List of terrorist incidents in 2001

This is a timeline of incidents in 2001 that have been labelled terrorism and are not believed to have been carried out by a government or its forces (see state terrorism and state-sponsored terrorism).

List guidelines

• Types of incidents are selected from the Classification of terrorist incidents page.
• Casualties figures in this list are the total casualties of the incident including immediate casualties and later casualties (such as people who succumbed to their wounds long after the attacks occurred).
• Casualties listed are the victims. Perpetrator casualties are listed separately (e.g. x (+y) indicate that x victims and y perpetrators were killed/injured).
• Casualty totals may be underestimated or unavailable due to a lack of information. A figure with a plus (+) sign indicates that at least that many people have died (e.g. 10+ indicates that at least 10 people have died) – the actual toll could be considerably higher. A figure with a plus (+) sign may also indicate that over that amount of people are victims.
• If casualty figures are 20 or more, they will be shown in bold. In addition, figures for casualties more than 50 will also be underlined.
• Incidents are limited to one per location per day. If multiple attacks occur in the same place on the same day, they will be merged into a single incident.

January

Dates	Type	Dead	Injured	Location	Details	Perpetrator	Part of
1	Suicide car bombing	0 (+1)	50	Netanya, Israel	A Hamas suicide car bomber detonates in the city of Netanya, wounding 50.[1]	Hamas	Second Intifada
10	Car bombing	0	50+	Medellín, Colombia	A car bomb wounds at least 50 in a shopping center parking lot in Medellín.[2]	FARC	Colombian conflict

February

Dates	Type	Dead	Injured	Location	Details	Perpetrator	Part of
9	Massacre	10		Rajouri district, India	2001 Chalwalkote massacre: A group of Hindu militants massacred 15 Muslim villagers in Rajouri district.	Kashmiri Pandits	Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir
14	Suicide car bombing	8 (+1)	21	Israel	A Hamas suicide bomber plowed a bus into a crowd and detonated, killing 8 and wounding 21.[1]	Hamas	Second Intifada
16	Bus bombing	11	40	Podujevo, Yugoslavia	Podujevo bus bombing: A bus carrying Kosovo Serbs is bombed, killing 11. Kosovo Albanian extremists were suspected of being behind the attack.	Kosovo Albanians (suspected)

March

Dates	Type	Dead	Injured	Location	Details	Perpetrator	Part of
4	Suicide bombing	3 (+1)	65	Netanya, Israel	2001 Netanya bombing: A Hamas suicide bomber detonated in the city of Netanya, killing 3 and wounding 65.[1]	Hamas	Second Intifada
4	Car bombing	0	1	White City, London, England, United Kingdom	2001 BBC bombing: The Real IRA exploded a car bomb outside the BBC's main news centre in London. One London Underground worker suffered deep cuts to his eye from flying glass and some damage was caused to the front of the building.[3]	Real IRA	Dissident Irish Republican campaign
26	Sniper attack	1	1	Hebron, West bank	A 10-month-old Israeli baby named Shalhevet Pass is murdered in a sniper attack by Tanzim militant Mahmud Amru. Shalhevet's father was also wounded.	Tanzim	Second Intifada
27	Suicide bombing	0 (+1)	30	French Hill, Jerusalem, Israel	A suicide bomber blows himself up next to a bus in Jerusalem's French Hill area, injuring 30 Israelis.[4]	Hamas	Second Intifada
28	Suicide bombing	2 (+1)		Kfar Saba, Israel	A suicide bomber detonated near a gas station outside Kfar Saba, killing two Israeli teenagers on their way to school.[4]	Hamas	Second Intifada
28	Suicide bombing	0 (+1)	4	Israel	A suicide bomber, from the Arab Hamas organization, blew himself up amidst a gathering of students waiting at a bus stop, four teenagers were wounded, one of them in critical condition.[4]	Hamas	Second Intifada

April

Date	Type	Dead	Injured	Location	Details	Perpetrator	Part of
14	Bombings	10	~50	Dhaka, Bangladesh	Two bombs explode at a Pohela Boishakh parade.	Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami	Internal conflict in Bangladesh
28	Massacre	15		Vejce, Macedonia	15 Macedonian special forces members are massacred by UÇK militants	UÇK	2001 insurgency in Macedonia
29	Suicide Bombing	0 (+1)	0	Nablus, Israel	A suicide car bomber attempted to target a school bus near Nablus, but detonated prematurely.[5]	Hamas	Second Intifada

May

Date	Type	Dead	Injured	Location	Details	Perpetrator	Part of
4	Car Bomb	4	32	Colombia	A car bomb kills four and injures 32 in a luxury hotel in Cali. No group claims the attack.[6]	Unknown	Colombian conflict
6	Bombing	0	1	United Kingdom	The Real IRA detonate a bomb in a London postal sorting office. One person was injured.[7]	Real IRA	Dissident Irish Republican campaign
8	Kidnapping and murder	2	0	Tekoa, West Bank	Two Israeli teenagers are kidnapped and murdered from the Israeli West Bank settlement Tekoa. The killers are never found.	Unknown	Second Intifada
17	car bomb	20	50	Colombia	A car bomb kills 20 and injures at least 50 in a park in Medellín.[8]	FARC	Colombian conflict
18	Suicide Bombing	5 (+1)	100+	Netanya, Israel	An Arab suicide bomber from the Hamas blew himself up at the entrance of a shopping mall in the city of Netanya, near Tel-Aviv, 5 people were killed in the blast and over 100 men, women and children were injured.	Hamas	Second Intifada
24	Bombing	4		Colombia	Two bombs kill four near the Universidad Nacional campus in Bogotá. One more bomb is defused before it could explode. Right-wing paramilitaries are suspected.[9]	Unknown	Colombian conflict
25	Suicide car bombing	0 (+2)	65	Israel	Two suicide car bombers targeted a bus station in Hadera, injuring 65.[5]	Hamas	Second Intifada
25	Bombing	12		Israel	Two separate bombs detonate at Netzarim Junction, killing 12[10]	Hamas	Second Intifada

June

Date	Type	Deaths	Injuries	Location	Details	Perpetrators	Part of
1	Suicide bombing	25 (+1)	100+	Tel Aviv, Israel	A Palestinian named Saeed Hotari blew himself up while waiting in line to enter the Dolphinarium nightclub in Tel Aviv, killing 25 people, mostly teenage girls. Both Islamic Jihad and Hamas claimed responsibility.	Hamas Islamic Jihad	Israeli-Palestinian conflict
17	Car bomb	0	16	San Martín, Meta, Colombia	A car bomb injures 16. No group claims responsibility, but both FARC and AUC are suspected.[11]	Unknown	Colombian conflict
22	Suicide bombing	2 (+1)		Dugit, Israel	A suicide bomber kills 2.[1]	Hamas	Israeli-Palestinian conflict

July

Date	Type	Deaths	Injuries	Location	Details	Perpetrator	Part of
9	Suicide car bombing	0 (+1)		Israel	An Arab suicide car bomber detonated near the Kissufim crossing point in the southern Gaza Strip, causing no other casualties.[12]	Hamas	Israeli-Palestinian conflict
16	Suicide bombing	2 (+1)	6	Israel	An Arab suicide bomber detonated at a bus stop near the train station in Binyamina, halfway between Netanya and Haifa. The Arab terrorist group Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack which killed two people.[4]	Islamic Jihad	Israeli-Palestinian conflict
24	Suicide attack	7 (+14)	12	Colombo, Sri Lanka	An LTTE 14-man suicide squad attacked a Sri Lanka Air Force base and the adjoining Bandaranaike International Airport. 21 people were killed.[13]	LTTE	Sri Lankan civil war
31	Landmine	5	8	Assam, India	A remote control landmine was detonated damaging the forestry department's Eicher truck, which carried 13 Bhutanese passengers in Devadangi, Assam which left five killed and eight injured. The National Democratic Front of Bodoland is suspected to be behind the attacks.[14]	National Democratic Front of Bodoland (suspected)	Insurgency in Northeast India

August

Date	Type	Deaths	Injuries	Location	Details	Perpetrator	Part of
3	Bombing	0	7	Ealing, United Kingdom	The last (at time of writing) IRA bomb on mainland Britain explodes in Ealing, West London, injuring seven people.[15] (See 2001 Ealing bombing)	Real IRA	Dissident Irish Republican campaign
3	Massacre	17	5	Doda district, India	Seventeen Hindu villagers are kidnapped and murdered by Lashkar-e-Taiba militants.	LeT	Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir
8	Suicide Bombing	0 (+1)	1	Israel	A suicide car bomber detonated, lightly wounding one soldier, at a roadblock near the B'kaot moshav in the northern Jordan Valley shortly after 9:00am.[12]	Hamas	Israeli-Palestinian conflict
9	Suicide bombing	15 (+1)	130	Jerusalem, Israel	Hamas militant Izz al-Din Shuheil al-Masri blows himself up in a Sbarro restaurant in Jerusalem, killing 15 civilians, including 7 children and a pregnant woman.	Hamas	Second Intifada
10	Land mine, shooting	252	165	Angola	UNITA militants derail a train en route from Zenza do Itombe to Dondo and open fire on the passengers after they came out the train.	UNITA	Angolan Civil War
12	Suicide Bombing	0 (+1)	15	Israel	An Arab suicide bomber wounds 15 people when he blows himself up in a restaurant in Kiryat Motzkin in northern Israel.[4]	Hamas	Israeli-Palestinian conflict
22	Bombing	0	0	Republic of Macedonia	An Orthodox monastery was destroyed by an explosion.[16]	UÇK	2001 insurgency in Macedonia
23	Attack	1	39	Colombia	In a series of attacks near Medellín, 10 bombs kill one and injure 39 others. No group claims responsibility.[17]	Unknown	Colombian conflict
23	Attempted Attack	0 (+15)		Colombia	At least 15 members of terrorist group ELN die when the explosives they were carrying detonate.[18]	ELN	Colombian conflict
26	Bombing	2		Republic of Macedonia	An explosion destroyed a hotel, killing two people.[19]	UÇK	2001 insurgency in Macedonia

September

Date	Type	Deaths	Injuries	Location	Details	Perpetrator	Part of
4	Suicide bombing	0 (+1)	15	Jerusalem, Israel	An Arab suicide bomber wounds 15 people when he blows himself up outside a Jerusalem hospital.[4]	Hamas	Second Intifada
9	Suicide bombing	3 (+1)	94	Nahariya, Israel	A suicide bomber detonated at a train station in Nahariya, an Israeli city, killing three people and wounding over 90 unarmed civilians. The Palestinian militant group Hamas took responsibility for the murders.[4]	Hamas	Second Intifada
9	Suicide car bombing	0 (+1)	17	Netanya, Israel	A suicide car bomber hit Beit Lid junction near Netanya, injuring 17.[5]	Hamas	Second Intifada
9	Suicide bombing	1	0	Afghanistan	Commander Ahmad Shah Massoud, who spent years fighting Soviet occupation and then leading the anti-Taliban United Front (aka Northern Alliance), is killed by Algerian suicide bombers disguised as a camera crew.[20]	Algerian Suicide Bombers
11	Suicide hijackings	2,977 (+19)	6000+	United States	Attacks kill 2,977 victims and 19 terrorists[21] in a series of hijacked airliner crashes into two U.S. landmarks: the World Trade Center in New York City, and the Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia. A fourth plane, suspected by many to have been originally intended to hit the White House or the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C.,[22] crashes in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, after an apparent revolt against the hijackers by the plane's passengers.[23] The World Trade Center after being hit by the hijacked airliners.	Al-Qaeda
18	Bioterrorism	5	17	United States	A number of letters containing high-grade Anthrax are sent to U.S Senators Patrick Leahy and Tom Daschle and a number of news organizations across the U.S. in September and October 2001, killing five people and infecting seventeen others. The prime suspect, Bruce Edwards Ivins, a microbiologist for the USAMRIID, committed suicide in 2008 after learning that charges against him were likely, but he has never been confirmed to have committed the attacks.	Unknown
21	Stabbing	1	0	Peterborough, United Kingdom	British teenager stabbed to death by gang of Islamists[24]	Islamists

October

Date	Type	Dead	Injured	Location	Details	Perpetrator	Part of
1	Suicide car bombings	38 (+3)		Srinagar, India	Three suicide car bombers ram their cars into the assembly of Jammu and Kashmir	JeM	Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir
17	Assassination	1	0	Jerusalem, Israel	Israel's tourism minister Rehavam Ze'evi is assassinated by three Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine members at the Hyatt hotel in Jerusalem	PFLP	Second Intifada

November

Date	Type	Dead	Injured	Location	Details	Perpetrator	Part of
4	Shooting	2	45	French Hill, Israel	Two Israeli teenagers are killed and 45 people are injured in a submachine gun attack.[25]	Hamas	Second Intifada
26	Suicide bombing	0 (+1)	2	Israel	A Hamas suicide bomber detonates at Erez Checkpoint, injuring 2.[1]	Hamas	Second Intifada
29	Suicide bombing	3 (+1)	7	Pardes Hanna-Karkur, Israel	An Arab suicide bomber detonated on a bus traveling on a major highway between the Israeli coastal cities of Hadera and Afula, killing 3.[4]	Islamic Jihad	Second Intifada

December

Date	Type	Deaths	Injuries	Location	Details	Perpetrator	Part of
1	Suicide bombings, car bombing	11 (+2)	188	Israel	Arab suicide bombers detonated on Ben Yehuda Street in Jerusalem, a pedestrian mall frequented by many young people on Saturday night. A car bomb exploded nearby 20 minutes later. Ten people were killed, including many children, and 188 were injured in the terrorist attacks.[4]	Hamas	Second Intifada
2	Suicide bombing	15 (+1)	40	Haifa, Israel	A Hamas suicide bomber boarded an Israeli bus traveling from the Neveh Sha'anan district in Haifa, paying the driver with a large bill. He then blew himself up as the driver asked him to collect his change.[4]	Hamas	Second Intifada
5	Suicide bombing	0 (+1)	3	Jerusalem, Israel	An Arab suicide bomber blows himself up outside a Jerusalem hotel wounding three people.[4]	Hamas	Second Intifada
9	Suicide bombing	0 (+1)	8	Haifa Israel	An Arab suicide bomber detonates explosives at hitch-hiking post near Haifa wounding eight unarmed Israeli civilians.[4]	Hamas	Second Intifada
12	Suicide bombing	0 (+2)	3+	Gaza Strip	Two Arab suicide bombers blow themselves up in the Gaza Strip, wounding at least three people.[4]	Hamas	Second Intifada
12	Bombing, shooting	11 (+3)	30	Immanuel, West Bank	Three Palestinian militants from the Hamas detonate two roadside bombs before opening fire on a bus in Immanuel	Hamas	Second Intifada
13	Shooting	9 (+5)	18	New Delhi, India	A group of Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorists open fire on Indian Parliament, killing 8 security personnel and a gardener.	LeT JeM
22	Attempted bombing	0	0	/ Over Atlantic Ocean	Al-Qaeda operative Richard Reid attempts detonate plastic explosives hidden in his shoes on American Airlines Flight 63 en route from Paris to Miami, but is subdued by other passengers.	Richard Reid (Al-Qaeda)

See also

• List of non-state terrorist incidents
• List of Palestinian suicide attacks
• List of Palestinian rocket attacks on Israel, 2001–2006

References