New Delhi: Terrorism, over the years, has become a tool for militant organisations to send across their message. The terrorists do not regard the human lives they massacre, nor do they consider the pain and agony that follow a terror attack. For them, only the intention of creating a state of anarchy and chaos is paramount and they would stop at nothing to fulfil their goal, even if it means destroying the lives of numerous common people. In this article, we will take a look at some of the biggest terrorist attacks in history.
Five worst terrorist attacks in history
1. 9/11 attacks
The 9/11 attacks remain the most devastating terror attacks in the history of both the US and the world. Perpetrated by the militant outfit Al Qaeda, the attacks killed 2,977 people. In the operation, 19 terrorists hijacked four commercial airliners and crashed the first two planes into the World Trade Center’s Twin Towers in New York City.
2. Camp Speicher massacre
On June 12, 2014, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) killed between 1,095 and 1,700 Iraqi cadets near Tikrit. At that time, there were between 5,000 and 10,000 unarmed cadets near Camp Speicher. It is the deadliest terror attack in Iraq to date and the second-deadliest ever.
3. Qahtaniyah bombings
On August 14, 2007, the Qahtaniyah bombings took place when four coordinated suicide car bomb attacks detonated in the Yazidi towns in northern Iraq. The attacks killed 796 people and injured at least 1,500 others. Also, it is the third deadliest terror act in world history.
4. Yumbi Violence
Between December 16 and 18, 2018, at least 890 people were killed in Yumbi and three other nearby villages in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The violence took place due to a dispute over a local chief’s burial. Along with the massacre of lives, around 465 houses and buildings were burned down or looted.
5. 1993 Bombay bombings
It was a series of 12 terrorist bombings in Mumbai (then Bombay) on March 12, 1993. The attacks killed 257 people and injured 1,400. Dawood Ibrahim, the leader of the international organised crime syndicate D-Company, was the mastermind behind the attacks and he was helped by his subordinate Tiger Memon. To date, they remain one of the deadliest terror attacks in India.
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