List of terrorist incidents in 1991

This is a timeline of incidents in 1991 that have been labelled as "terrorism" and are not believed to have been carried out by a government or its forces (see state terrorism and state-sponsored terrorism).

Date	Type	Dead	Injured	Location	Details	Perpetrator	Part of
January 6	Bombing	3	7	La Dorada, Caldas, Colombia	A bomb kills three and wounds seven in La Dorada, Caldas. No group claims responsibility.[1]	Unknown
February 7	Mortar	0	4	London, United Kingdom	The Provisional IRA launches homemade mortar shells at 10 Downing Street in an attempt to assassinate Prime Minister John Major and his war cabinet.	PIRA	The Troubles
March 2	Bombing	19	73	Colombo, Sri Lanka	At least 19 people, including Sri Lanka's Deputy Defence Minister, Ranjan Wijeratne killed in an LTTE car bomb explosion in Colombo. A further 73 people injured.[2]	LTTE	Sri Lankan civil war
March 26	Hijacking	4 (attackers)	2	Singapore	Four members of the Pakistan People's Party hijack Singapore Airlines Flight 117 and demand the release of Asif Ali Zardari. The hijackers were killed after the plane was stormed by police and were the only fatalities.	Pakistan People's Party
May 13	Bombing	9		Colombia	Nine police officers die while deactivating a bomb left behind by leftist guerillas.[3]	FARC	Colombian conflict
May 21	Suicide bombing, assassination	15 (+1 attacker)		Sriperumbudur, India	Former Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi assassinated in a bomb blast believed to be the work of Sri Lankan Tamil terrorists belonging to the LTTE.[4] This is also the first time that the suicide vest is used by any terrorist group.	LTTE	Sri Lankan civil war
May 29	Car bombing	9	44	Vic, Spain	A car bomb explodes near a Civil Guards barracks in Vic. Nine people, including 5 children, are killed.	ETA	Basque conflict
May 30	Bombing	11	8	Dagestan, Soviet Union	A train traveling from Moscow to Baku explodes near Karvin-Yurt station between Gudermes and Makhachkala in Dagestan, Russia. Eleven people die and eight are injured.[5]	Unknown
June 15	Massacre	80-126		Ludhiana district, India	Sikh militants massacre mostly Hindu passengers on two trains near Ludhiana.	Sikh militants	Insurgency in Punjab
June 21	Suicide car bombing	60	85	Colombo, Sri Lanka	Suicide car bombing targeting the build that housed the Joint Operations Command of the Sri Lankan Armed Forces.	LTTE	Sri Lankan civil war
September 16	Car bombing	3	30	Mutxamel, Spain	An ETA car bomb explodes while being towed away from an army barracks. The police were unaware it was a car bomb and had assumed it was an abandoned car.	ETA	Basque conflict
October	Plot	0	0	Toronto, Canada	Five men of West Indian origin with links to Jamaat ul-Fuqra are arrested near the Canada–US border and later convicted of a plot to bomb a Hindu temple and an Indian theatre.	Jamaat ul-Fuqra
October 15	Massacre	202	83	Palliyagodella, Sri Lanka	LTTE cadres attacked a Muslim village and shot and hacked to death 182 civilians (171 of them were Muslims), twelve policemen and eight soldiers; 83 others were injured.[6]	LTTE	Sri Lankan civil war
October 18	Bombings	41	140	Rudrapur, India	Rudrapur bombings: Two time bomb blast, when people watching a Hindu pageant of Ramila, Rudrapur, Uttar Pradesh, India, which blame on Sikh separatist militant. Killing at least 41 and injuring 140 people.[7]	Sikh militants	Insurgency in Punjab
December 21	Bombing	0	6	Budapest, Hungary	Car bomb of RAF explodes near the bus of soviet jewish migrants.[8]	Red Army Faction
December 26	Massacre	49	20+	Punjab, India	Sikh militants massacre 49 mostly Hindu passengers on a train traveling between Ludhiana to Ferozepur.[9]	Sikh militants	Insurgency in Punjab

See also

• List of terrorist incidents

References