Past Incidents

In the early hours of Friday, 29th June 2007 police discovered a car bomb that contained tins of fuel, gas canisters and a large quantity of nails together with a mobile phone based mechanism to detonate the contents. Later the same day a second car bomb was discovered ...

On 14th June 1985, a Trans-World Airlines flight, with eight crew members and 145 passengers, was hijacked en route to Rome from Athens ...

When Pan Am 103, a Boeing 747-121 named 'Clipper Maid of the Seas' fell out of the sky on 21st December 1988, few people had even heard of the Scottish town of Lockerbie. But it is a name that over the years has become synonymous with the major aviation disaster, in which 259 passengers and crew of Pan Am flight 103 and 11 residents of the town itself lost their lives ...

On the morning of 30th December 2006, a huge explosion took place in the car park building attached to Terminal 4 of Madrid Barajas International Airport in Spain. The explosion, from a VBIED (car bomb) containing 800 kilograms of explosive, killed two people and wounded 25 ...

In the morning rush hour of 11th March 2004, 10 bombs packed with dynamite and nails simultaneously ripped through four rush-hour trains packed with office workers, schoolchildren and others heading for the centre of Madrid, causing carnage and devastation. Commuters described appalling scenes of mutilated bodies and seriously injured passengers, including young children, lying in the mangled wreckage of trains ...

The Beslan school siege began when a group of armed terrorists took more than 1100 schoolchildren and adults hostage on 1st September 2004, at a school in the town of Beslan in the Russian Federation. Inside the school the hostages were crammed into a small gym, not much bigger than a basketball court. Around them the floor was rigged with mines and bombs connected by cables. Bombs were taped to the walls and suspended from the ceiling. Two larger devices were placed in the basketball hoops. Periodically the attackers fired their guns to terrify the hostages and placed children along the windows to act as human shields ...

On 12th October 2002, terrorists launched devastating bomb attacks in Bali, Indonesia, resulting in the death of 202 people, and generating large numbers of injured people, many with severe burns, and blast and shrapnel injuries. Three years later, on the evening of 1st October 2005, suicide bombers struck again in Bali ...

The 2005 Amman bombings were a series of coordinated bomb attacks on three hotels in Amman, Jordan, on 9th November 2005. Al-Qaeda claimed responsibility for the attacks, which killed 60 people and injured 115 others ...

The Bandaranaike Airport attack was an assault by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) on Bandaranaike International Airport, Sri Lanka, on 24th July 2001 ...

The Mombasa attacks occurred on 28th November 2002 in Mombasa, Kenya. In the first of the two co-ordinated attacks, terrorists crashed a VBIED through a guard gate and onto the lobby steps of the Paradise Hotel, a popular seaside resort. At about the same time the other terrorist attack was launched. Two shoulder-launched surface-to-air missiles were fired at a Boeing 757 airliner as it took off from Moi International Airport, carrying 271 passengers ...