2006: About 20-25 cadres of the Communist Party of India (CPI-Maoist) forces blew up a railway station and portions of a railway track on the Gaya-Dhanbad section of Mughalsarai division in the Gaya (District) of Bihar, India, at 2:15 a.m. by storming the Bansi Nala halt station and detonating dynamites to raze the room structure down, and then kidnapped four railway staff members.
01/24/2006: Suspected ULFA militants engaged in a string of grenade attacks and bomb blasts across Assam, India, throughout the day and night, mostly targeting gas, oil, and power installations, in addition to security forces. The attacks resulted in considerable properties damages, injuries, and possibly some deaths of police and civilians.
02/19/2006: Suspected militants kidnapped a girl in the Baramulla district of Jammu and Kashmir, India. No further details were reported. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
08/18/2005: Two policemen were shot, one injured, one killed, in the Lal Chawk marketplace, Kashmir, India by the Jaish-e Muhammad.
08/18/2006: Two members of Jaish-e Muhammad approached policeman Muhammad Jamal and shot him three times, killing him, at the Zakura Police Station in Kashmir, India.
08/02/2006: Two militants and a soldier were killed in a pre-dawn gunfight in Doda, India south of Srinagar, summer capital of Indian Kashmir. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
02/28/2006: Suspected Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-M) militants blew up a group of trucks carrying villagers who were returning home from an anti-Maoist rally led by the state's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party in Dantewada district, Chhattisgarh state, India. At least 55 people were killed and 20 more injured in the attack.
09/30/2006: Unidentified militants threw a grenade into a crowded market in Tinsukia, India, injuring six people. No group claimed responsibility for the attack but authorities suspected the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) in the attack.
07/12/2006:A grenade killed seven tourists on bus in Jammu and Kashmir, India. The perpetrator(s) were unidentified and there were no media accounts of any group claiming responsibility for the attack. No claim of responsibility was reported.
10/28/2006: Three people were killed and 20 injured when a bomb went off in a Dhekiajuli, India vegetable market. The bomb was placed in a bag and hung on a bicycle before detonation. Police suspected the United Liberation Front of Asom for the attack.
02/25/2006: About 200 suspected Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-M) rebels stormed a government-run refugee camp in Dantewada district in Chhattisgarh state, India, killing two people and injuring 25 others. The rebels fled after engaging in a gun battle with police, who were among the most injured in the attack.
02/19/2006: Suspected Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-M) guerillas shot dead two civilians after dragging them from their homes in Thothapara village in the Dantewada district of Chhattisgarh state, India.
04/14/2006: Militants hurled a grenade, the sixth of the day, at security forces in Sakkidafar Lal Chowk, Srinagar, India, injuring at least fifteen people, including six paramilitary and police personnel. No group claimed responsibility for the attack, but the involvement of Lashkar-e Taiba is suspected.
10/02/2006: Militants of the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) carried out a grenade attack at a Hindu festival of Durga Puja in eastern Dhemaji district, some 465 kilometers (288 miles) east of Assam's main city of Guwahati in India. One civilian was killed and 20 others were wounded.
01/25/2006: In a series of related incidents, Naxalite rebels carried out a string of bombings and other strikes in various parts of Bihar state, India, hours before the start of annual Republic Day celebrations. The targets were railway tracks, railway stations, and roads. The property damage resulting from the attacks was considerable, and the number of injuries and deaths was unknown.
02/09/2006: A large group of suspected Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-M) rebels attacked a state-owned explosives depot in Hiroli, Dantewada district in the Chhattisgarh state of India, killing 8 security personnel and wounding 9 others. The group stole between 20-50 tons of explosives and detonators and 17 rifles from the National Mineral Development Corporation depot, used by the corporation for mining work.
04/14/2006: A hand grenade was tossed on a BSF vehicle on the Exchange Road in Srinagar, India, near the high security Central Telegraph Office (CTO) in the heart of the city around noon, injuring two jawans and three civilians. No group claimed responsibility for the attack, but Lashkar-e Taiba's involvement was suspected.
06/23/2006: Unknown militants bombed a food market in Doda, India. Seven police officers and civilians were injured and there was minor property damage. No claim of responsibility was reported.
04/07/2006: Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) rebels entered the forested Iptagura village, and shot dead two tribals for allegedly supporting anti-insurgency operations in violence-hit Dantewada (District) of Chhattisgarh, India.
10/04/2006: Militants armed with Kalashnikov assault rifles and grenades entered the New Standard Hotel, next to a bustling market, to fire at an adjacent police camp in Srinagar, Indian Kashmir's commercial hub and a hotbed of rebel activity. 10 were killed and 22 were wounded. The Al-Mansurian rebel group claimed responsibility for the assault.
05/20/2006: Five soldiers from India’s Armed Border Force (SSB, Sashastra Seema Bal) were kidnapped and found murdered nine days later in Bhairavkunda, India. .The five soldiers were abducted by a group of men who found them intoxicated at the home of Babul Kalita, who was lynched at the scene. Authorities suspect members of the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) in the attack, whose members had earlier warned Kalita to close down his ‘liquor shop and brothel.’
09/08/2006: A triple bombing killed 24 and wounded over 100 in Malegaon, India. The target was a large gathering of Muslims for the Shab-e-Barat ritual at an Islamic burial ground. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
07/11/2006: A series of train bombings killed at least 188 civilians in Mumbai, India. The train bombing injured another 817 others injured in a string of seven blasts that spanned 56 kms, from Churchgate to Mira Road. One of the 13 arrested suspects, Asif Bashir Khan alias Junaid, emerged as the chief operative of the militant outfit, Lashkar-e Taiba. Fifteen others remained wanted at the time, including nine Pakistani nationals.
04/10/2006: Suspected Karbi militants hurled a grenade and wounded at least two BSF jawans who were on poll duty in the area near Hawraghat, India. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/07/2006: Seven people including four special police officers were injured in Chattisgarh, India, by a pressure bomb went off when a police team touched a body lying on a road not knowing that a bomb was attached to it. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
06/23/2006: Unknown militants bombed a food market in the Jammu and Kashmir state of India, injuring ten and causing minor property damage. No claim of responsibility was reported.
04/14/2006: Militants lobbed agrenade at a parked police vehicle in Batamaloo, Srinigar, India, injuring the driver and a police officer. No group claimed responsibility for the attack, but the involvement of Lashkar-e Taiba is suspected.
04/14/2006: A hand grenade attack occurred at a security forces bunker at Magarmal Bagh in Srinagar, India. No group claimed responsibility for the attack, but Lashkar-e Taiba's involvement was suspected.
02/10/2006: Unknown gunmen shot and killed Hindu religious leader Sant Gyaneshwar and at least five of his disciples near a gas station in Uttar Pradesh's Allahadbad, India. Five others were injured in the attack. There was no claim of responsibility and police named no motive.
02/09/2006: Unidentified militants shot and critically injured Indian journalist Ratan Luwang, who was the Bureau Chief of local daily Poknapham, at his home in Imphal in the Manipur State of India. Kangleipak Communist Party claimed responsibility for the attack.
12/29/2006: In Srinagar, Indian Kashmir, a roadside bomb detonated, killing one and injuring three. No one claimed responsibility, but Islamic separatists are suspected.
04/12/2006: An Assistant Sub-Inspector of the Intelligence Bureau (IB), Vinod Kumar, was killed while two police personnel were wounded when militants ambushed their IB vehicle on their way to Awantipore from Tral in the Pulwama (District) of India and opened fire. The Hizb ul-Mujahideen (HM) claimed responsibility for the attack.
11/14/2006: At least 31 people were injured in two separate blasts in Srinagar and Baramula, India. Hizb-ul-Mujahideen was reportedly responsible for the attacks. According to reports, one army major, two soldiers and six civilians were injured when a landmine exploded near a bus stand in Baramula. The second blast occurred when a bomb placed in a car exploded near heavily guarded Central Reserve Police Force Camp at Karanagar in Srinagar.
02/06/2006: About 200 Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-M) rebels blew up a portion of the Karampeda railway station in West Singhbhum, India, but caused no injuries.
05/22/2006: In one of five incidents during recent peace talks in India’s Kashmir region (200605210005, 200605230002, 200605250006, 200605310005), seven policemen and eighteen civilians were injured when two grenades were thrown by Islamic extremists in Srinagar, Kashmir, India. The police officers were seen to be the main targets. No group claimed responsibility and no one was arrested. President Singh of India was set to visit the area on May 24, 25 to work on the Kashmir region conflict.
04/14/2006: An attack was directed at a vehicle carrying tourists at Badyari Chowk in Srinagar, India, on the banks of the lake near Dal Gate at 1:15 p.m., but missed its target and instead hit a road near a bus stop killing three people and injuring eight. No group claimed responsibility for the attack, but Lashkar-e Taiba's involvement is suspected.
05/13/2006: An unknown number of Islamic militants hurled grenades at Hindu's protesting for better security killin 2 and injuring 23 in Doda, Kashmir, India. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/05/2006 An activist of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and senior member of the pro-India Awami League, Mohammed Yousuf Ghanai, was shot dead by gunmen at Azad Ganj, Baramulla, India. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
02/28/2006: A timed explosive device exploded near a busy street in Guwahati, Assam state, India, killing one person and injuring five others. Police suspected United Liberation Front of Assam rebels in the attack.
05/13/2006: An unknown number of Maoist rebels stormed a relief center killing four police officers and injuring 5 civilians in Dantewada district, Chattisgarh, India.
06/22/2006: Two people were killed and twenty one injured in a grenade attack on a religious pilgrimage in Jammu and Kashmir, India. The perpetrator(s) were unidentified and there were no media accounts of any group claiming responsibility for the attack. No claim of responsibility was reported.
01/23/2006: Suspected ULFA militants engaged in a string of grenade attacks and bomb blasts across Assam, India throughout the day and night, mostly targeting gas, oil, and power installations, in addition to security forces. The attacks resulted in considerable properties damages, injuries, and possibly some deaths of police and civilians.
02/10/2006: At least 40 Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-M) rebels raided the village of Odsa in the Dantewada (District) of Chattisgarh State, India, killing five villagers and injuring 18 others for allegedly supporting the police and the anti-Maoist campaign.
08/19/2006: Three policemen were shot dead and another critically injured when Maoist rebels attacked a police station in India’s Andhra Pradesh State. After the shootings, the militants bombed the police station located in the Nalgonda district. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/27/2006: A grenade exploded at a crowded bus stand in hill resort of Pahlgam in Jammu and Kashmir, the Indian-administered Kashmir. At least seventeen people were wounded but it was uncertain as to the number of injured tourists. The identity of the perpetrators was unknown and there had been no claim of responsibility for the attack.
01/23/2006: Suspected Maoist guerrillas blew up a state forest department bungalow that was under construction in Purulia, West Bengal, India, leaving a poster at the site asking people to make their boycott of Republic Day a success. Before the bombing, the perpetrators apparently first asked the caretaker and other staff to vacate the building. There were no casualties from the blast.
02/14/2006: More than 50 Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-M) rebels raided the village of Cherli in Dantewada district, Chhattisgarh state, India, and shot dead three tribesmen accused of aiding the police in anti-insurgency operations.
07/13/2006:Six civilians were killed in an armed assault in Jammu and Kashmir, India. The perpetrator(s) were unidentified and there were no media accounts of any group claiming responsibility for the attack. No claim of responsibility was reported.
08/16/2006: Over 50 people were injured in a blast that took place in the crowded International Society for Krishna Consciousness temple complex during celebrations for a Hindu festival called Janmashtami. The attack occurred in the city of Imphal in India’s Manipur State, and no group claimed responsibility for the bombing.
05/21/2006: In one of five incidents during recent peace talks in India’s Kashmir region (200605220009, 200605230002, 200605250006, 200605310005), in the city of Srinagar, India eight people were killed and at least twenty-four others wounded when two perpetrators, dressed in police security uniforms, opened fire and threw hand grenades into a crowd of around 2,000 people at Sher-e Kashmir Park, where a youth rally organized by the Congress party was taking place. Two Islamic groups claimed responsibility for the attack; al Mansurain and Lashkar-e-Toiba. On May 24, 25 India’s President Singh was scheduled to come to Srinagar for talks on the Kashmir region.
01/21/2006: In a series of related incidents, suspected ULFA members bombed a crude oil pipeline of Oil India Ltd inside the Rangoli Reserve Forest in Sibsagar district, damaging the pipeline but causing no injuries. This attack is part of a string of grenade attacks and bomb blasts across Assam, India, mostly targeting gas, oil, and power installations, in addition to security forces.
11/22/2006: A local Muslim who had been working for the Indian Army’s counter-insurgency wing in the Poonch district of Kashmir, India, was gunned down by a single militant. The victim was dressed in civilian clothing and was not working at the time of the attack. No responsibility was immediately claimed.
01/21/2006: In a series of related incidents, suspected ULFA members exploded a bomb near a power facility in the eastern North Lakhimpur district, damaging the facility, but not causing any casualties. This attack is part of a string of grenade atacks and bomb blasts across Assam, India, mostly targeting gas, oil, and power installations, in addition to security forces.
11/16/2006: Suspected militants in the Indian portion of Kashmir threw a hand grenade at a paramilitary post outside the ancestral home of a top Islamic separatist leader. The grenade missed its target, hit the wall of a nearby home and exploded injuring a woman passerby. The Islamist separatist leader and chairman of All Parties Hurriyat Conference, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, did not live in the home at the time of the incident. No claim of responsibility has been reported.
03/14/2006: Suspected members of the communist rebel group Naxalites detonated a landmine near a police patrol in Bombay, Maharashatra, India injuring nine police officers. There was no immediate claim of responsibility.
12/03/2006: Thirteen police personnel of the Special Task Force [STF] were killed when Naxalities detonated an improvised explosive device [IED] that blew up the vehicle they were traveling in through Kanchkir village near Bokaro in Jharkhand, India. No claim of responsibility was reported.
07/08/2006:Four people were killed and many were injured in a shrine bombing in the Jammu and Kashmir state of India. The victims included religious worshippers and former legislator, Sakina Itoo. The perpetrator(s) were unidentified and there were no media accounts of any group claiming responsibility for the attack. No claim of responsibility was reported.
04/10/2006: Police recovered a body of a police registered informer, identified as Muzaffar Ahmad Bania alias Chotto, from Kangan area in Srinagar (District) of India. He had reportedly been abducted by unidentified terrorists on the night of April 10 and later strangled to death. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
09/01/2006: In three separate incidents on the same day, rebels killed five in Doda, Baramulla, and Pulwama districts in Indian-held Kashmir. In Doda, two policemen were shot. In Baramulla, one policeman was shot. In Pulwama, a school teacher was tortured to death. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
08/09/2006: Two roadside bombs exploded in the state of Manipur, India. One soldier was killed. No claim of responsibility was reported.
11/12/2006: A bomb planted by suspected members of United Liberation Front of Assam destroyed a stretch of a natural gas pipeline in India's restive and resource-rich northeast Assam state. No casualties were reported. No claim of responsibility has been reported.
07/03/2006: Maoist rebels killed their former leader and two of his relatives in the Indian State of Jharkhand. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/12/2006: About forty suspected members of the Communist Party of India-Maoists kidnapped three employees of the Jharkhand State Road Construction Corporation and three laborers of the contractor working on a bridge project along National Highway 23 in Dasligaon, India. The Maoists also burned much of the construction equipment and two vehicles and a truck at the site while leaving.
08/07/2006: A grenade exploded in the area of Baramula in Jammu and Kashmir, India. At least ten people were injured. No claim of responsibility was reported.
11/23/2006: Three died and ten were injured when an explosive device was detonated in a railway parking lot in India’s northeastern state of Assam. Two victims died instantly and one died later at the hospital of injuries sustained in the attack. The bomb was concealed in a sack on a rickshaw in the parking lot. No group immediately claimed responsibility for the incident, however authorities suspect the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) may have been behind the attack.
08/07/2006: Around 3:45 pm local time, suspected militants of Dima Halam Daogo (Jewel) exploded a grenade in Mahur market in North Cachar Hills (District), India. Four people injured. No claim of responsibility was reported.
02/26/2006: A landmine blast carried out by Maoists in the West Midnapore district of West Bengal state, India, killed four police personnel and injured nine others; West Midnapore (District) Superintendent of Police Ajay Nanda escaped the attack.
11/20/2006: A bomb planted on an Indian passenger train exploded, ripping through two train cars, killing eight and wounding 60 others. While there were no claims of responsibility for the incident, authorities suspect either communist rebels active in much of rural India or militants fighting for an independent state of Assam.
04/11/2006: A militant leader, Thong Teron, of the United People's Democratic Solidarity (UPDS) accosted Karbi Anglong Autonomous Council executive member Sing Teron at Satgaon Bazaar and threatened to shoot him with his pistol around 1:30 a.m. "The executive member's PSO (personal security officer) retaliated with his stengun and Thong Teron died on the spot
12/10/2006: An unknown number of Naxalites (Armed Maoist rebels) seized a passenger train on the West Bengal-Jharkhand border in India, but abandoned it after some time. The Naxals boarded the 246 Tatanagar-Kharagpur passenger train at 1030 hrs (IST) and attacked the guards. They seized the rifles and wireless equipment of the guards and fled.
11/05/2006: At least 12 people, mostly shoppers, were killed and more than 40 injured in two simultaneous bomb attacks in the northeastern Indian city of Guwahat. The first bomb ripped through the upscale Fancy Bazaar shopping arcade in the heart of Guwahati, the largest city in the nation's strife-torn state of Assam. The second bomb went off almost simultaneously in Patharkuwari on the city's outskirts. No group claimed responsibility
02/14/2006: Guerillas threw a hand grenade at security forces near a bus stand in the Kashmir town of Sopore, India, injuring six civilians when the grenade exploded on the road. No group claimed responsibility.
01/22/2006: Suspected ULFA militants engaged in a string of grenade attacks and bomb blasts across Assam, India throughout the day and night, mostly targeting gas, oil, and power installations, in addition to security forces. The attacks resulted in considerable properties damages, injuries, and possibly some deaths of police and civilians.
01/20/2006: Suspected ULFA militants engaged in a string of grenade attacks and bomb blasts across Assam, India, throughout the day and night, mostly targeting gas, oil, and power installations, in addition to security forces. The attacks resulted in considerable properties damages, injuries, and possibly some deaths of police and civilians.
11/15/2006: Members of the United Liberation Front of Assam blew up a crude oil pipeline in India's oil-rich state of Assam. Two people were reportedly killed in the attack. No claim of responsibility has been reported.
07/26/2006: Seven civilians, including three children, were wounded when a powerful grenade was launched at a bus stand in Magam village, Indian-controlled Kashmir, India. No group has claimed responsibility, although the attack was aimed at civilians in the tourist region.
04/11/2006: United People's Democratic Solidarity (UPDS) members opened fire on a group of Congress supporters in the Satgaon area of India around 7:00 a.m., critically injuring one of them. The injured person was identified as Bikram Sing Timung.
11/28/2006: An unknown number of suspected militants wounded ten civilians when they threw a grenade at a parked car at the Tangmarg resort in Indian controlled Kashmir. Six of the injured were Indian tourists. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack.
06/01/2006: A land mine attack in Jharkhand, India, killed 12 troops. Maoist rebels blamed.
11/21/2006: An unknown number of unidentified militants stormed the house of engineer Bashir Ahmed in a northern Indian town, riddling his body with bullets. The reason for the assassination was not immediately apparent nor was the identity of the militants. No claim of responsibility was reported.
04/30/2006: In Udhampur, Jammu and Kashmir, India, perpetrators kidnapped 15 Hindu civilians, killed 13 of the hostages, and then released two. No claim of responsibility was reported, but it was believed that the Hizb-ul-Mujahideen was responsible.
04/04/2006: A member of the state's ruling Congress party, Wali Mohammed Dar, was shot dead by Islamic militants in the town of Baramulla, India. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
05/16/2006: ‘Leftist extremists’ set off a landmine on a street in the Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra (State), India, killing twelve people who were part of a marriage party. Authorities believe that the perpetrators mistook the marriage party vehicles for police forces. No claim of responsibility was reported.
09/25/2006: Unknown militants threw a grenade into a police vehicle in Srinagar, India. One woman was killed and six others were injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
02/14/2006: National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) militants threw grenades and opened fire, killing three employees of the Gas Authority of India Limited (GAIL) in Badaniapara, Tripura state, India.
05/01/2006: Perpetrators kidnapped and opened fire on a group of Hindu civilians, killing 22 and wounding six in Doda, Jammu and Kashmir, India. Lashkar-e Taiba claimed responsibility.
10/17/2006: Three Indian border guards and six civilians were injured in a grenade attack by militants in the northern town of Baramulla, in the Indian state of Kashmir. No group claimed responsibility for this attack.
01/22/2006: Suspected ULFA militants set off a bomb in a bus of the Guwahati Transport Corporation. There were no reported casualties or claims of responsibility for the attack. This attack is part of a string of grenade attacks and bomb blasts across Assam, India, mostly targeting gas, oil, and power installations, in addition to security forces.
01/22/2006: Suspected ULFA members triggered a large bomb blast on a gas pipeline at Bokulani in Assam, India, disrupting the gas supply completely to the Kathalguri power station of North Eastern Electric Power Corporation. No casualties were or claims of responsibility were reported. This attack is part of a string of grenade attacks and bomb blasts across Assam, India, mostly targeting gas, oil, and power installations, in addition to security forces.
11/10/2006: A girl and four boys, aged between 11 and 18 years, were killed and nearly 40 others were wounded in a grenade explosion outside a mosque in Tahab village of held Kashmir's Pulwama district, India. Hizb-ul-Mujahideen was reportedly responsible for the attack.
05/01/2006: An unknown number of unknown perpetrators tossed grenades at a police patrol in the Baramulla district, Bandipora, Kashmir, India. Four civilians were injured and there was no claim of responsibility.
01/21/2006: In a series of related incidents, suspected ULFA members bombed a gas pipeline of Oil India Ltd inside the Rangoli Reserve Forest in Sibsagar district, damaging the pipeline but causing no injuries. This attack is part of a string of grenade attacks and bomb blasts across Assam, India, mostly targeting gas, oil, and power installations, in addition to security forces.
04/14/2006: Suspected militants threw a grenade apparently at a passing police patrol, injuring two policemen and one civilian in the old city portion of Srinagar, India at nightfall. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/10/2006: A paramilitary trooper CRPF head constable Muskanda was abducted from near a polling station by suspected tribal militants under Bokoliahat outpost in eastern Karbi Anglong, India, and was freed by his abductors on April 13 at an unspecified place. There was no claim of responsibility for the attack but the Karbi Longri Northcachar Liberation Front (KLNLF) was strongly suspected.
04/15/2006: Suspected militants lobbed and exploded grenades at a bunker manned by the personnel of the paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) near the Khanyar shrine in Srinagar, India, but no one was wounded. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
09/12/2006: Islamic militants killed two civilians in Kashmir, reportedly because they collaborated with Indian authorities. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
08/07/2006: Around 7:20 pm local time, a grenade exploded by United Liberation Force of Assam militants at Tinsukia district, Assam, India. One person was killed and nineteen others were injured. No claim of responsibility was reported.
01/20/2006: In a series of related incidents, suspected ULFA members exploded a bomb at the entrance of a state-owned petroleum refinery in the city of Guwahati in Assam, India. Ten people were wounded but the refinery itself was not damaged. This attack was part of a string of grenade attacks and bomb blasts across Assam, India, mostly targeting gas, oil, and power installations, in addition to security forces.
08/01/2006: Militants killed two paramilitary men in a point-blank shooting in a busy marketplace in the Kakasarai area of Srinagar. Jaish-e-Mohammad claimed responsibility in a post-incident phone call.
04/02/2006: About 36 armed members of the CPI-Maoists laid siege to the Naudal railway station in the Patna district of India for nearly two hours and abducted the station manager, Rajesh Kumar, and another worker and freed them after an hour. The police found no perpetrators when arriving after midnight. No casualties were reported, and services on the Patya-Gaya section resumed after its two hour suspension.
10/17/2006: A Sikh policeman was shot dead by militants near the Indian state of Kashmir's summer capital Srinagar, India, at the main bus terminal.No group claimed responsibility for this attack, and there were no other reported casualties.
07/03/2006: Suspected Maoist rebels attacked a police station in Tankuppa County, India. The police and the rebels exchanged approximately 2000 rounds of gunfire before the rebels demolished the station using dynamite. Two guards, one inspector, and one civilian were killed in the attack. There was also one injury.
05/01/2006: An unknown number or unknown perpetrators tossed hand grenades into a cinema in the Khanyar quarter, Srinigar, Kashmir, India. No one was killed or injured. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
08/01/2006: Two policemen were killed and a civilian hurt when Muslim rebels opened fire in the Dalgate area of the summer capital Srinagar, India. Jaish-e-Mohammad claimed responsibility for the attack.
11/10/2006: United Liberation Front of Assam militants targeted two CRPF patrol vehicles near Sadiya police station in upper Assam with an IED; In another incident, ULFA militants hurled a grenade at the residence of Nagaon's Superintendent of Police injuring a policeman guarding the house.
01/21/2006: In a series of related incidents, suspected ULFA members exploded a bomb near a power transformer, damaging the power installation and wounding five police officers in the eastern North Lakhimpur district in Assam, India. This attack is part of a string of grenade attacks and bomb blasts across Assam, India, mostly targeting gas, oil, and power installations, in addition to security forces.
10/06/2006: Unidentified militants killed 1 civilian and wounded 7 others in a grenade attack in Srinagar, India. No group has claimed responsibility for this attack.
07/31/2006: Seven Hindu pilgrims bound for a holy shrine in Amarnath and three bystanders were injured in a grenade attack on their bus by suspected Islamic militants near the Batamaloo area of Srinagar, India-controlled Kashmir. No group has claimed responsiblity for this attack.
12/31/2006: Two men suspected members of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) were arrested at a New Delhi, India, train station carrying improvised explosive devices disguised as toys, the target was a market in New Delhi, India.
10/24/2006: Suspected Islamic militants bombed a cable television office in Indian Kashmir, in the city of Sopore, which is located north of the state capital of Srinagar. The explosion killed one civilian. No group claimed responsibility for this act.
11/06/2006:Twin explosions in Guwahati, India against tea stalls killed at least 15 people and wounded 50 more. The blasts were believed to be the work of the United Liberation Front of Assam.
05/01/2006: An unknown number of Maoist rebels blew up two tour boats after releasing sightseerers on the Krishna River, India. Four of the perpetrators were killed while fleeing. The perpetrators claimed the attack was a response to the killing of 9 of their firefighters.
12/02/2006: Thirteen personnel at the Bokaro Thermal police station in the Jharkhand district of India were killed when Maoists triggered landmines near the station. Unoffical reports, however count the fatalities at 17. The search for the perpetrators ensued after the blasts. No claim of responsibility was reported.
06/12/2006: Islamic rebels killed one and injured twenty in grenade attack at Jammu, India, bus station. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
01/30/2006: Over 30 Naxalites attacked a government relief camp at Gangalur in India’s Dantewara district, Chhattisgarh state, where around 5000 displaced tribals were taking shelter. Eleven people died in an hour-long gunfight between the Naxalites and the police, including eight civilians and three Naxalites. At least nine others were injured, including Special Police Officers, civilians, and Naxalites.
10/17/2006: A policeman was injured in an attack by militants on a police camp in the town of Sopore, in Indian Kashmir, India. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
12/21/2006: A bomb left on a bicycle exploded in a crowded marketplace in Guwahati, Assam province, India, injuring 12. Police blame the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA). No claim of responsibility was reported.
02/19/2006: A bomb exploded at the main train station in Ahmedabad in the Gujarat state of India, injuring 25 people and destroying two tea stalls and part of the railway platform. No trains were at the station at the time and the perpetrators and motive were unknown. Police later said that Mumbai was the actual target of the blast as the briefcase which held the device was taken off of the Karnavati Express train and left at the Ahmedabad station. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
05/01/2006: An unknown number of unknown perpetrators tossed hand grenades on a police Chowki in the Bandipora quarter, Kulangam, Kashmir, India. Three civilians were injured and one killed. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
02/21/2006: Five officials of the planning department of the Jammu and Kashmir government were wounded after they were attacked as they were traveling in their vehicle from Redwani village in Anantnag district, India. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/16/2006: In Dantewara, Chhattisgarh, India, perpetrators began by hijacking a passenger bus. They proceeded to drive to a police post and opened fire, killing 10 police officers, wounding four, and damaging the post. They also broke into the post and stole various firearms, then blocked the highway to prevent any police involvement. No group claimed responsibility, but it was believed that the Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-M) was responsible.
05/31/2006: In one of five incidents, including one also involving the bombing of a tourist bus (200605250006), during recent peace talks in India’s Kashmir region (200605210005, 200605220009, 200605230002, 200605250006), two tourist buses were attacked with grenades thrown by unknown perpetrators, wounding thirty-five people near Dal Lake in Srinagar. No group claimed responsibility for the attack. This attack occurred just days after India’s Prime Minister Singh paid a visit to the city for regional peace talks.
05/14/2006: An unknown number of unknown perpetrators threw grenades into a crowd at a BJP rally killing two BJP activists and injuring 23 others in Doda, Kashmir, India. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
01/21/2006: Suspected ULFA militants engaged in a string of grenade attacks and bomb blasts across Assam, India throughout the day and night, mostly targeting gas, oil, and power installations, in addition to security forces. The attacks resulted in considerable properties damages, injuries, and possibly some deaths of police and civilians.
04/10/2006: A police official said a teacher of Jainar High School in Singbargaon was shot dead in western Assam's Kokrajhar (District), India. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
07/27/2006: A grenade was launched through the window of a house, killing one, and injuring six members of the same family, in Masiri, India-controlled Kashmir by suspected Islamic militants. It was the day before India's President was scheduled to visit, and one of the injured was previously a member of the Hizb-ul-Mujahadeen and surrendered to police. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
11/22/2006: An unknown number of suspected insurgents fatally shot a 34 year-old shopkeeper in northern Baramulla district of India. No motive or claim of responsibility was immediately announced.
06/12/2006: 10 killed and seven injured in militant attack in Kashmir, India. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
03/07/2006: A previously unknown Kashmiri group, Lashkar-e-Kahar set off a series of bombs in the Hindu holy city of Varanasi, India killing 20 civilians and wounding over 100. The first exploded at a Hindu temple during prayer. Two more bombs exploded at the rail station. More unexploded bombs were found placed in the city. Responsibility was claimed by a man claiming to be a spokesman for the group via telephone call to a local news agency.
02/06/2006: Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-M) guerillas attacked a police station in Jashpur (District) in the Chhattisgarh State of India. Sources reported a wide range of casualties and injuries, ranging from one to three deaths and four to twelve injuries.
01/16/2006: Perpetrators shot dead Gulzar Ahmed Rather, the nephew of Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader Mohammad Yousuf Tarigami in Tarigam village of India. The identities of the perpetrators are unknown.
06/24/2006: Eleven people were injured in a grenade attack by unknown militants aimed at the police force in the Jammu and Kashmir state of India. No claim of responsibility was reported.
04/03/2006: Cadres of the Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) abducted and dragged Ghulam Rasool, a police constable, from his residence late April 3 and subsequently killed him by butchering him with a sharp edged weapon at Kehlil in the Tral area of Pulwama (District), India. His body was found the following day.
02/18/2006: Suspected militants kidnapped a Village Defense Committee (VDC) member and stole 100 rounds of ammunition after storming into his home in Ramban in the Doda district of the Jammu and Kashmir state of India. Police rescued the man the following day from a militant hideout in Doda district, but the militants escaped. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
09/28/2006: A bomb went off in a crowded market in Digboi, India. At least six people were injured in the attack. Police suspected the United Liberation Front of Assam carried out the attack. No claim of responsibility was reported.
04/02/2006: Unidentified attackers opposed to India's rule in the Kashmir region shot dead Mohammed Afzal, a councillor of the Municipal Council at Sopore in the Baramulla (District) in Sopore, India. There was no claim of responsibility.
10/15/2006: Muslim rebels shot dead an Indian police officer and injured another who were on a routine patrol duty in the Lal Chowk area of Kashmir's summer capital Srinagar, India. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
06/08/2006: 28-32 people injured in simultaneous bomb attacks in Assam, India. United Liberation Front of Asom blamed for attacks.
04/10/2006: Gunmen burst into the house of Ghulam Mohammed in Kashmir, India, shooting him and his wife dead before gunning down Mohammed's brother, Assad Ullah. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
08/07/2006: Separatist tribal rebels ambushed a police vehicle in the state of Tripura, India. Three police officers were killed and two others were seriously injured. No claim of responsibility was reported.
10/06/2006: Suspected tribal militants ambushed and killed 11 (4 railway workers and 7 paramilitary troopers) in Assam state’s Hathikhali region, India. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
07/17/2006: Between four hundred to five hundred Naxalites attacked the government-sponsored relief salwa judum camp in Errabore village of Dantewada district, 550 kilometers (340 miles) north of the state capital Raipur, India, killing at least 25 villagers. Twenty of the victim were axed to death, three were burnt alive and houses were set on fire.
11/18/2006: Unidentified militants stormed the home of a local political party worker in the village of Chak Nathnusa village in the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir. Authorities suspect that the same group of militants forced their way into the home of another man nearby, shooting him dead as well. No claim of responsibility was reported.
04/25/2006: In Manikonta village, Dantewara, Chhattisgarh, India, perpetrators killed 15 civilians, and then placed an improvised explosive device (IED) in the pile of dead bodies, and detonated it when police enforcement arrived. They also took 37 others hostage. No claim of responsibility was reported, but it was believed that the Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-M) was responsible.
06/12/2006: In Kulgam, Jammu and Kashmir, India, perpetrators dressed as Indian soldiers, and rode in army vehicles to kidnap one soldier, one Indian civilian, 11 Nepalese civilians, and one child. They then tortured the hostages, including cutting off the soldier's hand and then beheading him. They also continued to open fire on the rest of the hostages, killing nine civilians and wounding four. Lashkar-e Taiba and Hizb-ul-Mujahideen both claimed joint responsibility.
03/18/2006: Kashmir's largest Islamic rebel group, Hezb-ul-Mujahedeen, set off a car bomb injuring nine Indian troopers and one civilian in the Jammu and Kashmir province of India in Srinagar. The group claimed responsibility with a phone call after the incident.
08/12/2006: Around 5:30 pm local time, suspected ULFA militants attacked the convoy of Tinsukia district, Asom state, India. Five police officers were killed and one person was injured. No claim of responsibility was reported.
09/27/2006: Unknown attackers shot and killed a police officer in Srinagar, India. No other casualties were reported in the attack and no group claimed responsibility for the attack.
10/05/2006: Around 7-10 pm local time, two suspected militants launched a grenade attack at the entrance of the Doomdooma police station in India. 7 people were injured. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
02/02/2006: Suspected Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-M) rebels kidnapped six villagers in the Bastar (District) of Chhattisgarh State, India, after accusing the villagers of helping the police combat the Maoist movement. The outcome of the kidnapping was not reported.
11/28/2006: At least four unidentified men shot at a Congress MLA in West Bengal’s North Dinajpur district of Bangladesh, injuring her driver. The incident occurred close to the Indo-Bengla border. No responsibility was immediately claimed for the attack.
05/25/2006: In one of five incidents, including one also involving the bombing of a tourist bus (200605310005), during recent peace talks in India’s Kashmir region (200605210005, 200605220009, 200605230002, 200605310005), at least four tourists were killed and six others injured when a bomb exploded on a bus in Srinagar. Indian authorities believed that the bomb was planted by ‘suspected Islamic rebels’ and ‘militants.’ The attack occurred minutes after Indian Prime Minister Singh ended a meeting at another location in the city, aimed at restoring peace to the region. No claim of responsibility was reported.
05/23/2006: In one of five incidents during recent peace talks in India’s Kashmir region (200605210005, 200605220009, 200605250006, 200605310005), a suicide bomber rammed his explosive-filled car into a Border Security Force (BSF) vehicle, killing one soldier and wounding twenty-six others. The group Hizbul Mujahidin claimed responsibility for the attack. The road this occurred on was the same that Indian President Singh was to take a day later on his way to a roundtable discussion about the Kashmir situation.
09/27/2006: A grenade attack injured twelve policemen and two civilians in Srinagar, India. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
11/24/2007: Three bomb attacks cumulatively killed at least 13 people and wounded at least another 60 in India’s Uttar Pradesh State. All three bombings took place near courthouses, including this one in Varanasi that killed 9 people and hurt at least 45. No one claimed responsibility for the attacks, but police suspected that militants were using the bombings as an attempt to spark unrest between Indian Hindus and Muslims.
06/05/2007: Three 220-kilovolt power transmission towers were destroyed by Maoist perpetrators with explosives in the early morning in Bastar region, Chhattisgarh State, India. No claim of responsibility was reported.
06/15/2007: One Indian Army soldier and one Indian Police officer were killed and three other police officers and four civilians were wounded when an unknown number of unknown perpetrators fired small arms and hurled grenades at a security convoy near Bagu village on the outskirts of Sopore, Kashmir State, India. No claim of responsibility was reported.
10/01/2007: No casualties were reported but a natural gas pipeline belonging to the Assam Gas Corporation was damaged when an improvised explosive device (IED) planted by an unknown number of United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) perpetrators detonated in the evening adjacent to the pipeline in Dibrugarh (District), Assam State, India.
11/24/2007: Three bomb attacks cumulatively killed at least 13 people and wounded at least another 60 in India’s Uttar Pradesh State. All three bombings took place near courthouses, including this one in Faizabad that killed four and wounded at least 14. No one claimed responsibility for the attacks, but police suspected that militants were using the bombings as an attempt to spark unrest between Indian Hindus and Muslims.
11/20/2007: A man named Manzoor Admad Wani was shot and killed by militants in Kulgam, a town in India’s Jammu and Kashmir State. Wani was killed on suspicions that he was an informer. No group claimed responsibility for the killing.
03/16/2007: An explosion in Assam, India, injured six civilians. The United Liberation Front of Assam is suspected. No claim of responsibility was reported.
02/19/2007: Islamic militants sent a ball of flame through the coaches of the India-Pakistan “Friendship Express” train as it traveled through Deewana, 80km north of New Delhi, India. At least 66 were killed. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
03/14/2007: A militant from the United Liberation Front of Assam committed a suicide bombing in front of two fruit stands in Sonari, India, killing himself and injuring 4 civilians.
11/04/2007: Militants, using firearms, attacked a picket of soldiers at the main bus stand in Kupwara, India, injuring one soldier. No one claimed responsibility for the attack.
11/06/2007: Warring factions fought over control of land in the Nandigram village in an attempt to capture as much land as possible before the Central Reserve Police Force came into the area. The actions occurred in Nandigram, West Bengal state, in Indian. Police believed that at least one of the groups involved was the Communist Party of India - Marxist group. At least ten people were killed in the violence. Both sides were heavily armed.
01/08/2007: Two migrant laborers were killed and one was injured in an assault on minorities in Golaghat district of Assam, India by the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA).
11/24/2007: Three bomb attacks cumulatively killed at least 13 people and wounded at least another 60 in India’s Uttar Pradesh State. All three bombings took place near courthouses, including this one in Lucknow that did not cause any casualties. No one claimed responsibility for the attacks, but police suspected that militants were using the bombings as an attempt to spark unrest between Indian Hindus and Muslims.
05/15/2007: The United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) killed 6 Hindi-speaking migrant workers in Belbari village, Assam state, India. The ULFA members used automatic weapons in their attack and claimed responsibility.
04/15/2007: Suspected militants beheaded a Muslim man in the Pulwama district in India’s Jammu and Kashmir State. No one claimed responsibility for the incident.
07/26/2007: Two suicide attackers were killed and six Indian paramilitary troopers were wounded in a gun and grenade attack on a paramilitary base in Srinagar in Indian Kashmir. No claim of responsibility was issued.
10/29/2007: Twelve Indian civilians were wounded at approximately 1:30 AM during a celebration of Lakshmi Puja when an unknown number of unknown perpetrators hurled a single grenade at a makeshift food stall in Dhansirighat, Udalgari (District), Assam State, India.
07/21/2007: Islamic militants threw a grenade into a kitchen in the city of Pahalgam, Kashmir, India. The attack on the kitchen, set up to feed Hindu pilgrims, wounded 11. No claim of responsibility was issued.
07/05/2007: A rickshaw carrying a bomb exploded on Soniran Bora Road of Guwahati, India. The explosion wounded 5 civilians in and around the vehicle. The police confirmed The United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) was behind the explosion. No claim of responsibility was reported.
05/22/2007: Three bombs were detonated in Gorakhpur, India, targeting innocent civilians. Six people were injured and no fatalities were reported. No one claimed responsibility but authorities believe it to be the work of Harkat-ul-Jehadul Islami (HujI).
06/04/2007: Purnendu Langthasa, the chief executive council member of the North Cachar District Autonomous Council, and Nindu Langthasa, an executive council member of the North Cachar District Autonomous Council, were shot and killed and three other civilians were wounded by an unknown number of suspected members of Dima Halao Daoga (DHD) firing small arms in Longlai Hasnu, North Cachar Hills District, Assam State, India. No claim of responsibility was reported.
05/21/2007: The United Liberation of Assam (ULFA) is suspected of detonating a bomb that was attached to a bicycle in Bongaigaon, India, injuring at least 13 people. There are no reported fatalities. No one claimed responsibility.
02/02/2007: Three members of the forest staff of the Kandar Jungle area were attacked and killed by suspected Maoists in Dhenkanal, India. No claim of responsibility was reported.
11/20/2007: Rail service was disrupted in the Lakhisarai district of India’s Bihar State after an explosion destroyed a section of track in the area. No one claimed responsibility, but authorities believe that Maoist rebels are to blame.
06/08/2007: No casualties were reported when an unknown number of unknown perpetrators threw a hand grenade at the residence of Indian Administrative Service (IAS) Officer A.R. Khan in the evening at Kshetri Bangoon, Imphal State, India. No claim of responsibility was reported.
06/15/2007: No casualties were reported when an improvised explosive device (IED) planted by an unknown number of suspected United National Liberation Front (UNLF) perpetrators detonated at a Police Reserve barracks in Bongaigaon District, Assam State, India. No claim of responsibility was reported.
04/26/2007: Three suspected Islamic militants armed with explosives were arrested near the Dilli Haat crafts market in New Delhi, India. The men were carrying a package of RDX explosives, a detonator and a hand grenade. Police believe the men were members of the Pakistani-based Lashkar-e-Tayyaba (LeT) militant group. No claim of responsibility was reported.
06/01/2007: One Indian soldier was killed and 15 others were wounded when a 20-kilogram bomb planted by an unknown number of Hizb-ul-Mujahedeen (HUM) perpetrators and concealed in a wooden box surrounded by foliage detonated adjacent to their bus at approximately 7 AM near the Presentation Covenant High School, Rajbagh District, Srinigar, Kashmir State India.
06/13/2007: Dr. S.K. Dutta, an Indian civilian and alleged police informer, was shot and killed by an unknown number of United National Liberation Front (UNLF) perpetrators using unspecified weapons in Nagaon District, Assam State, India. No claim of responsibility was reported.
10/11/2007: Two Indian Army soldiers of the 32nd Rashtriya Rifles were killed when an unknown number of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LET) perpetrators fired on their convoy with small arms near Dangiwache, Kashmir State, India.
01/23/2007: Three federal policemen were killed along and five others were wounded as a roadside bomb detonated by suspected militants in the village of Sangam, India. Militants have increasingly ramped up their attacks ahead of India’s Republic Day. No group has claimed responsibility.
01/06/2007: At least one person was killed and 25 were injured when an unknown person threw a hand grenade at the security patrol in a main market street in Shopian, located in Indian Kashmir. No claim of responsibility was reported.
08/10/2007: Assailants wielding unspecified firearms attacked and killed 14 civilians, wounded two others, in Karbi Anglong, India. No group has claimed responsibility although it was widely to be the actions of the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) in conjunction with the Karbi Longri North Cachar Liberation Front (KLNLF).
11/16/2007: Five shoppers were seriously injured at a Videocon outlet in Imphal, India, after a grenade was thrown into the store. Victims Chongtham Hem, Th Sharmila, Irungbam Deban, Surjit Deban, and Asem Seityabarta were taken to a nearby hospital for treatment. No one claimed responsibility for the attack, but authorities suspect underground militants to be the perpetrators.
01/09/2007: A bomb hidden in a motorcycle in front of a police station in Dispur, India wounded two policemen; the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) is suspected to be responsible.
09/23/2007: A policeman, Shanker Singh, and three others were killed when Naxalites attacked Amas and Barachatti police stations in the Gaya (District) of Bihar, India. One of the dead was a bus driver, Kameswar Rai, and another was a cleaner. Thirteen trucks and two buses were also destroyed when the rebel group struck out of protest for the arrest of their leader Tushar Kant Bhattacharya, and his aide Brajmohan Ram.
04/03/2007: An attacker detonated a grenade in a crowded marketplace in Gauhati, India, wounding approximately nine people. No one claimed responsibility for the attack, but police believed members of the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) were to blame.
11/06/2007: Islamic militants attacked Indian troops in Patan in Jammu and Kashmir, India, sparking a days long gun battle that killed three militants and four army personnel. The group responsible for the attack was not reported.
02/05/2007: A bombing on a railroad platform in Kamakhya-Guri, India injured three civilians. The perpetrators of this incident were unknown. No claim of responsibility was reported.
02/02/2007: Three Indian policemen were killed in a militant ambush in Jammu and Kashmir, India. The perpetrators of this incident were unknown. No claim of responsibility was reported.
11/14/2007: A high ranking member of the National Conference Corporator of Srinagar, India, was shot and killed by militants. Al Fajr claimed responsibility for the killing.
09/01/2007: At least one person was killed and 12 injured after a bomb triggered by the suspected rebel group, United Liberation Front of Assam, exploded in a crowded market in India's north-eastern state of Assam, India.
11/02/2007: Tribal militants ambushed a Central Reserve Police Force convoy outside the village of Guwahati in the Assam state of India, killing at least seven people and stealing at least six assault rifles.
01/22/2007: Militants in India lobbed a grenade towards an army convoy, which was on its way to Srinagar from Baramulla, India. The grenade missed the intended target and landed on the roadside, injuring five civilians. No claim of responsibility was issued.
09/26/2007: A group of assailants suspected of being from the Jewel Gorlosa faction of the Dima Halam Daogah [DHD] attacked Karbi Anglong, a colony of Bengali speakers, in India. No one was injured but homes, shops, and an autorickshaw were damaged.
11/03/2007: Suspected militants threw a grenade into a shop in Manipur, India, severely injuring the shopowner and a salesman.
01/20/2007: Two people were killed and at least 20 wounded when a motorcycle bomb went off in the Chamber Road area of Tinsukia, India. The explosives were kept in a Velocity motorcycle bearing registration number AS 06 D 0402. It is suspected that United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) militants used RDX in the explosion. No claim of responsibility was forthcoming.
06/02/2007: No casualties were reported when Indian Police located and defused an improvised explosive device (IED) planted by unknown perpetrators which was wrapped in plastic and concealed beneath a passenger seat on the Tista-Torsha express train at the train station in Binnaguri, North Bengal State, India. No claim of responsibility was reported.
02/04/2007: A car bomb exploded outside a police station in Panbazar, India; it was placed by the suspected, United Liberation Front of Assam group. There were no casualties in this incident. No claim of responsibility was reported.
06/09/2007: Six Indian civilian construction workers of the Meiti tribe were killed and six more were wounded when an unknown number of suspected Kuki National Army (KNA) perpetrators fired small arms at them in the late evening in Moreh, Manipur State, India. No claim of responsibility was reported.
04/03/2007: A grenade hurled at a police vehicle in the city of Srinagar in Indian Kashmir missed its target and exploded in a roadside market, wounding six bystanders. No one claimed responsibility for the attack, but Muslim rebels were suspected of blame.
04/08/2007: A bomb hidden in a motorcycle killed one person and wounded 14 others when it blew up near a mosque in Kumarpara, India. The blast occurred in an area not far from where Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was going to be attending a ceremony. No one claimed responsibility for the attack, but police believed the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) was to blame.
12/12/2007: Armed Naxalites killed three in India's Bihar state. It was believed that the Maoist insurgents were targeting local governing leaders. One person was also injured in the attack.
04/11/2007: A shopkeeper was killed and ten other people were injured by a grenade that exploded in the city of Srinagar in India-administered Kashmir. No one claimed responsibility for the attack.
06/04/2007: Twelve Indian civilians were wounded when an unknown perpetrator threw a grenade at a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) barracks in Habakadal District, Srinigar, Kashmir State, India. No claim of responsibility was reported.
08/13/2007: Three civilians were killed and fifteen injured in a grenade blast in a Kashmir market in Bandipora Town, India. So far no militant group has claimed responsibility for the attack which occurred two days before India's Independence Day.
01/22/2007: Explosives packed on a motorbike blew up outside a railway station in western Assam, India, wounding three construction workers. No claim of responsibility was forthcoming, though officials suspected that the United Liberation Front of Assam was behind the attack.
01/28/2007: Heavily armed militants using automatic weapons attacked an Indian police vehicle, injuring a policeman and two civilians in Guwahati, India. In Assam state, where the incident took place has been plagued with terrorist attacks from the local separatist group, the United Liberation Front of Assam. No claim of responsibility was reported.
08/27/2007: At least three security personnel were injured in a grenade blast in Kupwara, India. The perpetrator(s) were unidentified and there were no media accounts of any group claiming responsibility for the attack.
10/28/2007: Three members of the Communist Party of India – Maoist (CPI-M) were killed when an unknown number of Bhumi Uchched Pratirodh Committee (BUPC) perpetrators hurled grenades at a CPI-M camp in Sherkhanchak, Khejuri (District), Jharkhand State, India.
06/06/2007: No casualties were reported when an unknown number of unknown perpetrators threw a hand grenade at the residence of the superintendent of the Regional Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS), Y. Mohen, at Lamphelpat, Manipur State, India. No claim of responsibility was reported.
09/23/2007: The Dhanbad and Mughalsari divisions of East Central Railway in Jharkhand, India, were heavily damaged by three powerful blasts. Maoists planted the bombs, torched 13 trucks and killed three, including a truck driver and a policeman. The Maoists were responding to an arrest made by police of a senior Naxal leader in Patna.
07/18/2007: Maoist militants are blamed for setting off a bomb that partially destroyed a government building in Bokaro, India. No casualties were reported. No claim of responsibility was issued.
08/05/2007: Seven civilians were injured when a bomb went off in a bus terminal in the Indian city of Sibasagar. The bombs were planted on bicycles and left to explode in the station. Although no group formally claimed responsibility for the attack, police suspect that the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) rebels were responsible for the attack, using bombs planted on bicycles.
11/11/2007: The chairman of the Kuki National Army was killed in New Delhi, India. Authorities suspected a rival group.
05/18/2007: One of three bombs detonated in the 17th century Mecca Masjid, a mosque in Hyderabad, India. The other two bombs failed to detonate from the cell phone triggers. The bomb killed 13 people and wounded 64 others. No one claimed responsibility, but authorities believe that Shahid (aka Bilal), who works for three terrorist organizations, was behind the attack.
01/25/2007: A separatist bomber was killed in India’s North eastern state of Assam. In the town of Guwahati, India when the explosive he was carrying went off near a highway. The rebel is suspected to be from the United Liberation Front of Assam. No claim of responsibility was reported.
10/01/2007: Two Indian civilians were killed and 21 others, including 19 civilians and two Indian paramilitaries, were wounded when an improvised explosive device (IED) planted by an unknown number of United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) perpetrators detonated in the evening at a police checkpoint in Tinsukia, Assam State, India.
06/05/2007: Three Indian civilian employees of the Chhattisgarh State Electrical Board (CSEB) were killed and five Special Task Force Police officers were wounded when an improvised explosive device (IED) planted by Maoist perpetrators detonated adjacent to their vehicle as they traveled to repair damaged power lines in a forested area of Bastar region, Chhattisgarh State, India. No claim of responsibility was reported.
03/15/2007: Fifty five police officers were killed and another twelve wounded when Maoist rebels / Naxalites surrounded and attacked a police post with rifles, hand grenades and homemade gasoline bombs in Rani Bodli,Chhattisgarh in India. The victims were part of an anti-Maoist counterinsurgency force made up of armed villagers known as the Salwa Judum. The Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) claimed responsibility for the attack.
11/27/2007: Eight saw mill workers were killed when suspected members of the Black Widows group opened fire on them near the town of Umrangso in India’s Assam State. The militants subsequently set fire to the saw mill.
09/30/2007: Members of the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) were said to have killed five people and wounded 60 others by triggering two explosions in Tinsukia and Doomdooma, India.
05/28/2007: Nine policemen were killed and three policemen were injured in a roadside mine blast in Chattisgarh state of India. Maoist rebels are suspected in the attack. No claim of responsibility was reported.
06/04/2007: Ajit Boro, an Indian civilian leader of the Congress Party, was kidnapped by suspected Dima Halao Daoga (DHD) perpetrators carrying small arms while on his way to a meeting in North Cachar Hills District, Assam State, India. No claim of responsibility was reported.
04/04/2007: At least five people were injured when a grenade that was thrown onto a busy road in Guwahati, a city in India’s Assam state. No one claimed responsibility for the attack, but authorities believed members of the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) were to blame.
06/07/2007: Abdul Kalam, an Indian civilian, was killed by an unknown number of unknown perpetrators (suspected to be militants) with small arms at Kwakta Awang Leikal, Manipur State, India. No claim of responsibility was reported.
06/07/2007: Latief Ahmed, an Indian civilian, was killed when an unknown number of unknown perpetrators fired small arms at him late in the evening in the village of Kathallan in Keller area in Pulwama District, Kashmir State, India. No claim of responsibility was reported.
04/09/2007: Twenty people were killed and 18 were injured when a car blew up in Senthur village in India’s Tamil Nadu State. Approximately 40 homes were also damaged by the blast. Authorities did not immediately confirm that the explosion was a car bomb, but they did believe the car contained an explosive substance. No one claimed responsibility for the incident.
11/10/2007: Suspected Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-M) activists opened fire on a rally by land rights activists in Maheshpur in West Bengal State, Indian. At least ten people were injured.
01/24/2007: Rebels believed to belong to the United Liberation Front of Assam shot and killed Chandra Chutia, the leader of a village unit of the Congress party in Assam’s eastern city of Guwahati, India. Within close range, the perpetrators used automatic weapons.
01/05/2007: Forty-eight Hindi-speaking migrant workers were killed and 19 injured after a series of 10 coordinated attacks by United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) in Assam, India that occurred overnight.
03/19/2007: Two motorcyclists, suspected to be rebels, threw a grenade at a hotel in Assam, India, killing one and injuring two. No claim of responsibility was reported.
09/01/2007: Eleven people, including four Border Security Force personnel, were injured after suspected militants detonated a car bomb at Srinagar locality in the disputed territory of Jammu and Kashmir, India.
11/03/2007: A powerful bomb planted by suspected militants injured three people in Manipur, India. There were no media accounts of any group claiming responsibility for the attack.
04/17/2007: P. C. Ram, the executive director of the Food Corporation of India (North East Region), and his driver were kidnapped from the Ulubari area of Assam, India. The attack was claimed by the United Liberation Front of Assam’s (ULFA) leader Hira Sarania who demanded a ransom of $5 million dollars. The driver was released two days later however on June 30, 2007, Mr. Ram’s dead body was found buried in a shallow grave.
10/14/2007: Six Indian civilians were killed, 37 more were wounded, and a movie theater was damaged when an improvised explosive device (IED) planted by an unknown number of Babbar Khalsa perpetrators detonated at approximately 8:30 PM inside a theater of the Srinagar Cinema in Ludhiana, Punjab State, India.
08/05/2007: At least nine civilians were injured as militants threw hand grenades from a moving vehicle into a shopping center in the city of Avantipura in, Jammu-Kashmir state, India. Although no group has claimed responsibility for the attack, authorities believe it is the work of Islamic militants.
11/25/2007: Umesh Shah, a tea stand owner, was killed when two bombs simultaneously exploded in Guwahati city in the Indian State of Assam. Three other people were also injured in the attack that no one claimed. The two bombs were situated across from one another on a street and were outfitted with timer devices.
10/11/2007: Three Indian civilians were killed and 18 others were wounded when an improvised explosive device (IED) planted by an unknown number of unknown perpetrators detonated at approximately 6:00 PM during iftaar at the Dargah Sharif of Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti in Ajmer, Rajasthan State, India.
11/09/2007: An improvised explosive device exploded on an electric tower in the Assam state of India. The explosion did not cause any casualties. No group claimed responsibility for the attack but the United Liberation Front of Assam was strongly suspected.
11/24/2007: A series of 5 explosions targeted the convoy of the governor of India’s Goa State as it was traveling through the Mokokchung district of the country’s Nagaland State. Governor S.C. Jamir escaped unharmed, but two security men sustained minor injuries in the blasts. No group claimed responsibility for the attack, but it occurred in an area that is a stronghold of the rebel National Socialist Council of Nagaland, a group bitterly opposed to the governor.
05/18/2007: The United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) is suspected of remotely detonating a bomb near the main gate to the Guwahati Central Jail, which injured at least 20 people in the Fancy Bazar area of Guwahati, India. Some of the names of the injured are Pankaj Nath, Amin Ali, Sambhu Kanti, Pramod Shah, Hazrat Ali, Kirpal Singh, Thaneswar Das, Ashok Kumar Bhattacharya, Santosh Rana Taheli, Zubeen Hussain, Mohd Putul Ali, Uttam Bhaona and Qurban Ali. No claim of responsibility was reported.
06/09/2007: Nine Indian civilians and four Indian paramilitaries were wounded when an unknown number of suspected Muslim perpetrators tossed a grenade into a recreational area near Dal Lake in Srinagar, Kashmir State, India. No claim of responsibility was reported.
08/05/2007: A United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA)-affiliated bomber was arrested while posing to be a vegetable vendor, pushing an explosive-laden handcart. The bomber was arrested but the handcart exploded in the police station, injuring six.
10/11/2007: One perpetrator was killed and three Indian Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) officers were wounded when an unknown number of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LET) perpetrators used small arms and grenades to attack the barracks of the 144th CRPF Battalion and the troopers returned fire in the early evening at the Boulevard Hotel on the southern shore of Dal Lake near Srinagar, Kashmir State, India.
06/08/2007: One Indian civilian was wounded when an unknown number of suspected Maoist perpetrators attacked a house belonging to a Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) leader with small arms in the early morning in Patamda, East Singhbum District, Jharkhand State, India. No claim of responsibility was reported.
10/01/2007: Three Indian civilians were killed and 29 more were wounded when an improvised explosive device (IED) planted by an unknown number of United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) perpetrators and attached to a bicycle detonated in the evening in Doomdooma, Tinsukia (District), Assam State, India.
07/09/2007: Four policemen and nine civilians were hurt in an assassination upon an Indian politician, Omar Abdullah, in Kashmir, India. Omar Abdullah supported Indian rule over the contested Kashmir region. Islamic militants are blamed for the attempt on Omar Abdullah’s life. No claim of responsibility was reported.
01/23/2007: Two Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) jawans (infantrymen) were killed and six others were wounded as an IED exploded in Awantipora, Pakistan. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
03/30/2007: Militants shot dead 5 Hindus and injure 4 in Rajouri, India. No claim of responsibility was reported.
02/09/2007: Three Indian soldiers and one civilian were killed in an attack by militants in Arigam, India. The perpetrators of this incident were unknown. No claim of responsibility was reported.
02/09/2007: A bomb exploded at a railway station in Guwahati, India. There were no casualties and no claim of responsibility for this incident.
11/11/2007: Unidentified militants killed the son of a solder by slitting his throat when they did not find the soldier in his house in Hubbi, India.
2/15/2007: Suspected militants shot and killed three villagers associated with anti-Maoist movement in Biajarpur, India. The perpetrators of this incident were unknown. No claim of responsibility was reported.
05/31/2007: Two activists of a local party, the Janata Dal-United (JD-U) were beheaded in Munger district of the Bihar state, India. Unknown militants conducted the murders. No claim of responsibility was reported.
11/19/2007: A Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leader, Sufal Mandi, was shot and killed in the Purulia district of India’s West Bengal State. Authorities suspected that Maoist rebels were to blame for the incident.
11/01/2007: Suspected Maoist rebels killed a politician after raiding his house in New Delhi, India. There were no media accounts of any group claiming responsibility for the attack.
01/25/2007: One person was killed and 5 others were wounded as a bomb believed to have been concealed in a sack and placed near a populated bus station in India’s northeastern state of Assam. The town of Rangiya, India has been under threats since the locals have urged to boycott India’s upcoming national holiday. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
06/03/2007: Jamulal Thausan, a worker for the Assam State Electrical Board, and one unidentified member of the Dima Halom Daogah (Nunisa) (DHD (N)) militant group were shot and killed by an unknown number of suspected members of Dima Halao Daoga (DHD) with small arms in Maibong, North Cachar Hills District, Assam State, India. DHD Later claimed responsibility for the attack.
11/28/2007: One person was killed and 12 were injured when an unknown person lobbed a grenade at a border checkpoint in the town of Bordumsa in India’s Arunachal Pradesh State. No one claimed responsibility for the attack, but authorities believed that either the National Socialist Council of Nagaland-Isak Muivah (NSCN-IM) or the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) were to blame.
12/13/2007: A bomb planted in a train compartment on its way from Dibrugarh to Delhi, India, exploded killing five people and injuring five others. There is, however, no official toll on the number of casualties. Dilip Beg, a top leader of the Adivasi National Liberation Army (ANLA) claimed responsibility for the attack to reporters by telephone from an undisclosed location, asking for more rights and recognition for the community in the state.
06/09/2007: Five Indian civilians of the Kuki tribe were killed when an unknown number of United National Liberation Front (UNLF) perpetrators from the Meiti tribe fired small arms at them in the late evening in Moreh, Manipur State, India. No claim of responsibility was reported.
06/09/2007: One house belonging to a Metei tribal leader was destroyed when an unknown number of suspected Kuki National Army (KNA) perpetrators set fire to the structure with unknown materials in Moreh, Manipur State, India. No claim of responsibility was reported.
01/24/2007: Two were injured as suspected separatists guerillas threw a grenade at a group of people standing outside a fuel station in Changsari, India. The fuel station was located within close proximity of a market. No group has claimed responsibility for attack.
07/15/2007: Kailash Nath Jha, an official of the eastern India state-owned Cement Corporation of India, was kidnapped along with his security officer by suspected Karbi Longri National Liberation Front (KLNLF) near the Bilai outpost under Bokajan police station. The victims’ fates were not reported.
02/08/2007: Pro-Indian politician, Mohammad Yousuf Dar, was gunned down in Hajn, India. The perpetrators of this incident were unknown. No claim of responsibility was reported.
06/01/2007: Anchal Singh, an Indian police officer trainee, was killed and five police officers were wounded when an unknown number of suspected Lashkar-e Taiba (LET) perpetrators attacked the Sheeri Police Training School in Sheeri, Baramulla District, Kashmir State, India with rocket-propelled grenades and assault rifles. Two perpetrators were killed when police returned fire. No claim of responsibility was reported.
11/25/2007: Three bombings cumulatively killed two people and injured 18 in India’s Assam State, including this car bombing in the Bengpukhuri area of Tinsukia. No one claimed responsibility for the attacks, but police suspected that the United Liberation Front of Assam was to blame.
11/03/2007: Suspected rebels, using firearms, ambushed a vehicle belonging to a local political leader in the North Cachar Hills (District), India, killing four people including two policemen. Some reports indicate that four people were kidnapped. The region is considered a stronghold of the Dima Halam Daogah, a group fighting for an independent homeland for the Dimasa tribes, but the group did not claim responsibility.
08/15/2007: Four bombs exploded simultaneously in two locations in Assam province, India, on the morning of India’s Independence Day. One of the blasts injured two.
11/29/2007: Ten Indian paramilitary troops and two civilians were killed by a landmine that blew up as their vehicle drove over it in the Dantewada district of the country’s Chhattisgarh State. No one claimed responsibility for the attack, but authorities believed Maoist rebels were to blame.
07/09/2007: Maoist rebels in India killed 24 policemen in an ambush in the Dantewada district of Chattisgarh state, India. According to officials, the police had gone to attack suspected rebel hideouts when they were ambushed. No claim of responsibility was reported.
11/11/2007: Unidentified militants abducted a Congress activist and Panchayat member in the Budhar Naka Bunjwah area of the Kishtiwar district in India. They tortured then shot him.
11/25/2007: Three bombings cumulatively killed two people and injured 18 in India’s Assam State, including this one in the Athgaon area of Tinsukia. No one claimed responsibility for the attacks, but police suspected that the United Liberation Front of Assam was to blame.
05/26/2007: Eight were killed and 20 wounded in a bomb attack in the northeastern Indian state of Assam. The United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA), were suspected of planting the bomb in Guwahati. The ULFA has not claimed responsibility.
06/13/2007: One Indian civilian was killed and 40 more were wounded when an improvised explosive device (IED) planted by an unknown number of United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) perpetrators detonated in a vegetable market in Hajo, Kamrup District, Assam State, India. No claim of responsibility was reported.
01/24/2007: Separatists bombed a cargo train and triggered another explosion near a market in India’s northeastern state of Assam. The bomb that hit the train produced minor damage to a wagon carrying fertilizers. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
08/25/2007: At least 40 people were killed and over 100 injured in three blasts that occurred at a park in Hyderabad, India. The perpetrator(s) were unidentified and there were no media accounts of any group claiming responsibility for the attack.
11/12/2007: Maoist rebels using firearms ambushed Indian paramilitary forces in Bijapur, India, killing three soldiers.
01/13/2007: Fifteen people, including eight civilians and seven police were injured in three grenade attacks in Srinagar, India. In a call to a local news agency, the attacks were claimed by the group al-Mansoorian.
11/02/2007: The Naxalites, or Maoist insurgents, killed fifteen policemen in an ambush in Chhattisgarh, India. They used both landmine explosions and armed attack.
06/03/2007: Four Indian police officers were killed and two wounded when eight to ten members of the Karbi Longri National Liberation Front (KLNLF) fired small arms at a police vehicle in Dillai, Karbi Anglong District, Assam State, India. No claim of responsibility was reported.
04/08/2007: Two members of India’s railway protection force (RPF) were killed and three more were wounded when suspected members of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) attacked them on a passenger train in the country’s Bihar State. The militants also looted the RPF soldiers’ equipment. No passengers were hurt or killed in the attack, and no group claimed responsibility.
01/17/2007: Two people were killed and 26 were wounded when a suspected United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) suicide bomber set off a bomb in a vegetable basket inside the busy Ganeshguri wholesale market. ULFA did not claim responsibility at the time of the attack.
06/24/2007: Ten policemen were wounded when suspected militants detonated a bomb as an armored police vehicle passed through Maloora village on the outskirts of Srinagar, India. No claim of responsibility was reported.
07/01/2007: Two police outposts in India were assaulted by Maoists. Nine people were killed including five policemen, and six people were wounded in the two assaults that took place at the same time. The assault took place at the  Baghela and Rajpur police outposts in the Rhotas District, Bihar. The Maoists made away with some rifles and ammunition. No claim of responsibility was reported.
11/25/2007: Three bombings cumulatively killed two people and injured 18 in India’s Assam State, including this one in the Fatasil Ambari area of Tinsukia. No one claimed responsibility for the attacks, but police suspected that the United Liberation Front of Assam was to blame.
06/09/2007: Nine Indian civilians, including at least three women and four children, were kidnapped by an unknown number of Maoist perpetrators using unspecified weapons in Dantewada District, Chhatisgarh State, India. No claim of responsibility was reported.
02/24/2007: Suspected rebels ambushed a convoy of 69 armed police officers with automatic weapons in the district of Bishenpur in Manipur state, India. Fifteen police officers were killed and 7 others were wounded. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
10/27/2007: Five Indian civilians were kidnapped by an unknown number of Naxalite (Indian Maoist) perpetrators carrying small arms late in the evening in Boda, Latehar (District), Jharkhand State, India.
06/11/2007: One Indian Police officer and one Indian civilian Muslim male were killed and one Indian civilian female was wounded by an unknown number of unknown perpetrators carrying unspecified weapons in Mola, Ramban District, Kashmir State, India. No claim of responsibility was reported.
10/27/2007: 18 Indian civilians were killed and three more were wounded when approximately 25 Naxalite (Indian Maoist) perpetrators fired small arms (likely assault rifles) at approximately 150 persons gathered to watch a cultural program after a football match sometime before dawn in Chilkhari, Jharkhand State, India.
02/08/2007: Seven soldiers were killed by insurgents when they triggered a land mine blast in Raipur, India. The perpetrators of this incident were unknown. No claim of responsibility was reported.
07/18/2007: One person was killed and 15 were wounded by a grenade attack on a camp for Hindu pilgrims trekking to a Kashmir shrine in India. The attack occurred 80 kilometers (50 miles) northeast of Srinagar in Indian Kashmir. Islamic militants were suspected, but no group had claimed responsibility for the attack.
09/07/2007: Suspected Maoist rebels triggered a landmine that killed at least three people and wounded five others moving in a convoy of 50 cars that was transporting Indian lawmaker N. Janardhan Reddy in Vidyanagar town in Andhra Pradesh state, India.
06/07/2007: Saif-ud-Din Piswal and his son Ghulam Hussain were killed when an unknown number of unknown perpetrators fired small arms at them late in the evening in the village of Sanimarg in Keller area in Pulwama District, Kashmir State, India. No claim of responsibility was reported.
06/07/2007: Rajar Agarwal, an Indian civilian and son of businessman Dilip Agarwal, was kidnapped by four suspected Adivasi National Liberation Army (ANLA) perpetrators with small arms from an autorickshaw in the morning near Toukata Tea Estate in Sonari, Savasgari District, Assam State, India. No claim of responsibility was reported.
04/07/2007: Six people, including two members of the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF), were killed and six more were wounded when suspected Maoist rebels attacked a coal mining project in the town of Bermo in India’s Jharkhand State. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
08/29/2007: In Dantewara, India, 200 assailants armed with unspecified firearms attacked security forces near Jangargunda forest, killing eight members of the Indian paramilitary and four police officers. Three paramilitary forces were wounded along with three police officers. No group claimed responsibility, though it was widely believed to be the actions of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI -Maoist).
06/08/2007: One Indian civilian of the Adivasi Tribe was killed when an unknown number of unknown perpetrators shot him with small arms at Haribandi Bazar, Karbi Anglong District, Assam State, India. No claim of responsibility was reported.
05/16/2008: On Friday night, Communist Party of India (Maoist) / Naxalites abducted Mahadeo Sahu, president of the Senah block of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), and two other BJP members in Lohardaga district, Jharkhand province, India. On 05/17/2008 on Saturday, the Maoist rebels killed Mahadeo Sahu by unknown means leaving pamphlets at the spot alleging that he was a police informer while they released the other two hostages without reports of injury. No claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
11/12/2008: On Wednesday night, around 100 Maoists attacked the railway construction camp of Rajgir-Kodarma rail section of Eastern Central Railway in between Jharna and Saren village in Bihar’s Gaya district. The Maoists set fire to one Pokelin machine, four dumpers, two tractors and one motorbike. No casualties were reported.
08/14/2008: On Thursday, in Chak, Palamau, Jharkhand, India, assailants fired upon a group of police officers, killing one and wounding one other. No group claimed responsibility, but it was widely believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist was responsible.
07/19/2008: On Saturday, in Bastnar, Bastar, Chhattisgarh, India, assailants fired upon and killed a village head at his home. The assailants also stole cash, food, and cattle from the property.  No group claimed responsibility, but it was widely believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
06/19/2008: On Thursday, at 2300, suspected militants opened fire at the residence of Salam Joy, a member of the state legislative assembly from Wangoi Assemnly Constituency, at Samurou in Wangoi, Manipur, India. No group claimed responsibility for the attack and no one was injured.
10/23/2008: On Thursday, Communist Party of India (Maoist) rebels attacked four trucks, killing one of the drivers, when they were passing through Kurpurti village in Ranchi, India. The rebels set fire to three other trucks. The rebels claimed the targeted company was continuing work despite the shutdown call given by the outfit in protest against the killing of one of its leaders.
11/28/2008: On Friday, suspected Bodoland Royal Tiger Force militants shot and killed two civilians, identified as Omega Iswary and Biju Brahma, in the Kokrajhar district of the Indian state of Assam. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
09/13/2008: On Saturday evening after 1838, at least 21 Indian Mujahideen insurgents planted an improvised explosive device at India Gate, a World War I monument, in New Delhi, Delhi, India. Police, however, located and safely defused the bomb preventing any casualties from occurring. This was part of a serial bombing attack in which five additional IEDs detonated in crowded markets and tourist areas in New Delhi killing a total 241 civilians and wounding at least 63 others. The Indian Mujahideen claimed responsibility for the incident although Indian police stated that the serial bombings were perpetrated by the IM and the Students of Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), with support from Lashkar-e-Tayyiba (LeT). On 09/19/2008 on Friday, police arrested one suspected perpetrator, killed two in a gunfight while two others who were also suspected of carrying out the attacks managed to escape. Several months later on 04/22/2009 on Wednesday, a court in Delhi issued non-bailable warrants against 16 suspected IM militants, including its founder Amir Raza Khan, for their involvement in the serial bombing attacks.
09/13/2008: On Saturday evening after 1838, at least Indian Mujahideen insurgents planted thee improvised explosive devices (IEDs) at a movie theater and a children's park near a tourist attraction in New Delhi, Delhi, India. Police, however, located and safely defused the bombs preventing any casualties from occurring. This was part of a serial bombing attack in which five additional IEDs detonated in crowded markets and tourist areas in New Delhi killing a total 24 civilians and wounding at least 63 others. The Indian Mujahideen claimed responsibility for the incident although Indian police stated that the serial bombings were perpetrated by the IM and the Students of Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), with support from Lashkar-e-Tayyiba (LeT). On 09/19/2008 on Friday, police arrested one suspected perpetrator, killed two in a gunfight while two others who were also suspected of carrying out the attacks managed to escape. Several months later on 04/22/2009 on Wednesday, a court in Delhi issued non-bailable warrants against 16 suspected IM militants, including its founder Amir Raza Khan, for their involvement in the serial bombing attacks.
06/05/2008: On Thursday, an unidentified person was shot dead by suspected militants near Porompat Police Station in Imphal East, Manipur, India. The militants claimed, through a slip of paper left in the wallet of the victim, that he was being punished for being a police informer.
12/27/2008: On Saturday afternoon, at 1430, in Notun Bosti, Dimapur, Nagaland, India, a National Socialist Council of Nagaland-Isak-Muivah militant, Chipenthung Ezung, was shot and injured by five unidentified militants. The attack occurred on Circular Road near Zhimomi automobiles. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
08/20/2008: On Wednesday, a National Socialist Council of Nagaland-Isak-Muivah militant was abducted and killed in Jotsoma from a bus by unidentified militants. No claim of responsibility has been reported.
07/29/2008: On Tuesday, a bomb was placed in the Katargam area in Surat, but police found and defused it before it detonated. No casualties were reported. No claim of responsibility has been reported.
11/10/2008: On Monday morning, the Inspector-General of Police, B.S. Maravi, was wounded after militants opened fire on his motorcade in the Balrampur district of the Indian state of Chhattisgarh. The Communist Party of India-Maoist is suspected of being responsible.
07/27/2008: On Sunday, at least five people were injured in a bomb blast near a bus stand in Jharkhand, India's Godda district.  There was no claim of responsibility for the attack.
07/25/2008: On Friday afternoon, a series of explosions erupted within 45 minutes in Bangalore's central business district, Karnataka province, India, killing three and wounding 20. The fourth of eight explosions, caused by improvised explosive devices fitted with timers, occurred on Mysore Road at a power supply transformer. No claim of responsibility was issued.
04/16/2008: On Wednesday at 2:00 in the morning, about 20 Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants blew up a two-meter stretch of railway track between Hazaribagh Road and Parasnath railway station in the Giridih district of Jharkhand province, India. The Maoists later that day called for a 24-hour strike in Jharkhand and Bihar to protest the killing of eight rebels by security forces in Garwah District earlier that month in April 2008. No casualties were reported and no claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
11/15/2008: On Saturday evening at around 1845, in Wangkheimayum Leirak, Imphal East, Manipur, India, assailants threw a grenade at mobile phone tower belonging to Aircel, causing no injuries or damage.  The Kangleipak Communist Party (KCP) claimed responsibility.
10/23/2008: On Thursday, militants of the Jharkhand Liberation Tigers (JLT), also known as the People's Liberation Front of India, set afire six vehicles of a private construction company near Tetai village in the Latehar district of Jharkhand, India.  Claiming responsibility for the attack, the PLFI claimed the construction company was continuing work despite the shutdown call given by the outfit in protest against the killing of one of its leaders. No casualties were reported.
07/27/2008: On Sunday, national Socialist Council of Nagaland - Isak-Muivah (NSCN-IM) militants killed an abducted National Socialist Council of Nagaland - Khaplang (NSCN - K) militant and  a civilian in Signal Angami.
05/14/2008: On Wednesday morning, in an attempt to intimidate voters during West Bengal polling, West Bengal Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI-M) political party members and Trinamul Congress (TMC) political party supporters threw crude bombs at each other in the Panchla area of Howrah district, West Bengal province, India, injuring five people. No claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
05/12/2008: On Monday morning, at about 1130, in Migrendisa, North Cachar Hills, Assam, India, assailants fired upon railway construction employees working at a construction site, killing two workers and wounding one other. No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed the Dima Halim Daogah-Jewel Garlossa (DHD-J) was responsible.
09/13/2008: On Saturday evening between 1815 and 1838, at least 21 Indian Mujahideen (IM) insurgents detonated five improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in crowded markets and tourist areas in New Delhi, Delhi province, India. The bomb blasts killed a total 24 civilians, wounded at least 63 others and damaged several shops and vehicles and one subway station. The fifth explosion occurred at M Block of Greater Kailash-1 Market, however no casualties were reported. Authorities later found and safely defused four more IEDs planted by IM insurgents in New Delhi. The Indian Mujahideen claimed responsibility for the incident although Indian police stated that the serial bombings were perpetrated by the IM and the Students of Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), with support from Lashkar-e-Tayyiba (LeT). On 09/19/2008 on Friday, police arrested one suspected perpetrator, killed two in a gunfight while two others who were also suspected of carrying out the attacks managed to escape. Several months later on 04/22/2009 on Wednesday, a court in Delhi issued non-bailable warrants against 16 suspected IM militants, including its founder Amir Raza Khan, for their involvement in the serial bombing attacks.
05/27/2008: On Tuesday, a policeman was abducted and killed by CPI-Maoists in a remote village in state of Bihar, India.
11/14/2008: On Friday afternoon, in Kupwara, Jammu and Kashmir, India, assailants threw a grenade near a bus stand, wounding four civilians but causing no damage.  No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
07/26/2008: On Saturday evening at 19:38, a bicycle bomb exploded in an undisclosed location in the Maninagar area of Ahmedabad district, Gujarat province, India. This was the fifteenth of a series of 17 serial bomb blasts that took place within 70 minutes in various crowded places in Ahmedabad and killed a total of 56 civilians and injured 200 others. The bomb, which contained ammonium nitrate, ball bearings, a chemical powder, gelatin, plastic bags, cloth rags and a six volt Chinese-made battery attached to a timer device and stored inside a carton, was planted on an old bicycle. The blast was of higher intensity than the first 12 explosions and caused several nearby vehicles to catch fire. A lesser known group called Indian Mujahideen claimed responsibility for the Ahmedabad bombing attacks with a 14 page email manifesto sent to the media minutes before the first bomb blast. According to the Indian Mujahideen, the bombings were carried out to avenge the 2002 anti-Muslim violence in Gujarat. On 08/14/2008, a suspected activist of the Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), Mohammad Sajid Mansori, was arrested by police in Bharuch while on 08/16/2008, the leader of the SIMI movement, Abul Bashar Qasmi, admitted to his and to several other SIMI members’ involvement in connection with the serial bomb blasts after he was arrested by police in Uttar Pradesh. Six other senior SIMI members, in addition to eight locals, were also arrested, for a total of 16 individuals connected to the bombing attacks. Following the police investigation, authorities speculated that the Indian Mujahideen was just a front name for the SIMI group.
07/29/2008: On Tuesday, a bomb was placed in the Katargam area in Surat, but police found and defused it before it detonated. No casualties were reported. No claim of responsibility has been reported.
08/06/2008: On Wednesday, Communist Party of India - Maoists blew up the block office building at Dandai in Garwah, Jharkhand, India. No casualties were reported and the damage to the building is still unknown.
04/03/2008: On Thursday, two separatist militants and a civilian were killed in a gun battle in an unknown location in northern Kashmir, India. No claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
12/29/2008: On Monday, in Gangloor, Bijapur, Chhattisgarh, India, a head constable of Bijapur District Police was killed suspected Communist Party of India-Maoist militants. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
08/23/2008: On Saturday, during the evening, a group of about six alleged Communist Party of India-Maoists killed Vishwa Hindu Parishad leader Lakshmanananda Saraswati in Kandhamal, Orissa for allegedly converting both Christians and tribal’s in Kandhamal to Hinduism. The extremists were armed with automatic weapons, including AK-47 rifles. The local youths also took part in the crime and stood guard around the ashram when the Maoists executed their plan. The youths belonged to about four different groups from nearby villages.
12/02/2008: On Tuesday morning, at 0800, a bomb attack on a to Tinsukia passenger train in the Diphu area of the Karbi Anglong district in the Indian state of Assam killed three civilians and wounded at least 30 others.The bomb was kept inside coach number 8209 of 901 Lumding-Tinsukia passenger train. The bomb exploded as the train entered Diphu railway station. The roof of the train was blown off in the explosion. While no one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack, an intelligence official said the Karbi Longri North Cachar Hills Liberation Front is a suspect.
09/27/2008: On Saturday, three people were killed, including a 10-year-old boy and a 50-year-old man, and 22 were wounded when a bomb exploded in a flower market in the Mehrauli area of south Delhi. No group has claimed responsibility for the blast.
12/25/2008: On Thursday, in Munger, Bihar, India, a Government Railway Policeman (GRP) was shot and killed while a passenger and another GRP personnel was injured when 30 Communist Party of India-Maoist militants attacked the Bhagalpur-Muzaffarpur Inter-city Express . Four assault rifles, a carbine, and several rounds of ammunition were seized.
08/20/2008: On Wednesday, National Socialist Council of Nagaland militants killed a village headman at his residence in West Yard Colony in Dimapur.
08/23/2008: On Saturday, suspected militants attempted to abduct Manoj Agarwalla from in front of his shop in Udalguri, Assam, India. No casualties reported. The militants fled the area when Agarwalla set off an alarm.
09/18/2008: On Thursday, the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) militants killed an alleged Army informer, Pramod Baishya, at Chengapathar village under Kalaigaon police station in the Udalguri district.
05/14/2008: On Wednesday, in an attempt to intimidate voters during West Bengal polling,  West Bengal Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) political party members shot and killed three Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP) supporters in Basanti town in South 24 Parganas in West Bengal, India. CPI Maoists also allegedly set several homes belonging to RSP supporters on fire in the same town. No claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
05/21/2008: On Wednesday, three Communist Party of India (Maoist) / Naxalites opened fire on a shop owned by two brothers, identified as Nijamul Ansari and Ajmul Ansari, killing them and a customer, Mahesh Mahto, and injured another customer, Karampal Munda, in Kotam village of Gumla district, Jharkhand province, India. Police suspect extortion could be the motive behind the attack. No claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
07/27/2008: On Sunday morning, a black Wagon-R car, parked on the side of the road was found by poilce. A bomb and 25 small packets containing the white powder weighing 25 kg were found in the black car.  A detonator and two watches were also recovered on the scene. No group has claimed responsibility for the car bomb.
05/13/2008: On Tuesday, in Siliguri, Darjiling, West Bengal, India, assailants detonated a bomb at the Siliguri Corporation area, wounding two civilians, damaging a blacksmith's shop and a bicycle. No group claimed responsibility.
11/17/2008: On Monday afternoon, at 1630, a journalist, Konsam Rishikanta, who worked for the Imphal Free Press was shot in the chest and neck and killed by unidentified militants in Langol in the Imphal West district of India's Manipur state. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
05/23/2008: On Friday, suspected militants shot at and injured a civilian, Abdul Rashid Gojar, in the Tral area of Pulwama district, Jammu and Kashmir province, India. No claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
04/12/2008: On Saturday, in Urubali village, Malkangiri, Orissa, India, assailants killed one village leader. No group claimed responsibility, but it was widely believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
07/29/2008: On Tuesday, a bomb was placed near the Sardarpura police satation in Surat, but police found and defused it before it detonated. No casualties were reported. No claim of responsibility has been reported.
06/04/2008: On Wednesday, unknown individuals set fire to the residence of a National Socialist Council of Nagaland - Isak Muivah lieutenant colonel in Purana Bazar in Dimapur, Nagaland, India.
07/25/2008: On Friday afternoon, a series of explosions erupted within 45 minutes in Bangalore's central business district, Karnataka province, India, killing three and wounding 20. The third of eight explosions, caused by improvised explosive devices fitted with timers, occurred at Adugodi near a storm drain. No claim of responsibility was issued for the attack.
06/27/2008: On Friday, suspected Communist Party of India Maoists abducted three senior Salwa Judum members from Jagdalpur in Bijapur, Chhattisgarh, India. On 06/30/2008, the Maoists killed the three hostages by shooting and stabbing them.
07/29/2008: On Tuesday, a bomb was placed near the Labheswar police post in Surat, but police found and defused it before it detonated. No casualties were reported. No claim of responsibility has been reported.
07/26/2008: On Saturday evening at 18:38, a bicycle bomb exploded in the Hatkeshwar locality in the Maninagar area of Ahmedabad district, Gujarat province, India. This was the first bomb in a series of 17 serial bomb blasts that took place within 70 minutes in various crowded places in Ahmedabad and killed a total of 56 civilians and injured 200 others. The bomb, which contained ammonium nitrate, ball bearings, a chemical powder, gelatin, plastic bags, cloth rags and a six volt Chinese-made battery attached to a timer device and stored inside a carton, was planted on an old bicycle. Even though the blast was of low intensity, it was enough to shatter the windowpanes of the Ahmedabad Municipal Transport Service buses in the vicinity. A lesser known group called Indian Mujahideen claimed responsibility for the Ahmedabad bombing attacks with a 14 page email manifesto sent to the media minutes before the first bomb blast. According to the Indian Mujahideen, the bombings were carried out to avenge the 2002 anti-Muslim violence in Gujarat. On 08/14/2008, a suspected activist of the Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), Mohammad Sajid Mansori, was arrested by police in Bharuch while on 08/16/2008, the leader of the SIMI movement, Abul Bashar Qasmi, admitted to his and to several other SIMI members’ involvement in connection with the serial bomb blasts after he was arrested by police in Uttar Pradesh. Six other senior SIMI members, in addition to eight locals, were also arrested, for a total of 16 individuals connected to the bombing attacks. Following the police investigation, authorities speculated that the Indian Mujahideen was just a front name for the SIMI group.
08/15/2008: On Friday, United Liberation Front of Assam militants triggered a time bomb near the flag hoisting ground of the block development office at Dharamshala in Dhubri. Two civilians were wounded in the attack.
07/09/2008: Assailants opened fire on Ramesh Singh Munda, Jharkhand Legislative Assembly member and Janata Dal (United) leader, while he was delivering a speech at a school function in Bandu, Jharkhand, India. At least five people, including Munda, two bodyguards, a party colleague, and a student, were killed in the assault. The Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist) claimed responsibility for the attack.
07/29/2008: On Tuesday, one non local, Suraj Ram, was Injured by suspected militants at Khoyathong Pukhri Mapal. No claim of responsibility has been reported.
09/22/2008: On Monday evening at 18:40, alleged militants hurled a powerful grenade at the private house of Manipur Panchayati Raj Minister, Mohammad Alaudin, in the Kiyamgei area of Awang Leikai, Imphal East Manipur, India. No one was injured in the attack as the grenade failed to explode. No claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
11/28/2008: On Friday, unknown militants allegedly planted an improvised explosive device on a roadside between Wachi and Naina Batpora in the Pulwama district of the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. No group claimed responsibility for the attempted bombing.
05/16/2008: On Friday, National Socialist Council of Nagaland - Isak-Muivah (NSCN-IM) militants shot and killed two civilians after an irate mob ransacked and set on fire the Ceasefire Monitoring Office of NSCN (IM) in Seithekema C village on the outskirts of Dimapur in Nagaland province, India. No claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
06/02/2008: On Monday, at 0800, unidentified militants abducted and shot dead two National Socialist Council of Nagaland Isak Muivah militants in the East Block near Dhansiri new bridge in Dimapur, Nagaland, India.
05/28/2008: On Wednesday, a civilian, Vihugha Aomi, and a militant of the National Socialist Council of Nagaland - Khaplang (NSCN - K), Zakaito Zhimomi, were allegedly abducted from Showuba village near Vihokhu camp of Dimapur district, Nagaland province, India, and later shot dead by the National Socialist Council of Nagaland-Isak-Muivah (NSCN-IM) militants who also burned the motorbike that the two hostages were riding. No claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
12/25/2008: On Thursday,  in Srinagar, Gumla, Jharkhand, India, members of the Communist Party of India-Maoist killed two persons, ex-Army man Augustine Ekka and his son James. The two were allegedly police informers against the Maoists. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
10/23/2008: On Thursday, a land mine was recovered and defused by the Border Security Force personnel at Chakra Border Out Post at Bobiya in the Kathua district, Jammu and Kashmir, India. No group claimed responsibility for the attempted bombing and there were no reported casualties.
10/26/2008: On Sunday morning, in a forested area near Karepalli village in Aheri tehsil in the Gadchiroli district, India, Communist Party of India-Maoist militants ambushed a police party, killed four personnel and wounded four others. The 23-member Police party, a C-60 commando unit with four officers, was on a routine patrol in the area. Those killed have been identified as provisional sub-inspector S. R. Parekar and constables Vinod Uike, Ajay Maste and Vasant Madavi. No damage or motive were reported and no group claimed responsibility.
06/04/2008: On Wednesday, at 1610, an IED wrapped in a plastic bag and placed on a bicycle detonated in an underground car parking lot for Gadkari Theatre in Thane, Maharashtra, India. Five people were injured in the explosion. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
09/18/2008: On Thursday morning at 1115, suspected United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) militants detonated an improvised explosive device inside Bijni government circle office compound in Bongaigaon, Chirang, Assam, India. The bomb blast injured 22 people, ten of whom were government employees, and damaged one bicycle on which the bomb was planted. No group or individual claimed responsibility for the incident.
9/1/2008: On Monday, at about 2010, assailants threw a grenade at the Chief Minister's residence complex in Babupara, India, damaging a building but causing no injuries.  The People's Revolutionary Party of Kangleipak (PREPAK) claimed responsibility.
05/01/2008: On Thursday, two Indian Assam Rifles personnel, Rifleman R.K. Trichi and Rifleman B.T. Barbar, from the 6th Assam Rifles Battalion were killed while four others were wounded when the United National Liberation Front (UNLF) ambushed troops travelling in security convoys in the New Somtal area in Chandel district of Manipur, India. The insurgents first exploded a bomb by using rocket launchers and then fired at the military convoy. A security vehicle was damaged from the bomb explosion. No claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
06/05/2008: On Thursday, a child was killed while another person sustained serious injuries when a bomb exploded in Hajiyapur locality near Railway Minister Lalu Prasad's house in Gopalganj, Bihar, India. Police also recovered and safely defused another live bomb at the same location. No claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
07/26/2008: On Saturday evening at 19:18, a bicycle bomb exploded near the trauma center of the L. G. General government civil hospital in the Asarwa neighborhood of Ahmedabad district, Gujarat province, India. This was one of a series of 17 serial bomb blasts that took place within 70 minutes in various crowded places in Ahmedabad and killed a total of 56 civilians and injured 200 others. Most of the casualties took place at the trauma center, which was treating the injured from the previous 12 blasts. The bomb, which contained ammonium nitrate, ball bearings, a chemical powder, gelatin, plastic bags, cloth rags and a six volt Chinese-made battery attached to a timer device and stored inside a carton, was planted on an old bicycle. The blast was of higher intensity than the previous 12 explosions and caused several nearby vehicles to catch fire. A lesser known group called Indian Mujahideen claimed responsibility for the Ahmedabad bombing attacks with a 14 page email manifesto sent to the media minutes before the first bomb blast. According to the Indian Mujahideen, the bombings were carried out to avenge the 2002 anti-Muslim violence in Gujarat. On 08/14/2008, a suspected activist of the Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), Mohammad Sajid Mansori, was arrested by police in Bharuch while on 08/16/2008, the leader of the SIMI movement, Abul Bashar Qasmi, admitted to his and to several other SIMI members’ involvement in connection with the serial bomb blasts after he was arrested by police in Uttar Pradesh. Six other senior SIMI members, in addition to eight locals, were also arrested, for a total of 16 individuals connected to the bombing attacks. Following the police investigation, authorities speculated that the Indian Mujahideen was just a front name for the SIMI group.
07/26/2008: On Saturday evening after 18:40, a bicycle bomb exploded near a Hanuman temple in Ahmedabad district, Gujarat province, India. This was one of a series of 17 serial bomb blasts that took place within 70 minutes in various crowded places in Ahmedabad and killed a total of 56 civilians and injured 200 others. The bomb, which contained ammonium nitrate, ball bearings, a chemical powder, gelatin, plastic bags, cloth rags and a six volt Chinese-made battery attached to a timer device and stored inside a carton, was planted on an old bicycle. Even though the blast was of low intensity, it was enough to shatter the windowpanes of the Ahmedabad Municipal Transport Service buses in the vicinity. A lesser known group called Indian Mujahideen claimed responsibility for the Ahmedabad bombing attacks with a 14 page email manifesto sent to the media minutes before the first bomb blast. According to the Indian Mujahideen, the bombings were carried out to avenge the 2002 anti-Muslim violence in Gujarat. On 08/14/2008, a suspected activist of the Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), Mohammad Sajid Mansori, was arrested by police in Bharuch while on 08/16/2008, the leader of the SIMI movement, Abul Bashar Qasmi, admitted to his and to several other SIMI members’ involvement in connection with the serial bomb blasts after he was arrested by police in Uttar Pradesh. Six other senior SIMI members, in addition to eight locals, were also arrested, for a total of 16 individuals connected to the bombing attacks. Following the police investigation, authorities speculated that the Indian Mujahideen was just a front name for the SIMI group.
08/27/2008: On Wednesday, Lashkar-e-Tayyiba militants held ten people hostage in a house in Chinore, after an armed assault. Two civilians, a Territorial Army soldier and three militants were killed in the attack and a woman was also wounded in the gun-battle inside the house.
08/11/2008: On Monday night around 2300, in Bishenpur, Manipur, India, assailants threw four Chinese-made hand grenades at the home of the Manipur Agriculture Minister, damaging the home but causing no casualties. Three of the grenades failed to detonate. No group claimed responsibility, but authorities believed the Kangleipak Communist Party-Military Council (KCP-MC) was responsible.
08/06/2008: On Wednesday, at 1215, two people, Atowar Rahman and Safiqul Khan, attempted to plant an improvised explosive device at Howly fish market in Barpeta, Assam, India. No group claimed responsibility for the attempted bombing.
09/13/2008: On Saturday evening between 1815 and 1838, at least 21 Indian Mujahideen (IM) insurgents detonated five improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in crowded markets and tourist areas in New Delhi, Delhi province, India. The bomb blasts killed a total 24 civilians, wounded at least 63 others and damaged several shops and vehicles and one subway station. The third explosion occurred at Connaught Place Park killing five civilians and wounding 11 others. Authorities later found and safely defused four more IEDs planted by IM insurgents in New Delhi. The Indian Mujahideen claimed responsibility for the incident although Indian police stated that the serial bombings were perpetrated by the IM and the Students of Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), with support from Lashkar-e-Tayyiba (LeT). On 09/19/2008 on Friday, police arrested one suspected perpetrator, killed two in a gunfight while two others who were also suspected of carrying out the attacks managed to escape. Several months later on 04/22/2009 on Wednesday, a court in Delhi issued non-bailable warrants against 16 suspected IM militants, including its founder Amir Raza Khan, for their involvement in the serial bombing attacks.
05/30/2008: On Friday, a Central Reserve Police Force trooper was killed and another sustained injuries when Communist Party of India-Maoist militants attacked them at the Katekalyan village's weekly market in the Dantewada district of India.
05/15/2008: On Thursday, Black Widow militants belonging to the United Liberation Front of Assam shot and killed 11 workers for a cement factory in North Cachar Hills district, Assam province, India. The Commander-in-chief of the Black Widow militants later claimed responsibility for the incident alleging that the attack was carried out because Indian soldiers had attacked one of their camps and killed twelve Black Widow fighters on the week of 05/04/2008.
05/17/2008: On Saturday, five people were killed in an explosion at a policeman's house in Neel, Jammu and Kashmir, India. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
09/26/2008: On Friday afternoon at 1300, unknown assailants threw a hand grenade at the residence of a Minister of Legislative Assembly (MLA), in Tera Sapam Leirak, Imphal, Imphal West, Manipur, India. No damages occurred because the grenade failed to detonate. No claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
09/09/2008: On Tuesday evening, suspected Hizbul-Mujahedin (HM) militants forced one civilian out of his home, then fired upon and killed him in Dedni Khabaran village, Jammu and Kashmir, India. No claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
10/27/2008: On Monday, Indian security forces discovered and safely defused an improvised explosive device weighing seven kilograms placed in the Mahore area of Reasi district in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. No group claimed responsibility for the attempted bombing.
07/25/2008: On Friday afternoon, a series of explosions erupted within 45 minutes in Bangalore's central business district, Karnataka province, India, killing three and wounding 20. The seventh of eight explosions, caused by improvised explosive devices fitted with timers, occurred near the Mallya Hospital. No claim of responsibility was issued for the attack.
08/25/2008: On Monday, an eight-year-old boy was abducted by two suspected militants while he was riding to his school with his elder brother in Udalguri. No claim of responsibility has been reported.
03/08/2008: Militants of the United Democratic Terai Liberation Front (UDTLF) kidnapped Brij Sukhla, a Jana Morcha Nepal candidate from the Kapilvastu district of Dohni, India. The kidnapping took place while Sukhla was campaigning for the CA polls in Dohni village at around 1 pm at a supporter's house. The commander of Kapilavastu wing of UDTLF group, Raj Guru, said they kidnapped Sukhla because of his 'anti-people policies'. A search operation was launched by police to find Sukhla.
07/29/2008: On Tuesday, a bomb was placed in the Katargam area in Surat, but police found and defused it before it detonated. No casualties were reported. No claim of responsibility has been reported.
12/06/2008: On Saturday, unidentified militants threw a grenade at an independent politician, Ghulam Mohammad Wathori, injuring two civilians at Wathora on Srinagar-Chadoura Road in Srinigar, Jammu and Kashmir, India. No group claimed responsibility but a vehicle was damaged in the attack.
06/04/2008: On Wednesday, unidentified militants threw a grenade toward the family quarters of Ganderbal police station in Kangan, Jammu and Kashmir, India. No casualties or damages were reported.
06/07/2008: On Saturday, at 2200, Communist Party of India Maoists shot dead Niranjan Bidika, leader of the ruling Biju Janata Dal, in Sorupali village under Bandhugaon block in Koraput, Orissa, India.
12/02/2008: On Tuesday, unidentified militants opened fire on the residence of a local election candidate in the Awoora area of Kupwara in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. The resident was from the Kupwara Assembly constituency. No casualties were reported in the attack but the home was damaged. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
12/13/2008: On Saturday, in Kapsi village, Kanker, Chhattisgarh, India, approximately 100 armed assailants held dozens of villagers hostage for approximately three hours, then set fire to a telecommunications facility belonging to Bharat Sanchar Nigam, Limited (BNSL) and a communications tower belonging to Reliance Communications (R-Com), damaging equipment but causing no casualties. No group claimed responsibility, but authorities believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
04/01/2008: On Tuesday night, the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants beheaded four civilians after abducting them at Chainpur road under Arki police station in Jharkhand's Khunti district, India. A hand-written note left behind by the Maoists claimed the four persons were being punished for indulging in robbery and extortion. The deceased had been identified as Ashok Lohra, Mahadeo Lohra, Hari Lohra and Bhagwan Kumhar.
11/22/2008: On Saturday, Communist Party of India-Maoist militants shot and killed a civilian, identified as Asirama, in the village of Kotanpalli in the Malkangiri district of the Indian state of Orissa. Militants allegedly suspected the civilian of being a police informer.
12/09/2008: On Tuesday afternoon, in Imphal, Manipur, India, unidentified men kidnapped the secretary of Adimjati Shiksha Ashram, Pungai Hungyo, from his Tangkhul avenue residence. There was no damage or casualties reported and no group claimed responsibility.
06/29/2008: On Sunday, in Jaljali, Mangaldai, Assam, India, four suspected United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) militants shot surrendered ULFA militant, Tapan Saikia, in Jaljali.
09/29/2008: On Monday evening at 2130, suspected Hindu extremists detonated an improvised explosive device in a crowded market in Modasa, Banaskantha, Gujarat province, India. One child was killed and nine civilians were injured from the blast which also caused an unknown amount of damage to the market. The bomb, which was placed on a motorcycle, was believed to have been detonated by a timer. No claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
11/22/2008: On Saturday, Amar Asom newspaper reporter, identified as Jagjit Saikia, was shot dead by two unidentified militants at R.N. Brahma Road in the Kokrajhar district, Assam, India. The militants fired as many as six rounds from a .9-mm pistol from point-blank range. No group claimed responsibility for the killing.
07/29/2008: On Tuesday, a bomb was placed in the Katargam area in Surat, but police found and defused it before it detonated. No casualties were reported. No claim of responsibility has been reported.
10/08/2008: On Wednesday, unknown assailants detonated a crude bomb placed in a garbage box near a government school in the Hatikhana area of Vododara (Baroda) district, Gujarat province, India. The bombing attack caused minor damage to a vehicle parked nearby but resulted in no casualties. Police later recovered and safely defused three more bombs though to be planted by the same perpetrators in the area. No claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
06/29/2008: On Sunday, at 2015, five people were injured when suspected United Liberation Front of Assam militants threw a hand grenade at a security patrol in a market at Teliapatty in Nagaon, Assam, India.
04/01/2008: On Tuesday night, more than 200 Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants attacked the village of a member of the State Legislative Assembly (MLA), Vijay Kumar Singh of the Lok Janshakti Party, in the Kala Pahar village of Aurangabad district, Bihar province, India. The Maoist guerrillas opened fire to create panic among the villagers, set ablaze three vehicles being used by the MLA’s construction company and abducted four laborers. No casualties were reported. Police suspected that the Maoist attack was linked to an extortion demand on the construction company, although no claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
12/02/2008: On Tuesday evening, at 2015, unidentified gunman fired upon and killed a retired lecturer, Bashir Ahmed Kababi, near his house in Nowhama, Sopore, Baramula, Jammu and Kashmir, India. Kababi was a close associate of the Congress rebel candidate Ghulam Rasool Kar. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
01/05/2008: Twenty armed Maoists burned down a forest range office in Orissa, India. They also destroyed seven jeeps, four motorcycles, and files in the offices. They stole cash and belongings from the forester's home. They beat up six forest guards.
09/13/2008: On Saturday evening at 1815, at least 21 Indian Mujahideen (IM) insurgents detonated five improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in crowded markets and tourist areas in New Delhi, Delhi province, India. The bomb blasts killed a total 24 civilians, wounded at least 63 others and damaged several shops and vehicles and one subway station. The first explosion occurred near a parking lot at Karol Bagh's Garrar Market, killing 13 civilians, wounding 40 others and causing substantial damage to the marketplace. Authorities later found and safely defused four more IEDs planted by IM insurgents in New Delhi. The Indian Mujahideen claimed responsibility for the incident although Indian police stated that the serial bombings were perpetrated by the IM and the Students of Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), with support from Lashkar-e-Tayyiba (LeT). On 09/19/2008 on Friday, police arrested one suspected perpetrator, killed two in a gunfight while two others who were also suspected of carrying out the attacks managed to escape. Several months later on 04/22/2009 on Wednesday, a court in Delhi issued non-bailable warrants against 16 suspected IM militants, including its founder Amir Raza Khan, for their involvement in the serial bombing attacks.
05/13/2008: On Tuesday, three CRPF constables, who were on intelligence gathering mission, were abducted by unknown militants in Shopian district, Jammu and Kashmir province, India. On 05/14/2008 on Wednesday, one of the constables managed to escape while the other two, Mohammad Rafique and Asif Ali, were killed by their captors. No claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
07/21/2008: On Monday evening at about 1840, in the Baksa district, Assam, India, an area commander of the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB), Pradeep Boro alias Phungkha, was shot dead by unidentified militants at Barama market. There was no motive or damage reported and no group claimed responsibility, though The NDFB alleged that a new group formed by the head of the Bodoland Territorial Council and a former militant were behind the attack.
12/18/2008: On Thursday morning, a former National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) member, identified as Kamal Brahma, was shot and killed by unidentified gunmen,  in Simlabazar Behguri, Baksa, India. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
09/17/2008: On Wednesday at about midnight, suspected Kangleipak Communist Party (KCP) militants kidnapped an engineer of the Manipur electricity department in Imphal West, Manipur, India. The next day on 09/18/2008 on Thursday, authorities rescued the victim without causing any casualties. No claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
01/09/2008: Four railway workers were injured in India’s Assam province when separatists lobbed grenades as workers as they were sleeping. Although no group has claimed responsibility for the attack, authorities believe that the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) is responsible.
10/05/2008: On Sunday night, unknown militants threw a bomb at the residence of Mr. Thangjam Nandakishwor Singh, a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA), in Imphal East, Manipur province, India. The bomb blast caused an unknown amount of damage to Mr. Singh's house but resulted in no casualties. No claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
03/06/2008: A nine year old girl and 13 year old girl, were among three members of a Muslim family were killed in a grenade attack by suspected militants in Indian Kashmir. The militants threw a grenade at the house which injured five others. No group has claimed responsibility for the indiscriminate attack.
05/03/2008: On Saturday night at 20:30, unidentified militants drove up to the residence of a retired Government official, Kokamani Singh, at Chingmeirong Khongnang Karak in Imphal district, Manipur province, India, and opened fire, however no casualties were reported. No claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
04/13/2008: On Sunday, one suspected United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) militant was shot dead by Army personnel who retaliated when eight suspected ULFA militants opened fire on them at upper Dihing Reserve Forest in the Tinsukia district, Assam province, India. No claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
11/09/2008: On Sunday, the residence of a senior policeman, Ghulam Nabi, was set on fire by Hizbul Mujahedeen militants in the Gulgut area of Reasi district in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. No casualties were reported.
03/08/2008: At least twenty people were injured in two bomb explosions that were triggered by suspected militants of the United Liberation Front of Asom (UFLA) in Guwahati and Tinsukia. The first bomb exploded in Guwahati and was kept under a truck in a bazaar around 1:30 pm, injuring four people. Thirty minutes later, the rebels triggered another explosion in Tinsuki, injuring 16 people.
07/11/2008: On Friday morning, Communist Party of India (Maoist) / Naxalites detonated explosives against the Block Development Officer’s Building in the government complex at Lakshmipur in Jamui district, Bihar province, India. The Maoists have given a call for a shutdown in five east Bihar districts - Jamui, Munger, Bhagalpur, Lakhisarai and Banka - to protest the arrest and alleged custodial torture of a self-styled ‘area commander’ Kamlesh alias Deepa on 07/06/2008. No casualties were reported from the incident.
08/04/2008: On Monday evening shortly after 2100, Jangkhopao Taothan, a tribal school boy, was abducted by unknown militants after Taothan attended Chongthu Baptist Church in New Lambulane, Imphal district, Manipur province, India. No claim of responsibility was made for the incident and the status of the hostage is unknown.
11/17/2008: On Monday, Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants shot and killed a village head of Peta under Motu police station, Ponda Reddy, in the Malkangiri district of Orissa, India.  They believed he was an informer for the police.  The CPI-M left behind a handbill claiming responsibility for the murder.
08/16/2008: On Saturday, United Liberation Front of Assam militants set off a bomb in Paglathan in Bongaigaon district. No casualties were reported.
08/24/2008: On Sunday, a bomb was thrown at the residence of Manipur MLA U. Deben at Wabagai Keirak Kangjeibung in Thoubal, India. No casualties resulted because the bomb failed to explode and was later defused. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
08/03/2008: On Sunday night, police located and safely defused two powerful bombs found inside a bag that were planted by two youths near railway tracks in the Maniari area of Kamprup district, Assam province, India. No claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
10/12/2008: On Sunday, two powerful bombs that were hidden in a box were discovered and safely defused near the state assembly and secretariat in the Bhagoduttapur area of Guwahati district, Assam province, India. The attempted bombing attack caused no casualties or damage as the bombs failed to detonate. Two suspects were detained for questioning in connection to the attempted bombing attack, although no claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
05/20/2008: On Tuesday night at 21:30, unknown militants attempted to burn down a development block office located in the constituency of the agriculture minister in Haorang Sabal village, Bishenpur district, Manipur province, India, however, firefighters with the help of local villagers managed to put out the fire. No casualties were reported and the building only sustained minor damage from the arson attack. No claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
07/25/2008: On Friday afternoon, a series of explosions erupted within 45 minutes in Bangalore's central business district, Karnataka province, India, killing three and wounding 20. The second of eight explosions, caused by improvised explosive devices fitted with timers, occurred in the Adugodi area near a commercial complex. No claim of responsibility was issued.
07/27/2008: On Sunday, unidentified militants killed a leader of the Bodo People's Front party at a poilce station in Kokrajhar. No claim of responsibility has been reported.
05/19/2008: On Monday at about midnight, in Khammam, Andhra Pradesh, India, assailants kidnapped one village head and three civilians from their villages.  On 05/20/2008, the bodies of the village headman and one civilian were recovered.  No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
11/09/2008: On Sunday, the Maharashtra police discovered seven crude bombs in a grass heap at Majargaon village in Jalna district. No group claimed responsibility for the attempted bombing.
07/26/2008: On Saturday evening at 19:38, a bicycle bomb exploded in an undisclosed location in the Maninagar area of Ahmedabad district, Gujarat province, India. This was the sixteenth of a series of 17 serial bomb blasts that took place within 70 minutes in various crowded places in Ahmedabad and killed a total of 56 civilians and injured 200 others. The bomb, which contained ammonium nitrate, ball bearings, a chemical powder, gelatin, plastic bags, cloth rags and a six volt Chinese-made battery attached to a timer device and stored inside a carton, was planted on an old bicycle. The blast was of higher intensity than the first 12 explosions and caused several nearby vehicles to catch fire. A lesser known group called Indian Mujahideen claimed responsibility for the Ahmedabad bombing attacks with a 14 page email manifesto sent to the media minutes before the first bomb blast. According to the Indian Mujahideen, the bombings were carried out to avenge the 2002 anti-Muslim violence in Gujarat. On 08/14/2008, a suspected activist of the Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), Mohammad Sajid Mansori, was arrested by police in Bharuch while on 08/16/2008, the leader of the SIMI movement, Abul Bashar Qasmi, admitted to his and to several other SIMI members’ involvement in connection with the serial bomb blasts after he was arrested by police in Uttar Pradesh. Six other senior SIMI members, in addition to eight locals, were also arrested, for a total of 16 individuals connected to the bombing attacks. Following the police investigation, authorities speculated that the Indian Mujahideen was just a front name for the SIMI group.
07/29/2008: On Tuesday, a NSCN-IM activist was killed by NSCN-K militants in Dimapur.
12/05/2008: On Friday afternoon, at about 1415, near Rahe Village, Bundu, Ranchi, Jharkhand, India, approximately 40 assailants ambushed and fired upon a police vehicle, killing five police officers and damaging the vehicle. The assailants stole the police officers' weapons after the attack. No group claimed responsibility, but authorities believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
05/10/2008: On Saturday night, at about 2200, in North Cachar Hills, Assam, India, 10 assailants fired upon workers at Migrain Bisu railway station, killing three railway construction workers and damaging the station. No group claimed responsibility, but it was widely believed the Dima Halim Daogah-Jewel Garlossa (DHD-J) was responsible.
05/15/2008: On Thursday night, Communist Party of India (Maoist) / Naxalites shot and killed Rajendra Sahu, a contractor and former cricketer of Gothalpadar village in the Rayagada district, Orissa province, India, for alleging that he was a police informer. No claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
03/08/2008: The Manipur state assembly secretariat was bombed, leaving no one hurt but leaving minor damages. Militants from the banned People's Revolutionary Party of Kangleipak, hurled a local-made bomb towards the main building.
04/24/2008: On Thursday afternoon, around 1730, in Dotma in Kokrajhar, India, unknown assailants shot and injured Bodoland People's Progessive Front (BPPF) Organizing Youth Cell, Rupam Brahma, outside his residence. No damage or motive were reported. Rabiram Narzary, leader of the BPPF has called for a 12-hour-long BTAD area bandh protesting the alleged attack on Brahma. No group claimed responsibility.
12/07/2008: On Sunday, unidentified assailants shot and killed Ganouri Turi, the former area commander of the Maoist Communist Centre of India (MCCI), in Khuddisar, Giridih, Jharkhand, India. No group claimed responsibility.
03/16/2008: Suspected ULFA exploded a bomb behind a hotel in the town of Gaurisagar located in Assam, India.
11/03/2008: On Monday, Mohammad Zuma Khan, the head of Irong Chesaba, was abducted by suspected militants from Thoubal Khekman and was later shot at and killed in Lilong Nungei of Thoubal district, Manipur, India. No group claimed responsibility for the abduction and killing.
11/22/2008: On Saturday, two drivers of the Manipur irrigation and flood control department, identified as Yumlembam Inaobi and Maibam Chaoba Singh, were abducted and killed by unidentified militants in the Lamlai area of Imphal East district in the state of Manipur. Their bodies were later found inside a vehicle. No group claimed responsibility for the kidnapping.
04/14/2008: On Monday night, nine bombs were hurled at a procession during the Hindu festival of Ramnavami at Pithoria block in Urguttu village of Jharkhand's Ranchi district, India. Though only three of the bombs exploded, sixteen people were injured in the blasts. No claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
06/22/2008: On Sunday, 70 Communist Party of India Maoists kidnapped Bhuvaneshwar Ganjhu, a suspected police informer, in Vashisth Nagar village, Chatra, Jharkhand, India. Ganjhu later had his throat slit along with another hostage outside the Jain Dharamsala middle school in Dantar village in Chatra. Maoists claimed responsibility for the attack by leaving a not at the scene.
06/20/2008: On Friday, Communist Party of India Maoists blew up railway tracks between Pokla and Bakaspur in Ranchi, Jharkhand, India. A goods train was derailed as a result of the blast. No casualties were reported.
07/27/2008: On Sunday evening, police found a second car bomb, a red Wagon-R, with four bombs inside it on the Varachha Road in Surat. No claim of responsibility has been reported.
08/23/2008: On Saturday, at 2000, suspected militants threw a bomb towards the residential complex of Congress MLA, K. Meghachandra, at Wangkhem, Imphal, Manipur, India. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility for the blast.
04/22/2008: On Tuesday, suspected Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants riding on a motorbike shot and killed Sridam Das, a leader of the ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M), in the Rajnagar area of Birbhum district, West Bengal province, India. No claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
11/12/2008: On Wednesday, a bomb attack wounded three civilians in the village of Ekadi in Guwahati in the Indian state of Assam. No group claimed responsibility.
06/29/2008: On Sunday night, in Pater Mangrama village, Gaya, Bihar, India, nearly 100 assailants used dynamite to blew up the house of a suspected police informant, Shivbachan Yadav, damaging the residence but causing no casualties. His brother, Bindeshwar Yadav, was also kidnapped in the attack. No group claimed responsibility, but it was widely believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist was responsible. The status of Yadav is unknown.
11/09/2008: On Sunday, two leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) were pulled from their vehicle, attacked with sharp-edged weapons killed by suspected militants of the Communist Party of India-Maoist when they were attending an election meeting at Badre Gudra village in Dantewada district. The killed leaders have been identified as Dantewada BJP district Vice-President Ramesh Rathore and BJP Kuakunda Block Divisional President Surya Prakash. The vehicles the BJP leaders travelled in were torched by the Maoists.
11/26/2008: On Wednesday night, after attacking the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus railway station, assailants Khan and Kasab opened fire on four policemen in their vehicle as they were approaching Cama Hospital near the Metro cinema.  As the vehicle entered the hospital premises, Khan and Kasab emerged from behind a tree and opened fire.  All but one, constable Sanjay Jadhav, died inside the car.  The three policemen killed were identified as Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) chief Hemant Karkare, additional commissioner of police Ashok Kamte and encounter cop Vijay Salaskar.  Khan and Kasab dumped the bodies and took the police car. Ultimately they encountered a Skoda police barricade at Girguam Chowpatty where Ismail Khan was killed and Mohammed Kasab was captured and received a bullet injury to the hand. The attack was one of eight coordinated attacks at various locations in Mumbai on 11/26/2008 to 11/29/2008 in which a total of 171 people were killed and 250 were wounded.  Deccan Mujahedeen, a previously unknown group, claimed responsibility for the attack. The claim has not been confirmed. Officials suspected Pakistan’s Lashkar-e-Tayyaba (LeT) were responsible for the attack, although a spokesman for the LeT denied its involvement.  Ajmal Kasab told authorities that the attack was a plan devised six months prior that hoped to kill 5,000 people, targeting whites who were preferably Americans or British. According to Kasab, the assailants posed as students during a visit to Mumbai during the previous month to familiarize themselves with the city’s roads and to film the “strike locations”. Kasab confessed to being a member of Lashkar-e-Tayyaba (LeT), belonging to the LeT’s Fidayeen (suicide squad).  He also identified the masterminds of the attack, who were detained after a raid on an LeT camp on 12/07/2008 and formally indicted on 05/12/2009 for their involvement in the attacks.  In May 2010, Kasab was convicted and sentenced to death for his role in the attacks.
03/24/2008: Four people were killed and two others injured when a group of suspected Black Widows militants opened fire in the Harangajao Railway station in southern Assam's North Cachar Hills district, India at around 8pm. The militants used AK 47 rifles to fire off 90 cases of bullets. Two grenade levers and one powerful bomb, which was defused later by the police, were also found after the incident. The militants intended to find the station master but were unable to. Therefore they fired at random civilians. The police also described that their possible motive was repercussion for the arrest of two of their Black Widow cadres.
07/25/2008: On Friday afternoon, a series of explosions erupted within 45 minutes in Bangalore's central business district, Karnataka province, India, killing three and wounding 20. The first of eight explosions, caused by improvised explosive devices fitted with timers, occurred at a bus stop. No claim of responsibility was issued for the incident.
11/29/2008: On Saturday, 14 people, including nine teenage boys and five village guards, were abducted in Purr village in Phek, Nagaland, India. No group claimed responsibility but the National Socialist Council of Nagaland-Khaplang (NSCN-K) is suspected. They were abducted for their subsequent conscription into the outfit and were allegedly taken to Thewati village along the Indo-Myanmar border. The five village guards were released but the teenagers are still being held captive. No casualties were reported.
07/26/2008: On Saturday evening after 18:40, a bicycle bomb exploded at a railway station in Ahmedabad district, Gujarat province, India. This was one of a series of 17 serial bomb blasts that took place within 70 minutes in various crowded places in Ahmedabad and killed a total of 56 civilians and injured 200 others. The bomb, which contained ammonium nitrate, ball bearings, a chemical powder, gelatin, plastic bags, cloth rags and a six volt Chinese-made battery attached to a timer device and stored inside a carton, was planted on an old bicycle. Even though the blast was of low intensity, it was enough to shatter the windowpanes of the Ahmedabad Municipal Transport Service buses in the vicinity. A lesser known group called Indian Mujahideen claimed responsibility for the Ahmedabad bombing attacks with a 14 page email manifesto sent to the media minutes before the first bomb blast. According to the Indian Mujahideen, the bombings were carried out to avenge the 2002 anti-Muslim violence in Gujarat. On 08/14/2008, a suspected activist of the Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), Mohammad Sajid Mansori, was arrested by police in Bharuch while on 08/16/2008, the leader of the SIMI movement, Abul Bashar Qasmi, admitted to his and to several other SIMI members’ involvement in connection with the serial bomb blasts after he was arrested by police in Uttar Pradesh. Six other senior SIMI members, in addition to eight locals, were also arrested, for a total of 16 individuals connected to the bombing attacks. Following the police investigation, authorities speculated that the Indian Mujahideen was just a front name for the SIMI group.
07/11/2008: On Friday morning, Communist Party of India (Maoist) / Naxalites detonated explosives destroying the Eastern Railway track between Narganjo and Ghorparan railway stations in Jamui district, Bihar province, India. The explosion severely disrupted the movement of trains on the Patna-Howrah route. The Maoists have given a call for a shutdown in five east Bihar districts - Jamui, Munger, Bhagalpur, Lakhisarai and Banka - to protest the arrest and alleged custodial torture of a self-styled ‘area commander’ Kamlesh alias Deepa on 07/06/2008. No casualties were reported from the incident.
04/27/2008: On Sunday evening, in Baramulla, Jammu and Kashmir, India, five people were injured when Hizbul Mujahideen militants hurled a grenade at main chowk Sopore. Five civilians and Special Police Officer (SPO) Javid Ahmad were injured in the attack. The injured were taken to a hospital for treatment. No group claimed responsibility.
06/26/2008: On Thursday, Communist Party of India Maoists destroyed two Bharti Airtel Ltd. mobile towers by setting them on fire in Gaya, Bihar, India. The militants blamed the network for revealing their movements to the police. The arson attack caused six others to be shut down in eastern India. No casualties were reported.
07/11/2008: On Friday, an improvised explosive device (IED) was recovered from a betel nut shop belonging to Dilip Mondal at Paglastan market in Bongaigaon, Assam province, India. Later, the Police and Army jointly defused the explosive. No casualties were reported and no claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
04/13/2008: On Sunday evening, six persons, including four security force (SF) personnel and two civilians, were killed in a bombing attack by about 100 suspected Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants at Jhajha railway station on the Patna-Howrah mainline in the Jamui district, Bihar province, India. Maoists first surrounded the Government Railway Police office on the platform and then opened indiscriminate fire before detonating explosives and blowing up the GRP office. Militants then looted arms and ammunition from the office. No claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
04/13/2008: On Sunday, suspected Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants killed three activists of the ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) in the Salboni area of West Midnapore district, West Bengal province, India. The killed individuals were among eight people supervising earth-digging work under the rural employment program when they were abducted by the Maoists. While five persons were later released, bodies of the three persons were recovered from a nearby forest. No claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
05/10/2008: On Saturday morning, at about 0945, in North Cachar Hills, Assam, India, assailants fired upon Wadrengdisa railway station, killing one railway employee and two civilians and damaging the station. No group claimed responsibility, but it was widely believed the Dima Halim Daogah-Jewel Garlossa (DHD-J) was responsible.
04/24/2008: On Thursday, in Imphal, Manipur, India, assailants detonated an improvised explosive device at the Babupara VIP colony near the Chief Minister's (CM) residence, wounding five civilians and damaging the residence. The Kangleipak Communist Party-Military Council (KCP-MC) claimed responsibility.
06/02/2008: On Monday, over a hundred Communist Party of India Maoist's blew up a portion of the office of Kharagpur sub-divisional officer A.K. Singh in Kharagpur, West Bengal, India. Dynamite was used in the blast, which destroyed property and records in the office.
11/26/2008: On Wednesday evening at about 2150 , two assailants threw a grenade inside the landmark Leopold Café and opened fire with a rifle.  At least 7 people were killed in the attack on the café.  Farhang Jehani and his brother, whose family have owned Cafe Leopold for decades, were both watching a cricket match on a TV in the upstairs bar when the gunmen lobbed the grenade inside. This is one of eight coordinated attacks occurring at various locations in Mumbai that killed a total of 171 people and wounded 250 over the course of three days. Deccan Mujahedeen, a previously unknown group, claimed responsibility for the attack. The claim has not been confirmed. Officials suspected Pakistan’s Lashkar-e-Tayyaba (LeT) were responsible for the attack, although a spokesman for the LeT denied its involvement.  Ajmal Kasab, an assailant captured on 11/26/2008, told authorities that the attack was a plan devised six months prior that hoped to kill 5,000 people, targeting whites who were preferably Americans or British. According to Kasab, the assailants posed as students during a visit to Mumbai during the previous month to familiarize themselves with the city’s roads and to film the “strike locations”. Kasab confessed to being a member of Lashkar-e-Tayyaba (LeT), belonging to the LeT’s Fidayeen (suicide squad).  He also identified the masterminds of the attack, who were detained after a raid on an LeT camp on 12/07/2008 and formally indicted on 05/12/2009 for their involvement in the attacks.  In May 2010, Kasab was convicted and sentenced to death for his role in the attacks.
11/09/2008: On Sunday, one militant of the Tritiya Prastuti Committee, identified as Srijan Chauhan, was shot dead by militants of the Communist Party of India-Maoist in the Palamau district of the Indian-state of Jharkhand.
9/6/2008: On Saturday, at about 1920, in Singjamei Mayengbam, Imphal West, Manipur, India, assailants detonated a bomb at the home of Liberty Shoe store owner Moirangthem Biren, damaging the home but causing no injuries. A lever of a Chinese hand-grenade was recovered from the site. No group claimed responsibility but the People's Revolutionary Party of Kangleipak is suspected.
04/20/2008: On Sunday, two unidentified motorcycle-borne militants threw a low intensity improvised explosive device outside Jharatiya Jana Party leader Ravindra Jaiswal's house in Khowja, Haryana, India. The attack caused partial damage to the boundary wall of the house but no casualties were reported. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
09/28/2008: On Sunday evening at 2040, unknown assailants detonated a low-intensity explosive device at the Baliguda town relief camp in Baliguda town, Kandhamal, Orissa province, India. This was one of three serial bomb attacks targeting relief camps in Kandhamal. No casualties or property damage was reported from the blast and no claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
07/27/2008: On Sunday, a NSCN-K militant and a civilian were abducted by NSCN-IM militants.
06/05/2008: On Thursday, an Assam Rifles personnel was killed when an IED planted by unknown militants exploded at Ralugat village in Chandel, Manipur, India. No group claimed responsibility for the blast.
07/26/2008: On Saturday evening after 18:40, a bicycle bomb exploded at a bus station in Ahmedabad district, Gujarat province, India. This was one of a series of 17 serial bomb blasts that took place within 70 minutes in various crowded places in Ahmedabad and killed a total of 56 civilians and injured 200 others. The bomb, which contained ammonium nitrate, ball bearings, a chemical powder, gelatin, plastic bags, cloth rags and a six volt Chinese-made battery attached to a timer device and stored inside a carton, was planted on an old bicycle. Even though the blast was of low intensity, it was enough to shatter the windowpanes of the Ahmedabad Municipal Transport Service buses in the vicinity. A lesser known group called Indian Mujahideen claimed responsibility for the Ahmedabad bombing attacks with a 14 page email manifesto sent to the media minutes before the first bomb blast. According to the Indian Mujahideen, the bombings were carried out to avenge the 2002 anti-Muslim violence in Gujarat. On 08/14/2008, a suspected activist of the Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), Mohammad Sajid Mansori, was arrested by police in Bharuch while on 08/16/2008, the leader of the SIMI movement, Abul Bashar Qasmi, admitted to his and to several other SIMI members’ involvement in connection with the serial bomb blasts after he was arrested by police in Uttar Pradesh. Six other senior SIMI members, in addition to eight locals, were also arrested, for a total of 16 individuals connected to the bombing attacks. Following the police investigation, authorities speculated that the Indian Mujahideen was just a front name for the SIMI group.
04/20/2008: On Sunday, 20 Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants hacked to death two members of Salwa Judum, an anti-Maoist civilian resistance movement backed by the government, with sharp-edged weapons after abducting them earlier in the day in the Gayatapara village of Bijapur district, Chhattisgarh province, India. No claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
08/11/2008: On Monday morning around 0530, in Bongaigaon, Assam, India, assailants threw a grenade at the office of the District Superintendent of Police, damaging the building but causing no casualties. No group claimed responsibility, but authorities believed the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) was responsible.
08/27/2008: Wednesday, National Socialist Council of Nagaland-Isak-Muivah militants attacked a combined force of the National Socialist Council of Nagaland-Khaplang and Black Widow (BW) militants between Jalukie and Phaijaing in the Peren district. No casualties were reported.
03/19/2008: Islamic militant group Al-Madina [LeT Front] detonated an improvised explosive device on a flyover bridge inside an abandoned police post injuring 24 people in Srinagar, India.
09/13/2008: On Saturday evening, between 1815 and 1838, at least 21 Indian Mujahideen (IM) insurgents detonated five improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in crowded markets and tourist areas in New Delhi, Delhi province, India. The bomb blasts killed a total 24 civilians, wounded at least 63 others and damaged several shops and vehicles and one subway station. The fourth explosion occurred at M Block of Greater Kailash-1 Market, however no casualties were reported. Authorities later found and safely defused four more IEDs planted by IM insurgents in New Delhi. The Indian Mujahideen claimed responsibility for the incident although Indian police stated that the serial bombings were perpetrated by the IM and the Students of Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), with support from Lashkar-e-Tayyiba (LeT). On 09/19/2008 on Friday, police arrested one suspected perpetrator, killed two in a gunfight while two others who were also suspected of carrying out the attacks managed to escape. Several months later on 04/22/2009 on Wednesday, a court in Delhi issued non-bailable warrants against 16 suspected IM militants, including its founder Amir Raza Khan, for their involvement in the serial bombing attacks.
05/22/2008: On Thursday, People's United Liberation Front (PULF) militants placed a bomb in the shop of P. Pishak in the neighborhood of Keithel Thongkhong in Yairipok district, Manipur province, India. No casualties were reported. The bombing attack was carried out for extortion purposes as a press release issued on 05/23/2008 on Friday by the group's publicity cell secretary Saroz Khan reported in claiming responsibility for the incident.
08/05/2008: On Tuesday, Kattam Bala and his son, Kattam Ankanti, were killed by suspected Communist Party of India - Maoist's in Kotapalli village of Bijapur, Chhattisgarh, India. The two were killed for allegedly being police informers.
05/09/2008: On Friday afternoon at 12:10, two Kangleipak Communist Party (KCP) militants riding a red Tata Magic van delivered a package containing a Chinese made hand grenade packed in paper to the Robert English School at Canchipur in the Imphal West district, Manipur province, India. Upon delivering the bomb, the militants told the school receptionists that the package was a "gift" from the KPC to the school principal. Police then defused the explosive device preventing any loss of life or injuries.
07/29/2008: On Tuesday, militants attacked the house of the Block President of PDP at Dialgam in south Kashmir district of Anantang with automatic weapons. No casualties were reported. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
12/06/2008: On Saturday, Indian police identified and defused an improvised explosive device emplaced by unidentified militants near a government office in Diphu, Assam, India. No casualties or damages resulted from the attempted bombing.
06/11/2008: On Wednesday, at 2300, about 15 Communist Party of India Maoists, armed with firearms, attacked the office of Viswagrama Chetana Samaj at Anlapada village under Ghasipura block in Keonjhar, Orissa, India. The Maoists set fire to almost all of the documents and a tea stall next to the office. No casualties were reported.
12/04/2008: On Thursday, in Ekratola Village, Vidarbha, Gadchiroli, Maharashtra, India, about 25 assailants assaulted and killed one civilian. Militants dragged Santosh Chamaru Kumoti out of his home and slit his throat with a sharp weapon. No group claimed responsibility, but authorities believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible. Kumoti was killed for allegedly being a police informant.
12/22/2008: On Monday, in Samurou Naorem Leikai, Wangoi, Imphal West, Manipur, India, a teacher, Moirangthem Ibocha, was shot and killed by suspected militants. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
09/13/2008: On Saturday evening, between 1815 and 1838, at least 21 Indian Mujahideen (IM) insurgents detonated five improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in crowded markets and tourist areas in New Delhi, Delhi province, India. The bomb blasts killed a total 24 civilians, wounded at least 63 others and damaged several shops and vehicles and one subway station. The second explosion occurred at a subway terminal at Connaught Place killing six civilians, wounding 12 others and damaging the subway station. Authorities later found and safely defused four more IEDs planted by IM insurgents in New Delhi. The Indian Mujahideen claimed responsibility for the incident although Indian police stated that the serial bombings were perpetrated by the IM and the Students of Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), with support from Lashkar-e-Tayyiba (LeT). On 09/19/2008 on Friday, police arrested one suspected perpetrator, killed two in a gunfight while two others who were also suspected of carrying out the attacks managed to escape. Several months later on 04/22/2009 on Wednesday, a court in Delhi issued non-bailable warrants against 16 suspected IM militants, including its founder Amir Raza Khan, for their involvement in the serial bombing attacks.
09/14/2008: On Sunday, assailants threw a grenade at the home of a Member of the Legislative Assembly in Nehru Marg, Churachandpur, Manipur, India. The home was damaged but caused no injuries. No group claimed responsibility.
07/11/2008: On Friday morning, in Lhotovi village, Dimapur, Nagaland, India, two armed groups fired upon each other, killing one civilian in the crossfire.No group claimed responsibility, but authorities believed the National Socialist Council of Nagaland-Isak-Muivah (NSCN-IM) and the National Socialist Council of Nagaland-Khaplang (NSCN-K) were responsible.
06/27/2008: On Friday evening, at about 1915, in Nagaon, Assam, India, assailants detonated a bomb near Haibargaon Railway station, wounding eight civilians. No group claimed responsibility, but it was widely believed the United Liberation Front of Assam was responsible.
11/05/2008: On Wednesday, three suspected Communist Party of India-Maoist militants killed a tribal Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh activist, Dhanu Pradhan, in his village at Kumbharigaon under the Bramhanigaon police station in Kandhamal district of Orissa, India.They used pistols in the attack. No group claimed responsibility.
06/22/2008: On Sunday, at 2030, 70 Communist Party of India Maoists kidnapped Pankaj Singh, a suspected police informer, in Jhagartari village in Chatra, Jharkhand, India. Singh was killed with a sharp-edged weapon for being a suspected police informer.
04/30/2008: On Wednesday, near Madhuban, Giridih, Jharkhand, India, approximately 20 assailants detonated explosives in a government building undergoing construction, damaging the building but causing no casualties. According to police, the rebels asked the people sleeping inside the building to vacate it and later blew it up using explosives. Communist Party of India-Maoists left behind pamphlets near the incident site claiming responsibility for the incident.
08/15/2008: On Friday, unidentified militants set a bomb off that was planted on a mango tree just behind the Guaripur parade ground in the Dhubri district, Assam, India. No casualties were reported. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
08/14/2008: On Thursday, a bomb made with batteries, flexible wires and detonators was planted at Parokhowa market by suspected Karbi Longri North Cachar Liberation Front militants in Karbi Anglong, Assam, India. The bomb was recovered before it could explode.
11/14/2008: On Friday, a landmine explosion wounded a police officer in the Chintalnar area of the Dantewada district in Chhattisgarh, India.  No other casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility for the attack.
05/06/2008: On Tuesday evening, unidentified militants detonated a bomb at the residence of Apam Shimray, a contractor, damaging his house at Ferrylane in the Imphal East district, Manipur province, India. No casualties were reported and no claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
08/17/2008: On Sunday, at 1830, a forest official, Sorvendra Johri, was killed and a school guard, Firoze Thausan, was injured during a shootout between militants of the Black Widow and Dima Halim Daoga at Doyangmukh in the North Cachar Hills, Assam, India.
07/03/2008: On Thursday, Communist Party of India (Maoist) / Naxalites blew up a community building in Pipra village, Palamau district, Jharkhand province, India.  No casualties were reported from the bombing attack and no claim of responsibility was made for either incident.
11/24/2008: On Monday, Maoists fired at a polling booth at Pordem under Konta Assembly constituency in the Bastar district, Chhattisgarh, India. No casualties were reported. No group claimed responsibility, but authorities believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
11/15/2008: On Saturday, approximately 50 Naxalites kidnapped three civilians from their homes at Kharik Maheshwari village under the Sono police station of Jamui, Bihar, India. The villagers, identified as Madan Singh, Chhote Lal Singh and Mahesh Singh, had their throats slit and their bodies found on 11/16/2008. The extremists had demanded a levy from them three months prior to the attack but they did not comply with the demands.
09/01/2008: On Monday, People's Revolutionary Party of Kangleipak (PREPAK) militants attacked the residence of a Chief Minister in Imphal, with a lethod bomb that exploded inside the residence compound. PREPAK claimed responsibility for the attack saying that it was a warning to the Chief Minister to rectify his misdeeds. No casualties were reported.
05/22/2008: On Thursday evening at 20:55, unidentified militants using a double barrel gun shot at and wounded two individuals, a youth, Mohammed Minhasuddin, serving as a driver for the Assam Rifles Military Battalion, and his younger brother, identified as Mohammed Jamiara Khan, in the Samrurou Awang Leikai neighborhood near a bridge at Mayai Lambi of West Imphall district, Manipur province, India. No claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
04/22/2008: On Tuesday, 11 people privately contracted for construction work in the Koderma-Hazaribagh railway line were assaulted by the 50 militants of the Jharkhand Liberation Tigers (JLT) at Mahagona in the Hazaribagh district, Jharkhand province, India. The JLT militants also destroyed the construction material and set ablaze the compressor machine and road rollers. The ultras had demanded levy from the construction company. No claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
11/16/2008: On Sunday morning at 0700, eight Central Reserved Police Force constables, including Prahlad Paswan, Subodh Kumar and Gajendra Kumar, were injured when Naxals tried to detonate the vehicle, triggering a landmine, and opened fire on the police between the district's of Gumridih and Kodegaon in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh. The constables were returning from Pakhanjur to Raipur after discharging their poll duties.
12/07/2008: On Sunday, suspected militants of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) opened fire on a police patrol in Chowka, Chandil, Seraikela-Kharsawan, Jharkland, India. No casualties were reported. No group claimed responsibility.
05/08/2008: On Thursday, three policemen were killed when suspected Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants triggered a landmine blast and opened fire at police near Chhindpal village in Kanker, Chhattisgarh, India. An estimated 150 Maoists were present when a police party comprising 26 personnel were visiting the site to clear a tree felled by the Maoists to block the road. No group claimed responsibility.
11/03/2008: On Monday night at 0530, a group a six Karbi Longri National Liberation Front extremists shot and killed three Hindi-speaking traders in Sukanguri village, under Samoguri police station, in the Nagaon district of Assam, India. The three victims were identified as Jogeswar Shah, 60, and his son Mahesh, 27, and Paban Sharma, 27. No group claimed responsibility.
07/10/2008: On Thursday in Handwara, Kupwara, Jammu and Kashmir, India,  two assailants threw a grenade at police during a party at the police station. The attack killed the Head constable and injured another police officer. No group claimed responsibility. The militants were also killed during a search operation later that day.
12/08/2008: On Monday morning, at 0800, unidentified persons suspected to be militants exploded a bomb at the office complex of Tata Motors at Ghari Lamhang, Imphal, Manipur, India. However, there were no reports of any casualties although some damage was caused to some portions of the office building. No claim of responsibility was made.
08/14/2008: On Thursday, a bomb was recovered and defused at Pathsala in Barpeta, Assam, India. No group claimed responsibility for the attempted bombing.
10/21/2008: On Tuesday, a live Chinese grenade was recovered and defused at Manglogi in the Ramban district of the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. No group claimed responsibility for the bomb.
11/22/2008: On Saturday, troops recovered an explosive device from the weekly market near Solmari in the Kamrup district. The bomb was planted inside a culvert of the Irrigation Department storehouse. No group claimed responsibility for the attempted bombing.
07/26/2008: On Saturday evening after 18:40, a bicycle bomb exploded at a crowded bazaar in Ahmedabad district, Gujarat province, India. This was one of a series of 17 serial bomb blasts that took place within 70 minutes in various crowded places in Ahmedabad and killed a total of 56 civilians and injured 200 others. The bomb, which contained ammonium nitrate, ball bearings, a chemical powder, gelatin, plastic bags, cloth rags and a six volt Chinese-made battery attached to a timer device and stored inside a carton, was planted on an old bicycle. Even though the blast was of low intensity, it was enough to shatter the windowpanes of the Ahmedabad Municipal Transport Service buses in the vicinity. A lesser known group called Indian Mujahideen claimed responsibility for the Ahmedabad bombing attacks with a 14 page email manifesto sent to the media minutes before the first bomb blast. According to the Indian Mujahideen, the bombings were carried out to avenge the 2002 anti-Muslim violence in Gujarat. On 08/14/2008, a suspected activist of the Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), Mohammad Sajid Mansori, was arrested by police in Bharuch while on 08/16/2008, the leader of the SIMI movement, Abul Bashar Qasmi, admitted to his and to several other SIMI members’ involvement in connection with the serial bomb blasts after he was arrested by police in Uttar Pradesh. Six other senior SIMI members, in addition to eight locals, were also arrested, for a total of 16 individuals connected to the bombing attacks. Following the police investigation, authorities speculated that the Indian Mujahideen was just a front name for the SIMI group.
08/02/2008: On Saturday evening at 1920, Md Asarab Ali, a businessman, was injured when a bomb exploded in the kitchen of his house in Yairipok, Manipur province, India. The next day on 08/03/2008 on Sunday, People's United Liberation Front (PULF) militants claimed responsibility for the incident, although no reason was given for why the attack was carried out.
11/20/2008: On Thursday, unidentified militants opened fire on former state Chief Minister Ajit Jogi's vehicle in the Bilaspur district of the Indian state of Chhattisgarh. No group claimed responsibility for the attack and no casualties were reported.
06/11/2008: On Wednesday night at about 0120, in Nartiang village, Jaintia Hills, Meghalaya, India, assailants detonated a bomb near the living quarters of the Durga temple, wounding two civilians and two children and damaging the living quarters. No group claimed responsibility.
05/26/2008: On Monday, Prabir Mohanty, the district secretary of Biju Janata Dal party (BJD), was abducted by gunpoint by three armed Communist Party of India (Maoist)-Naxalites from MV-79 village in Malkangiri district, Orissa province, India. On 05/27/2008 on Tuesday, Mohanty was gunned down by the Maoist rebels in a forest in Malkangiri district, Orissa province, India. On 05/30/2008 on Friday, Maoists claimed responsibility for the abduction attack and threatened to kill the remaining family members of Mohanty.
04/30/2008: On Wednesday, in Malkangiri, Orissa, India, assailants assaulted and killed one civilian. Sources reported that the Maoists tortured the man brutally and slit his throat with a sharp weapon. The body was discovered in the middle of the road between Badijhata village and MV-70 village. The Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) claimed responsibility. A letter left near the body described the victim as a police informer and identified the victim as Bhaskar of Bhadrachallam.
11/26/2008: On Wednesday night, two assailants attacked a Jewish community center in Nariman house in Colaba in a series of eight coordinated attacks at various locations in Mumbai on 11/26/2008 to 11/29/2008 in which a total of 171 people were killed and 250 were wounded. The two assailants who attacked the Jewish community centre in Nariman house in the Colaba area were identified as Nasir alias Abu Umar from Faisalabad and Babar Imran alias Abu Akasha from Multan. At the Jewish center, perpetrators took hostage Rabbi Gavriel Noach Holtzberg; Holtsberg's wife, Rivka; and four other visitors to the center.  The Holtzbergs' 2-year-old son, Moshe, was whisked out of the building by his nanny and another worker.  A passerby was killed when the two attackers stepped out on the balcony and opened fire on an alley nearby. All six hostages were discovered dead when officials stormed the Jewish center after two days of the siege.   Deccan Mujahedeen, a previously unknown group, claimed responsibility for the attack. The claim has not been confirmed. Officials suspected Pakistan’s Lashkar-e-Tayyaba (LeT) were responsible for the attack, although a spokesman for the LeT denied its involvement.  Ajmal Kasab, an assailant captured on 11/26/2008, told authorities that the attack was a plan devised six months prior that hoped to kill 5,000 people, targeting whites who were preferably Americans or British. According to Kasab, the assailants posed as students during a visit to Mumbai during the previous month to familiarize themselves with the city’s roads and to film the “strike locations”. Kasab confessed to being a member of Lashkar-e-Tayyaba (LeT), belonging to the LeT’s Fidayeen (suicide squad).  He also identified the masterminds of the attack, who were detained after a raid on an LeT camp on 12/07/2008 and formally indicted on 05/12/2009 for their involvement in the attacks.  In May 2010, Kasab was convicted and sentenced to death for his role in the attacks.
10/23/2008: On Thursday, three Hizbul Mujahedeen militants opened fire on a village-level self governing institution meeting going on in the house of a teacher in the Babariwala village in the Haddal area of Doda district, Jammu and Kashmir, India. One militant, a village headman and a civilian, identified as Hashim Din, were killed during the attack. Two of the militants, one of whom was identified as Mohd Yasir, fled from the scene. No claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
12/21/2008: On Sunday evening, at 1745, in Imphal, Manipur, India,  a hand grenade was detonated by suspected militants at the southeastern side of the Governor's House complex, Raj Bhavan. No casualties or damages were reported. The Lanheiba Meitei group of the Military Council faction of the Kangleipak Communist Party (KCP) subsequently claimed responsibility for the attack.
09/11/2008: On Thursday, at about 2100 hrs, in Keishamthong Hodam Leirak, Imphal West, Manipur, India, assailants fired upon the residence of an assistant agriculture officer, Meisnam Norendro, causing no injuries or damage.  No group claimed responsibility.
07/12/2008: On Saturday, in Mandu, Bastar, Chhattisgarh, India, assailants attacked a market, killing one police officer and one civilian; wounding one police officer and one civilian; and damaging the market.  The assailants also looted one rifle from the police officers.  No group claimed responsibility, but it was widely believed a Maoist faction was responsible.
07/25/2008: On Friday afternoon, a series of explosions erupted within 45 minutes in Bangalore's central business district, Karnataka province, India, killing three and wounding 20. The sixth of eight explosions, caused by improvised explosive devices fitted with timers, occurred along Mysore Road near a car showroom. No claim of responsibility was issued.
06/05/2008: On Thursday, at 0700, Communist Party of India Maoists blasted a high tension 220-KV power supply tower in Barsur, Dantewada, Chhattisgarh, India. No casualties were reported.
05/21/2008: On Wednesday morning at 05:00, suspected militants exploded two LPG gas cylinders after opening the valves at the gate of the residence of Manipur Agriculture Minister, N. Loken, in Leimapokpam village of Bishenpur district, Manipur province, India. As the minister was not at home during the arson attack, no casualties were reported, and the residence only sustained minor damage before authorities put out the fire. No claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
10/30/2008: On Thursday, Black Widow militants shot and killed a leading member of the Dima Halom Daoga (DHD), identified as Naikhlai Dimasa, at his private residence in Doyangbra in the North Cachar Hills district of the Indian state of Assam. No group claimed responsibility, though the Black Widows were believed to be responsible.
05/06/2008: On Tuesday, in Tetrai village, Dantewara, Chhattisgarh, India, assailants set fire to 39 huts belonging to members of Salwa Judum, an anti-Maoist group, destroying the huts but causing no injuries. No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist was responsible.
12/08/2008: On Monday, unidentified militants shot an injured a body guard of the independent candidate, Shiraz Ahmed, in Dessa, Doda, Jammu and Kashmir, India. No group claimed responsibility.
10/03/2008: On Friday, a powerful bomb planted by unknown assailants was discovered and safely defused by security forces during a routine check on a private bus in Lakhinagar district, Assam province, India. Six suspects were detained by police for questioning. No casualties took place as the bomb did not detonate and no claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
09/28/2008: On Sunday evening at 1940, unknown assailants detonated a low-intensity explosive device at the Nuagaon town relief camp in Nuagaon town, Kandhamal, Orissa province, India. This was one of three serial bomb attacks targeting relief camps in Kandhamal. No casualties or property damage was reported from the blast and no claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
04/08/2008: On Tuesday, two truck drivers were abducted by the People’s Revolutionary Party of Kangleipak (PREPAK) in Paorabi Huidrom village, Imphal district, Manipur province, India. A ransom demand of INR 1,000,000 (U.S. $25,020.77) was made in exchange for the hostages.. No claim of responsibility was made for the incident. On 04/09/2008 on Wednesday, police rescued the two truck drivers being held hostage in Lamlong in east Imphal. No casualties were reported.
07/25/2008: On Friday afternoon, a series of explosions erupted within 45 minutes in Bangalore's central business district, Karnataka province, India, killing three and wounding 20. The fifth of eight explosions, caused by improvised explosive devices fitted with timers, occurred along the Mysore Road near a storm drain. No claim of responsibility was issued.
06/21/2008: On Saturday, four suspected militants tried to kidnap Pranab Jyoti Deka, the son of the Dharamjuli Tea Estate's shopkeeper, in Udalguri, Assam, India. The militants hurled a hand grenade at the shop when people tried to stop them. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
08/13/2008: On Wednesday, suspected Lashkar-e-Tayyiba militants tortured and killed Bashir Ahmed, a former village head, at his house in Pasna in Kishtwar, Jammu and Kashmir, India.
12/21/2008: On Sunday, in Salkodihi village, Keonjhar, Orissa, India,  30 members of the Communist Party of India-Maoist raided the house of Saluka Hembram, a former Sarpanch (president of village) and killed him. Maoist leaflets were left at the scene. No damages were reported.
08/16/2008: On Saturday, a  leader of the ruling Congress party, Ibrahim Ali Laskar, was shot dead by unidentified militants at Harishnagar village in Hailakandi, India. No claim of responsibility has been reported.
01/01/2008: In Burdwan a group of assailants, suspected of having connections with the Maoists, killed the 52-year-old Sisir Chatterjee, a CPI-M zonal committee member, in the Mangalkot area.
06/11/2008: On Wednesday, at 2300, about 15 Communist Party of India Maoists, armed with firearms, attacked the office of Viswagrama Chetana Samaj at Anlapada village under Ghasipura block in Keonjhar, Orissa, India. More than 10 people were injured in the attack. The Maoists then set fire to documents and a tea stall.
06/23/2008: On Monday, former Bodo Liberation Tigers militants shot dead Lakshman Boro, the vice-president of the Bodo Santi Mancha, at his residence in Bagulamari village in Baksa, Assam, India.
10/30/2008: On Thursday evening at 1700, Black Widow militants killed at least seven police personnel at Langlai near Thujuari of North Cachar Hills district in Assam, India. Three militants were also killed in retaliatory firing. Haflong police sources said that the militants opened fire on the police party who were carrying the body of a Dima Halim Daogah (DHD) leader, Naklai Dimasa, who was killed by the militants on 10/29/2008, from Haflong Civil Hospital to Diyongmukh. Out of the seven slain police personnel, four were constables in the 8th Battalion of Assam Police, two were from the District Armed Branch and one from the Home Guard. No group claimed responsibility, though the Black Widow militants were believed to be responsible. Dinob Dimasa, spokesman of Black Widow, denied any involvement on behalf of the group.
06/22/2008: On Sunday, Nemichand Jain, the caretaker of the Jain Dharamsala middle school, was beatn up by 70 Communist Party of India Maoists in Dantar village in Chatra, Jharkhand, India. The school was later bombed and two hostages were killed there.
11/26/2008: On Wednesday night two gunmen attacked the Oberoi-Trident hotel complex. This is one of eight coordinated attacks occurring at various locations in Mumbai  that killed a total of 171 people and wounded 250 over the course of three days.  In the attack on the Oberoi-Trident hotel complex, two gunmen identified by Police official Maria as Abdul Rehman alias Abdul Rehman Chhota from Multan and Fahadullah alias Abu Fahad from Okara, took over 143 people hostage and killed at least 32 people. Among those killed in the attack were 10 staff members and 22 hotel guests.  Victims reported that a gunman had ushered 30 or 40 people from the restaurant into a stairway and, speaking in Hindi or Urdu, ordered them to put up their hands. Another gunman was reportedly firing indiscriminately around the room. Deccan Mujahedeen, a previously unknown group, claimed responsibility for the attack. The claim has not been confirmed. Officials suspected Pakistan’s Lashkar-e-Tayyaba (LeT) were responsible for the attack, although a spokesman for the LeT denied its involvement.  Ajmal Kasab, an assailant captured on 11/26/2008, told authorities that the attack was a plan devised six months prior that hoped to kill 5,000 people, targeting whites who were preferably Americans or British. According to Kasab, the assailants posed as students during a visit to Mumbai during the previous month to familiarize themselves with the city’s roads and to film the “strike locations”. Kasab confessed to being a member of Lashkar-e-Tayyaba (LeT), belonging to the LeT’s Fidayeen (suicide squad).  He also identified the masterminds of the attack, who were detained after a raid on an LeT camp on 12/07/2008 and formally indicted on 05/12/2009 for their involvement in the attacks.  In May 2010, Kasab was convicted and sentenced to death for his role in the attacks.
10/12/2008: On Sunday night, a girl was wounded when unknown militants opened fire at the residence of Dr. Takhellam-bam Yumjaobabu , a surgical doctor at the local RIMS Hospital, in the Kwakeithel Mayai Koibi Ningthoujam Leikai area of Imphal, Manipur province, India. No claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
07/31/2008: On Thursday, two militants opened fire on some India Reserve Battalion troopers at Kwakeithel bazaar in Imphal. No claim of responsibility has been reported.
11/26/2008: On Wednesday night, two gunmen, Ismail Khan and Mohammed Ajmal Amir alias Mohammad Ajmal Kasab, entered the platforms of the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus or the Victoria Terminus railway station and began firing indiscriminately, killing 58 people including three policemen. The attack was one of eight coordinated attacks at various locations in Mumbai on 11/26/2008 to 11/29/2008 in which a total of 171 people were killed and 250 were wounded. After attacking CST, the two assailants moved on to carry out a second attack at a hospital.  Ultimately Khan and Kasab encountered a Skoda police barricade at Girguam Chowpatty in which Ismail Khan was killed and Mohammed Kasab was captured and received a bullet injury to the hand. Deccan Mujahedeen, a previously unknown group, claimed responsibility for the attack. The claim has not been confirmed. Officials suspected Pakistan’s Lashkar-e-Tayyaba (LeT) were responsible for the attack, although a spokesman for the LeT denied its involvement.  Ajmal Kasab told authorities that the attack was a plan devised six months prior that hoped to kill 5,000 people, targeting whites who were preferably Americans or British. According to Kasab, the assailants posed as students during a visit to Mumbai during the previous month to familiarize themselves with the city’s roads and to film the “strike locations”. Kasab confessed to being a member of Lashkar-e-Tayyaba (LeT), belonging to the LeT’s Fidayeen (suicide squad).  He also identified the masterminds of the attack, who were detained after a raid on an LeT camp on 12/07/2008 and formally indicted on 05/12/2009 for their involvement in the attacks.  In May 2010, Kasab was convicted and sentenced to death for his role in the attacks.
08/15/2008: On Friday, Suspected United Liberation Front of Assam militants lobbed a grenade near the parade venue at Kajalgaon in the Chirang district of Bongaigaon. No casualties were reported in the attack.
07/29/2008: On Tuesday, a bomb was placed in the Katargam area in Surat, but police found and defused it before it detonated. No casualties were reported. No claim of responsibility has been reported.
07/05/2008: On Saturday, suspected Communist Party of India (Maoist) / Naxalites blew up a district government office on Chitriya block in East Champaran district, Bihar province, India. Police authorities claim the attack was carried out to create panic among local administrative officials and villagers. No casualties were reported and no claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
04/10/2008: On Thursday, suspected Karbi Longri North Cachar Liberation Front (KLNLF) militants detonated a bicycle bomb that injured 35 people at a busy weekly market on Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Road in Howraghat in the Indian district of Karbi Anglong, Assam province, India. No damage was reported and no claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
06/19/2008: On Thursday, Ghulam Mohiudin Malik was injured when a shell exploded in his house in Budgam, Jammu and Kashmir, India. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
12/22/2008: On Monday, in Berada, Purulia, West Bengal, India,  two police constables, identified as Totan Seth and Chinmoiy Mondal, were killed by 20 suspected Communist Party of India-Maoist members at a police camp. One officer, Nirmal pandey, was injured in the attack. The Maoists escaped with three rifles. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
06/20/2008: On Friday, a People's Revolutionary Party of Kangleipak militant shot and wounded a Manipur Public Works Department engineer, B. Kunjeshwar Wangkhei, in Imphal East, Manipur, India.
10/07/2008: On Tuesday, suspected male militants threw a hand grenade at the gate of the residence of Yumnam Chaoba Singh, an assistant engineer of Thoubal Electricity Department, in Thangmeiband Meisnam Leikai district of Imphal, Manipur province, India. The attempted bombing caused no casualties or damage as the device failed to detonate. No claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
10/08/2008: On Wednesday evening at 2045, suspected United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) militants detonated a bomb in a Durga Puja pandal Hindu festival site near the Japorigog area of Guwahati, Assam province, India. The bomb blast critically wounded five civilians and one Central Reserve Police Force officer when the blast created a stampede like situation in and around the area. Police reported that the bomb, which was planted in a bag, was of low intensity. No claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
08/02/2008: On Saturday, unidentified militants kidnapped Abdul Rashid from his house in Gool, Ramban district, Jammu and Kashmir province, India. Later that day, Rashid’s body was discovered with his throat slit in a field not far from his residence. No claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
03/29/2008: Suspected Maoist rebels burned alive a young man after tying him to a tree with an iron chain in the Angul district or Orissa, India.
07/05/2008: On Saturday night, in Latehar, Jharkhand, India, assailants kidnapped two civilians suspected of being police informants. The Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) claimed responsibility via pamphlet.
11/11/2008: On Tuesday afternoon at 1430, the Indian army recovered a 3 kilogram live bomb from Mazbat weekly market in the Udalguri district. No group claimed responsibility for the attempted bombing.
06/21/2008: On Saturday, four suspected militants hurled a hand grenade at the Dharamjuli Tea Estate after attempting to kidnap the son of the shopkeeper in Udalguri, Assam, India. The blast killed one woman, identified as Bharati Koya, and injured another woman. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
06/13/2008: On Friday, suspected Kanglei Yawol Kanna Lup militants abducted Laishram Ibelei, a womani meira paibi leader, in Imphal, Manipur, India. Ibelei was abandoned after the militants shot her in the left calf on the evening of 06/15/2008.
08/05/2008: On Tuesday, Ahmed Itoo, a Lashkar-e-Tayyiba militant, attempted to throw a Chinese grenade at a temple in Doda, Jammu and Kashmir, India.
12/26/2008: On Friday, in Marwah, Kishtwar, Jammu and Kashmir, India, a surrendered militant, Talib Hussain, was shot and killed by suspected militants. Hussain was taken from Satarwagon and killed in the adjacent forest area. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
10/10/2008: On Friday, at least eight people, including the vice-chairman of Kuarmunda block, Shyam Sundar Sahu, were injured when two suspected Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI) militants attacked them by hurling bombs at villagers in Raibaga district, Orissa province, India. The incident took place when the block vice-chairman and other villagers questioned the two motorcycle-borne youths on their suspicious activities. No claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
07/20/2008: On Sunday afternoon, at about 1700, in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India, assailants threw a grenade at a parked tourist bus at Gulmarg resort, killing one child, one civilian, and wounding five civilians.  No group claimed responsibility.
09/16/2008: On Tuesday early in the morning, two civilian villagers were wounded when suspected Communist Party of India (Maoist) / Naxalites fired indiscriminately upon villagers in Barahtad village, Banka, Bihar, India. No claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
07/25/2008: On Friday afternoon, a series of explosions erupted within 45 minutes in Bangalore's central business district, Karnataka province, India, killing three and wounding 20. The eighth of eight explosions, caused by improvised explosive devices fitted with timers, occurred near the Rashtriya Military School on the Langford Road. No claim of responsibility was issued for the attack.
05/22/2008: On Thursday, unidentified militants in army uniforms shot a man, Shamas Din, dead at Lal Pani Forest near Muthi, in Doda district of Jammu and Kashmir, India. No claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
06/15/2008: On Sunday, 50 armed militants of the Communist Party of India - Maoist's raided a work site of the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojna and set fire to road construction machinery near Barki Murhai village in Jehanabad, Bihar, India. They left a note behind saying that the site was attacked for not making extortion payment. No casualties were reported.
04/19/2008: On Saturday, suspected Communist Party of India - Maoists killed the village head of Urubali, Raba Suba, in Malkangiri, Orissa, India. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
05/27/2008: On Tuesday night, a  Border Roads Organization driver, Surendra Paul, who engaged in the construction work of National Highway-62, was shot dead by four United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) militants who were following him in another vehicle near Dudhnoi on National Highway-62 in the Goalpara district, Assam province, India. Two passengers riding with Paul managed to escape unhurt. No claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
06/21/2008: On Saturday in Doda, Jammu, India, security forces have recovered a 20 kilogram improvised explosive device, planted by militants on Bharat road in Soran village. No group claimed responsibility.
12/08/2008: On Monday, an improvised explosive device was planted on the Jamuna Irrigation Canal Road in the Bakaliaghat area of Karbi Anglong, Assam, India. No casualties or damages were reported and no group claimed responsibility for the attempted bombing.
08/29/2008: On Friday morning, at 1100, on the Kondagaon-Narayanpur highway, in Narayanpur, Chhattisgarh, India, assailants triggered a  landmine explosion targeting a Central Reserve Police Force convoy, killing six, and damaging the vehicle. No group claimed responsibility, but Communist Party of India-Maoist militants are believed to be responsible.
10/30/2008: On Thursday morningat 1135, three bombs exploded in a crowded market place in Kokrajhar, Assam, India. These were three of 13 related attacks that took place in Assam within an hour. At least 19 to 21 people were killed and 64 injured during the blasts. The bombs were allegedly placed in cars. Police suspected United Liberation Front of Assam or Harkatul Jihad-e-Islami militants were responsible for the blasts. Five people were arrested on 11/07/2008 for their supposed connection to the incidents, however no claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
12/13/2008: On Saturday, suspected Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) militants abducted six villagers suspected of being police informers and killed them in a forest in Ranchi, Jharkhand, India. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
12/12/2008: On Friday, unidentified militants opened fire on a group of civilians in the village of Sarsee Kukras in Khalaini, Doda, Jammu and Kashmir, India. One civilian was killed and two others were wounded in the attack. No group claimed responsibility.
07/02/2008: On Wednesday at an undefined time, in Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India, CPI-Maoists opened fire on a truck injuring the driver. There were no claims of responsibility.
12/12/2008: On Friday, unidentified militants planted an improvised along the Interactive Voice Response connecting Kumbi and Thanga Lawai in Imphal, Manipur, India. The bomb was planted four kilometers northwest of the Kumbi Police Station. Police defused the bomb before it could explode. No group claimed responsibility.
07/26/2008: On Saturday evening after 18:40, a bicycle bomb exploded near pan shops and vegetable vendors at the Sarangpur market in Ahmedabad district, Gujarat province, India. This was one of a series of 17 serial bomb blasts that took place within 70 minutes in various crowded places in Ahmedabad and killed a total of 56 civilians and injured 200 others. The bomb, which contained ammonium nitrate, ball bearings, a chemical powder, gelatin, plastic bags, cloth rags and a six volt Chinese-made battery attached to a timer device and stored inside a carton, was planted on an old bicycle. Even though the blast was of low intensity, it was enough to shatter the windowpanes of the Ahmedabad Municipal Transport Service buses in the vicinity. A lesser known group called Indian Mujahideen claimed responsibility for the Ahmedabad bombing attacks with a 14 page email manifesto sent to the media minutes before the first bomb blast. According to the Indian Mujahideen, the bombings were carried out to avenge the 2002 anti-Muslim violence in Gujarat. On 08/14/2008, a suspected activist of the Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), Mohammad Sajid Mansori, was arrested by police in Bharuch while on 08/16/2008, the leader of the SIMI movement, Abul Bashar Qasmi, admitted to his and to several other SIMI members’ involvement in connection with the serial bomb blasts after he was arrested by police in Uttar Pradesh. Six other senior SIMI members, in addition to eight locals, were also arrested, for a total of 16 individuals connected to the bombing attacks. Following the police investigation, authorities speculated that the Indian Mujahideen was just a front name for the SIMI group.
10/29/2008: On Wednesday, security forces discovered and defused a hand grenade planted outside the residence of Yumnam Muhindro, executive engineer of Dolaithabi project of state Irrigation and Flood Control Department (IFCD), in Yumnam Leikai of Imphal West distric in Manipur, India. No group claimed responsibility for the attempted bombing.
11/26/2008: On Wednesday night, three people were killed when assailants left RDX explosives with timers in a taxi in Wadi Bundar and another taxi in Vile Parle in Mumbai. The attack was one of eight coordinated attacks at various locations in Mumbai on 11/26/2008 to 11/29/2008 in which a total of 171 people were killed and 250 were wounded. After nearing Mumbai by boat between 2030 and 2100, the assailants split into five teams of two each and hailed taxis. After taking the taxis, the assailants planted RDX bombs with timers in the two taxis-one at Wadi Bundar, and the other at Vile Parle. Two drivers and one bystander were killed in the explosions. From the taxis, the assailants set off to their different destinations to carry out further attacks. Deccan Mujahedeen, a previously unknown group, claimed responsibility for the attack. The claim has not been confirmed. Officials suspected Pakistan’s Lashkar-e-Tayyaba (LeT) were responsible for the attack, although a spokesman for the LeT denied its involvement.  Ajmal Kasab, an assailant captured on 11/26/2008, told authorities that the attack was a plan devised six months prior that hoped to kill 5,000 people, targeting whites who were preferably Americans or British. According to Kasab, the assailants posed as students during a visit to Mumbai during the previous month to familiarize themselves with the city’s roads and to film the “strike locations”. Kasab confessed to being a member of Lashkar-e-Tayyaba (LeT), belonging to the LeT’s Fidayeen (suicide squad).  He also identified the masterminds of the attack, who were detained after a raid on an LeT camp on 12/07/2008 and formally indicted on 05/12/2009 for their involvement in the attacks.  In May 2010, Kasab was convicted and sentenced to death for his role in the attacks.
04/27/2008: On Sunday evening, six persons, including a policeman, were injured in a hand grenade explosion by Hizbul Mujahedeen militants in Sopore village of Baramulla district, Jammu and Kashmir province, India. No claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
06/22/2008: On Sunday, 70 Communist Party of India Maoists bombed a classroom of the Jain Dharamsla middle school in Dantar village in Chatra, Jharkhand, India. Four classrooms and the resource center of the school were damaged in the blast. Two hostages were killed at the school following the bombing.
07/31/2008: On Thursday, an improvised explosive device was planted at Manigam on the national highway but was found and defused by Indian police.
04/15/2008: On Tuesday evening at 19:00, unidentified militants lobbed a grenade at the residence of Bhubon Terang, executive member of the Karbi Anglong Autonomous Council, at Diphu in the Karbi Anglong district,  Assam province, India. No casualties or property damage were reported and no claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
03/09/2008: Three migrant laborers were killed and five others were wounded in a brick kiln in Assam's Dibrugarh district. Authorities said that armed miscreants fired indiscriminately from automatic weapons after entering the camp of brick kiln workers. Police suspect that ULFA militants are behind the incident.
07/05/2008: On Saturday, at an unspecified time, in Baksa, Assam, India, unidentified militants killed a member of the youth wing of the Bodo People’s Front (BPF). There were no other reported casualties. There were no claims of responsibility.
04/15/2008: In the early hours of Tuesday morning, seven Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM) militants abducted a civilian, Abid Hussain, at gun point from his house in the Darhal area of Rajouri district, Jammu and Kashmir province, India, after accusing him of being an informer for the security forces. The militants assaulted Hussain and later left him in an injured condition at a nearby field. No claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
09/12/2008: On Friday, suspected Communist Party of India (Maoist) / Naxalites fired upon a family, killing two civilians and wounding two others in Ghoswar village, Vaishali, Bihar, India. No claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
11/29/2008: On Saturday night at around 0000 midnight, in Dwarika, Palamu, Jharkhand, India, assailants detonated explosives at a school, damaging the school but causing no injuries. No group claimed responsibility, but it was widely believed that 30 Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible. Militants left a pamphlet at the scene saying that the building was destroyed to prevent security forces from using it in the future.
08/25/2008: On Monday, CRPF Havildar B. P. Singh was kidnapped and shot dead after an encounter with the Communist Party of India-Maoists at Patthar-Lautia village in Gaya, Bihar, India.
09/30/2008: On Tuesday evening during the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr, police discovered and safely defused a bomb planted by suspected Bangladesh based Harkat ul-Jihad-e-Islami (HuJI) militants at Colony Choumohany near the capital Palace Compound in Agartala, Tripura province, India. This was one of six serial bombs planted in different areas around Agartala. The bombs, which contained pellets, were set off by sophisticated timers according to police. No claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
05/21/2008: On Wednesday afternoon, two National Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN-U) militants fired three shots to the head of Journey Shimray, a trader belonging to the Tangkhul community, killing him at the Naga Shopping Arcade supermarket in downtown Dimapur district, Nagaland province, India. No claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
02/23/2008: In Saikul village of the Senapati district in Manipur, India, five civilians were gunned down while traveling in a jeep. Although no group has claimed responsibility for this attack, it is suspected that the perpetrators were Kuki militants.
03/11/2008: At least one civilian was killed and 15 others were wounded as a powerful bomb triggered by suspected ULFA militants, detonated in front of Nathani Hotel near the Daily bazaar in Tinsukia, India. The bomb was suspected to have been kept in rickshaw by an unidentified woman. The woman killed herself in the explosion.
07/11/2008: On Friday morning, Communist Party of India (Maoist) / Naxalites detonated explosives destroying the Jamalpur-Kiul section of the Eastern Railway track near Ghoghi-Bariarpur village in Munger district, Bihar province, India. The explosion severely disrupted the movement of trains on the Patna-Howrah route. The Maoists have given a call for a shutdown in five east Bihar districts - Jamui, Munger, Bhagalpur, Lakhisarai and Banka - to protest the arrest and alleged custodial torture of a self-styled ‘area commander’ Kamlesh alias Deepa on 07/06/2008. No casualties were reported from the incident.
12/24/2008: On Wednesday, an improvised explosive device with a timer was planted at the Machkhowa Assam State Transportation Corporation bus stand in Guwahati, Assam, India. The bomb was discovered before it was detonated. No casualties or damages resulted. No group claimed responsibility.
03/09/2008: A bomb went off at the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CP-M) central office in New Delhi, India. At least seven members died and it is still unclear how many were injured by the blast which was set off by the Bhartiya Party (BJP) and Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) parties.
04/08/2008: On Tuesday, at least eight members of a local resistance force formed to combat Maoist activists were killed by Maoist rebels while travelling in a vehicle in Gumla district, Jharkhand province, India. The rebels first opened fire on them and later threw flammable substances on the vehicle, setting it ablaze. No claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
07/24/2008: On Thursday, an explosion occurred at the Kuvempu Nagar in near the locality of Channapatna, Bangalore, Karnataka province, India.  A toy store was destroyed in the blast, caused by a bomb constructed with ammonium nitrate. No casualties were reported and no claim of responsibility was made for the incident. Police detained two suspected individuals in connection to the bombing attack.
07/29/2008: On Tuesday, a bomb was placed in the Katargam area in Surat, but police found and defused it before it detonated. No casualties were reported. No claim of responsibility has been reported.
02/02/2008: The convoy of Dera Sacha Sauda Chief Grumeet Singh Ram Rahim was attacked with an explosive device in Karnal district, India, wounding 10 people. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
07/29/2008: On Tuesday, a bomb was placed in the Katargam area in Surat, but police found and defused it before it detonated. No casualties were reported. No claim of responsibility has been reported.
12/17/2008: On Wednesday night, at 2130, suspected militants fired eight AK ammunitions rounds, two projectiles and one bullet into the residence of Kha Sanjenbam Pukhrambam, in Wangoi, Manipur, India. Bullet marks and holes were found in the walls and on the roof of the house. The exact reason of the attack was not know. No casualties were reported. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
05/14/2008: On Wednesday, in an attempt to intimidate voters during West Bengal polling, four Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) supporters were allegedly beaten up by West Bengal Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI-M) political party members in Nadia district of West Bengal, India. No claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
12/26/2008: On Friday, in Nawajaipur, Palamu, Jharkhand, India,  three villagers carrying food were injured when suspected Communist Party of India-Maoist rebels fired on them. The militants mistook the civilians as policemen. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
09/28/2008: On Sunday night at 2300, unknown assailants detonated a low-intensity explosive device at the Mahasinghi town relief camp in Mahasinghi town, Kandhamal, Orissa province, India. This was one of three serial bomb attacks targeting relief camps in Kandhamal. No casualties or property damage was reported from the blast and no claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
09/04/2008: On Thursday, four suspected militants hurled a grenade at a gas filling station on the Regional Institute of Medical Sciences road in western Imphal, Manipur, India. Two civilians were wounded in the attack. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/19/2008: On Saturday, two cousins, Paominthang Guite and Thangkhenlal Guite, were abducted by suspected valley based militants from Nongsum village in Manipur's Imphal East district, India, and later shot and killed in Keibi Khunou village in Manipur's Imphal East district, India. No claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
11/14/2008: On Friday, an explosion occurred in the bathroom of the Lucknow District Court in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility for the bombing.
10/19/2008: On Sunday evening at 2015, a grenade exploded near Manipur chief minister Okram Ibobi Singh's office and/or residence in Imphal, Manipur, India. The grenade, suspected to be of Chinese origin, went off on a road near the western gate of the office complex in VIP Colony. No one was injured but a passing car was partly damaged. Police did not know if the minister's office was the intended target, though it might have been a passing trader. No claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
11/20/2008: On Thursday, Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants detonated an explosive device near a police convoy in Ramchandrapur in the Surguja district, Chhattisgarh, India. There were no casualties from the attack however, two CPI-M militants were killed in retaliatory fire.
07/29/2008: On Tuesday, a bomb was placed in the Katargam area in Surat, but police found and defused it before it detonated. No casualties were reported. No claim of responsibility has been reported.
07/29/2008: On Tuesday, a bomb was placed in the Katargam area in Surat, but police found and defused it before it detonated. No casualties were reported. No claim of responsibility has been reported.
06/02/2008: On Monday, at 0320, Communist Party of India Maoists blew up a Patna-Howrah railway line between Narganjo and Chorparan station under Jhajha-Jassideeh section of Eastern Railway in Jamui, Bihar, India. No casualties were reported.
05/15/2008: On Thursday, Black Widow militants belonging to the United Liberation Front of Assam stopped a train between the railway stations of Kalachand and Damcherra in the North Cachar Hills district, Assam province, India, and opened indiscriminate fire on a railway car carrying an inspection team killing the railway driver and another passenger and injuring two others, including a paramilitary trooper. The Commander-in-chief of the Black Widow militants later claimed responsibility for the incident alleging that the attack was carried out because Indian soldiers had attacked one of their camps and killed twelve Black Widow fighters on the week of 05/04/2008.
03/15/2008: Four people were killed and 53 injured in a grenade attack by suspected ULFA on a tribal gathering in Murkongselek village located in Assam, India.
03/16/2008: The Manipur Peoples Army attacked the post of 24th Assam Rifles battalion killing a rifleman and civilian at T Minou village, India.
07/02/2008: On Wednesday night, near Chirang, Assam, India, assailants kidnapped one engineer, one supervisor, and one contractor working on National Highway-31. The supervisor was released on 07/21/2008, and the remaining victims were released on 07/22/2008. No group claimed responsibility, but it was widely believed the All Kamatapur Liberation Force was responsible.
10/31/2008: On Friday, J. Jayalalithaa's motorcade was attacked by unknown militants at Pasumpon village, Ramanathapuram, Tamil Nadu, India. The incident occurred soon after she got down from her car and was proceeding towards the memorial of Pasumpon Muthramalinga Thevar. Three cars, including Jayalalithaa's vehicle, were damaged in the incident and ten persons, including three policemen, were injured in the stone-pelting and lathicharge. No claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
05/19/2008: On Monday evening at about 2020, in Tinsukia town, Tinsukia, Assam, India, assailants threw a grenade at Rani Sati Mandir Path at Barabazar, wounding five civilians.  No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) was responsible.
07/26/2008: On Saturday evening at 19:18, a bicycle bomb exploded near the main entrance to the L.G. General government civil hospital in the Asarwa neighborhood of Ahmedabad district, Gujarat province, India. This was one of a series of 17 serial bomb blasts that took place within 70 minutes in various crowded places in Ahmedabad and killed a total of 56 civilians and injured 200 others. The bomb, which contained ammonium nitrate, ball bearings, a chemical powder, gelatin, plastic bags, cloth rags and a six volt Chinese-made battery attached to a timer device and stored inside a carton, was planted on an old bicycle. The blast was of higher intensity than the first 12 explosions and caused several nearby vehicles to catch fire. A lesser known group called Indian Mujahideen claimed responsibility for the Ahmedabad bombing attacks with a 14 page email manifesto sent to the media minutes before the first bomb blast. According to the Indian Mujahideen, the bombings were carried out to avenge the 2002 anti-Muslim violence in Gujarat. On 08/14/2008, a suspected activist of the Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), Mohammad Sajid Mansori, was arrested by police in Bharuch while on 08/16/2008, the leader of the SIMI movement, Abul Bashar Qasmi, admitted to his and to several other SIMI members’ involvement in connection with the serial bomb blasts after he was arrested by police in Uttar Pradesh. Six other senior SIMI members, in addition to eight locals, were also arrested, for a total of 16 individuals connected to the bombing attacks. Following the police investigation, authorities speculated that the Indian Mujahideen was just a front name for the SIMI group.
11/26/2008: On Wednesday, unidentified militants allegedly attempted to explode an improvised explosive device in the Sonitpir area of the Indian state of Assam. No group claimed responsibility for the attempted bombing.
12/11/2008: On Thursday, eight militants of the Communist Party of India-Maoist shot and killed a vocal political opponent, Sudhir Mandi, in Jordanga, West Midnapore, West Bengal, India. The attack was in response to the victims anti-Communist Party of India-Maoist views. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
05/25/2008: On Sunday, suspected People's United Liberation Front (PULF) militants planted a bomb containing a grenade in the Yairi-pok Bazar in Imphal, Manipur province, India, at a shop next to P. Pishak at Yairipok Keithel, who was targeted in a previous bombing attack by PULF militants on 05/22/2008. No casualties were reported as Assam Rifles troops located and defused the bomb prior to detonation. No claim of responsibility was made for the incident, which was suspected to be carried to threaten shopkeepers for not making extortion payments.
07/28/2008: On Monday, two bombs were hurled by militants at a residence of the Food and Civil Supplies Minister Y. Erabot at Khurai Ahongei in Imphal. No claim of responsibility has been reported.
05/08/2008: On Thursday morning around 0830, in Imphal, Manipur, India, assailants threw a Chinese hand grenade at the residence of the Health Minister, causing no injuries or damage because the grenade failed to explode. Authorities later safely recovered the grenade. No group claimed responsibility.
12/05/2008: On Friday, unidentified militants planted an improvised explosive device in front a prayer hall in Parakhowa village under Howraghat police station in Karbi Anglong, Assam, India. No group claimed responsibility and no casualties or damages resulted from the attempted bombing.
10/15/2008: On Wednesday, suspected Communist Party of India-Maoist militants abducted four railway employees from McCluskieganj railway station under the Dhanbad railway division in Jharkhand province, India. The abducted employees were identified as station master S.K. Singh, two deputy station masters and the guard of a goods train. No claim of responsibility was made for the incident and the status of the hostages is unknown. Furthermore, there were no reported casualties.
11/27/2008: On Thursday, suspected United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) militants allegedly attempted toabduct an Afghan money lender from Aidoba area of Dhubri, Assam, India. The abduction attempt failed however when the civilian managed to escape unharmed. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
11/16/2008: On Sunday late in the day, Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants surrounded a village, attacked a farmers house with dynamite, set fire to a tractor and motorcycles, and then killed four people, in the Kohbarba Rasulpur village in East Champaran district.  The farmer's family was threatened by CPI-M last week for failing to pay protection money.
09/29/2008: On Monday evening at 2130, a bomb blast killed four people and wounded 61 others during evening prayers of Ramadan at a hotel near a mosque in the busy Bhikhu Chowk area in the Bikku market of Malegaon town, Maharashtra province, India. Authorities believe the bomb, which contained nuts, bolts and ball bearings packed with 6.6 pounds of explosives, were left on a silver motorcycle left near the scene. The specific motive for the attack is unknown although the town has a history of violence between Hindus and Muslims. No claim responsibility was made for the incident.
06/16/2008: On Monday, Communist Party of India Maoists stormed a marriage function and killed the bridegroom, Laxman Parlipal, by slitting his throat before wedding guests in Koder village of Bijapur, Chhattisgarh, India.
04/01/2008: On Tuesday night, more than 200 Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants attempted to assassinate a member of the State Legislative Assembly (MLA), Vijay Kumar Singh of the Lok Janshakti Party, in the Kala Pahar village of Aurangabad district, Bihar province, India. However, MLA member Vijay Kumar Singh was not present at his residence when the Maoist rebels arrived and therefore no casualties were reported. Police suspected that the Maoist attack was linked to an extortion demand on the construction company contracted by the MLA party, although no claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
06/08/2008: On Sunday, a landmine blast planted by Communist Party of India Maoists killed three Central Industrial Security Force personnel and injured two others near Mahamaya mines in Durg, Chhattisgarh, India.
12/17/2008: On Wednesday, a police constable was injured when ten suspected Communist Party of India-Maoist members lobbed grenades at the Mellacheruvu Police Station, in Andhra Pradesh, Nalgonda, India. A constable received minor injuries in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
03/10/2008: The residence of a Congress MLA Bijoy Koijam at Pheija Leitong located under an Indian police station in Imphal West district, Assam State was attacked with a bomb. The bomb attack at MLA Bijoy's house was carried out by two unidentified persons. The bomb exploded in the courtyard of the house, however, no injuries or fatalities were reported. The PREPAK's Cobra task force has claimed responsibility.
11/14/2008: On Friday, suspected Communist Party of India-Maoist militants sniped and killed a Central Reserve Force Police officer in the Antagarh area of Kanker in Chhattisgarh, India.
05/10/2008: On Saturday afternoon at approximately 13:35, a bomb planted by unknown militants exploded at the judicial magistrate's court in Hubli, Karnataka, India. The explosion damaged furniture and shattered glass panes, however it resulted in no casualties as it was a government holiday and no one was present at the judicial magistrate's court. No claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
07/29/2008: On Tuesday, a bomb was placed in the Katargam area in Surat, but police found and defused it before it detonated. No casualties were reported. No claim of responsibility has been reported.
07/29/2008: On Tuesday, a bomb was placed in the Katargam area in Surat, but police found and defused it before it detonated. No casualties were reported. No claim of responsibility has been reported.
07/02/2008: On Wednesday at an undetermined time, in Malkangiri, Orissa, Maoists burnt down an excavator. There were no reported casualties.
12/24/2008: On Wednesday morning, at 0110, in Matipul, Karbi Anglong, Assam, India, a bomb was detonated on railway tracks between Khatkhati and Bokajan. Police arrested four All Adivasi National Liberation Army (AANLA) militants in connection to the blast. The rail track was partially damaged in the explosion but no casualties were reported. No group claimed responsibility.
04/21/2008: On Monday evening, a 40-year-old man was shot dead by unidentified gunmen at a musical show at Lansonbi bazaar in Manipur's Imphal district, Manipur, India. No claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
07/29/2008: On Tuesday, a bomb was placed at a diamond market adjacent to Varacha Road in Surat, but police found and defused it before it detonated. No casualties were reported. No claim of responsibility has been reported.
07/04/2008: On Friday evening, at about 2030, in Tentha Khunou Palli, Thoubal, Manipur, India, assailants fired upon and killed a former militant of PREPAK, Moirangthem Nodi, after calling him out of his residence. No group claimed responsibility.
04/19/2008: On Saturday, the Imphal West district commander of the Kuki Liberation Army (KLA), identified as Seilienthang, was shot dead by unidentified militants at the residence of his fiancée, Chingboi, in the Khuga Dam area of Churachandpur, Manipur, India. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/19/2008: On Saturday night at 21:10, two civilians were killed when 15 Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants opened fire on moving trucks on the Tata-Ranchi highway at Karamdih in the Saraikela-Kharswan district near the city of Ranchi, Jharkhand province, India.  Another truck fell into a roadside ditch after its driver, in an attempt to escape the gunfire, lost control over the vehicle. The Maoists subsequently set the truck on fire. No claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
12/11/2008: On Thursday morning, three unidentified gunmen shot and killed the All India Congress Committee (AICC) leader, Pintu Tyagi, at his home in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India. No group claimed responsibility for the attack. Police arrested a man on 12/13/2008 in relation to the attack but he died in their custody.
05/23/2008: On Friday morning at 11:00, an IED suspected to be planted by the Naga People’s Council (NPC) exploded at Viewland in the Ukhrul district of Manipur province, India. No casualties were reported, however, and no claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
05/24/2008: On Saturday, suspected United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) militants shot dead a civilian, identified as Dhaneswar Moran, in Nakathalguri village of Tinsukia district, Assam province, India. Police said Dhaneswar Moran might have been gunned down for allegedly serving as an army informer. No claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
10/03/2008: On Friday night, between 20 and 40 suspected Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI) militants blew up the control room of an Indian owned Reliance Communications mobile phone tower and then set the phone tower generator on fire after asking the employees to vacate the premises in Palamau district, Jharkhand province, India. The attack caused an unknown amount of damage to the control room and generator of the mobile phone tower but resulted in no casualties. No claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
12/01/2008: On Monday, assailants detonated a cylinder bomb under the Kadru bridge in Sonbarsha, Chatra, Jharkhand, India, damaging a five-foot stretch of the bridge. No casualties were reported in the incident. No group claimed responsibility for the incident, but authorities believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist was responsible.
06/18/2008: On Wednesday, at 2030, Getam Apang, son of former Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Gegong Apang, and his music teacher were abducted near his residence in Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh, India. The family received a phone call from the abductors, who are suspected militants, but no information was released. No group claimed responsibility for the abduction and no casualties were reported.
08/03/2008: On Sunday, police located and safely defused a bomb found inside a bag and planted by unknown insurgents at a bus stop adjacent to the municipal garden in the Atwalines area of Surat district, Gujarat province, India. No claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
01/29/2008: Two unknown militants perpetrators kidnapped one person in Kashmir, India. The resolution of the kidnapping is unknown.
06/21/2008: On Saturday, at 0730, two militants opened fire at a passenger bus at Thoubal Kiyam Siphai Babu bazaar in Thoubal, Manipur, India. Both the People's Revolutionary Party of Kangleipak and the People's United Liberation Front have claimed responsibility for the attack. No casualties were reported.
10/22/2008: On Wednesday afternoon, Dhoni Ram Mandi, a doctor, Bharati Maji, a nurse, and Bapi Mishir, a driver, were killed when four landmines, set off by suspected Communist Party of India-Maoist militants, exploded at Chaukisol in the West Midnapore district of West Bengal, India. The three killed were part of a West Bengal Health Department team. Villagers claimed they informed police in the morning that wires were lying on the road, although no action was taken.  Two people were arrested in connection with the incident, although no claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
06/26/2008: On Thursday, at 1130, ten people were wounded when a hand grenade hurled by three unidentified assailants exploded close to a group of people who were staging a sit-in against People's Revolutionary Party of Kangleipak militants at Ningthoukhong bazaar in Bishenpur, Manipur, India. However, the militants claimed they were not responsible for the attack.
12/12/2008: On Friday, suspected Communist Party of India-Maoist rebels shot and killed three people in Dudhania village in Giridih, Jharkhand, India. The victims, Gulab Ansari, Mansoor Ansari, and Matin Ansari, were suspected of being police informers. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
07/26/2008: On Saturday evening after 18:40, a bicycle bomb exploded on an Ahmedabad Municipal Transport Service bus in Ahmedabad district, Gujarat province, India. This was one of a series of 17 serial bomb blasts that took place within 70 minutes in various crowded places in Ahmedabad and killed a total of 56 civilians and injured 200 others. The bomb, which contained ammonium nitrate, ball bearings, a chemical powder, gelatin, plastic bags, cloth rags and a six volt Chinese-made battery attached to a timer device and stored inside a carton, was planted on an old bicycle. A lesser known group called Indian Mujahideen claimed responsibility for the Ahmedabad bombing attacks with a 14 page email manifesto sent to the media minutes before the first bomb blast. According to the Indian Mujahideen, the bombings were carried out to avenge the 2002 anti-Muslim violence in Gujarat. On 08/14/2008, a suspected activist of the Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), Mohammad Sajid Mansori, was arrested by police in Bharuch while on 08/16/2008, the leader of the SIMI movement, Abul Bashar Qasmi, admitted to his and to several other SIMI members’ involvement in connection with the serial bomb blasts after he was arrested by police in Uttar Pradesh. Six other senior SIMI members, in addition to eight locals, were also arrested, for a total of 16 individuals connected to the bombing attacks. Following the police investigation, authorities speculated that the Indian Mujahideen was just a front name for the SIMI group.
12/06/2008: On Saturday, nine civilians were wounded by an explosion at the marketplace in Kheroni, Karbi Anglong, Assam, India.  Authorities suspect the Karbi Aglong National Liberation Front is responsible. No damages were reported and no group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/04/2008: On Friday night, around a hundred suspected Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants attacked a village near Sono in Jamui district, Bihar province, India, and abducted three employees of a private contractor engaged in road construction for not paying an extortion payment. The local village residents attempted to stop the kidnapping, which resulted in indiscriminate exchange of firing between the villagers and the Maoists, however no casualties were reported.  No claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
01/01/2008: Suspected Maoist rebels shot dead four policemen in the state of Bihar.
07/24/2008: On Thursday, unidentified militants lobbed a grenade at a crowded Batmaloo bus stop where Amarnath pilgrims were waitin in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India, killing five and wounding 18.  No claim of responsibility was issued for the attack.
03/19/2008: An unidentified group attacked the camp of National Democratic Front of Bodoland rebels and opened fire killing three and wounding several others and then set the camp on fire at Ghoshkata village in Kokrajhar district, India at around 5:50 pm.
09/25/2008: A militant of the People's Revolutionary Party of Kangleipak (PREPAK) was killed by three militants of a rival group at Lamjing Lamtak club in the Ithai Wapokpi village. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/07/2008: On Monday morning, an improvised explosive device rigged to a bicycle was left at the Namrup railway station in Dibrugarh district, Assam province, India, by the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) militants. The bomb, set to detonate at 5:00 in the morning, was targeting the Kamrup Express train, however the Indian Army located the I.E.D. and safely defused the device preventing its detonation. No casualties were reported and no claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
08/22/2008: On Friday, at 1200, Communist Party of India-Maoist militants shot dead Lala Yadav and Lallu Yadav at Enma village in Jehanabad, Bihar, India. The exact reason was not know but it was suspected that the victims were police informers.
11/26/2008: On Wednesday night around 2300, four armed assailants carried out an extended attack on the Taj Mahal and Tower Hotel. This location is the last of eight coordinated attacks at various locations in Mumbai that killed a total of 171 people and wounded 250 over the course of three days. The four assailants at the Taj Mahal Palace and Tower Hotel were identified as Hafeez Arshad alias Bada Abdul Rehman, Javed alias Abu Ali, Shoaib alias Soheb, and Nazeer alias Abu Umer. Throughout the night they used hand grenades, automatic weapons, and explosives causing a fire in the hotel.  By 0530, the fire was contained but the assailants had taken 100-150 hostages in the hotel's club. Police, army, and fire rescue personnel worked to apprehend the assailants, free the hostages, and control the fire. At 1400 on 11/29/2008, officials regained control of the Taj and all assailants had been killed. Deccan Mujahedeen, a previously unknown group, claimed responsibility for the attack. The claim has not been confirmed. Officials suspected Pakistan’s Lashkar-e-Tayyaba (LeT) were responsible for the attack, although a spokesman for the LeT denied its involvement. Ajmal Kasab, an assailant captured on 11/26/2008, told authorities that the attack was a plan devised six months prior that hoped to kill 5,000 people, targeting whites who were preferably Americans or British. According to Kasab, the assailants posed as students during a visit to Mumbai during the previous month to familiarize themselves with the city’s roads and to film the “strike locations.” Kasab confessed to being a member of Lashkar-e-Tayyaba (LeT), belonging to the LeT’s Fidayeen (suicide squad). He also identified the masterminds of the attack, who were detained after a raid on an LeT camp on 12/07/2008 and formally indicted on 05/12/2009 for their involvement in the attacks. In May 2010, Kasab was convicted and sentenced to death for his role in the attacks.
05/07/2008: On Wednesday morning, at about 0830, in Holong, Hazaribag, Jharkhand, India, approximately 50 assailants threw explosives at and fired upon a police vehicle, killing one police officer and wounding three others and damaging the vehicle. No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
06/29/2008: On Sunday, six people were killed and 35 others, including two policemen, were injured in an explosion by suspected United Liberation Front of Assam militants in a marketplace in Kumarikata village, Guwahati, Assam, India. Another bomb was recovered and defused by police at the site.
11/25/2008: On Tuesday, five policemen were killed and one was injured when suspected militants of the Communist Party of India-Maoist blew up a bridge near Mardapal, about 100 km from the district headquarter Jagdalpur in Bastar, Chhattisgarh, India. A contingent of over 150 policemen was targeted as they were returning from their polling duties. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
03/07/2008: Five people, including a woman, were injured in a bomb blast in Lakhimpur district of India's Assam State. The United Liberation Front of Asom is believed to be behind the blast.
12/23/2008: On Tuesday, five persons were killed by unidentified assailants in the Raidih Police Station area in Gumla, Jharkhand, India. No group claimed responsibility, however, the Jharkhand Liberation Tigers are suspected.
06/16/2008: On Monday, at 0100, Communist Party of India Maoists blew up a portion of a road bridge near Tundi in Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Cane bombs were used in the attack. No casualties were reported.
10/28/2008: On Tuesday, two Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants were killed by retaliatory fire after they attacked a security forces training camp in the Nallamala forest near Ravulapuram in Bollepalle Mandal in Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India. Five Maoists were able to escape into the forest. Police recovered one AK-47 from the scene. No group claimed responsibility, though CPI-Maoists were believed to be responsible.
12/11/2008: On Thursday, five suspected Communist Party of India militants shot and killed a villager, identified as Poliram, in Konsasimertoli, Gumla, Jharkhand, India. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
08/05/2008: On Tuesday, Communist Party of India - Maoist's killed two people, including a village Kotwar, in Sitagaon village of Raj Nandgaon, Chhattisgarh, India. The two were killed for allegedly spying for the police.
07/15/2008: On Tuesday at an unspecified time, in Malkangiri, Orissa, India, during an attack on the local BJP leader's house, the CPI set ablaze a jeep, a tractor and two bikes. There were no reported casualties.
07/02/2008: On Wednesday morning at 06:30, Communist Party of India (Maoist) / Naxalites blew up  East Central Railway tracks in the Sonepur  locality of Saran district, Bihar province, India. Besides damaging a section of the train tracks, the explosion also caused the derailment of the engine of the Muzaffarpur-Narkatiaganj passenger train. A second bomb was placed on nearby railway tracks running in the opposite direction, but the bomb did not detonate and police later safely defused the explosive device.  According to fliers passed out in surrounding localities, Maoist insurgents blew up the railway tracks in response to what they said is a campaign of violence by local police against villagers. No casualties were reported from the bombing attack.
04/09/2008: On Wednesday, the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants shot and killed Raba Subba, a village head at Peta village near a forest in Malkangiri district, Orissa province, India. No claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
10/15/2008: On Wednesday evening at 1800, suspected militants placed a live hand grenade at the residential courtyard of the executive engineer of the IFCD at Khuga Dam Canal 1 at Hill Town village along Tipaimukh in Churachandpur, Manipur, India. Police later defused the bomb. No group has claimed responsibility for the attempted bombing and there were no reported casualties.
09/11/2008: On Thursday, at about 2100, in Pechu Lampak in Imphal West, Manipur, India, assailants threw two bombs at the residence of an executive engineer at Manipur University, damaging the residence but causing no injuries.  One of the bombs failed to detonate.  No group claimed responsibility.
10/30/2008: On Thursday morning, twin blasts occurred in Barpeta Road town of Barpeta distric, Assam, India. These were two of 13 attacks that took place at the same general time in Assam.  At least 12 to 15 people were killed and 46 injured during the blasts. The bombs were allegedly placed in cars. Police suspected United Liberation Front of Assam or Harkatul Jihad-e-Islami militants were responsible for the blasts. Five people were arrested in connection with the incident on 11/07/2008, although no claim of responsibility was made for the incident..
07/26/2008: On Saturday evening after 18:40, a bicycle bomb exploded at a crowded bus stop in Ahmedabad district, Gujarat province, India. This was one of a series of 17 serial bomb blasts that took place within 70 minutes in various crowded places in Ahmedabad and killed a total of 56 civilians and injured 200 others. The bomb, which contained ammonium nitrate, ball bearings, a chemical powder, gelatin, plastic bags, cloth rags and a six volt Chinese-made battery attached to a timer device and stored inside a carton, was planted on an old bicycle. Even though the blast was of low intensity, it was enough to shatter the windowpanes of the Ahmedabad Municipal Transport Service buses in the vicinity. A lesser known group called Indian Mujahideen claimed responsibility for the Ahmedabad bombing attacks with a 14 page email manifesto sent to the media minutes before the first bomb blast. According to the Indian Mujahideen, the bombings were carried out to avenge the 2002 anti-Muslim violence in Gujarat. On 08/14/2008, a suspected activist of the Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), Mohammad Sajid Mansori, was arrested by police in Bharuch while on 08/16/2008, the leader of the SIMI movement, Abul Bashar Qasmi, admitted to his and to several other SIMI members’ involvement in connection with the serial bomb blasts after he was arrested by police in Uttar Pradesh. Six other senior SIMI members, in addition to eight locals, were also arrested, for a total of 16 individuals connected to the bombing attacks. Following the police investigation, authorities speculated that the Indian Mujahideen was just a front name for the SIMI group.
06/05/2008: On Thursday, at 0700, Communist Party of India Maoists blasted a high tension 220-KV power supply tower in Jharaghati, Dantewada, Chhattisgarh, India. No casualties were reported.
07/26/2008: On Saturday evening after 18:40, a bicycle bomb exploded near pan shops and vegetable vendors at the Raipur Chakla market in Ahmedabad district, Gujarat province, India. This was one of a series of 17 serial bomb blasts that took place within 70 minutes in various crowded places in Ahmedabad and killed a total of 56 civilians and injured 200 others. The bomb, which contained ammonium nitrate, ball bearings, a chemical powder, gelatin, plastic bags, cloth rags and a six volt Chinese-made battery attached to a timer device and stored inside a carton, was planted on an old bicycle. Even though the blast was of low intensity, it was enough to shatter the windowpanes of the Ahmedabad Municipal Transport Service buses in the vicinity. A lesser known group called Indian Mujahideen claimed responsibility for the Ahmedabad bombing attacks with a 14 page email manifesto sent to the media minutes before the first bomb blast. According to the Indian Mujahideen, the bombings were carried out to avenge the 2002 anti-Muslim violence in Gujarat. On 08/14/2008, a suspected activist of the Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), Mohammad Sajid Mansori, was arrested by police in Bharuch while on 08/16/2008, the leader of the SIMI movement, Abul Bashar Qasmi, admitted to his and to several other SIMI members’ involvement in connection with the serial bomb blasts after he was arrested by police in Uttar Pradesh. Six other senior SIMI members, in addition to eight locals, were also arrested, for a total of 16 individuals connected to the bombing attacks. Following the police investigation, authorities speculated that the Indian Mujahideen was just a front name for the SIMI group.
04/04/2008: On Friday evening at 18:30, one surrendered National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) militant, Mridul Muchhary, was shot dead by unidentified militants in Dalbari village market under Barama police station in the Nalbari district, Assam province, India. His associate, Ambir Boro, was injured in the attack. A grenade and a magazine were recovered from the incident site. No claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
11/10/2008: On Monday, unidentified militants threw a grenade at the residence of a civilian, identified as Okram Indrajit, in the Imphal West district of the Indian state of Manipur. The grenade failed to detonate and was later defused by police. No injuries were reported and no group claimed responsibility for the attempted bombing.
05/27/2008: On Tuesday, 100 Communist Party of India (Maoist) / Naxalites militants stormed the residence of Subuk Paswa, a community watchman, tied his limbs, dragged him out to the street and slit his throat in public with a sharp weapon in Batwari village of Munger district, Bihar province, India, during a day-long strike in Bihar state. The Maoist rebels said they had called an impromptu strike to protest against the recent arrest of some of their leaders, distributed leaflets in villages and rural towns, saying civilians with no ties to the movement were being tortured by the police for information.
10/04/2008: On Saturday night, more than 40 suspected members of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI) militants blew up the control room of an Indian owned Airtel Communications mobile phone tower and then set fire to the security guard's room and generator in Devaniya village, Gaya district, Bihar province, India. Authorities believe the attack was carried out to block clues of the CPI militants’ movements. The attack caused an unknown amount of damage to the control room and generator of the mobile phone tower but resulted in no casualties. No claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
08/07/2008: On Thursday, at Kotlien village, in Imphal, Manipur, India, armed assailants attacked Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel, killing two and wounding one. The Kanglei Yawol Kanna Lup (KYKL) claimed responsibility for the attack.
06/30/2008: On Monday, at 1325, a bomb planted by suspected United Liberation Front of Assam militants exploded near the Kishan Bhawan in the town of Diphu in Karbi Anglong, Assam, India. There were no casualties.
07/26/2008: On Saturday evening after 18:40, a bicycle bomb exploded at the Galaxy Cinema in the Naroda neighborhood of Ahmedabad district, Gujarat province, India. This was one of a series of 17 serial bomb blasts that took place within 70 minutes in various crowded places in Ahmedabad and killed a total of 56 civilians and injured 200 others. The bomb, which contained ammonium nitrate, ball bearings, a chemical powder, gelatin, plastic bags, cloth rags and a six volt Chinese-made battery attached to a timer device and stored inside a carton, was planted on an old bicycle. Even though the blast was of low intensity, it was enough to shatter the windowpanes of the Ahmedabad Municipal Transport Service buses in the vicinity. A lesser known group called Indian Mujahideen claimed responsibility for the Ahmedabad bombing attacks with a 14 page email manifesto sent to the media minutes before the first bomb blast. According to the Indian Mujahideen, the bombings were carried out to avenge the 2002 anti-Muslim violence in Gujarat. On 08/14/2008, a suspected activist of the Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), Mohammad Sajid Mansori, was arrested by police in Bharuch while on 08/16/2008, the leader of the SIMI movement, Abul Bashar Qasmi, admitted to his and to several other SIMI members’ involvement in connection with the serial bomb blasts after he was arrested by police in Uttar Pradesh. Six other senior SIMI members, in addition to eight locals, were also arrested, for a total of 16 individuals connected to the bombing attacks. Following the police investigation, authorities speculated that the Indian Mujahideen was just a front name for the SIMI group.
11/21/2008: On Friday, unidentified militants threw a grenade at the residence of a prominent People's Democratic Party activist, Abdul Aziz Mir, in Arin, in Bandipora, Jammu and Kashmir, India. The grenade exploded outside the residence casuing minor damage to the homw, but no casualties were inflicted. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
06/14/2008: On Saturday night, in Murgaon, Gadchiroli, Maharashtra, India, about 50 assailants assaulted and killed one surrendered Maoist militant, Anandrao Koram. Assailants dragged Koram from his house, tied him to a tree and beheaded him. No group claimed responsibility, but it was widely believed a Maoist faction was responsible.
05/15/2008: On Thursday early in the morning, Communist Party of India (Maoist) / Naxalites detonated dynamite on railway tracks destroying a 15 foot section severely disrupting the eastern rail network, near Jaimurtinagar railway station in Sitamarhi district, Bihar province, India. The attack was carried out in protest for the arrest of senior Maoist leader Ramparvesh Baitha during a day long strike. No claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
11/16/2008: On Sunday, a works contractor, identified as Kalanchung Kamei, was assaulted by the National Socialist Council of Nagaland-Isak-Muivah (NSCM-IM) in the Tamenglong district of the Indian state of Manipur. Kamei refused to go, but was pushed inside a "gypsy" and taken to the Central Admnistrative Office (CAO) was assaulted for an hour and a half because they accused him of bribing the Manipur Health Minister.  When asked to come in he refused to go to talks with the NSCN-IM.
07/02/2008: On Wednesday at an unspecified time, in Doda, Jammu and Kashmir, India, a militant lobbed a grenade into a gathering of protestors injuring 20, and later killing one. There was no claim of responsibility.
10/30/2008: On Thursday morning at 1130, the first six of 13 explosions occurred in three different locations in Guwahati, Assam, India. One took place near the Ganeshguri flyover near the high-security capital complex housing the Assembly building in Dispur district. This was followed closely by explosions in the Paltan Bazar and Fancy Bazar.  At least 33 to 41 people were killed, and 235 wounded. Two of the boms included RDX. The bomb in Ganeshguri was allegedly placed in a car. Police suspected that United Liberation Front of Assam or Harkatul Jihad-e-Islami militants were responsible for the blasts. Five people were arrested on 11/07/2008 as being connected to the incident, although no claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
01/01/2008: Leftist guerrillas shot dead Pahalan Kumar Majhi in Purulia district after the insurgents dragged him out of his home.
04/04/2008: Late on Friday, a left-wing local leader from the Communist Party of India- Marxist, Tapan Roy, was killed by unidentified militants when he was returning home in Kamlapur, Agartala district, Tripura province, India. Using sharp weapons, the assailants cut several marks on Roy's body. No claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
11/04/2008: On Tuesday, unidentified militants threw a hand grenade at the residence of Elangbam Budhichandra in the New Checkon Mandap Leirak area of Imphal in the Indian state of Manipur. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility for the attack.
08/18/2008: On Monday, 20 Maoists militants blew up a petrol station in the city of Palamau. No casualties were reported.
07/29/2008: On Tuesday, a bomb was placed at a diamond market adjacent to Varacha Road in Surat, but police found and defused it before it detonated. No casualties were reported. No claim of responsibility has been reported.
09/20/2008: On Saturday evening at 1845, eighteen people were injured in an explosion at a marketplace in Sivasagar, Assam, India. The bomb blast caused an unknown amount of damage to the market. No claim of responsibility was made for the incident, although United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) militants were blamed for the explosion.
07/29/2008: On Tuesday, in Surat, Gujarat, India, 18 bombs were found and defused in various locations. In one of six related attacks, a bomb was discovered and defused in front of the Labheswar police post. They were kept at strategic points, including behind street hoardings or near garbage dumps. It was the third consecutive day live bombs and explosives were found in Surat. There were no casualties, motive or damage reported and no group claimed responsibility.
08/28/2008: On Thursday, militants attempted to bomb a residence of the Manipur Food and Civil Supplies minister, Y. Erabot, at Khurai Ahongei Leirak with a bomb. No claim of responsibility has been reported.
09/25/2008: On Thursday, fifty Christians armed with knives, sticks and stones hacked a Hindu man to death in the town of Raikia in Kandhamal district in Orissa. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
10/15/2008: On Wednesday, a former employees of a construction company, identified as Farid Ansari, was shot dead by unidentified militants outside a beetle shop along the Circular Road in Dimapur, Nagaland province, India. Police recovered three empty cases of 7.65 from the incident site. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
10/21/2008: On Tuesday, in Bodhanelli village in Charla mandal in the Khammam district, India, Communist Party of India-Maoist militants abducted a tribal leader and sarpanch of Kurnavelli gram panchayat, Kaniti Narsaiha. Maoists had tried to abduct another tribal leader as well but he managed to escape. Narsaiha was released on 10/22/2008. No casualties, damage, or motive were reported. No group claimed responsibility.
04/29/2008: On Tuesday night, 200 armed ultras of the proscribed CPI(Maoists) blew up a community hall and two houses of individuals whom the rebels accused of being police informers with dynamite in Jamunia village, Nawada district, Bihar State, India. The rebels also warned the villagers of grave consequences if they informed the police. No casualties were reported.
11/27/2008: On Thursday evening, unidentified militants shot and killed five civilians and wounded one other near the Maphou dam site in the Nongdam Tangkhul area of the Indian state of Manipur. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
12/14/2008: On Sunday, in Jharkhand, Charta District, Kari village, India, a group of Communist Party of India-Maoist rebels bombed the ancestral home of the cousin of Satyanand Bhotka, a former minister. The incident caused no damage and no casualties were reporetd.
05/18/2008: On Sunday, in Narayanpur, Chhattisgarh, India, assailants kidnapped 12 civilians from the Dumratai, Vakulvadi, and Khadibahar areas.  No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed Maoists were responsible.
07/02/2008: On Wednesday at an undetermined time, in Dhanbad, Jharkhan, India, CPI-Maoists opened fire on a livestock truck. There were no reported casualties.
02/15/2008: In seemingly related incidents late Friday evening (around 10:30 p.m. local time), approximately 400 presumed Naxalites (Maoist insurgents), including women and children, carried out simultaneous attacks on the police training school, armory and the police station in Nayagarh District of Orissa, India in order to steal weapons and ammunition. In these related incidents along with the subsequent attack in the Daspalla District, collectively 13 police officers and one civilian were killed and 10 civilians were injured in these attacks.
11/14/2008: On Friday, three policemen were injured in a landmine blast triggered by Communist Party of India - Maoist rebels at Injeram in Konta constituency close to the Andhra Pradesh border in Chhattisgarh province, Dantewada. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
11/02/2008: On Sunday night at 2300, a group of about 20 suspected Communist Party of India-Maoist militants, belonging to the outfit's Koraput squad, blasted two tractors, two sheds and some machinery of a contractor at the Adarigedda minor irrigation project in Parvathipuram division of Vizianagaram district in Andhra Pradesh, India. A letter left behind by the Maoists said that they were protesting against the injustice meted out to tribes displaced by the project. No casualties were reported.
07/26/2008: On Saturday evening a few minutes after 18:38, a bicycle bomb exploded in the Sardar Patel diamond market in the Bapunagar area of Ahmedabad district, Gujarat province, India. This was the second bomb in a series of 17 serial bomb blasts that took place within 70 minutes in various crowded places in Ahmedabad and killed a total of 56 civilians and injured 200 others. The bomb, which contained ammonium nitrate, ball bearings, a chemical powder, gelatin, plastic bags, cloth rags and a six volt Chinese-made battery attached to a timer device and stored inside a carton, was planted on an old bicycle. Even though the blast was of low intensity, it was enough to shatter the windowpanes of the Ahmedabad Municipal Transport Service buses in the vicinity. A lesser known group called Indian Mujahideen claimed responsibility for the Ahmedabad bombing attacks with a 14 page email manifesto sent to the media minutes before the first bomb blast. According to the Indian Mujahideen, the bombings were carried out to avenge the 2002 anti-Muslim violence in Gujarat. On 08/14/2008, a suspected activist of the Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), Mohammad Sajid Mansori, was arrested by police in Bharuch while on 08/16/2008, the leader of the SIMI movement, Abul Bashar Qasmi, admitted to his and to several other SIMI members’ involvement in connection with the serial bomb blasts after he was arrested by police in Uttar Pradesh. Six other senior SIMI members, in addition to eight locals, were also arrested, for a total of 16 individuals connected to the bombing attacks. Following the police investigation, authorities speculated that the Indian Mujahideen was just a front name for the SIMI group.
07/16/2008: On Wednesday afternoon, at about 1600, near MV-126 village, in Malkangiri, Orissa, India, assailants detonated a landmine improvised explosive device near a police anti-landmine van and then fired upon it, killing 20 Special Operations Group police officers and damaging the vehicle.No group claimed responsibility, but it was widely believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
06/12/2008: On Thursday, Communist Party of India Maoists attacked a visiting team of the National Human Rights Commission in a forest 500 kilometers south of Dantewada, Chhattisgarh, India. Police escorting the team fought an hour-long gun battle with the extremists. No casualties were reported.
12/05/2008: On Friday, four Indian policemen were kidnapped by Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants near the Chitrakonda reservoir in Malkangiri, Orissa, India. The policemen were held for about 18 hours before being released unharmed on 12/06/2008.
07/29/2008: On Tuesday, a bomb was placed at the Radhakrishna textile market in Surat, but police found and defused it before it detonated. No casualties were reported. No claim of responsibility has been reported.
11/27/2008: On Thursday, three suspected Communist Party of India-Maoist militants shot and killed a teacher, identified as Korugattla Pagidiraju, in the Eturunagaram area of the Warangal, Andhra Pradesh, India. The Maoists accused the teacher of being a police informer.
11/25/2008: On Tuesday afternoon at 1315, suspected militants attacked an election rally of the National Conference party at Braat Kalaan, in Sopore village of Baramulla district, Jammu and Kashmir, India, targeting candidate Muhammed Ashraf Ganaie, who escaped unharmed. The attack killed a 14-year-old boy, identified as Afaq Ganaie, and injuring two persons, and damaging a shop. No group claimed responsibility for the grenade attack.
05/25/2008: On Sunday night, suspected Kangleipak Communist Party (KCP) militants set off a timed bomb in the pathology department of the RIMS hospital next to the office of the RIMS Director in Imphal, Manipur province, India. Although no casualties were reported, the explosion caused heavy damages on the doors and office buildings, including the office of the RIMS Director. The hospital had reported receiving threats from KCP militants prior to the bombing attack, although no claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
12/23/2008: On Tuesday, unidentified militants shot dead a senior tea executive in Carramore tea estate along the India-Bhutan border under Harisinga Police Station in Udalguri, Assam, India. Deputy Manager Gautom Kotoky of Corramore Tea Estate, owned by McLeod & Russell Group, was killed. No group claimed responsibility for the attack, however, suspected Adivasi National Liberation Army militants were suspected.
10/18/2008: On Saturday about 20 suspected Communist Party of India-Maoist militants set fire to the private residence of Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Suresh Yadav in the Latehar district of the Indian state of Jharkhand. They also set a four-wheeler on fire after throwing a flammable substance. No casualties were reported and no claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
07/26/2008: On Saturday evening after 18:40, a bicycle bomb exploded at a restaurant in Ahmedabad district, Gujarat province, India. This was one of a series of 17 serial bomb blasts that took place within 70 minutes in various crowded places in Ahmedabad and killed a total of 56 civilians and injured 200 others. The bomb, which contained ammonium nitrate, ball bearings, a chemical powder, gelatin, plastic bags, cloth rags and a six volt Chinese-made battery attached to a timer device and stored inside a carton, was planted on an old bicycle. Even though the blast was of low intensity, it was enough to shatter the windowpanes of the Ahmedabad Municipal Transport Service buses in the vicinity. A lesser known group called Indian Mujahideen claimed responsibility for the Ahmedabad bombing attacks with a 14 page email manifesto sent to the media minutes before the first bomb blast. According to the Indian Mujahideen, the bombings were carried out to avenge the 2002 anti-Muslim violence in Gujarat. On 08/14/2008, a suspected activist of the Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), Mohammad Sajid Mansori, was arrested by police in Bharuch while on 08/16/2008, the leader of the SIMI movement, Abul Bashar Qasmi, admitted to his and to several other SIMI members’ involvement in connection with the serial bomb blasts after he was arrested by police in Uttar Pradesh. Six other senior SIMI members, in addition to eight locals, were also arrested, for a total of 16 individuals connected to the bombing attacks. Following the police investigation, authorities speculated that the Indian Mujahideen was just a front name for the SIMI group.
01/22/2008: Unknown perpetrators detonated a bomb at the Srirampur checkgate in Assam, India. The attack killed no one but injured eight people.
09/20/2008: On Saturday evening, unknown assailants threw a grenade at the home of an Irrigation and Flood Control Department executive engineer in Thangmeiband Sinam Leikai, Imphal West, Manipur, India. The blast caused an unknown amount of damage to the house but caused no casualties. No claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
08/04/2008: On Monday morning at 0700, Rana Sarma, a trooper of the Sashastra Seema Bal paramilitary force, was shot dead by suspected United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) militants in the Malihita locality of Bongaigaon district, Assam province, India. No claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
11/30/2008: On Sunday, in Ramgarh, Jharkhand, India, five assailants hijacked a cargo truck, kidnapping the driver and his assistant and stealing the truck and 23 tons of ammonium nitrate. Later, the assailants released the victims. They were later found unconscious on the side of a road. No group claimed responsibility, but authorities believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
05/18/2008: On Sunday, at about noon, in Sahadiar village, Domkol, Murshidabad, West Bengal, India, assailants threw a bomb at people waiting in line to vote in local elections, killing one civilian. No group claimed responsibility.
10/30/2008: On Thursday morning, a bomb exploded in a market place in Bongaigaon, Assam, India. At least five to 10 people were injured during the blast. This was one of 13 other related bombings in Assam within an hour.  The bomb was allegedly placed in a car. Police suspected United Liberation Front of Assam or Harkatul Jihad-e-Islami militants were responsible for the blasts. Five people were arrested for their supposed connection to the incidents on 11/07/2008 in Nalbiri, Assam, India. No claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
08/18/2008: On Monday, a  National Socialist Council of Nagaland-Isak-Muivah (NSCN-IM) militan was killed at his residence in Kohima by unidentified militants. No claim of responsibility has been reported.
10/15/2008: On Wednesday night, suspected Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI) militants shot dead two persons at Bundu of the Ranchi district in the Indian state of Jharkhand. No claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
09/24/2008: Wednesday, three villagers of Heirok were injured when the bus they were on was attacked by a suspected militant at Singjamei Mayengbam Leikai. The civilians were protesting about protection against militants. No group or individual has claimed responsibility for the attack.
11/02/2008: On Sunday afternoon at 1415, West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee and Union Steel Minister Ram Vilas Pawan escaped an improvised explosive device explosion. The landmine, allegedly planted by Communist Party of India-Maoists, exploded after the officials convoy passed through Kalaichandi in West Medinipur district, West Bengal, India. The explosive device, which was in a plastic milk can, was attached to a wire that stretched nearly two kilometers across an adjoining paddy field and was planted near a bridge on Kalaichandi canal. The blast damaged a pilot vehicle and injured six police personnel, identified as Mukul Phul Mali, Judhistir Mahato, Ranjit Mondal, Kartick Maity, Rabindranath Mahato and Alakavo Chowdhury, as well as a passerby. No group claimed responsibility.
07/29/2008: On Tuesday, a bomb was placed in the Katargam area in Surat, but police found and defused it before it detonated. No casualties were reported. No claim of responsibility has been reported.
01/02/2008: A crude bomb was found in Hyderabad’s NTR Garden near the state secretariat of Andhra Pradesh. Police said the bomb was recovered and defused by the bomb disposal squad.
01/01/2008: Between 3-5 men with guns and grenades ambushed the Central Reserve Police Force recruitment centre  in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh in India early yesterday (Tuesday), in an attack that killed seven police officers and one rickshaw puller. The men opened fire at the centre located in Rampur over 250 kilometers north-west of state capital Lucknow at about 2:20 am. After they shot and killed two police officers and the rickshaw puller, the men threw a grenade over the gate of the centre which killed 5 more officers. Five reserve officers and two constables from the state police were also injured in the gun battle. No group has claimed responsibility but it is suspected that the Islamic militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba are the attackers. They were not captured.
12/01/2008: On Monday, two tribals were killed and their houses looted by around 30 armed militants of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) at Meduru village of Chintapalli mandal, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India. The Maoists had reportedly branded the tribals as police informers. They also warned other tribals of serious consequences if they support the police.
05/11/2008: On Sunday evening at 1830, suspected Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants detonated a landmine targeting a Border Security Force vehicle escorting village polling personnel on the road between Gangarampur and Sirka in Bandwan, West Bengal, India. One person was killed and 11 were wounded and a jeep was blown up in the bombing. The attack was in response to the Maoists request that the villagers boycott the poll. No group claimed responsibility.
11/14/2008: On Friday, alleged Bharatiya Janata Party workers set an election vehicle of the rival Congress Party on fire in Dhamtari, Chhattisgarh province, India. No casualties were reported and no claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
10/02/2008: On Thursday evening, approximately 75 suspected Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI) militants detonated bombs targeting two cell phone towers belonging to Indian owned Reliance Communications and Airtel Communications in Erauri village of Aurangabad district, Bihar province, India. Following the bombing attack which caused an unknown amount of damage to the towers, eight villagers were injured when they resisted the CPI Maoists’ attempt to blow up the towers. This was one of two similar bombing attacks targeting Reliance and Airtel cell phone towers in the villages of Erauri and Ketki. No claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
01/31/2008: Unknown Maoist rebels kidnapped nine villagers in Chhattisgarh, India. The resolution of the kidnapping is unknown.
07/29/2008: On Tuesday, a bomb was placed in the Katargam area in Surat, but police found and defused it before it detonated. No casualties were reported. No claim of responsibility has been reported.
04/26/2008: On Saturday, the Hmar People’s Convention-Democracy (HPC-D) militants attacked and caused substantial damage to dam machineries installed at the Tipaimukh dam construction site of the Tipaimukh Multi-Purpose Hydel Project in the state of Manipur, India. The HPC(D) in a statement said the ongoing drilling work at the site is against the interest of the Hmar people as it involved their land, right and dignity.
01/02/2008: A policeman was killed and five others injured in a strike by Maoists at the Bansjore police outpost bordering Jharkhand and Orissa. There were over 50 involved in the attack which started at midnight. More than 1000 rounds were exchanged between the rebels and police force who were able to recover three live cane bombs and country grenades.
07/14/2008: On Monday, a NSCN-IM militant was abducted and later shot dead along with his nephew by National Socialist Council of Nagaland-Khaplang (NSCN-K) militants in Kohima, Nagaland, India.
11/10/2008: On Monday, unidentified militants opened fire on the residence of a government engineer, identified as Sagolsem Bihari, in the Imphal West district of the Indian state of Manipur. There were no casualties or damage caused. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
06/12/2008: On Thursday, suspected militants exploded a Chinese hand grenade inside the residence of Deputy Inspector General of Arms Police-II L. Khaijamang Haokip at New Lambulane in Imphal, Manipur, India. Part of the grenade was recovered with the words CF-90 written on it. Furniture and flower pots were damaged in the explosion but no casualties were reported. Khaijamang has received threats from the Kuki Liberation Army before the attack.
10/14/2008: On Tuesday, unidentified militants abducted Dilip Singh Bey, a junior engineer of Assam’s Public Works Department, in Horiojan village, Bokajan district, Assam province, India. Bey was later assaulted and killed by the militants on or before 10/22/2008 when his body was found in a lower primary school in Sankartila village of Karbi Anglong district, Assam province, India. No claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
11/13/2008: On Thursday afternoon at about 1410, a cargo train between Jatinga and Bajatar was damaged after Black Widow militants opened fire on it in the North Cachar Hills district of the Indian state of Assam. The engine was damaged in the attack. No casualties were reported. No group claimed responsibility, but authorities believed the Dima Halim Daogah-Jewel Garlossa (DHD-J) was responsible.
10/02/2008: On Thursday night, 50 suspected Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) insurgents detonated explosives at a primary school in Satbadini village of Chatra, Jharkhand province, India. The blast damaged the entire school building but resulted in no casualties. No claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
07/30/2008: On Wednesday, police were attacked by a former Naxalite and his accomplice in Karimnagar. One of the militants was killed when the police returned fire.
4/4/2008: On Friday, at 2300, a group of 25 Maoists militants abducted UML candidate Ashok Rai from Thoksila VDC in Udaipur, Rajasthan, India. Rai was abducted while he was sleeping and was released three hours later. Police arrested six Maoists for their involvement in the abduction.
01/22/2008: Unknown perpetrators kidnapped two section engineers from a railway complex in Halfong, India. The resolution of the kidnapping is unknown. Dimasa militants are suspected to be at fault for kidnapping section engineer Ashwini Kumar and P Duwara in a railway complex in Halfong of NC Hills district. The kidnapping occurred at around 0730 hours.
07/17/2008: On Thursday afternoon at 13:05, 42 people, mostly civilians, were wounded when  Lashkar-e-Tayyiba (LeT) militants lobbed a grenade at the crowded Banihal bus stand in Doda district, Jammu and Kashmir province, India. Six CRPF security personnel were also injured in the attack. On 08/06/2008, police arrested LeT militant Nazir Ahmed who was allegedly involved in the attack. No claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
05/18/2008: On Sunday afternoon at about 1630, in Domkol, Murshidabad, West Bengal, India, assailants threw bombs and fired upon people waiting in line to vote in local elections, killing one civilian and one child. No damage was reported and the motive in political in nature. No group claimed responsibility.
07/29/2008: On Tuesday, in Surat, Gujarat, India, 18 bombs were found and defused in various locations. In one of six related attacks, two bombs were discovered and defused in the diamond market adjacent to the Varacha Road. They were kept at strategic points, including behind street hoardings or near garbage dumps. It was the third consecutive day live bombs and explosives were found in Surat. There were no casualties, motive or damage reported and no group claimed responsibility.
08/21/2008: On Thursday at noon, in Raniganj, Gaya, Bihar, India, around twelve Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants attacked policemen at Punjab National Bank, killing six police officers, one civilian, and wounding three. One CPI-Maoist militant was killed in the exchange of fire. The militants left behind a note claiming responsibility for the attack, which was aimed at avenging police atrocities.
08/07/2008: On Thursday, suspected United Liberation Front of Assam militants detonated a low intensity bomb near a drain in Bongaigaon, Assam, India. No casaulties resulted in the explosion.
10/01/2008: On Wednesday, at Palai Nallah, in the Kahara area of Gandoh, Jammu and Kashmir, India, three alleged militants kidnapped Ghulam Mohammad Magray, took him to a nearby hill and killed him by slitting his throat. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
10/13/2008: On Monday evening at 2045, two civilians were shot dead by unidentified militants near a canal in Taothong village outside Imphal West district, Manipur province, India. The militants allegedly forced the duo to accompany them and gunned them down from point blank range. No claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
11/13/2008: On Thursday, a Congress leader, identified as Trinath Singh Thakur, was killed by militants of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) at Kadapal village in the Dantewada district. The Congress President of Kuakonda block had allegedly went to the village for party work and was killed by the CPI-M who slit his throat.
09/30/2008: On Tuesday evening during the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr, police discovered and safely defused a bomb planted by suspected Bangladesh based Harkat ul-Jihad-e-Islami (HuJI) militants at Motor Stand in Agartala, Tripura province, India. This was one of six serial bombs planted in different areas around Agartala. The bombs, which contained pellets, were set off by sophisticated timers according to police. No claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
04/10/2008: On Thursday, the Communist Party of India- Maoist shot and killed six activists of the Sashastra People's Morcha (SPM) in the Rohtas District of Bihar, Jharkhand, India. The victims were from the Barachatti and Mohanpur areas of Gaya district, close to the Jharkhand border. The encounter took place in the Tardih jungle, some 160 km south-west of the state capital Patna. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
07/01/2008: On Tuesday, in Bastar, Chhattisgarh, India, assailants kidnapped two suspected police informants, Patri Baloji and Barsa Buddu. On 07/07/2008, in Bijapur, Chhattisgarh, India and Dantewara, Chhattisgarh, India, authorities found the victims' bodies. No group claimed responsibility, but it was widely believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
07/01/2008: On Tuesday, in Jaguguda village, Koraput, Orissa, India, assailants detonated a bomb on a Reliance Communications cell phone tower and set fire to the tower maintenance office, damaging the tower and office but causing no injuries. No group claimed responsibility, but it was widely believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
06/03/2008: On Tuesday, 25 - 30 Communist Party of India Maoist militants pulled down 14 electricity poles in the Mahimangwadi and Chotedonagar area on the Orcha Road in Narayanpur, Chhattisgarh, India. No casualties were reported.
09/30/2008: On Tuesday evening at 1942 during the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr, the third of six serial bombs went off at the GB Bazaar in Agartala, Tripura province, India. Three additional blasts went off at nearby markets, an ashram and a bus stand over a 90 minute time span killing a total of four people and wounding at least 76 others. Two additional bombs were discovered by police and safely defused preventing further casualties. The bombs, which contained pellets, were set off by sophisticated timers according to police. No claim of responsibility was made for the incident, although authorities suspect Bangladesh based Harkat ul-Jihad-e-Islami (HuJI) militants carried out the attack.
07/29/2008: On Tuesday, in Surat, Gujarat, India, 18 bombs were found and defused in various locations. In one of six related attacks, another bomb was discovered and defused in the Radhakrishna textile market. They were kept at strategic points, including behind street hoardings or near garbage dumps. It was the third consecutive day live bombs and explosives were found in Surat. There were no casualties, motive or damage reported and no group claimed responsibility.
07/17/2008: On Thursday, suspected militants hurled a bomb at the residence of a woman doctor, Sanatombi, at Hatta in Imphal, Manipur, India. The bomb failed to explode. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
07/29/2008: On Tuesday, in Surat, Gujarat, India, 18 bombs were found and defused in various locations. In one of six related attacks, two bombs were discovered and defused on a fly-over (overpass). They were kept at strategic points, including behind street hoardings or near garbage dumps. It was the third consecutive day live bombs and explosives were found in Surat. There were no casualties, motive or damage reported and no group claimed responsibility.
12/20/2008: On Saturday evening, at 1700,six suspected members of the Communist Party of India-Maoist shot and killed a school teacher, identified as Sobhan Tuddu, in Kashiabera, East Singhbhum, Jharkhand, India. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
09/20/2008: On Saturday, one National Socialist Council of Nagaland-Khaplang (NSCN-K) militant, Mughaho, was killed and three others, including a civilian, were injured when three unidentified militants opened fire at Burma Camp bazaar in Dimapur.
01/23/2008: Unknown perpetrators kidnapped and killed a Village Defense Committee member in Doda District of Jammu and Kashmir.
07/29/2008: On Tuesday, in Surat, Gujarat, India, 18 bombs were found and defused in various locations. In one of six related attacks, 10 bombs were found and defused on the Varacha Road in Katargam. They were kept at strategic points, including behind street hoardings or near garbage dumps. It was the third consecutive day live bombs and explosives were found in Surat. There was no casualties, motive or damage reported and no group claimed responsibility.
07/14/2008: On Monday night, an unknown militant shot and killed Prem Nath, a member of Village Defense Committee (VDC), at Dedal Dhar in the Chatru area in Kishtwar district, Jammu and Kashmir province, India. No claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
05/03/2008: On Saturday, in Chhatroo, Kishtwar, Jammu and Kashmir, India, assailants kidnapped and killed one surrendered militant, Inayat Ahmed, and one government employee, Bashir Ahmed, of the Public and Health Engineering Department. No group claimed responsibility, but it was widely believed Hizbul Mujahedeen was responsible.
12/10/2008: On Wednesday, an improvised explosive device was placed at a cinema in the village of Ambari in Goalpara, Assam, India. Security forces discovered and defused the bomb before it could explode. No casualties or damages resulted and no group claimed responsibility for the attempted bombing.
06/09/2008: On Monday, an improvised explosive device exploded in a farmer's field near a Border Security Force camp at Wangjing in Thoubal, Manipur, India. The farmer, Sanasam Thoiba, was killed in the blast. No group claimed responsibility.
11/21/2008: On Friday, unidentified militants threw a grenade at the residence of a Bahujan Samaj Party candidate, Ashfaq Yusuf Bhat, at Baghat in the outskirts of Sopore, Jammu and Kashmir, India. The grenade exploded outside the residence but no casualties were inflicted. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
10/02/2008: On Thursday evening, approximately 75 suspected Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI) militants detonated bombs targeting two cell phone towers belonging to Indian owned Reliance Communications and Airtel Communications in Ketkii village of Aurangabad district, Bihar province, India. Following the bombing attack, which caused an unknown amount of damage to the towers, seven villagers were injured when they resisted the CPI Maoists’ attempt to blow up the towers. This was one of two similar bombing attacks targeting Reliance and Airtel cell phone towers in the villages of Erauri and Ketki. No claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
05/11/2008: On Sunday, after assailants fired on the home of a political party leader, they went to another house and took four civilians and two children hostage. Later, one hostage, one photo journalist, and two soldiers were killed and one police officer, one soldier, and four civilians were wounded in an exchange of fire between the assailants and authorities. No group claimed responsibility.
07/30/2008: On Wednesday, a bomb was planted in the Varacha area of Surat but was found and defused by Indian police. No casualties were reported. No claim of responsibility has been reported.
11/21/2008: On Friday, the residence of a former Bodo Liberation Tiger Force militant was attacked by National Democratic Front of Bodoland militants in the Karbi Anglong district of the Indian state of Assam. No casualties were reported in the attack.
11/13/2008: On Thursday, ten armed men boarded and hijacked the 'Kuber', a privately-owned fishing trawler with five crewmen from Porbandar, Gujarat state.  The ship's navigator Amar Singh Solanki was bound and executed by the hijackers, who allegedly steered the vessel to Mumbai before abandoning it using inflatable dinghies. Solanki was found tied up in the engine room with his throat slit. The four other crewmen of the ‘Kuber’ were reported missing. The fishing trawler had set sail from Porbander on 11/13/2008 and was later found drifting in the Arabian Sea by a Coast Guard helicopter.  According to the police, 10 assailants had sailed in a merchant vessel from Karachi on the high seas, before boarding Kuber. Armed with grenades, RDX and AK-47s, the men used the fishing trawler to enter Mumbai to perpetrate eight other terrorist attacks on 11/26/2008 to 11/29/2008 in which 171 people were killed and 250 were wounded. The assailants were later identified as Ismail Khan alias Abu Ismail from Dera Ismail Khan, Mohammed Ajmal Amir Iman alias Kasab, Abdul Rehman alias Abdul Rehman Chhota from Multan, Fahadullah alias Abu Fahad from Okara, Nasir alias Abu Umar from Faisalabad, Babar Imran alias Abu Akasha from Multan, Hafeez Arshad alias Bada Abdul Rehman from Multan, Javed alias Abu Ali from Okara, Shoaib alias Soheb from Sialkot and Nazeer alias Abu Umer from Faisalabad.
04/03/2008: On Thursday, two police constables, Tariq Ahmad Bhat and Nazir Ahmad Dar, were abducted by Imran Group of Al-Badr Mujahideen militants in Surigam village, Kupwara, Jammu and Kashmir province, India. No claim of responsibility was made for the incident. On 04/04/2008 on Friday, Imran Group of Al-Badr Mujahideen militants killed the two kidnapped police constables by splitting their throats in the Batnoor forest outside Kupwara district, Jammu and Kashmir province, India. Jaish-e-Mohammad claimed responsibility for the killing.
03/16/2008: Nine security personnel were injured when The Manipur Peoples Army threw grenades and opened fire at the post of 23rd Assam Rifles Battalion in the Imphal East District, India.
06/09/2008: On Monday, at least six people were wounded when suspected militants opened fire upon a vehicle in a wedding procession near a bus stand in front of the UBI bank in Bishenpur, Manipur, India. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
07/29/2008: On Tuesday, in Surat, Gujarat, India, 18 bombs were found and defused in various locations. In one of six related attacks, another bomb was discovered and defused in front of the Sardarpura police station. They were kept at strategic points, including behind street hoardings or near garbage dumps. It was the third consecutive day live bombs and explosives were found in Surat. There were no casualties, motive or damage reported and no group claimed responsibility.
05/11/2008: On Sunday afternoon at 14:30, ten suspected Black Widow (BW) militants from the Liberation Tigers Of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) opened indiscriminate fire and shot dead eight laborers and wounded two others from Sukhdew Construction company engaged in the construction of railway quarters at Thoibasti in the North Cachar Hills district, Assam province, India. The attack was allegedly carried out as a means of retaliation for the military operation that killed 12 Black Widow militants on 05/10/2008 in the same location. No claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
09/30/2008: On Tuesday evening at 2015 during the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr, the fourth of six serial bombs went off near the Kathiababa Ashram on the outskirts of Agartala, Tripura province, India. Three additional blasts went off at nearby markets and a bus stand over a 90 minute time span killing a total of four people and wounding at least 76 others. Two additional bombs were discovered by police and safely defused preventing further casualties. The bombs, which contained pellets, were set off by sophisticated timers according to police. No claim of responsibility was made for the incident, although authorities suspect Bangladesh based Harkat ul-Jihad-e-Islami (HuJI) militants carried out the attack.
03/25/2008: Unidentified militants fired at a group of young boy and girls participating in a dance festival killing three and wounding two in Heirok village in Manipur's Thoubal district. The militants, whose motive was unclear, were not caught.
04/26/2008: On Saturday, the National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) militants abducted railway engineer Debabrata Das and shot dead head mason Birendra Debnath from a railway construction site at Dalhampara near Mungiakami block in the Barmura hill in the West Tripura district, Tripura province, India. NLFT militants demanded a ransom of INR 2,500,000 (U.S. $62551.92) for his release. No claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
07/26/2008: On Saturday evening at 19:48, a bicycle bomb exploded in an undisclosed location in the Maninagar area of Ahmedabad district, Gujarat province, India. This was the seventeenth of a series of 17 serial bomb blasts that took place within 70 minutes in various crowded places in Ahmedabad and killed a total of 56 civilians and injured 200 others. The bomb, which contained ammonium nitrate, ball bearings, a chemical powder, gelatin, plastic bags, cloth rags and a six volt Chinese-made battery attached to a timer device and stored inside a carton, was planted on an old bicycle. The blast was of higher intensity than the first 12 explosions and caused several nearby vehicles to catch fire. A lesser known group called Indian Mujahideen claimed responsibility for the Ahmedabad bombing attacks with a 14 page email manifesto sent to the media minutes before the first bomb blast. According to the Indian Mujahideen, the bombings were carried out to avenge the 2002 anti-Muslim violence in Gujarat. On 08/14/2008, a suspected activist of the Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), Mohammad Sajid Mansori, was arrested by police in Bharuch while on 08/16/2008, the leader of the SIMI movement, Abul Bashar Qasmi, admitted to his and to several other SIMI members’ involvement in connection with the serial bomb blasts after he was arrested by police in Uttar Pradesh. Six other senior SIMI members, in addition to eight locals, were also arrested, for a total of 16 individuals connected to the bombing attacks. Following the police investigation, authorities speculated that the Indian Mujahideen was just a front name for the SIMI group.
06/09/2008: On Monday, Communist Party of India Maoists removed a stretch of the Kirandole rail line on the Bailadial-Vishakhapatnam section in Dantewada, Chhattisgarh, India. The sabotage resulted in the derailment of two engines. No casualties were reported.
04/04/2008: On Friday, Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants shot and killed a villager, Sayam Lachha, during a wedding in the Ragadpali village of Malkangiri district, Orissa province, India, accusing him of being a police informer. No claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
11/04/2008: On Tuesday, unidentified militants threw a hand grenade the residence of Koijam Gyaneshore of the Engineering Cell of the State Education Department in the Chingmeirong Mamang Leikai area of Imphal in the Indian state of Manipur, India. The device failed to explode. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility for the attack.
11/04/2008: On Tuesday, Communist Party of India-Maoist militants opened fire on a helicopter carrying a Bharatiya Janata Party politician in the Koilibera area of the Kanker district in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh. The militants missed the intended target. No casualties were reported in the attack.
05/04/2008: On Sunday, suspected militants of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) killed a leader of the ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) and injured another in the Bhomaragarh area of the Purulia district, West Bengal province, India. The slain member of the CPI-M zonal committee, Ganapati Bhadra, was shot several times in the stomach with a pistol, while travelling on a motorcycle. No claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
11/20/2008: On Thursday night at 2310, in Sopore, Baramula, Jammu and Kashmir, India, assailants fired rocket-propelled grenades (RPG) into a sub-divisional magistrate's (SDM) office and a police station, wounding one police officer and breaking window panes and glass dors of the office and station. Lashkar-e-Tayyiba (LeT) claimed responsibility.
12/10/2008: On Wednesday, unknown militants abducted three Manipur government officials employed by the Khadi and Village Industries Board in Churanchandpur, Manipur, India. No group claimed responsibility for the attack but Kuki National Front militants are suspected.
07/01/2008: On Tuesday around noon at about 1245, in Langol Games village, Imphal East, Manipur, India, three armed assailants hijacked a bus, kidnapping four civilians and one bus driver. Later, the assailants released the victims and attempted to set fire to the bus but were stopped by authorities, damaging the bus but causing no casualties. The Kanglei Yawol Kanna Lup (KYKL) claimed responsibility.
05/11/2008: On Sunday morning at about 0750, in Samba, Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir, India, assailants fired upon the home of a political party leader, killing him and his wife and wounding two other family members. The assailants then took four civilians and two children hostage in another house. Later, one hostage, one photo journalist, and two soldiers were killed and one police officer, one soldier, and four civilians were wounded in an exchange of fire between the assailants and authorities. No group claimed responsibility.
05/18/2008: On Sunday evening at 2100, in Domkol, Murshidabad, West Bengal, India, assailants threw bombs at a polling booth and stole a ballot box, damaging the booth and destroying several voting ballots but causing no casualties.  No group claimed responsibility.
06/09/2008: On Monday, at 1930, a group of 200 armed Communist Party of India Maoists stormed the industrial pocket at Bacheli village near Kirandole in Dantewada, Chhattisgarh, India. The Maoists burnt 22 trucks meant for transporting iron-ore for the Essar Steel plant. No casualties were reported.
08/14/2008: On Thursday, a bomb made with batteries, flexible wires and detonators was planted on Dokmoka-Samelangso road by suspected Karbi Longri North Cachar Liberation Front militants in Dokmoka, Karbi Anglong, Assam, India. The bomb was recovered before it could explode.
09/19/2008: On Friday afternoon at 1330, unknown assailants threw a grenade at the home of a Public Works Department engineer in Sagolband Khanam Leirak, Sadokpam Leikai, Imphal West, Manipur, India. The blast caused an unknown amount of damage to the house, but caused no injuries. No claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
12/28/2008: On Sunday, in Kokrapara, Bijapur, Chhattisgarh, India, a school teacher, a villager, and a Special Police Officer were killed while five others were injured when 50 armed members of the Communist Party of India-Maoist opened fire on a market. Unknown firearms and sharp-edged weapons were used in the attack. No damages were reported and no group claimed responsibility for the attack.
09/18/2008: On Thursday afternoon at 1310, suspected United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) militants fired upon and killed a civilian in Chengapathar village, Udalguri, Assam, India. No claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
11/04/2008: On Tuesday, Communist Party of India-Maoist militants set fire to a jeep and a van at Busuput village of Pedhabayalu in the Visakhapatnam district on the Orissa border in India. Maoists allegedly stopped the jeep and the van, ordered the occupants to get out before setting the vehicles on fire. No one was injured in the incident. The Maoists left behind some pamphlets.
10/18/2008: On Saturday night, about 20 suspectedCommunist Party of India-Maoist (CPI) militants attacked and wounded 12 civilians in the Latehar district of the Indian state of Jharkhand. No claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
09/30/2008: On Tuesday evening at 1930 during the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr, the first of six serial bombs went off at the Radhanagar bus stand in Agartala, Tripura province, India. Three more blasts went off at nearby markets over a 90 minute time span killing a total of four people and wounding at least 76 others. Two additional bombs were discovered by police and safely defused preventing further casualties. The bombs, which contained pellets, were set off by sophisticated timers according to police. No claim of responsibility was made for the incident, although authorities suspect Bangladesh based Harkat ul-Jihad-e-Islami (HuJI) militants carried out the attack.
01/18/2009: On Sunday, four landmines, concealed near a bridge, were recovered and defused by the Police at Kyatagana Perla village near Pavagada in the Tumkur District. According to the police, a senior Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadre, Peddanna, who was in the custody of the Andhra Pradesh Police and had been brought by the Pavagada Police for questioning in the Venkataramanahalli incident in which nine Policemen were shot dead, revealed that he had concealed the landmines under a bridge.
09/12/2009: On Saturday, on the border of Imphal, Thoubal and Ukhrul, Manipur, India, assailants fired several rocket-propelled grenades at a military convoy killing four Indian soldiers and wounding four others. No group claimed responsibility.
10/12/2009: On Monday, Ananda Mahato (32), a member of the Anti-Maoist "Maobadi Protirodh Committee," was abducted by Communist Party of India- Maoists. Mahato was taken from the Kulabheda village of the Midnapore district and killed by a group of six armed men. Mahato used to be a Congress worker who later switched to Jharkhand Party-Aditya.
10/13/2009: On Tuesday evening, three police officers, including an assistant sub-inspector, were shot and killed by Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants in the Bandap area of Mayurbhanj district in India's Orissa state. The Maoists opened fire on them from behind. The attack occurred during the prize-giving ceremony of a soccer match in Mayurbhanj, Orissa, at the Phndab village about 30 kilometers from Baripada. Police officials claimed the militants were targeting a former Member of Parliament. Senior JMM leader and former Mayurbhanj MP Sudam Marandi, who was present at the function, escaped unhurt. A police officer said the dead include ASI N C Pradhan, a gramrakhi and a Marandi PSO. There has been no claim of responsibility in the incident.
04/16/2009: On Thursday, suspected Communist Party of India - Maoists (CPI-M) rebels attacked paramilitary soldiers in Latehar, Jharkhand, India, killing six troopers. The attack was an attempt to disrupt the general election that occurred on that day. The Maoists say they are fighting for the rights of neglected tribal people and landless farmers.
08/25/2009: On Tuesday, in Sundargarh, Orissa, India, assailants detonated an improvised explosive device at the Roxy railway station. They also set fire to vehicles and kidnapped three employees of the station. They released the victims a three hours later. No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
08/24/2009: On Monday morning at around 0730, in Latehar, Jharkhand, India, about 20 Naxalites blew up a stretch of railway track just 10 minutes after the Delhi-Ranchi Rajdhani Express train crossed the area. The Communist Party of India (Maoist) / Naxalites were responsible.
10/12/2009: On Monday, the body of Jharkhand anti-Maoist “Maobadi Protirodh Committee" member, Kanai Murmu (48), was found. Murmu, a resident of Jorkisoli village near Lalgarh, was dragged out from his house by a group of armed men in the early hours of 10/12/2009. Later, his bullet-riddled body was found by local residents beside a pond in Binapur's Salpatra. Murmu was a former gram panchayat (village level local self-Government institution) member of Jharkhand Party-Naren, who had joined the Gana Pratirodh Committee (an anti-Maoist Committee) and mobilized local youths against Maoists. No group claimed responsibility.
08/25/2009: On Tuesday night, in Jaintia, Meghalaya, India, assailants threw a petrol bomb on a truck injuring four people. No group claimed responsibility.
09/13/2009: On Sunday evening at 2030, in the Binpur area of West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, assailants fired upon and killed a supporter of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M). No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
05/31/2009: On Sunday, in Waithou, Thoubal District, Manipur, India, a former People's Liberation Army (PLA) cadre, Khagembam Mahesh alias Rishikesh, was shot dead by the Assam Rifles personnel along the India-Myanmar road. His accomplice managed to escaped. Khagembam opened fire on the Assam Rifles personnel when they asked his accomplice who was riding a motorcycle to stop.Khagembam was the pillion rider of his accomplice and he was killed in the retaliatory firing of the Assam Rifles personnel. There was no reported damage.
07/18/2009: On Saturday afternoon, in Joypur-Sanpur Dimasa village, Lakhipur, Assam, India, around 25 houses were set on fire by Zeme Naga militants of the National Socialist Council of Nagaland – Khaplang (NSCN-K). The group comprised of 50 NSCN-K members, came to the village and fired around 100 rounds in the air to create terror among the villagers. No causalities were reported.
07/18/2009: On Saturday morning at 1000, in Puruliya, West Bengal, India, assailants detonated a bomb on railway tracks near Urma railway station, damaging the tracks but causing no injuries. No group claimed responsibility, but it was widely believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
04/16/2009: On Thursday, in Phulwera village, Raj Nandgaon, Chhattisgarh, India, assailants detonated a landmine improvised explosive device on a vehicle carrying election officials, killing five election officials and wounding two others and damaging the vehicle.The Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) claimed responsibility.
05/19/2009: On Tuesday, in Ujiar Behra village, Gaya, Bihar, India, assailants detonated a bomb on a human resource development department building, damaging the building but causing no casualties.  No group claimed responsibility, but authorities believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
05/31/2009: On Sunday, in Rollagedda, Chitrakonda, Malkangiri District, Orissa, India, suspected Communist Party of India- Maoist cadres exploded an iron ore pipeline of the Essar Company. No group claimed responsibility. There were no reported casualties.
10/29/2009: On Thursday afternoon at about 1440, near Itam Thong on the Imphal-Ukhrul road under Lamlai Police Station, in Imphal, Manipur, India, four suspected militants opened fired on Assam Rifles personnel, injuring one civilian but causing no property damage. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
02/10/2009: On Tuesday,  at Tuibaklaipara village, 12 kilometres from the Police Station in the West District, India, the Officer-in-Charge of Champahower Police Station, Shyamal Debbarma, was injured, when the suspected All Tripura Tiger Force (ATTF) or suspected National Liberation Front of Tripura, militants opened fire at Police personnel who were returning from a search operation at Nandakumarpara and Tuibaklai Khowai area. No damage or motive were reported.
07/18/2009: On Saturday, in Imphal West, Manipur, India, unidentified gunmen fired rounds at the Regional Institute of Medical Science and Hospital. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility.
01/09/2009: On Friday, National Socialist Council of Nagaland-Isak-Muivah (NSCN-IM) militants kidnapped six Indian soldiers on a routine patrol in the Zhamai area of Phek, Nagaland, India. Captain Shapam Momo was among those taken hostage. Their arms and ammunition were also taken. They were reportedly kept in the confinement at a nearby NSCN-IM designated camp in Kopamedzu. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility.
08/25/2009: On Tuesday, in Ludhiana, Punjab, India, an assailant fired upon people at a railway station platform, killing one vendor and wounding two Government Railway Police (GRP) officers and damaging the station. No group claimed responsibility.
04/16/2009: On Thursday, seven polling booths were set ablaze by unknown assailants in Chitrakonda, Malkangiri district, Orissa, India.  One vehicle and two electronic voting machines (EVM's)  were also burned in the attack. No casualties were reported. No group claimed responsibility, but it was widely believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
05/17/2009: On Sunday, near Kulia, Howrah, India, Communist Party of India-Maoist cadres allegedly damaged homes of Congress supporters and set fire to over 30 homes. This took place after the cadres forced over 400 Congress members out of their residences. No group claimed responsibility.
01/09/2009: On Friday evening, at 1830, United Liberation Front of Assam militants detonated an improvised explosive device  outside the Northeast Frontier Railways headquarters at Maligaon in Guwahati, Kamrup, Assam, India. Three civilians were killed and six others wounded in the bombing. The IED was placed on a bicycle parked between two privately owned cars. No group claimed responsibility; however, police suspect the United Liberation Front of Assam as responsible.
07/10/2009: On Friday afternoon at about 1215, in Bhojpur, Bihar, India, a teenaged youth came into the wakaltkhana or lawyer’s chamber and detonated a bomb tied to his waist, killing a lawyer and the bomber, and injuring five others. No group claimed responsibility.
11/01/2009: On Sunday, at the Kaithalkuchi railway station, in Nalbari, India, two unidentified militants attempted to kidnap the chief engineer of North-East Frontier Railway, but were stopped by authorities. No casualties or damages were reported in the attack. No group claimed responsibility but the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) is believed to be responsible.
06/08/2009: On Monday, in Domgaon, Chirang District, Assam, India, a senior Bodo People's Progressive Front politician was killed by suspected Bodo People's Front militants during an attack. No group claimed responsibility.
03/28/2009: On Saturday night, around 2230, about 40 Communist Party of India- Maoist militants kidnapped, shot and killed a local politician, Yakub Kongari, on suspicions that he was a police informer in the Domtoli area of Simdega, Jharkhand, India. No group claimed responsibility but the Maoists are suspected.
10/30/2009: On Friday, in Makali, near Goaltore, Midnapore, West Bengal, India, assailants ransacked and set ablaze the Panchayat village local government office, damaging the office but causing no casualties. The People's Committee Against Police Atrocities (PCPA) is believed to be responsible.
05/19/2009: On Tuesday, in the Photoningla area of North Cachar Hills, Assam, India, unidentified militants attacked and set ablaze 12 houses. No casualties were reported. No group claimed responsibility.
11/22/2009: On Sunday morning, in Nalbari, Assam, India, an improvised explosive device (IED) attached to a bicycle exploded in front of a hotel, wounding three civilians and damaging a scooter and two bicycles. At about 1000, as people were responding to assist the wounded, a second IED exploded in the area, killing eight civilians and wounding 49 others and two children. No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) was responsible.
06/16/2009: On Tuesday, in Burdwan, West Bengal, India, assailants fired upon and killed Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) district committee member Phalguni Mukherjee. No group claimed responsibility.
03/12/2009: On Thursday,  in the Lairenkabi area of Bishenpur, Manipur, India, Kangleipak Communist Party (KCP) militants shot and injured a politician in an attack on his house.
08/30/2009: On Sunday, in the Lalgarh area of Midnapore, West Bengal, India, assailants fired upon and killed a local leader of the ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) as he was returning to his residence. No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
05/11/2009: On Monday, at Solmari near Muktapur, Assam, India, police killed a United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) cadre after militants opened fire on them. Police has recovered one 9 mm pistol.
10/12/2009: On Monday, Communist Party of India-Maoists partially bombed a road bridge connecting Dumri to the Grand Trunk Road in the Giridih district of India. Superintendent of Police Ravi Kant Dhan said that there were also gunshots that were heard. There were no casualties reported. The attack is one of many during the two day bandh called by the Maoists.
10/13/2009: On Tuesday morning at 0600, a group of Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants opened fire on a polling station in the Kasansur area of Aheri in the Gadchiroli district of India's Maharashtra state. No casualties were reported in the attack.
10/13/2009: On Tuesday, an office building was attacked and set ablaze by Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants in the Bandhu Bagicha area of Munger district in India's Bihar state. No casualties were reported in the attack.
06/08/2009: On Monday morning, in Dhanora, Narayanpur District, Chhattisgarh, India, a constable of the Chhattisgarh Armed Force (CAF), Santosh Verma, was killed when suspected Communist Party of India-Maoist cadres opened indiscriminate fire at the camp. No group claimed responsibility.
08/21/2009: On Friday, in Imphal West, Manipur, India, three people were injured when two Kangleipak Communist Party (KCP) youths hurled a grenade inside the campus of the Chamber of Commerce Hospital at Thangal Bazaar. Bystanders who were alerted by the blast managed to capture one of the youths, indentified as Takyenjam Munal Singh, while he was trying to escape. No group claimed responsibility.
04/23/2009: On Thursday morning, near Dadi-Srirampur village, in Giridih, Jharkhand, India, assailants threw a bomb at a vehicle, wounding one police officer and one Executive Magistrate and damaging the vehicle.  No group claimed responsibility, but it was believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
09/10/2009: On Thursday, in Bankura, West Bengal, India, assailants fired upon and killed a local leader of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M). No material damage or motive for the attack has been reported and no group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed a Maoist faction was responsible.
06/14/2009: On Sunday, in Sambalpur, Orissa, India, assailants shot and killed a Police Sub-Inspector, Narasingha Mahakuda, during a gun battle with Security Forces. Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres were responsible for the attack.
10/12/2009: On Monday night at around 0230, Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) members blew up a stretch of railway track at Jharandih in the coal belt industrial chord section in Dhanbad of Jharkhand, India.
07/26/2009: On Sunday, in Dantewada, Chhattisgarh, India, six Central Reserve Police Force troopers were killed and four others wounded in a powerful landmine blast. The officers were returning from duty in a van when the landmine blew them up. The landmine blast was triggered by the extreme left-wing rebels, or Naxals.
02/24/2009: On Tuesday, a civilian, identified as Sahiram Parekh, was shot and killed by suspected National Democratic Front of Bodoland militants in the Panbari area of the Diphu town in Karbi Anglong district in the Indian state of Assam. No group claimed responsibility, but authorities believed the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) was responsible.
10/12/2009: On Monday, a group of Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants dug up a 15-metre stretch of road in the Chanda village of Aurangabad district in India's Bihar state. The attack disrupted traffic in the between Deo and Dhibra. There were no casualties reported in the attack.
10/12/2009: On Monday, tower of a private telecom company was partially destroyed when Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist) detonated an explosive device in the Salaiya area of Aurangabad district in India's Bihar state. No casualties were reported in the attack.
08/10/2009: On Monday night, at Dheura near Lalgarh, in West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, cadres of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) shot and killed a local leader of the ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist, Paritosh Mishra, for working against the interests of the Maoists. His body was found on 08/11/2009 near Dheura.
05/19/2009: On Tuesday, in Diphu, Karbi Anglong, Assam, India, assailants fired upon a residence, killing one Congress party leader and four civilians and damaging the residence.  No group claimed responsibility, but authorities believed the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) was responsible.
12/01/2009: On Tuesday, in Parro, Garhwa, Jharkhand, India, assailants detonated explosives at a primary school, damaging the school but causing no injuries. No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
04/23/2009: On Thursday, Communist Party of India- Maoist militants detonated an improvised explosive device targeting a poll party traveling to its booth in Barthua village in East Champaran, Bihar, India. Minor injuries were reported.
04/08/2009: On Wednesday morning around 0930, in Jungum, North Cachar Hills, Assam, India, assailants fired upon a five-vehicle convoy of Election Commission's observers, causing no casualties or damage. An improvised explosive device was also triggered targeting the convoy, but missed. No group claimed responsibility, but authorities believed the Dima Halim Daogah-Jewel Garlossa (DHD-J) was responsible.
11/22/2009: On Sunday, in Jhargram, West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, assailants fired upon and killed a local leader of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M). The Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) claimed responsibility.
11/30/2009: On Monday, in Sagolband Bijoygovinda, Imphal West, Manipur, India, assailants threw a grenade at a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) convoy, wounding one civilian bystander. No group claimed responsibility.
07/11/2009: On Saturday afternoon around 1210, in Wangkhei Laishram Leikai, Imphal East, Manipur, India, one of two youths hurled a hand grenade at the house of assistant engineer, Akham Narendradaja, of the Public Works Department. The grenade exploded at the garage, in the front of the house, damaging an Activa Honda motorcycle, and a neighbor’s house, but causing no casualties. No group claimed responsibility.
10/15/2009: On Thursday, suspected Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) members opened fire at a polling station in Burgi in Kotni sub-district.
06/01/2009: On Monday, in Gujarat, India, a bomb was defused near the Phalej railway crossing, around 50 meters from the Anand railway station. The bomb had metal shrapnel and glass pieces but there was no explosive material inside it. A letter signed by the Student Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) was recovered, asking the people to join jihad and follow the SIMI.
08/25/2009: On Tuesday, in Batabari, Chirang, Assam, India, suspected National Democratic Front of Bodoland militants shot a 50-year-old woman, identified as Deushree Basumatary, at her residence. She sustained a bullet injury to her abdomen and underwent a successful operation at Lower Assam Hospital. Her husband, Sobharam Basumatary, is a supporter of the Hagrama-led BPF party which is the suspected reason for the shooting. No group claimed responsibility.
04/21/2009: On Tuesday night, unidentified militants triggered a bomb blast at the Congressional office building at Nambol, Bishenpur, Manipur, India.  No casualties were reported in the attack and no group claimed responsibility.
04/24/2009: On Friday, at about noon, near Panbari, in Kokrajhar, Assam, India, assailants fired upon the convoy of a Member of Parliament (MP), killing two security guards and one vehicle driver and wounding five Bodoland People's Front (BPF) workers and damaging 25 vehicles.No group claimed responsibility, but it was widely believed the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) was responsible.
02/09/2009: On Monday at around 1130, in the general area of Okanda, Ampara, India, two Police Special Task Force (STF) personnel were killed and a civilian reported wounded during a pressure mine explosion as a tractor struck the mine. No damage or motive were reported. Nobody claimed the responsibility for the attack.
04/06/2009: On Monday, in Ketaki village, Aurangabad, Bihar, India, approximately 150 assailants used dynamite on a school building, causing no casualties or damages. The assailants also stole a generator from the school. No group claimed responsibility, but it was widely believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
03/27/2009: On Friday, unidentified militants ambushed and fired upon a police station in the Lamshang area of Imphal West, Manipur, India. No casualties or damages were reported and no group has claimed responsibility.
04/22/2009: On Wednesday, around 200 unknown militants hijacked the Gomo-Mughalsarai train (number 627) carrying nearly 700 passengers near the Hehegarha station in Latehar, Jharkhand, India. The militants released the train at 1150. No casualties were reported. No group claimed responsibility, but it was believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
06/13/2009: On Saturday evening at 2030, in Kannur, Kerala, India, a Communist Party of India- Marxist worker, E.P. Raveendran, age 48, was hacked to death by suspected Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh workers. The CPI-M worker was attacked by assailants inside his tea shop near the Mahe Service Co-operative branch. No group claimed responsibility.
05/18/2009: On Monday, in Hukumpeta, Vishakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India, assailants fired upon and killed one local government president.  No group claimed responsibility, but authorities believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
10/12/2009: On Monday night, Police Director, Neelmani, stated that nearly 100 Communist Party of India- Maoists (CPI-M) insurgents raided a village in Bihar's Munger district and used dynamite to blast the village council office. Portions of the building collapsed in the powerful explosion which destroyed furniture and land revenue related documents. CPI-M activists left pamphlets on the spot owning responsibility for the blast. No casualties were reported in the incident.
04/10/2009: On Friday morning at 0930, in Bhaderwah, Doda, Jammu and Kashmir, India, unidentified militants detonated an explosive device targeting a civilian residence, killing a woman and damaging her residence. No group claimed responsibility.
07/12/2009: On Sunday morning, in one of two related attacks, in Madanwada, Raj Nandgaon, Chhattisgarh, India, two policemen were killed by Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M). The two police officers were killed at Madanwada as they left their camp for ablutions. Earlier the Naxals had ambushed a team of policemen while they patrolled the heavily forested Raj Nandgaon. After the ambush, there was intense firing in which 23 policemen were killed. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/04/2009: On Saturday, at a forest area near Bareni village in Latehar District, India, assailantstriggered a landmine targeting a vehicle of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), damaging the vehicle but causing no casualties. The Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) are believed to be responsible.
10/29/2009: On Thursday evening at 2030, in Thangal Surung village in Senapati, Manipur, India, three Kuki National Army (KNA) militants assaulted and wounded the village chief, K. Lengkham Thangal, and the secretary of the village authority, Salas Thangal. No damages were reported in the attack. The KNA militants, led by Thangpao Touthang, carried out the attack after Lengkham refused to pay 20000 Indian Rupees (423.05 USD) demanded by Touthang for wood the villagers sold.
08/25/2009: On Tuesday, in the Lalgarh region, Midnapure, West Bengal, India, assailants killed Ratan Mahato, a Communist Party of India-Marxist leader and branch secretary of the party’s Bhimpur committee and ransacked several houses. No group claimed responsibility but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist militants were responsible for the attack.
06/08/2009: On Monday evening, in the village of Daduki, near Maibang, Guwahati, Assam, India, assailants set 30 houses on fire causing no casualties. No group claimed responsibility but it was believed that Zeme Naga or Dimasa militants were responsible for the attack.
10/29/2009: On Thursday, in the Sangroghat area of Bankura, West Bengal, India, Communist Party of India-Maoist assailants slit the throat of Trinamool Congress supporter, Ajit Das, and threw his body into a pond. No damages were reported in the attack.
06/27/2009: On Saturday, in Malkangiri, Orissa, India, assailants detonated a landmine improvised explosive device near an under-construction sub-jail, causing no casualties or damage. Authorities later safely defused explosives found at the jail which were laid as booby-traps. No group claimed responsibility, but authorities believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
04/22/2009: On Wednesday, assailants attacked vehicles on main GT road; fired upon and killed one truck driver; then set fire to vehicles, damaging three oil tankers and five trucks.  No group claimed responsibility, but it was widely believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
10/12/2009: On Monday, a group of 12 Communist Party of India-Maoists set three trucks on fire in the Isri area of the Giridih district in India. There were no casualties reported in the incident. This is one of many attacks by the Maoists during the two day Bandh called by the Maoists.
06/23/2009: On Tuesday at about 1200 noon, in Lakhisarai, Bihar, India, approximately 30 assailants armed with bombs and guns ambushed a police team on court premises, killing one police officer, wounding a court official, and damaging the court premises. No group claimed responsibility, but authorities believed the Communist Party of India (CPI-Maoist) was responsible. Two suspected militants were detained by police after the attack.
10/16/2009: On Friday morning at about 0915, a group of five motorcycle-borne armed youth members of the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB), abducted P. Krishna Rao at gunpoint, a project manager of Gayatri Construction Company morning while he was inspecting work near Joypur area in Kokrajhar. The abductors escaped north along the National Highway 31C. Rao spoke to his colleagues in Assam and passed on the kidnappers' message to this employer. Company officials told his family that he was safe, but the demands have not been disclosed. No group claimed responsibility.
04/27/2009: On Monday, suspected United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) militants shot and killed a pro-talks cadre, identified as Hitesh Rabha, at Khaldang village, Goalpara district, Assam, India.
06/13/2009: On Saturday, at Chandiposh Station, Orissa, India, assailants derailed a goods train by blowing up four feet of railway tracks causing no casualties. Communist party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militant were responsible for the attack.
3/9/2009: On Tuesday, in Pachubigha village, Arwal District, Bihar, India, suspected cadres of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) killed two women and two children of a family by slitting their throat in connection with a land dispute case. The victims were identified as Pluleshwari Devi, mother of Nageshwar Mahto, his wife Lakhmani Devi and daughters Ritu (3) and Mitu (5). The Police suspect that Avadhesh Singh, a distant cousin of Mahto, hired some Maoists to take revenge for the land dispute controversy. Before leaving the incident site, the Maoists left a leaflet threatening Nageshwar with eliminating other members of his family if he did not settle the dispute in favour of Avadhesh Singh.
09/01/2009: On Tuesday, unknown assailants threw a grenade at the private residence of a consultant engineer of the Regional Institute of Medical Science and Hospital in the Khurai area of Imphal, Manipur, India, causing no casualties or damage because the grenade failed to explode. No group claimed responsibility.
01/18/2009: On Sunday morning at 1100, city police recovered four country-made live bombs from a dust bin near the General Post Office (GPO) in Mirzapur area, Karanj, Gujarat, India. The bombs were recovered from the bin and were defused by the bomb disposal squad. No casualties were reported. No group claimed responsibility.
10/11/2009: On Sunday late in the day, in the Balarampur area of Puruliya district in India's West Bengal, about 50-60 armed people, suspected to be Maoists, raided the house of Chandan Singh Laya, secretary of the CPI-Marxist’s Kerua local committee. The rebels torched Mr. Laya’s house and his motorcycle when they could not find him. Soon, an encounter ensued between the suspected Maoists and members of the village security committee. A villager received a bullet injury. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack, but it is highly suspected that the Communist Party of India-Maoists are involve in the incident.
04/21/2009: On Tuesday, unidentified militants threw a grenade into a private hospital in Imphal East, Manipur state, India. The grenade failed to detonate, causing no casualties. No group claimed responsibility.
08/02/2009: On Sunday, in Bishenpur, Manipur, India, assailants threw two hand grenades at a residence belonging to the Manipur Agriculture and Social Welfare Minister, causing no injuries or damage. No group claimed responsibility.
04/21/2009: On Tuesday, Communist Party of India (Maoist), CPI-M, rebels raided and captured a polling station in Aadapur block, Motihari, Bihar, India,  planting two bombs in the venue. No casualties were reported.
10/27/2009: On Tuesday night, in Jamdohora village, 12 kilometers from Pirrakhuli, in the Lalgarh region of Midnapore, West Bengal, India, about 100 suspected Communist Party of India- Maoist (CPI-Maoist) rebels raided and torched four Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-Marxist) leader's houses, damaging the houses. There were no casualties reported in the arson. This is part of a multiple incident.
12/08/2009: On Tuesday night, around 50 Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants shot and killed two civilians and injured one other in the Thema village in Bastar of Kanker district, Chhattisgarh state, India. Militants accused the civilians of being pro-government spies. Two brothers, Rakesh, 30, and Rajuram, 25, were taken to a nearby forest area and shot on charges of being police informers. Chabilal Markam, 30 who was also shot, was taken to a government hospital for treatment and was in a critical condition. No group claimed responsibility.
10/27/2009: On Tuesday evening, between Keradari and Barkakana, Hazaribgah district, Jharkhand, India, suspected Tritiya Prastuti Committee (TPC) militants abducted a government official, Nirmal Toppo, a circle officer of Keredari block (administrative division) and his driver, later freeing the driver. There was no motive or damage reported and no group claimed responsibility.
04/21/2009: On Tuesday night, in Palamu, Jharkhand, India, about 150 armed assailants detonated two bombs on the Utari railway station and a nearby section of railway track, damaging the transmission department, the signal cabin and track but causing no casualties.  No group claimed responsibility, but it was believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
08/18/2009: On Tuesday evening around 2030, in Irilbung, Imphal, Manipur, India, a shopkeeper was injured when a grenade exploded near his shop, planted by suspected underground militants. The victim was identified as Pangamabam Sanayanba, age 45. No group claimed responsibility.
11/24/2009: On Tuesday, in Gadchiroli, Maharashtra, India, assailants assaulted and fired upon a government contractor, killing him. No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
02/15/2009: On Sunday night,150 Communist Party of India- Maoist militants forced workers out of a prison that was under construction and blew up one of the prison walls in Sheohar, Bihar, India. No casualties were reported. The Maoists also left behind pamphlets that warned of more such attacks.
06/22/2009: On Monday, in Barabazar, Bhawanipur, Puruliya, West Bengal, India, assailants set fire to a Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) office, damaging the office but causing no injuries. No group claimed responsibility, but authorities believed the Communist Party of India (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
11/19/2009: On Thursday, in Imphal West, Manipur, India, assailants threw a grenade at an Assam Rifles convoy, wounding three nearby civilians and two Assam Rifles paramilitary members and damaging one Assam Rifles vehicle. No group claimed responsibility.
12/04/2009: On Friday, one police officer was wounded when Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants detonated an improvised explosive device targeting his patrol in the Ramgarh area of West Midnapore district of West Bengal. Communist Party of India (Maoist) were responsible.
09/26/2009: On Saturday, in Bastar, Chhattisgarh, India, four assailants fired upon a Bharatiya Janata Party leader and his family, killing one civilian family member, Tansen Kashyap, and wounding one other, Dinesh Kashyap. No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed a Maoist faction was responsible.
05/21/2009: On Thursday, at Chuzhiad near Ponnyam Lower Primary School, in Kannur, Kerala, India, assailants detonated about eight home-made bombs on a vehicle, wounding five Rashitriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) members and damaging the car. The injured were identified as E Manoj, Rajeevan, Suresh Babu, Vijayan and Rajeesh. No group claimed responsibility, but authorities believed the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) was responsible.
08/06/2009: On Thursday evening, at around 1915, in Imphal, Manipur, India, armed miscreants shot at the office of an evening local paper, Paojel. A bullet hit the glass door of the office, but caused not casualties. No group claimed responsibility.
10/13/2009: On Tuesday, railroad official Dilip Kumar Singh said that more than a dozen trains were stranded for more than eight hours after suspected rebels used explosives to blow up stretches of railroad tracks in Bihar and Jharkhand states. A section of the rail track between Jogeshwar Bihar and Dania was blown up resulting in damage to the overhead equipment. According to railway sources, a night patrolman had noticed a three-foot hole, presumably dug for planting explosives, in the down track near the Karmabad station. Station master A. N. Gaur was held captive for two hours, but later released. There were no casualties and no claim of responsibility reported in the incident.
10/13/2009: On Tuesday evening at 1830, in Pandav, Mayurbhanj, Orissa, India, assailants fired upon a former Mayurbhanj Member of Parliament (MP), killing his two security guards and one police officer. No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed a Maoist faction was responsible.
08/30/2009: On Sunday, in Thangmeiband Meisnam Leikai, Imphal West, Manipur, India, suspected militants lobbed a hand grenade on the residence of an Executive Engineer of the National Highway Division-I of the Manipur Public Works Department, Konsam Prem. No damages or casualties were reported. No group claimed responsibility.
10/27/2009: On Tuesday, in Chandra, Midnapore, West Bengal, India, a local government official, Pratap Nayak, was shot and killed by Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants. Nayak was a member of the ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-Marxist). It is unknown if the attack caused any damage.
10/13/2009: On Tuesday, Communist Party of India-Maoists used dynamite to blow up the track near the Ghodparan station near Simtala in Jamui district. No casualties were reported in the incident. The attack is one of many on rail tracks occurring during a two day bandh called by Maoists.
10/13/2009: On Tuesday, a group Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants dug up roads in the Amba area of Aurangabad district in India's Bihar state. The attack disrupted traffic in the area. There were no casualties reported in the incident.
05/06/2009: On Wednesday, in Bastar, Chhattisgarh, India, at a weekly market, assailants killed a police officer in charge by hacking him to death. The Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible for the attack.
06/08/2009: On Monday, in Jiri Basti, North Cachar Hills, Assam, India, unidentified militants attacked and set fire to 13 tribal huts. No casualties were reported, and no group claimed responsibility. This incident was one of three linked attacks in the area that also targeted several other villages in North Cachar Hills, Assam, India.
05/21/2009: On Thursday, 16 police officers were killed in an armed assault by assailants that took place in Tawitola, Gadchiroli, Maharashtra, India. The deceased were identified as Shafi Bhaktdas Shettiwar, havildars Suresh Kirange and Hemraj Tembhurne, nayak Kashinath Rohankar, constables Damodar Naitam, Sadanand Madavi, Santosh Durge, Vilas Mandale, Manik Usendi and woman constables Shobha Tade, Gendkumar Fardia, Shakuntala Aalam, Alka Gawde and Sunita Kallo. No group claimed responsibility, but it was widely believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
02/05/2009: On Thursday evening, in the NC Hills district, Manja, North Cachar Hill district of Assam, India, suspected Dimasa militants have kidnapped four supervisors of the Indian Oil Tankers Ltd. Those who were kidnapped have been identified as M. Satrak, N. Suresh, Nitish Kumar and Mahendra Kumar. No damage or motive were reported.
01/16/2009: On Friday, in the evening, near Manikanta village, in Dantewara, Chhattisgarh, India, approximately 150 armed assailants stopped a passenger bus, then set the bus on fire, damaging. According to the District Superintendent of police, Rahyl Sharma, the Maoists asked the passengers to disembark the bus and then looted valuable from them. Before leaving, the Maoists broke the fuel tank of the vehicle and set if on fire. No casualties were reported, but the vehicle was destroyed in the attack. The Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) claimed responsibility. The Maoists left a note saying the incident was in retaliation to the police action against them in Singavaram on 01/08/2009.
07/15/2009: On Wednesday evening, near Kumrashol village, in Puruliya, West Bengal, India, eight motorcycle-borne assailants fired upon and killed one Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leader, Gangaram Mahato (45). No group claimed responsibility, but it was widely believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible. The police said Mr. Mahato had been receiving frequent threats from the Maoists for the last few months.
04/16/2009: On Thursday, in Dantewara, Chhattisgarh, India, assailants fired upon polling booths at the Marokhi and Mangnar areas, causing no casualties or damage.  No group claimed responsibility, but it was widely believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
10/11/2009: On Sunday, in the Kotwali area of West Midnapore district, suspected members of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) set ablaze a truck loaded with Shorea robusta leaves. Police said a group of suspected Maoists stopped the truck at Nayagram under Kotwali area and asked the driver and helper to alight. They later set the truck on fire and retreated into the nearby forest. No casualties have been reported. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack, but it is highly suspected that the CPI-M militants are responsible.
08/26/2009: On Wednesday, in Ranchi, Jharkhand, India, assailants killed one civilian and wounded one police officer during an attack on a police camp. Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants were responsible for the attack.
03/31/2009: On Tuesday, in the early morning, around 50 heavily-armed suspected cadres of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) blew up a state-run school at Chormara village under the Bhimbandh forest range in Jamui, Bihar, India. No casualties were reported in the attack but the building was damaged. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
10/13/2009: On Tuesday, one mobile phone tower was attacked and set ablaze by Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist) in the Hussainganj area of Gaya district in India's Bihar state. No casualties were reported in the incident. This is one of many attacks occurring during the two day bandh called by the Maoists.
04/18/2009: On Saturday, four landmines were discovered near the Koney school in Latehar, Jharkhand, India.  Three landmines were defused, but a fourth one exploded, injuring six (including three police). No group claimed responsibility.
11/09/2009: On Monday, in Salboni, West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, assailants fired upon and wounded a local leader of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M), Jagananth Mahato. No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
05/15/2009: On Friday, in the Arth area of Ganderbal district, Jammu and Kashmir, India, suspected Hizb-ul-Mujahideen militants opened fire on the private residence of a village official. No casualties were reported.
10/16/2009: On Friday morning around 0945, a blast killed two persons, Melgunda Patil and Yogesh Nailk, members of Sanathan Sangsthan, and damaged a parked scooter near Grace Church at Margao city in south Goa. The bomb was meant for a Hindu gathering which the Sanathan Sangsthan bitterly oppose.
08/24/2009: On Monday morning, in Palamau, Jharkhand, India, about 50 assailants detonated a bomb at a mobile telephone tower on the Aurangabad-Medinainagar road, damaging the tower but causing no injuries. No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
06/14/2009: On Sunday, in Kokrajhar, Assam, India, assailants shot and killed one suspected National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) militant. No group claimed responsibility.
05/28/2009: On Thursday, in Zerne Naga, North Cachar Hills, India, assailants set fire to 28 houses. No group claimed responsibility. There were no reported casualties.
10/12/2009: On Monday, in the morning, CPI-Maoist shot dead Dina Nath Saran, Executive Director of the Panem Coal Mine Project, and Senior Manager Sital Prasad while they were out on a walk near Tukutola in Pakur, Jharkhand, India.
04/21/2009: On Tuesday, Communist Party of India (Maoist), CPI-M, rebels detonated explosives at a health center in Narayanpur, Chatra, Jharkhand, India.  No casualties were reported in the attack.
05/28/2009: On Thursday, at Disaobra and Langting stations on the Lumding-Badarpur line, Assam, India, assailants removed 41 sleepers from rail tracks. No group claimed responsibility.
02/23/2009: On Monday, Communist Party of India- Maoist militants shot and killed a civilian, that they suspected of being a police informer, in his home in Surakonda village of Khammam, Andhra Pradesh, India. The victim was identified as Sode Kannaiah. No group claimed responsibility, but it was widely believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
10/13/2009: On Tuesday, shortly after polling concluded, Communist Party of India-Maoists laid siege to a polling booth at Khmatala in Dhanora, India. No casualties were reported in the attack. The attack is one of many attacks on polling booths occurring on the second day of a two day bandh called by the Maoists.
11/04/2009: On Wednesday, in the Kamkanar area of Bijapur, Chhattisgarh, India, militants opened fire on a police patrol, causing no casualties or damage. Two militants were detained in connection with the attack. The Communist Party of India-Maoist is believed to be responsible.
05/15/2009: On Friday, in Kistaram village, Dantewara, Chhattisgarh, India, assailants fired upon a helicopter in which police officers were riding, killing one police officer, wounding one other and damaging the helicopter.  No group claimed responsibility, but it was widely believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
07/30/2009: On Thursday, in one of two related attacks, in Kalaimuri village in West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, assailants kidnapped two Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) members, identified as Sailen Deb Sinha and Anadi Deb. The status of the hostages is unknown. No group claimed responsibility, but it was widely believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
10/27/2009: On Tuesday night, in Pirrakhuli village, 14 kilometers from Lalgarh, West Bengal, India, a group of 100 suspected Communist Party of India- Maoists (CPI-Maoist) barged into the house of Ratan Mahato, branch secretary of the Communist Party of India-Marxist's Bhimpur committee, and dragged him out accusing him of corruption. Mahato was beaten and declared dead on 10/28/2009 after he was taken to the hospital. No damages were reported in the attack. This is part of a multiple incident.
10/29/2009: On Thursday, in Khadgaon, Rajnandgaon, Chhattisgarh, India, Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants shot dead a special police officer (SPO), Bisru Ram, near a shop. The shopkeeper was also injured in the incident. No damages were reported.
12/14/2009: On Monday, in Rorad, Lohardaga, Jharkhand, India, assailants detonated explosives at a primary school, damaging the school but causing no injuries. No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed a Maoist faction was responsible.
08/02/2009: On Sunday evening at about 2040, in Doda, Jammu and Kashmir, India, assailants threw a grenade at the Radhey Shyam temple in Doda town, missing the temple and damaging several nearby shops but causing no casualties. No group claimed responsibility.
03/28/2009: On Saturday, unidentified militants shot and killed the mother of a Black Widows militant, Laibala Langthasa, in the Vidingpur Dimasa Basti area of North Cachar Hills, Assam, India. Another person, Mampi Langthasa, was wounded in the attack. No group has claimed responsibility.
05/11/2009: On Monday, in the village of Gailung, North Cachar Hills, Assam, India, assailants set over 90 residence on fire. No group claimed responsibility.
10/21/2009: On Wednesday night at 0230, over 100 Maoists blew up a state-run primary school building in the Gerua village under the Belhar police station in the Banka district of India's Bihar state. The Maoists used dynamite for the explosion, causing the roofs of the three-room school to cave in. The school's furniture was also badly damaged. The district administration had earlier planned to set up a police post at the school. No casualties were reported in the attack but the school was destroyed.
05/21/2009: On Thursday night, at midnight, in Kannur, India, militants threw a bomb at the house of a Communist Party of India-Marxist activist. The house belonged to M. Jayachandran and the roof was damaged but no casualties were reported. No group claimed responsibility.
06/15/2009: On Monday, in West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, assailants set fire to a police camp at Ramgarh outpost, damaging the camp, but causing no injuries. No group claimed responsibility, but it was widely believed the People's Committee Against Police Atrocities was responsible.
09/16/2009: On Wednesday, in the Itki area in Ranchi, Jharkhand, India, villagers killed two suspected Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants. The militants were trying to extort money from the villagers, so they killed them by beating them with iron rods and pelting stones at them. No group claimed responsibility.
10/11/2009: On Sunday night, in Yatnaram village in Karimnagar district, Andhra Pradesh, about eight men belonging to Communist Party if India-Maoist (CPI-M) shot dead a civilian (Ramlal) after dragging him out of his house and taking him to the outskirts on the pretext of talking to him. At the village tank, the Maoists shot two rounds and killed him. The Maoists left a note warning informers to mend their ways. The civilan, a former 'dalam' or armed squad commander of CPI-ML Pratighatna group, had surrendered two years ago. Maoists suspected Ramlal was an informer of the police. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack, but it is highly suspected that the CPI-M militants are involved in this attack.
10/07/2009: On Wednesday, in Lalgarh, West Bengal, India, assailants set ablaze a tractor and a trekker vehicle, after asking occupants to get off, in the Pindrakhuli area of West Midnapore district in India's West Bengal state. No casualties were reported in the attack. No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist was responsible.
06/19/2009: On Friday, in Lal Bazaar area, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India, a former militant of the Hizb-ul-Mujahideen, Firdous Ali Dar, was killed while two of his accomplices, Riyaz Ahmadd Bhat and Ghulam Mohammad Ganaie, were injured when an improvised explosive device they had allegedly fabricated exploded in the Lal Bazaar area. Three grenades, one IED, 100 rounds of AK 47, one mobile phone and some burnt Indian currency notes were recovered. The Police also recovered large quantity of crackers from the incident site. No group claimed responsibility.
10/13/2009: On Tuesday morning, a Middle School building in the Nawadih area of Chatra district in India's Jharkhand state was blown up by Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants. The rebels used dynamite in the attack. No casualties were reported in the attack.
02/13/2009: On Friday evening, in one of two related attacks, 20 Communist Party of India- Maoist militantsâ after assaulting villagers in Churhatpat, went to nearby Sabagh village and set the Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) generator on fire by using the diesel in its fuel tank. According to a senior police officer, the generator set was completely damaged. Prior to that, the Maoists assaulted two villagers for giving land to the Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) in order to put up mobile towers in Churhatpat village in Balrampur, Chhattisgarh, India. The victims, identified as Sagar Yadav and Bandhan Ram, were thrashed and asked to take their land back from the BSNL, police said. The Times of India reported that the Maoists also looted BSNL cellular and wireless in local loop (WLL) phones from residents of Churhatpat village near Kusmi under the Samri Police Station in the Balrampur District in an effort to block communication between villagers and police. According to police, the Naxalites entered the village and asked children about the villagers who owned either a cellular and WLL set and then set about taking them. No group claimed responsibility; however, a police officer mentioned that the rebels may have attacked the residents to prevent them from passing on information about Naxalite movement in the region.
10/02/2009: On Friday early morning, in the Amausi Bharen area of Khagaria district, Bihar, India, a group of more than 50 militants attacked a village, killing sixteen civilians. They singled out three families then they tied them up and gunned them down. The deadly attack was the result of a land dispute. The Communist Party of India (Maoist) / Naxalites claimed responsibility.
10/03/2009: On Saturday, morning, in Puruliya, West Bengal, India, an improvised explosive device exploded near railroad tracks between the Kantadih and Urma train stations, damaging the tracks but causing no casualties. No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed a Maoist faction was responsible. Communist Party of India (Maoist) has called for a 24-hour countrywide bandh on Saturday to protest against the arrest of tribal leader Chhatradhar Mahato, which is believed to be the reason for the attack.
05/28/2009: On Thursday morning at 1115, in Mabao 25 km from Haflong, North Cachar Hills, India, assailants set fire to 16 homes. No group claimed responsibility but police suspected Dimasas tribesmen to be responsible for the attack. There were no reported casualties.
11/01/2009: On Sunday, at Laiten village in Chandel, Manipur, India, unidentified militants fired at 29th Assam Rifles security personnel who were patrolling the village, resulting in the death of one militant by retaliatory fire. It is unknown if the attack caused any property damage. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
10/08/2009: On Thursday, in the afternoon, in Baksa, Assam, unidentified militants shot at Anjali Daimari, president of Bodo Women Justice Forum, around 1200 while she was coming out from Barama College. Daimari, however escaped the firing unhurt. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
06/05/2009: On Friday, in Sangarwani Keller, Pulwama, Jammu and Kashmir, India, assailants fired upon and killed one National Conference (NC) party member at his residence. It is unknown if the attack caused any damage. No group claimed responsibility.
06/16/2009: On Tuesday, in Manatu, Palamau, Jharkhand, India, in a gun battle with Maoist rebels, four policemen were killed and five injured. Between 30 to 40 Communist Party of India - Maoist militants were responsible for the attack, the guerrillas say they are fighting for the rights of neglected tribes people and landless farmers.
05/24/2009: On Sunday, in the Imphal West district, Manipur, India, assailants threw a hand grenade at a local councilor’s residence, causing no casualties or damages. No group claimed responsibility.
03/31/2009: On Tuesday night, Communist Party of India- Maoist militants fired upon and killed a village chief, Bedanath Singh, by unknown means in Langalakanta village in Sundargarh, Orissa, India. No group claimed responsibility for the attack. Singh did not attend a meeting called by the Maoists, which is allegedly why he was shot and killed.
06/15/2009: On Monday, in West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, assailants set fire to the home of a Communist Party of India-Marxist leader, damaging the home but causing no injuries. No group claimed responsibility, but it was widely believed the People's Committee Against Police Atrocities was responsible.
04/21/2009: On Tuesday, Communist Party of India (Maoist), CPI-M, rebels detonated explosives at a school in Narayanpur, Chatra, Jharkhand, India.  No casualties were reported in the attack.
05/23/2009: On Saturday, in Kiruphema, Dimapur District, Nagaland, India, the self-styled 'secretary' of National Socialist Council of Nagaland-Khaplang was abducted from his residence in Medziphema by unidentified gunmen and killed. His body was found along the National Highway-39. No group claimed responsibility.
10/13/2009: On Tuesday, the tower of a private telecom company was partially destroyed when Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist) detonated an explosive device in the Padaiya area of Aurangabad district in India's Bihar state. A portion of the tower collapsed in the explosion. No casualties were reported in the incident.
06/05/2009: On Friday morning around 0730, in Gajipur, near Gokulnagar, West Bengal, India, a Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) supporter, Sahadeb Sarkar alias Naru, was lynched. After preliminary investigation, police suspect that Sahadeb was first beaten up and then his throat was slit. No damages were reported. Police also believe he was murdered in revenge of the Trinamul Congress leader being murdered the night before. No group claimed responsibility.
05/28/2009: On Thursday, in Zeme Naga, North Cachar Hills District, Assam, India, unidentified militants set fire to a school building, community hall and 28 houses. No group claimed responsibility.
10/13/2009: On Tuesday morning at 0600, Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) attacked a polling station at Bonde Korchi in the Armori constituency in the Kansansur area of Gadchiroli, Maharashtra province, India. After three hours of firing at the polling party, the CPI Maoists aborted their attack causing an unknown amount of property damage to the polling station. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility for the attack.
06/01/2009: On Monday evening, in Semkhor village, in North Cachar Hills, Assam, India, unidentified militants shot dead four children and a 25 year-old woman from the Dimasa tribe. Three others were injured in the incident. The deceased were identified as Karong Thonglo, Lambo Langthasa, Warsi Thonglo, Depola Langthasa, and Senring Langthasa. It is unknown if the attack caused any property damage. No group claimed responsibility.
04/16/2009: On Thursday, in the Jangampal area of Dantewada, Chhattisgarh, India, Communist Party of India- Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants attacked security forces near a polling booth. No casualties or damages were reported.
04/26/2009: On Sunday, Communist Party of India (Maoist), CPI-M, rebels blew up a health center, a middle school, and a community hall in Chonha village, Gaya, India.
03/31/2009: On Tuesday, the National Socialist Council of Nagaland-Isak-Muivah (NSCN-IM) alleged that one of its cadres, "˜corporalâ Morinshang, was abducted by the rival National Socialist Council of Nagaland-Khaplang (NSCN-K) cadres from Super Market Bus parking area in Dimapur, Nagaland, India. The NSCN-IM said that "It is believed that the K-group is directed to create a panic situation in Dimapur as part of the game plan to counter weight the NSCN in the parliamentary election campaign." No casualties have been reported in the incident and the outcome of the hostage taking is unknown.
04/10/2009: On Friday, between Haflong and Maibong, near Wadrengdisha, in North Cachar Hills, Assam, India, assailants fired upon the Badarpur-Lumding Barak Valley Express passenger train, killing one paramilitary member, wounding 14 civilians, and damaging the train.  No group claimed responsibility, but authorities believed the Dima Halim Daogah-Jewel Garlossa (DHD-J) was responsible.
11/08/2009: On Sunday morning at 0600, at Khandi Gali in Koteranka area of Rajouri, Jammu and Kashmir, India, two assailants entered the residence of a Border Security Force (BSF) officer, Mohammed Arif, and fired upon him and his family, killing Mohammad Arif and his wife and wounding his son. No group claimed responsibility, although it is believed Hizbul Mujahideen was responsible.
12/08/2009: On Tuesday evening at 1930, a local Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) and her husband were wounded when Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants opened fire on them in their residence in the Eturunagaram area of Warangal, Andhra Pradesh. The official was accused of being a police informer. The residence was slightly damaged in the attack. No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
02/27/2009: On Friday, unidentified militants attacked the home of Mohammed Ziauddin, a cashier of the Ukhrul District Revenue office, with fire arms and a hand grenade in the Kyamgei Muslim Awang Leikai area of Ukhrul, Manipur, India. The hand grenade failed to detonate and was later defused by the Manipur Police. No group has claimed responsibility and no casualties were reported.
10/13/2009: On Tuesday, Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) militants detonated an explosive device in the Bankepur Bazaar area of Gaya district in India's Bihar state blowing up a mobile phone tower on 10/13/2009. No casualties were reported in the attack.
04/18/2009: On Saturday morning, in the forest area of Pakkharkote Tanga, Doda, Jammu and Kashmir, India, assailants kidnapped a civilian.  No group claimed responsibility, but it was widely believed Lashkar-e-Tayyiba (LT) was responsible.
10/27/2009: On Tuesday morning, in the Giridih district of Jharkhand, India, suspected Communist Party of India-Maoists blew up the Upgraded Haridih School, causing no casualties but damaging its structure. Although no group claimed responsibility for the attack, Maoists usually trigger blasts in schools used by security forces as shelters during anti-naxal operations.
09/19/2009: On Saturday, in the Burger Bazaar area of Garwah, Jharkhand, India, assailants detonated an explosive device. A community hall was damaged in the explosion. No casualties were reported. The Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist) were responsible for the attack.
08/03/2009: On Monday evening, in Nischintipur Village, West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, assailants fired upon and killed a person affiliated with the Jharkhand Party, Nagen Singh Sardar. Sadar was a former Maoist activist. No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
10/20/2009: On Tuesday night at around 0200, Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) members fired at and killed Umesh Mali, head of a Sastra People's Morcha (SPM), Umesh Singh Bhokta, a local leader of the Lokjanshakti Party, and Ranjit Rajjak, when they were watching a cultural programme in Rajpur village in the Chatra district. Three persons were killed and six others were injured during the attack.
09/10/2009: On Thursday morning, in Sundargarh, Orissa, India, assailants detonated improvised explosive devices targeting railroad tracks, damaging seven sections of railroad tracks, but causing no casualties. During the attack, assailants kidnapped by unknown means, five employees from the Topadiha train station. On 09/11/2009, the assailants released the five victims. The motive for the attack was to intensify the pressure for the release of 30 people branded as Maoist. No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible. This is one of four related attacks.
10/29/2009: On Thursday evening, in Bamundiha village under Belpahari Police Station, in West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, about eight Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) rebels shot dead two local leaders of the Trinamool Congress (TC), Jalad Baran Kar and Ashis Kar. outside of their homes. No damages were reported in the attack.
09/09/2009: On Wednesday, in the Jagargunda area of Bijapur district, Chhattisgarh, India, two Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) officers were wounded by an anti-personnel mine placed by assailants. No material damage or motive for the attack was reported and no group has claimed responsibility, but the group Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants were thought responsible for the attack.
07/09/2009: On Thursday, in Usoor village, Bijapur, Chhattisgarh, India, assailants with sharp weapons assaulted and killed one civilian and one Special Police Officer (SPO). No group claimed responsibility, but authorities believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
10/08/2009: On Thursday, in Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra, India, seventeen Indian policeman were killed and many were injured when a group of about one-hundred and fifty Maoist surrounded the Laheri police station and opened heavy fire for three hours in Gadchiroli district in Maharashtra. The rebels picked up the weapons of the slain commandos and fled into the forest. The attack was led by Tarakka, a woman leader of the CPI-Maoist, around 40 women may have been part of this attack.
10/13/2009: On Tuesday, twelve civilians were wounded when Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants opened fire on and threw an explosive device at a pilgrims' bus on the GT Road in the Isri area of Giridih district in India's Jharkhand state. The bus was on its way from Kolkata to Ajmer. The driver sped away to Hazaribagh’s Barhi block HQ, 10 kilometers away, where the injured were admitted to a hospital for treatment.
08/26/2009: On Wednesday, in Shopian, Jammu and Kashmir, India, assailants opened fire in a mosque wounding one political activist and one civilian. No group claimed responsibility.
05/05/2009: On Tuesday, in Rajnandgaon, Chhattisgarh, India, about 130 kilometres west of the state capital Raipur, suspected Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) rebels shot and killed a senior leader of the Baharatiya Janata Party (BJP). It is unknown if the attack caused any damage.
07/30/2009: On Thursday afternoon around 1330, in Gobardhana, Barpeta District, Assam, India, a District-level leader of the Rabiram Narzary faction of the Bodoland People’s Progressive Front was shot at by unidentified gunmen. Bipul Mushahary (32) was seriously injured from the attack, but managed to save his life. No group claimed responsibility.
09/06/2009: On Sunday evening, in the Pundigiri area of Ranchi, Jharkhand, India, five people were abducted by the Maoist rebels and were shot dead. Communist Party of India-Maoist raided Pundigiri village under Tamar block, 45 kilometers from state capital Ranchi, abducted the five villagers and took them to a forest where they were shot dead. The bodies were recovered Monday. The killed people had Maoist background. The activists killed them on suspicion of passing information about their movement to police.
10/12/2009: On Monday, in Madhupur, Belpahari, West Bengal, India, assailants fired upon and killed a member of the Jharkhand Party. No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
04/22/2009: On Wednesday, in Deo, Aurangabad, Bihar, India, assailants detonated a bomb on a community center, damaging the building but causing no casualties.  No group claimed responsibility, but it was widely believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
04/23/2009: On Thursday, near Karpoori Chowk, in Mohabbatpur village, Muzaffarpur, Bihar, India, assailants detonated a landmine improvised explosive device  on a police vehicle, killing five police officers, wounding the vehicle driver, and damaging the vehicle.  No group claimed responsibility, but it was widely believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
11/09/2009: On Monday, in the late evening, in Banbirua, Latehar, Jharkhand, India, assailants detonated a bomb at a school, damaging the school but resulting in no casualties. The Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) claimed responsibility. The rebels left behind pamphlets saying the buildings had been blown up to prevent the security forces from using them as make-shift camps during the elections.
10/15/2009: On Thursday, suspected Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants opened fire at Aeetalli polling station in the Kotni sub-district in the Gadchiroli district.
04/23/2009: On Thursday, unidentified militants attacked a vehicle carrying Seema Sashastra Bal (SSB) personnel and civilians in Wardingsa in North Cachar Hills, Assam, India. One SSB personnel was killed and one was wounded. Four civilians were also wounded in the attack. No group has claimed responsibility.
03/31/2009: On Tuesday morning, at about 0920, the Warden of Sajiwa Jail, Haobijam Khunjao Singh, was wounded when a suspected militant opened fire on him in the Imphal East District, Manipur, India. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
10/13/2009: On Tuesday, the office of a construction company was partially destroyed when Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants detonated an explosive device in the Sangrampur area of Munger district in India's Bihar state. No casualties were reported in the attack.
06/18/2009: On Thursday, near Palur village, in Koraput, Orissa, India, assailants detonated two landmine improvised explosive devices near a police vehicle, killing nine police officers, eight belonging to the Orissa Special Security Force and one belonging to Orissa State Armed Police, and damaging the vehicle. No group claimed responsibility, but authorities believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
05/05/2009: On Tuesday, in Manipur, India, unidentified militants detonated an explosive at the residence of a retired police officer, damaging the residence but causing no casualties. No group claimed responsibility.
08/05/2009: On Wednesday, in the Dangabadi and Ramgiri villages of Koraput, Orissa, India, assailants set alight cell phone towers belonging to the Reliance and Airtel companies, damaging two cellular phone towers but causing no injuries. No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
08/25/2009: On Tuesday evening, in the Akri area of Aurangabad, Bihar, India, assailants detonated a bomb at a community center, damaging the community center but causing no injuries. No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed a Maoist faction was responsible.
10/13/2009: On Tuesday, In Jharkhand, Maoists blew up rail tracks at Jharandih in Dhanbad, resulting in the Shaktipunj Express and some local trains being held up at various points. A light engine was derailed after a one-and-half meter section of the track was blown up. There were no casualties reported in the incident.
05/02/2009: On Saturday, in Kuwangkoda, Dantewada, Chhattisgarh, India, Communist Party of India - Maoist rebels detonated a landmine targeting a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) convoy, wounding two CRPF officers. The Maoists subsequently opened fire on the convoy. Four rebels were arrested following the attack.
05/13/2009: On Wednesday, one Assam Rifles soldier,  Kamal Dogra.  was shot and killed by Black Widow (BW) militants during an ambush in Gunjung, North Cachar Hills, Assam, India.
09/18/2009: On Friday, in Thoubal District, Manipur, India, Kakching Khunou Government High School and Wangjing Wangkhei Government Higher Secondary School were set ablaze. The schools were saved by the chowkidars with the help of local people. The Kakshing Khunou High School reportedly lost ten sets of the computers and some furniture. The headmaster's room of the Wangjing Wangkei Higher Secondary School was completely destroyed. No group claimed responsibility.
10/03/2009: On Saturday evening at around 1800, at Leimram village, in Bishnupur district, Manipur, India. militants fired at a team of Bishnupur district police commandos, the team immediately retaliated. In the encounter three militants and two civilians were killed and a commando was injured. A M 16 rifle, two AK series rifles, one Universal machine gun and over 300 rounds of ammunition were recovered from the encounter site. Three suspected cadres of the Kanglei Yawol Kanna Lup KYKL(MDF) have been arrested by security forces.
08/29/2009: On Saturday, in Puruliya, West Bengal, India, assailants fired upon and killed the secretary of the Sindurpur Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) office. No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
11/03/2009: On Tuesday, in the Babupara area of Imphal, Manipur, India, a grenade exploded on Imphal Airport Road near the office buildings of two major daily papers, the Sangai Express and Matamgi Yakairol, wounding five civilians and damaging a passing vehicle. No group claimed responsibility.
11/01/2009: On Sunday evening, in Salboni, near Lalgarh, West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, assailants kidnapped a local leader of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) from his home. The victim, Anil Mahato, was shot and killed on the grounds of a local school later on that day. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
08/21/2009: On Friday morning at 0600, in Bangalbazar, Sukansangra area, Kokrajhar, Assam, India, four or five assailants fired upon and killed one Bodoland People's Front (BPF) member, Sonen Basumatary (32), in his home. No group claimed responsibility, but authorities believed the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) - Ranjan Daimary Faction was responsible.
05/21/2009: On Thursday morning, at Simanapur area, about 78 kilometers from the Kanchanpur Police Station, in Kanchanpur, North Tripura, India along the India-Bangladesh Border assailants injured two Border Security Force (BSF) personnel. No group claimed responsibility
03/31/2009: On Tuesday evening, a bomb exploded in a busy market place, killing one and injuring nine others, in Guwahati, Assam, India. The blast occurred two kilometers away from Lalmati area, where the Union External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukerjee was supposed to address a public gathering as part of the election campaign. The market was damaged in the attack. No group has claimed responsibility.
03/30/2009: On Monday evening, around 1930,  three suspected National Socialist Council of Nagaland-Isak-Muivah (NSCN-IM) cadres shot and killed a civilian, Kathing Jagoi, Chairman of the Ukhrul Autonomous District Council, at Rayotang in Ukhrul, Manipur, India. The NSCN-IM militants involved in the killing are reportedly also linked to the armed group, the Manipur Naga Revolutionary Front. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
12/17/2009: On Thursday, in Sirohikala village in Garhwa, Jharkhand, India, assailants kidnapped a supporter of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) and candidate of the National Socialist Movement as he was campaigning door-to-door, as four motorcycle-borne Maoists ambushed the vehicle of the candidate and took him away to a nearby jungle. No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed a Maoist faction was responsible. The status of the victim remains unknown.
07/06/2009: On Monday, in Konda Tikarpada village, in Korpaut, Orissa, India, assailants killed a civilian suspected of being a police informer. The victim, Pidika Mohan Rao, was found on the main road near Edugumvalasa, 10 kilometers from the village. The injuries on his body revealed that an axe was used in the attack. No damages were reported in the attack. The Communist Party of India-Maoist claimed responsibility in a letter tied to the body of the victim.
12/28/2009: On Monday at about 0100, in Komanapalli village, Warangal, Andhra Pradesh, India, assailants dragged the village mayor, Kaviti Rajulu, and his family members from their home and fired upon them, killing the mayor and his uncle and wounding three family members. No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed a Maoist faction was responsible.
05/18/2009: On Monday evening, in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India, two motorcycle-borne assailants fired upon a police party, killing one police officer and wounding one other.  Tehrik-e-Galba Islami claimed responsibility.
08/31/2009: On Monday, in Kekargarh village, Palamau, Jharkhand, India, assailants kidnapped a Circle Officer of Paki Block of the Palamau District and demanded a ransom of $42598. 09/01/2009, on Tuesday night, at about 2345, in Palamu, Jharkhand, India, the Jharkhand police rescued the victim. No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed the People's Liberation Front of India (PLFI) a subgroup of the Jharkhand Liberation Tiger (JLT) was responsible.
06/12/2009: On Friday night, in Ngariyan Hills, Imphal East, Manipur, India, armed assailants set fire to two bulldozers at a police station construction site, damaging the vehicles but causing no injuries. No group claimed responsibility.
09/10/2009: On Thursday morning, in Sundargarh, Orissa, India, assailants detonated improvised explosive devices targeting a community center, damaging the community center, but causing no casualties. The motive for the attack was to intensify the pressure for the release of 30 people branded as Maoist. No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible. This is one of four related attacks.
11/01/2009: On Sunday, in Dhemaji, Assam, India, seven assailants kidnapped a civil engineer of Bharatiya Associates from his work site. No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) was responsible. The status of the hostage is unknown.
05/04/2009: On Monday, in Khanqah-e-Moalla, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India, assailants fired upon and wounded one National Conference (NC) political party activist. It is unknown if the attack caused any property damage. No group claimed responsibility.
08/09/2009: On Sunday, in Chakadoba village in the Lalgarh area of West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, assailants fired upon a person affiliated with the Jharkhand Party, killing him. The Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
03/18/2009: On Wednesday,  in the Kafitoli Karbi Anglong, Assam, India, Karbi Longri National Liberation Front (KLNLF) militants shot and killed a civilian and kidnapped four others in an attack. They also set fire to the vehicle.
07/09/2009: On Thursday, in Balipathar, Karbi Anglong, Assam, India, assailants fired upon and killed one alleged police informer. Rukman Ali (27) alias Akojan Ali alias Motu, was shot dead by militants while he was walking towards the Balipathar market on National Highway 39. The militants, lying in wait, fired at him when he got down from an Army vehicle and was walking towards the market. Motu had been providing information on National Democratic Front of Bodoland's (NDFB) activities to security forces (SF) operating in Karbi Anglong for several months. No group claimed responsibility, but it was widely believed the NDFB was responsible.
04/08/2009: On Wednesday, in Khelan village, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India, authorities detected and defused an improvised explosive device planted by suspected militants targeting a railway track.No group claimed responsibility.
04/08/2009: On Wednesday, in Ranpura, Garwah, Jharkhand, India, about 50 Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants surrounded and attacked a make-shift security force base at a middle school. No casualties or damage were reported in the attack.
04/24/2009: On Friday, in Monghama Village, Pulwama, Jammu and Kashmir, India, assailants fired upon and killed one National Conference (NC)  senior political activist.  No group claimed responsibility.
10/31/2009: On Saturday night at 2340, in Imphal West, Manipur, India, unidentified militants launched a grenade targeting Imphal Hospital on RIMS road, damaging a scooter parked on the hospital premises, but causing no casualties. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
10/04/2009: On Sunday, at the village of Balisang in Sonitpur district, Guwahati, Assam, India, a group of about a dozen National Democratic Front of Bodoland militants fired upon the village, leaving 10 civilians dead, including at least four women, and six others injured. The NDFB is a rebel group fighting for an independent homeland for the Bodo tribe in Assam.
08/20/2009: On Thursday night around 0000 midnight, unknown assailants set fire to two residences belonging to leaders of the ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist in Midnapore, West Bengal, India, damaging both residences but causing no casualties. No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
08/25/2009: On Tuesday night at about 2230, in West Singhbhum, Jharkhand, India, assailants detonated a bomb on the railroad tracks between Goelkara and Sonua, damaging the tracks but causing no injuries. No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed a Maoist faction was responsible.
06/12/2009: On Friday, members of the Communist Party of India (Maoist), attacked the State Bank of India branch near Phusro market, Bokaro, Jharkhand, India. Twelve policemen were killed while 14 officers and 10 civilians were injured in the indiscriminate firing. Communist Party of India (Maoist) claimed responsibility.
03/18/2009: On Wednesday,  in Jalpaiguri, West Bengal, India, a bomb strapped to a bicycle exploded in a market, killing two and injuring twelve. Police suspect Kamtapur Liberation Organisation (KLO) to be behind the attack. It Is unknown if the attack caused any property damage.
09/06/2009: On Sunday morning, in West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, a Communist Party of India-Marxist activist was killed by suspected Maoist rebels. Shyam Chalak was abducted by a group of suspected Maoists ultras. His body was found near his residence at Keondi area in the district. Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) are highly suspected for this attack.
02/22/2009: On Sunday evening between 2100 and 0200, in one of four linked attacks, 40 Communist Party of India- Maoist militants ransacked a police outpost and then set it on fire in Govindpali village in Malkangiri, Orissa, India. The militants also triggered explosives in two mobile phone towers belonging to the Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited and damaged another. Several vehicles parked on the road were also set on fire. Prior to that, Maoists attacked the house of a contractor, P.K. Swain in Govindpali village in Malkangiri. The militants dragged Swain from his house and shot and killed him before detonating explosives on his house and setting four vehicles on fire. Several vehicles parked on the road were also set on fire. No other casualties were reported in the attacks. The ultras had left behind leaflets and posters asking the Central Reserve Police Force to leave the place and the contractors and officials to stop 'exploiting' the poor tribalâs. Police suspected the role of the Malkangiri unit of the Maoist in the attack.
08/17/2009: On Monday morning at about 0900, in Gumla, Jharkhand, India, assailants kidnapped ten employees of Hindalco Industries along the Netarhat-Kujam road. About twelve hours later, assailants returned to the area and set 12 vehicles afire. No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed a Maoist faction was responsible. The status of the hostages is unknown.
04/18/2009: On Saturday, a civilian was kidnapped by unknown militants in Gomara, Sonitpur, Assam, India. No group claimed responsibility, but it was widely believed the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) was responsible.
11/03/2009: On Tuesday night around 0000 midnight, in Chitrakonda, Malkangiri, Orissa, India, around 50 armed Communist Party of India-Maoists stormed the guest house of Essar Steel, a private company, wounding one security guard and two company engineers. Assailants then set the guest house on fire, damaging the house and office furniture. The attack occurred during a two day strike called by the Maoists to protest against the deployment of forces in the district.
3/3/2009: On Friday, in the Imphal West District, India an engineer of the Irrigation and Flood Control Department, Mohammed Liyaquat Ali, was abducted on 3/3/2009 by suspected militants from Singjamei area, when he was on his way to the office. No casualties reported and no one claimed responsibility.
08/05/2009: On Wednesday, in the Aankro area of West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, assailants fired upon workers at a cold storage facility, killing three. They were supporters of the Jharkhand Party (Naren) and were also associated with the Gana Pratirodh Committee. No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed the Communist Party of India-Maoists was responsible.
08/09/2009: On Sunday evening at 1840, in Imphal East, Manipur, India, militants triggered a bomb blast at the residence of the Manipur Tribal Development Corporation Director, Solomon Chingkhei, at Nagaram, injuring his 19-year old driver, A.S. Ringshangni. No group claimed responsibility.
10/27/2009: On Tuesday night, in Jamdohora village, 12 kilometers from Pirrakhuli, in the Lalgarh region of Midnapore, West Bengal, India, about 100 suspected Communist Party of India- Maoist (CPI-Maoist) rebels raided and torched four Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-Marxist) leader's houses, damaging the houses. There were no casualties reported in the arson. This is part of a multiple incident.
05/06/2009: On Wednesday, in Dantewada, Chhattisgarh, India, three kilometres from the Vinjaram police base in Sirguda village, Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) rebels triggered a landmine targeting security personnel, killing four civilians and six security personnel. It is unknown if the attack caused any damage.
08/01/2009: On Saturday evening at 2130, in Chirugoda, Belpahari, West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, assailants entered the home of a Jharkhand Party and People's Resistance Committee leader, Kalipada Singh (35), dragged him outside, and fired upon and killed him. No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
06/14/2009: On Sunday morning, in Dakadihi Village, Mayurbhanj District, Orissa, India, suspected Maoists shot and killed a tribal because they suspected him of being a police informer. Around a dozen militants armed with sophisticated weapons followed the victim, Balakram Soren, age 35, from the market and shot him from close range. No group claimed responsibility but it was widely believed that Communist Party of India (Maoist), CPI-M, militants were responsible.
04/12/2009: On Sunday evening at about 1930, in Mayang Imphal, Imphal West, Manipur, India, two motorcycle-borne assailants threw a grenade at the Congress political party office, wounding three civilians and damaging the office. No group claimed responsibility, but it was widely believed the Kangleipak Communist Party-Military Council (KCP-MC) was responsible.
09/18/2009: On Friday morning after 1055, in Kangla Imphal, Imphal East, Manipur, India, an assailant left a car full of explosives parked close the office block of the Governor’s secretariat. The car contained 25kg explosive, including three HE grenades, nails, bolts and two mobile handsets. Police discovered the car before the explosives were detonated. No damage or causalities were reported. No group claimed responsibility.
04/14/2009: On Tuesday, in Deuthai, Karbi Anglong, Assam, India, assailants threw a grenade at the residence of a Congress party leader, causing no casualties or damage. No group claimed responsibility, but authorities believed the Karbi Longri North Cachar Liberation Front (KLNLF) was responsible.
07/28/2009: On Tuesday, in Takimari village, Rajganj, Jalpaiguri, West Bengal, India, seven assailants with sharp weapons assaulted three Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI) workers, killing one DYFI worker and wounding two others. No group claimed responsibility, but it was widely believed the Communist Party of India-Marxist Leninist (CPI-ML) was responsible.
11/29/2009: On Sunday morning, near Jamshedpur, East Singhbhum, Jharkhand, India, assailants cut down a tree, attached an improvised explosive device (IED) to it and placed it in the road. The IED exploded as a group of civilians attempted to move the tree, killing one child and two civilians and wounding eight civilians. No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed a Maoist faction was responsible.
06/16/2009: On Tuesday afternoon at about 1215, in the village of Michidui, North Cachar Hills, Assam, India, unidentified gunmen opened indiscriminate fire on civilians and set ablaze 20 houses in a Zeme Naga tribe village. Twelve civilians, including eight minors were killed on the spot and two others wounded. No group claimed responsibility but it was suspected that Black Widow militants were responsible for the attack.
05/03/2009: On Sunday afternoon around 1300, in the Kalaimuri area of West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, suspected Communist Party of India-Maoist rebels attacked and demolished a government building that formerly acted as a police base. No casualties were reported.
05/30/2009: On Saturday evening at approximately 2130, in Mahupadar, Malkangiri, Orissa, India assailants detonated a landmine improvised explosive device which damaged the police post but caused no casualties. This particular attack is part of a series of linked attacks.  The Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) claimed responsibility.
01/01/2009: On Thursday afternoon at 1425, the first bomb of a series of three bomb attacks occurred in a market place in Birubari area of Guwahati, Assam, India. The bomb was planted in a GMC garbage bin near the Assam Association of the Deaf office and used steel ball bearings. The second bombing occurred at 1725 at a marketplace in the Bootnath area. The third bombing occurred at 1740 at a marketplace in Bhangagarh. The two bombs were attached to bicycles and were packed with steel balls. The combined casualties of all the attacks are five dead and 50 wounded. Two of the deceased were identified as Amal Das (45) and Kohil Sheikh (7). A shop, a market and the garbage dumpster were damaged in the attack. Police said the serial blasts took place as Indian Home Minister P. Chidambaram was on an official visit to Guwahati to review security in India's restive northeast. A senior security official said that one of the bombs went off near the route the home minister was scheduled to take. Police suspect the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) to be responsible. No group claimed responsibility.
10/04/2009: On Sunday night, in the Kandhmal District of Orissa, India, the Katingia Police outpost was blown up by thirty armed members of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist). They also, set ablaze documents but no one was hurt.
01/07/2009: On Wednesday, Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants killed one Indian police officer in the village of Belchar in Bijapur, Chhattisgarh, India. No group claimed responsibility; however, District Superintendent of Police J.S. Watti suspected CPI-M militants. He said they are increasingly targeting policemen to create a reign of terror in the District.
04/19/2009: On Sunday, a passenger vehicle was hijacked and set aflame by unidentified militants along Uya road, Kakching Naoripat,Thoubal, Manipur, India. No casualties were reported but the vehicle was damaged. No group claimed responsibility.
09/18/2009: On Friday night around 2300, in Khurai Ahongsangbam Leikai, Imphal East, Manipur, India, unidentified militants attacked the residence of the FCS Minister, Yumkham Irabot Singh, with lathode bombs. The bombs were fired three times towards the residence of the minister, but the first and second missed, but the third one hit the mark. No causalities were reported. No group claimed responsibility.
04/25/2009: On Saturday, Communist Party of India (Maoist), CPI-M, rebels blew up a building used to house police personnel at the village of Chonha, Gaya, Bihar, India.  No casualties were reported in the attack.
05/13/2009: On Wednesday, in Cuddalore, Tamil Nadu, India, violence at a polling station left six civilians injured. No group claimed responsibility.
09/15/2009: On Tuesday, in Kada, Palamau, Jharkhand, India, assailants attacked five farmers and destroyed their crops on suspicion that they were police informers, causing no casualties. Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants were responsible for the attack.
12/27/2009: On Sunday in Balimela, Malkangiri, Orissa, India, in one of two related attacks, assailants detonated a bomb at a cellular telephone tower belonging to Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd, lightly damaging the tower but causing no injuries. The Maoists had given the bandh call in protest against the alleged police excesses against tribal’s, particularly the police firing in Narayanpatna block of Koraput last month that led to the death of two tribal’s. No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed a Maoist faction was responsible.
05/11/2009: On Monday, at Risgaon village in Dhamtari, Chhattisgarh, India, assailants killed twelve policemen and a civilian and wounding seven others in a landmine blast targeted a police vehicle carrying jawans. No damage or motive were reported and no group claimed responsibility, although it was believed Maoists were responsible.
09/10/2009: On Thursday morning, in Sundargarh, Orissa, India, assailants detonated improvised explosive devices targeting a building previously used by the Central Police Reserve Force (CPRF), damaging the building but causing no casualties. The motive for the attack was to intensify the pressure for the release of 30 people branded as Maoist. No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible. This is one of four related attacks.
02/16/2009: On Monday, 13 Special Operation Group (SOG) personnel were injured in a landmine improvised explosive device as they passed over a culvert in Andhari Ghati near Adaba Police Station in Gajapati, Orissa, India. The landmine was placed under the culvert. No group claimed responsibility, but it was widely believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
01/10/2009: On Saturday evening at 1930, Communist Party of India- Maoist Naxals killed a trader on suspicion of being a police informant in Katulpeta in Koraput, Orissa, India. Two Naxals entered the victim's shop and posed as customers, then began to beat him, and finally dragged him out to the center of the village and shot him at close range. The victim was identified as Bhogi Ramesh Kumar. The Naxals left behind a letter written in Telugu, in which they warned that police informers and exploiters would face the same fate. They also threatened the villagers not to help the government in solving land disputes. Ramesh Kumar was accused of having links with the administrative and police officials, who the Naxals alleged were interfering in land disputes in the area.
03/24/2009: On Tuesday evening, in North Cacher Hills, Assam, India, after an unsuccessful attempt by militants to blow up tracks; the Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) withdrew train services from the Lumding-Silchar section. No claim of responsibility has been made, and there were no casualties or damage reported.
01/01/2009: On Thursday evening at 1725, the second bomb of a series of three bomb attacks occurred in a market place in Bhootnath area of Guwahati, Assam, India. The bomb was attached to a bicycle and used steel ball bearings. The first bombing occurred at 1425 in a GMC garbage dumpster in Birubari, Guwahati near the Assam Association of the Deaf office. The third bombing occurred at 1740 at a marketplace in Bhangagarh. The bomb was also attached to a bicycle and used steel ball bearings. The combined casualties of all the attacks are five dead and 50 wounded. Two of the deceased were identified as Amal Das (45) and Kohil Sheikh (7). A shop, a market and the garbage dumpster were damaged in the attack. Police said the serial blasts took place as Indian Home Minister P. Chidambaram was on an official visit to Guwahati to review security in India's restive northeast. A senior security official said that one of the bombs went off near the route the home minister was scheduled to take. Police suspect the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) to be responsible. No group claimed responsibility.
04/07/2009: On Tuesday morning at about 1100, in Bijapur, Chhattisgarh, India, assailants detonated a landmine improvised explosive device on a police van, killing two police officers, wounding five others and damaging the van. No group claimed responsibility, but it was widely believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
04/29/2009: On Wednesday morning, at Jaraguri under Gossaigaon Police Station in Kokrajhar District, a group of National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) militants shot at two persons, Ranjit Musahary, a surrendered NDFB cadre, and the president of the Gossaigaon committee of the Bodoland People's Progressive Front (BPPF) member, Nirmal Narzary. Narzary was injured and later died on 05/04/2009.
04/19/2009: On Sunday, unidentified militants attacked a railway station in Harangajao, North Cachar Hills, Assam, India, wounding two police officers. No group claimed responsibility.
01/15/2009: On Thursday, in Anwarpur village, Vaishali, Bihar, India, approximately 100 assailants threw bombs at the control room of a communications tower, damaging the control room but causing no injuries. No casualties were reported. A live bomb and some Communist Party of India- Maoist papers were recovered by police from the incident. It is reported that the attack was carried out to enforce their day-long bandh of Bihar to protest against alleged atrocities by authorities on its top leaders in Bhagalpur Central Jail.
03/17/2009: On Tuesday,  in Lawagarh village, Latehar, Jharkhand, India, assailants set fire to and damaged four homes and a tractor and abducted six people,  who are relatives of two commanders of the outlawed Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist). No group claimed responsibility, but authorities believed the Tritiya Prastuti Committee (TPC) was responsible. There were no reported casualties.
05/22/2009: On Friday afternoon at 1300, between Mahur and Phaiding railway stations, in North Cachar Hills, Assam, India, approximately eight armed assailants fired upon a goods train, wounding two railway employees and three paramilitary members and seven police officers and damaging the train.  No group claimed responsibility, but it was widely believed the Dima Halim Daogah-Jewel Garlossa (DHD-J) was responsible.
05/13/2009: On Wednesday, two women were injured when a suspected militant lobbed a bomb at the house of the Secretary of the Planning and Development Authority in Imphal, Manipur, India. No group claimed responsibility.
12/20/2009: On Sunday, in Palamau, Bokaro, Jharkhand, India, assailants detonated explosives at a community building, lightly damaging the building but causing no injuries. The Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) claimed responsibility. Maoists left a pamphlet saying that the community building was blown up as it was used by the security forces during the polls.
05/05/2009: On Tuesday, in Deora village, Aurangabad, Bihar, India, assailants detonated an explosive device near a polling station, causing no casualties or damage. No group claimed responsibility, but it was widely believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
06/08/2009: On Monday, in North Cachar Hills, Assam, India, 40 houses were burnt down by unidentified militants. No casualties were reported. A group of gunmen wearing black clothes and helmets struck Diduki and Lailing villages under Maibang and Mahur police stations Monday early morning and set huts on fire. About 160 individuals are now homeless. No group claimed responsibility. This incident was one of three linked attacks in the area that also targeted several other villages in North Cachar Hills, Assam, India.
03/25/2009: On Wednesday,  in the Ningombam Mayai Leikai area of Imphal West District, Manipur State, India, a woman, identified as Soibam Ongbi Binodini, was injured when two unidentified militants threw a Chinese hand grenade into her private residence. There has been no claim of responsibility. It Is unknown if the attack caused any property damage.
04/15/2009: On Wednesday, near Migrengdisa, in North Cachar Hills, Assam, India, assailants fired upon a goods train, damaging the train but causing no casualties.  No group claimed responsibility, but authorities believed the Dima Halim Daogah-Jewel Garlossa (DHD-J) was responsible.
01/07/2009: On Wednesday, Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants set fire to a passenger bus in the Maddedu forests of Dantewada, Chhattisgarh, India. Maoists stopped the bus by barricading the road approximately 100 km away from the Chhattisgarh and Andhra Pradesh border. The militants forced the passengers to get off the bus before setting it on fire. Maoists had earlier warned against operation of the inter-State bus service along the forest route. No casualties were reported. No group claimed responsibility.
06/23/2009: On Tuesday, in an unspecified location in Orissa, India, approximately 40 armed assailants attacked the offices of a wildlife sanctuary, taking the watch officer hostage; then set fire to three buildings, damaging all three buildings. Later, the hostage escaped. The Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) claimed responsibility. This is one of three related attacks.
04/06/2009: On Monday night around 0100, in Latehar, Jharkhand, India, six assailants assaulted and then fired upon a group of private security guards of the Abhijeet Group, killing four guards and wounding one other.Sanyukta Krantikari Committee claimed responsibility, but authorities believed the Jharkhand Prastuti Committee (JPC) was responsible.
06/23/2009: On Tuesday, in Bhuiadih, Khunti, Jharkhand, India, about 10 suspected cadres of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) attacked a truck laden with iron ore and lit the truck on fire, but causing no casualties. The truck driver and his assistant were missing, but it was unknown if they escaped or were abducted by the rebels. No group has claimed responsibility, but the CPI-M were believed to be responsible.
04/13/2009: On Monday, near Ananthapura Gate, Yelahanka, Kamataka, India, four assailants armed with sickles, rods, and knives, assaulted and killed the Chief Vigilance Officer of Kamataka Power Transmission Corporation, and wounded his driver. No group claimed responsibility.
07/10/2009: On Friday, in Paniganda, Adaba, Gajapati, Orissa, India, assailants forced a guard out of a forest office and held him hostage, then detonated explosives on the office, wounding one nearby civilian and damaging the office. Later, the assailants released the hostage. No group claimed responsibility, but it was widely believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
02/26/2009: On Thursday, in one of three related attacks, assailants detonated a bomb at the Congress Party office in Thoubal, Manipur, India, damaging the office but causing no injuries. A second bomb was detonated at the Congress Party office in Imphal East, Manipur, India; and a third bomb was detonated at the Congress Party office in Bishnupur, Manipur, India. The Kangleipak Communist Party-Military Council (KCP-MC) claimed responsibility.
11/08/2009: On Sunday night at around 1730, in Gidhni Bazaar, West Midnapore, West Bengal, Communist Party of India-Maoist rebels fired at police patrol guarding a shopping area killing four Security personnel of the Eastern Frontier Rifles (EFR) and looted their arms. The Communist Party of India (Maoist) claimed responsibility for the killings.
02/04/2009: On Wednesday, in Imphal West, Manipur, India, armed assailants kidnapped three officials from the Manipur food and civil supplies department. The United People's Party of Kangleipak (UPPK) claimed responsibility. They were released on 02/10/2009.
04/16/2009: On Thursday, in Narayanpur, Chhattisgarh, India, assailants detonated improvised explosive devices on the polling booths, and attacked security forces in the Nemar, Sonapal and Kokaneta areas, damaging the booths but causing no casualties.  No group claimed responsibility, but it was widely believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
05/30/2009: On Saturday evening, assailants detonated a landmine improvised explosive device on a communications tower in the area of Mahupadar, Malkangiri, Orissa, India, damaging the tower but causing no casualties. This attack is part of a series of related attacks.  The Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) claimed responsibility.
09/25/2009: On Friday, at Sinduri village in Khunti, Jharkhand, India, assailants fired upon and killed one security guard at the Grameen Bank. No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed a Maoist faction was responsible.
01/29/2009: On Thursday afternoon, at 1430, in Sivasagar, Assam, India, United Liberation Front of Assam militants attacked a joint police and army patrol at Bengenabari, killing two police officers, while having one of their own militants killed. There was no motive or damage reported.
10/31/2009: On Saturday night, at Kumandi under Manika police station in Latehar, Jharkhand, India, Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants set ablaze the home of former Maoist, Sanjay Yadav, damaging the house but causing no casualties. Yadav had recently broken away from the CPI-Maoist to join the Jharkhand-Chhattisgarh Simant Committee.
03/30/2009: On Monday, a vacant community hall was blown up at the Penk Village in Bokaro, Jharkhand, India. The building was damaged in the attack but no casualties were reported. No group claimed responsibility, but authorities believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
06/20/2009: On Saturday, in Manipur, India, ten unidentified militants were killed during an incidence of inter-factional fighting on the border between India and Myanmar. No group claimed responsibility
01/22/2009: On Thursday, around 20 to 25 Communist Party of India- Maoist (CPI-M) militants set 11 cement trucks on fire on the Dehri-Rohtas road near the Domba village, Bihar, India. The Maoists pulled out the drivers of the trucks and set them ablaze during the bandh they called in Rohtas. The trucks were on their way to Dehri from Banjari-based Kalyanpur cement factory when they were intercepted. The assailants also manhandled the truck drivers. According to the Additional Director General of Police Neelmani, the CPI-Maoist has called for a 24-hour shutdown in Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal and Orissa. No casualties were reported. No group claimed responsibility.
08/20/2009: On Thursday, unknown assailants detonated a bomb near two forest department buildings in the Rourkela area of Sundargarh, Orissa, India, damaging both buildings but causing no casualties. No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
04/12/2009: On Sunday evening at about 2115, in Karbi Anglong, Assam, India, assailants detonated two improvised explosive devices on the railway tracks between Doldoli and Diphu railway stations then fired upon the engine car of the Kamrup Express passenger train, damaging the tracks and one railway car but causing no casualties. No group claimed responsibility, but authorities believed the Karbi Longri North Cachar Liberation Front (KLNLF) was responsible.
09/18/2009: On Friday, in Kangla Imphal, Imphal East, Manipur, India, assailants hurled a grenade over the Raj Bhavan fencing towards the southern side not far from the main gate of the sprawling complex. No damage or casualties were reported. No group claimed responsibility.
07/04/2009: On Saturday morning around 0800, in Sabujoy village, about 35 kilometers from Haflong, in North Cachar Hills, Assam, India, suspected Naga militants armed with guns and weapons set fire to 17 houses belonging to Dimasa tribal's, damaging the houses but causing no casualties. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
01/27/2009: On Tuesday, in Gaya, Bihar, India, two hundred Communist Party of India- Maoist militants stormed the control room of a Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) communication tower in Maigra village and blew up the tower with dynamite. No casualties were reported in the attack.
05/04/2009: On Monday evening, in Dhekiajuli, Sonapur, Assam, India, assailants kidnapped the MK Engineers' Belsiri camp leader. The status of the hostage is unknown. No group claimed responsibility.
12/01/2009: On Tuesday, in the PV-34 area of Kanker district, Chhattisgarh, India, suspected Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants blew up police barracks under construction. No casualties were reported in the attack. Communist Party of India (Maoist) were believed to be responsible.
09/21/2009: On Monday night, in the Enayetpur area of West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, assailants attacked a Communist Party of India- Marxist office, causing a five-hour gun battle, resulting in 15 deaths. The Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist) were responsible for the attack, and attacked the office after the news of the murder of two women villagers, who died in firing from CPI(M) cadres.
10/21/2009: On Wednesday, a local village official and member of the All India United Democratic Front, Muzaffar Ali, was shot dead from close range with a revolver by four unidentified militants in the Bamuntary area of Barpeta, Assam, India. One of the militants Kader Ali, was captured on the spot and handed over to the Police. No group claims responsibility.
04/08/2009: On Wednesday, in Baluar village, Gaya, Bihar, India, assailants detonated explosives on a school building, damaging the building but causing no casualties. No group claimed responsibility, but it was widely believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
12/19/2009: On Saturday, Dangerpora, Pulwama, Jammu and Kashmir, India, assailants fired upon and killed, Mohammad Iqbal Dar, a local leader of the Jammu and Kashmir National Conference political party. No group claimed responsibility.
04/07/2009: On Tuesday, in Moutda village, Seraikela Kharsawan, Jharkhand, India, assailants assaulted and wounded one teacher then set fire to his house, damaging the house but causing no further casualties. No group claimed responsibility, but authorities believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
04/09/2009: On Thursday night, in Bishrampur, Palamu, Jharkhand, India, about twelve armed assailants detonated explosives in Belhra High School, damaging the school but causing no casualties. The Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) claimed responsibility.
03/11/2009: On Wednesday at 0200,  in Gurudih village in Hazaribag, Jharkhand, India, Communist Party of India- Maoist militants dragged two teachers from their home, tied them to a tree and beat them. One of the teachers was killed and the other was set free. The militants accused the men of being police informers. It is unknown if this attack caused any property damage.
04/27/2009: On Monday, one senior village official was killed by suspected Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants during an attack in the Palkhonda, Malkangiri, Orissa, India.
04/30/2009: On Thursday morning around 0750, Communist Party of India-Maoist militants detonated a landmine near a polling booth in Biramdih in Puruliya, West Bengal, India, injuring two central paramilitary force personnel.  No damages were reported and the Communist Party of India-Maoist claimed responsibility.
11/04/2009: On Wednesday night, in Rohe village, in Gaya, Bihar, India, assailants detonated explosives near a bridge, damaging the bridge but causing no casualties. No group claimed responsibility but 50 cadres of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) are believed to be responsible.
10/31/2009: On Saturday night, in Rebana village, in Keonjhar, Orissa, India, over 20 Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) rebels raided the house of Sunaram Tudu and lynched him under suspicion of being a police informer. Two other civilians were also beaten and threatened to refrain from cooperating with the police. No damages were reported in the attack.
01/11/2009: On Sunday, a police officer was killed and another injured when a landmine, triggered by Communist Party of India- Maoist militants, exploded between Rajabasa and Jordari in Gurabanda , East Singhbhum, Jharkhand, India. The deceased was identified as Shivpal Singh of the 32nd battalion, while a constable of the Central Reserve Police Force, Jitendra Singh, was taken to Tata Main hospital for treatment. Jitendra was critically injured in the blast. Police said that the ultras triggered the blast between Rajabasa and Jordari when the security forces were on long-range patrol for a special operation. No group claimed responsibility.
05/23/2009: On Saturday, in Kaura village, Chatra, Jharkhand, India, assailants detonated a bomb on a middle school, damaging the school but causing no injuries.  No group claimed responsibility, but it was widely believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
10/15/2009: On Thursday, suspected Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist members opened fire at Korchi polling station on the Maharashtra-Chhattisgarh border.
09/22/2009: On Tuesday, in Leh, Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir, India, a bomb exploded in a Tibetan refugee camp, killing two Tibetan refugees and wounding one other. No group claimed responsibility.
07/29/2009: On Wednesday, in Dera Chowk, Minapur, Muzaffarpur, Bihar, India, assailants fired upon and killed a village-level self-government leader, identified as Premchand, for refusing to pay levy to the extremists. No group claimed responsibility, but authorities believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
06/09/2009: On Tuesday, in Bijapur District, Chhattisgarh, India, nine Central Reserve Police Force officers were injured in a landmine explosion triggered by Maoists. A police vehicle carrying the officers was blown up near Bijapur valley, 450 kilometers from the state capital. No group claimed responsibility
05/16/2009: On Saturday, in Kupwara, India, militants entered the house of Ghulam Mohammad Mir and shot and killed his 22-year-old son, Reyaz Ahmad Mir. He was shot dead on the suspicion of being an informer of the security forces and blamed for killing militants in an encounter in nearby Watsar village over a month ago. No group claimed responsibility. This was one of two linked incidents.
03/25/2009: On Wednesday evening, at around 1850,  in Tezpur, Assam , India, 13 persons were injured following a grenade blast near the Kanaklata Civil Hospital. The injured have been identified as Rinku Das (20), Ratan Kumar Mahatu (48), Krishna Ghosh (40), Ajit Pandit (30), Raju Gupta (32), Krishna Mandal (20), Bhanti Devi (45), Bijai Bahadur (60), Bishnu Gupta (45), Ranjani Bora (58) and Nagendra Prashad (40). The injured persons have been admitted at Kanaklata Civil Hospital. No group claimed responsibility, but it was widely believed the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) was responsible. It Is unknown if the attack caused any property damage.
01/07/2009: On Wednesday, Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants killed two Indian policemen and one civilian in the village of Aramangi in Bijapur, Chhattisgarh, India. No group claimed responsibility; however, District Superintendent of Police J.S. Watti suspected CPI-M militants. He said they are increasingly targeting policemen to create a reign of terror in the District.
05/29/2009: On Friday, in Phoiding village, North Cachar Hills District, Assam, India, two huts were set on fire by unidentified militants during an attack on the village. A woman was killed and another was injured during the attack. No group claimed responsibility.
08/05/2009: On Wednesday night at about 0230, in Chilgora village, West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, around 70 cadres of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) took Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) supporter, Shankar Das Adhikary (38), from his home and shot and killed him for his alleged connection with the police.
04/03/2009: On Friday, in Dantewara, Chhattisgarh, India, three motorcycle-borne assailants fired upon and killed Salwa Judum, an anti-Maoist activist. No group claimed responsibility, but it was widely believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
11/29/2009: On Sunday, in Ranchi, Jharkhand, India, assailants detonated a bomb on railway tracks between Dania and Jageshwar, damaging the tracks but resulting in no casualties. No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed a Maoist faction was responsible.
03/01/2009: On Sunday morning,in Munger, Bihar, India approximately 12 assailants set fire to a portion of the Ratanpur railway station. The attack damaged a building and there were no reports of casualties. No group claimed responsibility, but authorities believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
07/24/2009: On Friday afternoon at about 1400, near Pirrakhuli village, in West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, assailants stopped a truck transporting water to the Bhimpur police camp; kidnapped and assaulted the vehicle occupants, wounding the driver, his assistant, and one police officer; and set fire to the truck, damaging the vehicle. Later the same day, the assailants released the driver and his assistant. On 07/25/2009, the assailants released the police officer. The Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) claimed responsibility.
02/22/2009: On Sunday evening between 2100 and 0200, in one of four linked attacks, 40 Communist Party of India- Maoist militants set fire to several vehicles parked on the road in Govindpali village in Malkangiri, Orissa, India. The militants also triggered explosives in two mobile phone towers belonging to the Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited and damaged another. Several vehicles parked on the road were also set on fire. Prior to that, Maoists attacked the house of a contractor, P.K. Swain in Govindpali village in Malkangiri. The militants dragged Swain from his house and shot and killed him before detonating explosives on his house and setting four vehicles on fire. No other casualties were reported in the attacks. The ultras had left behind leaflets and posters asking the Central Reserve Police Force to leave the place and the contractors and officials to stop 'exploiting' the poor tribalâs. Police suspected the role of the Malkangiri unit of the Maoist in the attack.
03/17/2009: On Tuesday,  in Kurua village in Darrang, Assam, India, United Liberation Front of Assam militants attacked a police patrol. One police officer was injured and one ULFA militants was killed in the attack. It is unknown if this attack caused any property damage.
12/04/2009: On Friday, Unidentified militants shot and wounded Fazl-ul-Haq Qureshi, a senior leader of the Mirwaiz Umar Farooq faction of the All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC), outside his residence in the Soura area, Srinagar district of Jammu and Kashmir, India. Al-Nasirin claimed responsibility for the attack.
01/01/2009: On Thursday evening at 1740, the third bomb of a series of three bomb attacks occurred near a road in Bhangagarh area of Guwahati, Assam, India. The first bombing occurred at 1425 in a GMC garbage bin near the Assam Association of the Deaf office and used steel ball bearings. The second bombing occurred at 1725 at a marketplace in the Bootnath area. The bomb was also attached to a bicycle and used steel ball bearings. The combined casualties of all the attacks are five dead and 50 wounded. Two of the deceased were identified as Amal Das (45) and Kohil Sheikh (7). A shop, a market and the garbage dumpster were damaged in the attack. Police said the serial blasts took place as Indian Home Minister P. Chidambaram was on an official visit to Guwahati to review security in India's restive northeast. A senior security official said that one of the bombs went off near the route the home minister was scheduled to take. Police suspect the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) to be responsible. No group claimed responsibility.
04/16/2009: On Friday, in Karbi Anglong, Assam, India, assailants fired upon a polling booth, causing no casualties or damage. No group claimed responsibility, but authorities believed the Karbi Longri North Cachar Liberation Front (KLNLF) was responsible.