List of terrorist incidents in 1985

This is a timeline of incidents in 1985 that have been labeled as "terrorism" and are not believed to have been carried out by a government or its forces (see state terrorism and state-sponsored terrorism).

January

Date	Type	Dead	Injured	Location	Details	Perpetrator	Part of
20 January	Bombing	32		Sri Lanka	22 soldiers and 10 civilians are killed in a train explosion set off by the LTTE.[1]	LTTE	Sri Lankan civil war
21 January	Bombing	0	0	Magelang, Indonesia	Bombing of the Borobudur Buddhist temple in Central Java. Believed to have been carried out by Islamists in retaliation for the Tanjung Priok massacre	Islamists

February

Date	Type	Dead	Injured	Location	Details	Perpetrator	Part of
23 February	Bombing	1	18	Paris, France	Paris Marks & Spencer shop, one bomb, one dead, 18 wounded, attributed to pro-Iranian Lebanese Hezbollah.[2]	Hezbollah

March

Date	Type	Dead	Injured	Location	Details	Perpetrator	Part of
8 March	Car bombing	80	175	Beirut, Lebanon	Car bomb explodes in Beirut, killing 80, injuring 175; allegedly planned and executed by "rogue elements" of the United States Central Intelligence Agency.[3]	CIA (alleged)	Lebanese civil war
8 March	Bombing	0	18	Paris, France	Paris, Cinema Rivoli, Jewish film festival, 18 injured, pro-Iranian Lebanese Hezbollah[4]	Hezbollah
12 March	Shooting, bombing, hostage-taking	1	0	Ottawa, Canada	Three Armenian Revolutionary Army militants storm the Turkish embassy, killing a security guard, blasting open the gate in front of the building with a bomb, and taking 12 people hostage before surrendering.	Armenian Revolutionary Army

April

Date	Type	Dead	Injured	Location	Details	Perpetrator	Part of
9 April	Suicide bombing	2 (+1 attacker)		Israel	A suicide car bomber drove an explosive-laden vehicle into an Israeli army patrol, killing 2 soldiers. This was the world's first female suicide bomber, at just 17 years old.[5][6]	Palestinian	Israel-Palestine conflict
12 April	Bombing	18	82	Madrid, Spain	Bombing of the El Descanso restaurant outside Madrid. American servicemen frequented the restaurant and were believed to have been the target. Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility.	Islamic Jihad	Lebanese civil war

May

Date	Type	Dead	Injured	Location	Details	Perpetrator	Part of
14 May	Massacre	146	85	Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka	LTTE gunmen shoot dead 146 Sinhalese civilians and injure 85 others as they were praying at Jaya Sri Maha Bodhi, a sacred Buddhist shrine in Anuradhapura.[7]	LTTE	Sri Lankan civil war

June

Date	Type	Dead	Injured	Location	Details	Perpetrator	Part of
14 June	Hijacking	1		Athens, Greece	TWA Flight 847 hijacking, Hezbollah, see FBI Most Wanted Terrorists. Terrorists take passengers of an Athens-Rome flight hostage, murdering US Navy Seaman, Robert Stethem.[8]	Hezbollah	Lebanese civil war
19 June	Shooting	12		San Salvador, El Salvador	Left-wing guerillas opened fire on the Zona Rosa nightclub in San Salvador, killing 12 people including six Americans.	Central American Revolutionary Workers' Party	Salvadoran civil war
19 June	Bombing	3	42	Frankfurt, West Germany	3 killed and 42 wounded at Frankfurt Airport by bomb. Police defuse second bomb.	Unknown
20 June	Bombings	8	Several	Across Nepal	Bombs explode in several cities in Nepal, including the capitol Kathmandu, as well as in Jhapa, Pokhara, Biratnagar, Janakpur, Birgunj, Mahendranagar, Nepalganj and at Bhairahawa Airport. Nepal Janabadi Morcha claimed responsibility.	Nepal Janabadi Morcha
23 June	Bombing	2	4	/ Narita, Japan	A bomb intended for Air India Flight 301 explodes before being loaded on the plane. The bombing was committed by the same people who bombed Air India Flight 182 the same day.	Babbar Khalsa	Punjab insurgency
23 June	Bombing	329	0	Atlantic Ocean, Ireland	Air India Flight 182 is destroyed by a bomb en route from Montreal to Delhi. Canadian investigation determined the bomb had been planted by Sikh militants from the Babbar Khalsa and was in retaliation for Operation Blue Star	Babbar Khalsa	Punjab insurgency

July

Date	Type	Dead	Injured	Location	Details	Perpetrator	Part of
22 July	Bombings	1	32	Copenhagen, Denmark	Two near-simultaneous bombs in Copenhagen, at the Jewish synagogue and at the offices of Northwest Orient, explode, killing one and injuring 32. The bombers are interrupted while placing a third, more powerful, bomb, which they later dispose of in the city's harbour. The bombs are later linked to Islamic Jihad.[9]	Hezbollah

August

Date	Type	Dead	Injured	Location	Details	Perpetrator	Part of
1 August	Kidnapping	0	0	Mediterranean Sea and Libya	A Belgian-French family is kidnapped from their yacht Silco in the Mediterranean Sea and held in Libya for several years.	Abu Nidal Organization	Israel-Palestine conflict

September

Date	Type	Dead	Injured	Location	Details	Perpetrator	Part of
23-24 September	Robberies, shootings	21 (+5 attackers)	11 (+2 attackers)	Lahad Datu, Malaysia	A group of Moro pirates raid the town of Lahad Datu, Sabah and commit several robberies and random shootings.	Moro pirates	Moro attacks on Sabah
25 September	Shooting	4	1	Bayonne, France	4 members of the Spanish government backed death squad Grupos Antiterroristas de Liberación kill 4 ETA members and injured a civilian in an attack on a hotel bar.	GAL	Basque conflict

October

Date	Type	Dead	Injured	Location	Details	Perpetrator	Part of
5 October	Mass shooting	8	4	Ras Burqa, Egypt	Egyptian soldier Suleiman Khater kills 7 Israeli tourists, including four children, and another Egyptian soldier in the beach resort town Ras Burqa	Suleiman Khater	Israel-Palestine conflict
7 October – 10 October	Hijacking	1		// Mediterranean Sea	Achille Lauro hijacking: cruise ship hijacking by Palestinian Liberation Front, during which passenger Leon Klinghoffer, a 69-year-old wheelchair-using Jewish American citizen, is shot dead and thrown overboard.[10]	PLF	Israel-Palestine conflict

November

Date	Type	Dead	Injured	Location	Details	Perpetrator	Part of
6 November	Siege, shootout	98	Several	Bogota, Colombia	Members of the 19th of April Movement take over the Palace of Justice, the home of the Supreme Court of Colombia, in hopes of forcing a trial of Colombian president Belisario Betancur. 98 people were killed during the siege, including 35 militants, 48 Colombian soldiers and 11 of the 25 Supreme Court Justices.	M-19	Colombian conflict
23 November	Hijacking	58 (+2 attackers)	Several	/ Luqa, Malta	EgyptAir Flight 648 is hijacked en route from Athens to Cairo by three members of the Abu Nidal Organization. The flight is diverted to Luqa Airport where the militants engage in a standoff with the Egyptian military. The Egyptian military stages a raid in which 60 people, including 2 of the attackers, are killed.	Abu Nidal Organization	Israel-Palestine conflict

December

Date	Type	Dead	Injured	Location	Details	Perpetrator	Part of
27 December	Shootings, grenade	19 (+4 attackers)	138 (+1 attacker)	/ Rome, Italy Vienna, Austria	Four gunmen from the Abu Nidal Organization open fire on the El Al ticket counter at Leonardo da Vinci–Fiumicino Airport, killing 16 and wounding 99. Nearly simultaneously, three more gunmen attack Vienna International Airport, targeting a passengers boarding a flight for Tel Aviv. 3 people were killed and 39 injured. Four of the seven terrorists were also killed in the attacks.	Abu Nidal Organization	Israel-Palestine conflict

See also

• List of terrorist incidents

References