List of terrorist incidents in 1986

This is a timeline of incidents in 1986 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).

February

Date	Type	Dead	Injured	Location	Details	Perpetrator	Part of
19 February	Land mine	39		Serunuwara, Sri Lanka	When refugees from Serunuwara, Dehiwatta were being escorted by army personnel along Ella/Kantalai road, LTTE exploded a mine killing 35 civilians and four army personnel.[1]	LTTE	Sri Lankan civil war

March

Date	Type	Dead	Injured	Location	Details	Perpetrator	Part of
13 March	Car bombing	60		Damascus, Syria	Car bombing in Damascus. Pro-Iraqi militants were blamed for the attack.	Pro-Iraqi militants (suspected)
27 March	Car bombing	1	22	Melbourne, Australia	Car bombing of the Russell Street Police Headquarters in Melbourne by three men linked to organize crime. Policewoman Angela Taylor was the sole fatality.	Craig Minogue Stan Taylor Peter Reed

April

Date	Type	Dead	Injured	Location	Details	Perpetrator	Part of
2 April	Bombing	4	7	Argos, Greece	Bombing of TWA Flight 840 mid-flight, killing four Americans, including a baby. Flight 840 had previously been hijacked in 1969. Investigators concluded the bomb had been planted by a Lebanese woman who was an Abu Nidal Organisation member.	Abu Nidal Organisation	Israel-Palestine conflict
5 April	Bombing	3	229	West Berlin, West Germany	Bombing at a discothèque frequented by American soldiers, killing two and a Turkish woman. A trial in the U.S. found Libya guilty of organizing the attack.	Four Libyans
April	Car bombings	144		Damascus, Syria	Car bombings in five towns around Damascus. Pro-Iraqi militants were blamed for the attack.	Pro-Iraqi militants (suspected)
17 April	Attempted bombing	0	0	London, United Kingdom	A Semtex bomb was found in the luggage of an Irish woman who was about to board an El Al flight from London to Tel Aviv. The bomb had been planted by her Jordanian husband Nezar Hindawi who was arrested the next day.	Nezar Hindawi

May

Date	Type	Dead	Injured	Location	Details	Perpetrator	Part of
3 May	Bombing	21	41	Katunayake, Sri Lanka	LTTE bomb explodes aboard Air Lanka flight carrying mainly French, British and Japanese tourists killing 21 (including 13 foreigners - of whom 3 British, 2 German, 3 French, 2 Japanese, 1 Maldivian and 1 Pakistani) and injuring 41 on Bandaranaike International Airport.[1]	LTTE	Sri Lankan civil war

July

Date	Type	Dead	Injured	Location	Details	Perpetrator	Part of
14 July	Car bombing	12	32	Madrid, Spain	Car bombing of a traffic school in which young Civil Guards were studying.	ETA	Basque conflict

September

Date	Type	Dead	Injured	Location	Details	Perpetrator	Part of
5 September	Hijacking, hostage-taking	20	120	Karachi, Pakistan	Four gunmen from the Abu Nidal Organization hijack Pan Am Flight 73 at Sahar International Airport in Karachi. After a 16-hour siege, the Pakistani Army raided the plane and the militants opened fire on the passengers, killing 20.	Abu Nidal Organization	Israel-Palestine conflict
6 September	Mass shooting	22		Istanbul, Turkey	Gunmen from the Abu Nidal Organization open fire on the Neve Shalom Synagogue, killing 22.	Abu Nidal Organization	Israel-Palestine conflict

November

Date	Type	Dead	Injured	Location	Details	Perpetrator	Part of
23 November	Bombing	1 (an attacker)	0	Melbourne, Australia	Two members of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation, Hagop Levonian and Levon Demirian attempt to bomb the Turkish Consulate in Melbourne. The bomb prematurely detonated and Levonian was killed.	Armenian Revolutionary Federation

December

Date	Type	Dead	Injured	Location	Details	Perpetrator	Part of
25 December	Hijacking, grenade	63	Dozens	Arar, Saudi Arabia	Four men hijacked Iraqi Airways Flight 163 en route from Baghdad to Amman. A grenade explosion forced the plane to attempt an emergency landing, however another grenade exploded and causing the pane to crash near Arar, Saudi Arabia, killing 60 passengers and 3 crew members. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility and Iraq has accused Iran of organizing the attack.	Islamic Jihad	Iran-Iraq war
31 December	Arson	98	140	San Juan, Puerto Rico	Three employees at the Dupont Plaza Hotel set the hotel on fire over a labor dispute. Their intention was only to scare tourists away.	Héctor Escudero Aponte José Rivera López Arnaldo Jiménez Rivera

• A bomb place on a bus in the West Bank kills one and severely injures three. A Jordanian Mahmoud Mahmoud Atta is arrested, extradited to Israel, convicted, sentenced to life in prison and freed by the Israeli Supreme Court. After the September 11 attacks, he was confused with ringleader Egyptian Mohamed Atta.^[2]

See also

• List of terrorist incidents

References