List of terrorist incidents in 2006

This is a timeline of incidents in 2006 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).

January

Date	Dead	Injured	Location and description	Perpetrator	Part of
January 2	0 (+1)	3	Kandahar: A suicide bomber detonates explosives in a car near a U.S. military convoy in the southern city of Kandahar, killing himself and wounding a U.S. soldier and two passersby.[1]	Taliban	War in Afghanistan
January 5	10	50	Tarinkot: A suicide bomber attacks a crowded market in an Afghan town just a few hundred meters from where the U.S. ambassador was meeting with local leaders. Ten Afghans were killed and 50 wounded.[1]	Taliban	War in Afghanistan
January 5	120+	120+	Karbala and Ramadi, 5 January 2006 Iraq bombings: Suicide bombers targeting police and Shia civilians.	Al-Qaeda	Iraq War
January 5	0	0	Sos del Rey Católico : Two small bombs exploded at a hotel in the village of Sos del Rey Católico causing only minor damage and no injuries. Authorities received a warning call from the Basque separatist group ETA prior to the explosions.[2]	ETA	Basque conflict
January 7	0	0	Borau : A small bomb planted by ETA goes off in an electricity substation in the town of Borau, Huesca.[3]	ETA	Basque conflict
January 14	0 (+1)	1	Helmand Province: A suicide car bombing targets a U.S.-Afghan military convoy traveling along a main road in the southern Helmand Province, wounding a U.S. soldier.[1]	Taliban	War in Afghanistan
January 15	3 (+1)	13	Kandahar: A suicide car bomb strikes a Canadian military convoy in southern Afghanistan, killing two civilians and a Canadian diplomat and wounding 13 other people.[1]	Taliban	War in Afghanistan
January 16	26 (+2)	34	Kandahar Province: Two suicide bombers kill 26 people in two separate attacks in the Kandahar Province, First, a suicide bomber hurls himself in front of an Afghan Army vehicle in the heart of the provincial capital, Kandahar, killing three Afghan soldiers and two civilians and wounding four soldiers and 10 civilians. Later the same day, at least 20 people are killed and 20 others injured when a suicide bomber on a motorcycle explodes at a playground where hundreds of people were gathered for a festival in Spin Boldak, bordering Pakistan.[1]	Taliban	War in Afghanistan
January 22	0	0	Nanclares de la Oca: A bomb explodes in a party office owned by PSE-EE in the town of Nanclares de la Oca, causing damage only to the building.[4]	ETA	Basque conflict
January 26	0	0	Biscay: ETA detonated a 10 kg bomb beside the court of justice of Balmaseda and another 5 kg one in the premises of Correos postal service in Etxebarri, both in Biscay, causing material damages and no personal injuries.[4]	ETA	Basque conflict
January 26	0	3	Khesar: Suspected Naxal militants looted and bombed a police outpost in the small town of Khesar.[5]	Communist Party of India (suspected)	Naxalite–Maoist insurgency
January 29	0	1	Santutxu: A rucksack packed with explosives next to a job centre INEM in Santutxu, Bilbao went off. One policeman was injured.[4]	ETA	Basque conflict

February

Date	Dead	Injured	Location and description	Perpetrator	Part of
February 1	0	0	Etxebarri: After a warning call from ETA, another bomb goes off in a postal office in the town of Etxebarri.[6]	ETA	Basque conflict
February 2	5	1	Jolo: In a deliberate anti-Christian massacre Muslim extremists killed at least five people on a farm in Patikul, a small town on Sulu Island near Jolo (Mindanao). After asking the residents if they were Christian, Abu Sayyaf gunmen opened fire on 9-month old Melanie Patinga who was killed and a three-year-old boy who was seriously wounded. Also killed were Emma (16) and Pedro Casipong, Itting Pontilla (45) and Selma Patinga.[7]	Abu Sayyaf	Moro conflict
February 4	0	0	Damascus: The Danish, and as a consequence of sharing the same building, the Chilean and Swedish embassies in Damascus, are firebombed by protestors denouncing the publication of what they consider sacrilegious cartoons depicting the Muhammad. The Norwegian embassy is also burned. (BBC).[6]	Muslim mob	Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy
February 6	1	1	Zaragoza: GRAPO (First of October Anti-Fascist Resistance Group) shot dead Ana Isabel Herrero, owner of a temporary work agency, and injured another person in Zaragoza. This was the last attack of this organization.[6]	GRAPO
February 14	0	0	Spain: A car bomb exploded at a discothèque in northern Spain causing damage but no injuries because police had cleared the area after a traditional warning call in the name of ETA.[6]	ETA	Basque conflict
February 16	0	0	Trapagaran: A bomb exploded in an industrial area in the Basque town of Trapagaran, near the northern city of Bilbao after a warning call from ETA. No one was injured in the attack.[6]	ETA	Basque conflict
February 22	0	0	Bilbao: A bomb placed by ETA explodes in an industrial park near Bilbao. The bomb caused damage to many buildings.[6]	ETA	Basque conflict
February 22	0	0	Samarra, 2006 al-Askari mosque bombing: Al-Qaeda militants destroyed much of the Al-Askari Mosque, one of Shi'a Islam's holiest sites, in a bombing, though no one was killed or injured. Hundreds of Sunni civilians were killed by angry Shias in retaliation for the bombing.	Al-Qaeda	Iraq War
February 26	0	2	Spain Vitoria: Two people are injured when a bomb exploded in a bank cash machine in Vitoria in the city of Vitoria. The attack was blamed on ETA by police.[6]	ETA	Basque conflict
February 27	0	1	Spain Mungia: A bomb exploded at a courthouse in town of Mungia. A passer-by spotted a suspicious package and called police. The bomb exploded before they were able to clear off the area and injured one policeman. ETA was blamed.[6]	ETA	Basque conflict
February 28	0	0	Mutriku: A bomb exploded outside a labour ministry building in the town of Mutriku, near San Sebastian. No one was killed or injured after a warning call from ETA.[6]	ETA	Basque conflict

March

Date	Dead	Injured	Location and description	Perpetrator	Part of
March 2	4 (+1)	50+	Karachi, 2006 attack on U.S. consulate in Karachi: Bombing in Karachi kills four, including a U.S. diplomat.[8]	Al-Qaeda
March 3	0	9	North Carolina, 2006 UNC SUV attack: An Iranian-American named Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar drove an SUV onto the campus of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and hit nine people. He committed attack to "avenge the deaths of Muslims worldwide".	Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar
March 7	0	1	Santoña and Plentzia: ETA detonates a bomb outside the offices of the fascist Spanish Falange organisation in the town of Santoña, Cantabria. One man was injured. That same day two bombs exploded in two banks in the town of Plentzia.[9]	ETA	Basque conflict
March 7	28	101	Varanasi, 2006 Varanasi bombings: Two bombings occurred at the Varanasi Junction railway station and the Sankat Mochan Hanuman Temple.	Lashkar-e-Taiba	Kashmir conflict
March 9	0	0	Spain: Following the February 2006 deaths of two ETA members, Batasuna call a day of general strike on March 9. On the morning of the strike, ETA detonates several bombs near highways, causing no injuries. This was ETA's last attack before declaring a ceasefire on March 22.[9]	ETA	Basque conflict
March 9	1	3 kidnapped	Baghdad, Christian Peacemaker hostage crisis: Tom Fox, a Christian Peacemaker, is killed by his hostage takers. Three other peacemakers were kidnapped but were all freed.	Swords of Righteousness Brigade	Iraq War
March 10	26	7	Dera Bugti, 2006 Pakistan landmine blast: 26 people were killed and seven more injured after their car hit a land mine while they were on their way to a wedding. Pakistan has accused Akbar Bugti of ordering the attack.	Akbar Bugti (suspected)	Insurgency in Balochistan
March 30	4 (+1)		Kedumim, Kedumim bombing: Palestinian suicide bomber kills himself and four others at Kedumim Junction in the West Bank.[10][11]	Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades	Israeli-Palestinian conflict

April

Date	Dead	Injured	Location and description	Perpetrator	Part of
April 7	85	160	Baghdad, Buratha mosque bombing: Three suicide bombers detonate at a Shia mosque in Baghdad as worshippers were leaving.	Al-Qaeda	Iraq War
April 11	63 (+1)	80	Karachi, Jamaat Ahle Sunnat bombing: A suicide bomber explodes himself in Karachi, killing 57 Sunni worshippers.[12]	Lashkar-e-Jhangvi	Sectarianism in Pakistan
April 14	0	13+	Old Delhi, 2006 Jama Masjid bombings: Two bombs explode in the courtyar of the Jama Masjid in Old Delhi, injuring thirteen people. No one claimed responsibility.	Unknown
April 17	11 (+1)	70	Tel Aviv, 2006 Tel Aviv shawarma restaurant bombing: Sami Hammad, a Palestinian suicide bomber, detonates an explosive device in Tel Aviv, killing eleven people and injuring 70.[13]	Islamic Jihad	Israeli-Palestinian conflict
April 22	0	14	Kharkiv, 2006 Kharkiv supermarket bombings: Two bombs exploded at separate markets in Kharkiv. No one claimed responsibility.	Unknown
April 23	6	0	Trincomalee, Gomarankadawala massacre: Six villagers are shot to death by LTTE cadres.	LTTE	Sri Lankan Civil War
April 24	23	80	Dahab, 2006 Dahab bombings: Three bombs targeting tourist hotspots explode, killing 23.	Jama'at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad
April 30	35		Doda District, 2006 Doda massacre: LeT militants massacre 35 Hindu villagers in an attempt to disrupt peace talks between India and Pakistan.	Lashkar-e-Taiba	Kashmir conflict

May

Date	Dead	Injured	Location and description	Perpetrator	Part of
May 11	6	12	Quetta: Six policemen die and twelve are injured when five bombs go off in a police academy in Quetta.[14]	Unknown

June

Date	Dead	Injured	Location and description	Perpetrator	Part of
June 2	0	0	Ontario, 2006 Ontario terrorism plot: Eighteen people are arrested on suspicion of planning terror attacks in Ottawa and Toronto. The suspects were inspired by Al-Qaeda and eleven were convicted.	Islamist cell
June 3	5	0	Baghdad, Abduction of Russian diplomats in Iraq: Iraqi insurgents ambushed a car from the Russian Embassy and killed one of the occupants and abducted the four others. The Mujahedeen Shura Council claimed responsibility and later said they had killed the rest of the diplomats.	Mujahedeen Shura Council	Iraq War
June 12	10		Anantnag district, 2006 Kulgam massacre: Nine laborers and an Indian Army soldier are massacred by suspected Islamic extremists.	Hizbul Mujahideen (suspected)	Kashmir conflict
June 15	68	60	Kebithigollewa, Kebithigollewa massacre: The LTTE detonate two claymore mines targeting a bus carrying 140 civilians. 68 civilians, including ten children, three pregnant women and their unborns, are killed. Approximately 60 civilians are injured.[15]	LTTE	Sri Lankan civil war
June 25	1	0	Beitunia: Eliyahu Asheri, an Israeli citizen, was kidnapped and murdered by the Palestinian terrorist group, the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC).[16]	Popular Resistance Committees	Israeli-Palestinian conflict
June 25	2 (+2)	4	Kerem Shalom, 2006 Gaza cross-border raid: A team of seven or eight Palestinian militants manage to cross into Israel from the Gaza Strip and start attacking Israeli military positions. Two IDF soldiers and two attackers are killed and four more soldiers are wounded, one (Gilad Shalit) is kidnapped and held hostage for five years.	Hamas Popular Resistance Committees Army of Islam	Israeli-Palestinian conflict
June 26	4 (+1)		Colombo: Sri Lankan Army Deputy Chief of Staff Parami Kulatunga and three others are killed by a LTTE suicide bomber.	LTTE	Sri Lankan civil war

July

Date	Dead	Injured	Location and description	Perpetrator	Part of
July 1	62	114	Sadr City, 1 July 2006 Sadr City bombing: A suicide bomber detonates a car bomb in a market in the Shia Baghdad slum Sadr City. A group calling themselves The Supporters of the Sunni People claimed responsibility.	The Supporters of the Sunni People	Iraq War
July 6	8	20	Tiraspol: At least eight people have been killed and 20 injured in an explosion on a city minibus in Transnistria.[17]	Unknown	Transnistrian border customs issues
July 6	40+		Baghdad, Hay al Jihad massacre: Shia militiamen massacre more than 40 Sunnis.	Shia militiamen	Iraq War
July 11	209	714	Mumbai, 2006 Mumbai train bombings: Seven pressure cooker bombs explode on seven Mumbai Western line trains, killing and injuring hundreds.	Indian Mujahideen
July 11	8	43	Srinagar, 2006 Srinagar bombings: Several grenades are thrown at vehicles carrying tourists.	Lashkar-e-Taiba (suspected)	Kashmir conflict
July 17	48		Mahmoudiya: Explosions and gunmen kill 48 people in a market in Mahmoudiya.[18]	Al-Qaeda	Iraq war
July 18	53	103	Kufa: Car bombing near a Shiite shrine in Kufa kills 53 and injures 103.[19]	Al-Qaeda	Iraq war
July 28	1	5	Seattle, Seattle Jewish Federation shooting: A man identified as Naveed Afzal Haq entered the building of the Jewish Federation of Seattle and opened fired before taking hostages and surrendering. Haq shouted "I'm a Muslim American; I'm angry at Israel" during the attack.	Naveed Afzal Haq
July 31	0	0	Cologne, 2006 German train bombing plot: Two suitcase bombs are discovered in trains near the German towns of Dortmund and Koblenz, undetonated due to an assembly error. Video footage from Cologne train station, where the bombs were put on the trains, led to the arrest of two Lebanese students in Germany, Youssef al-Hajdib and Jihad Hamad, and subsequently of three suspected co-conspirators in Lebanon.[20] On 1 September 2006, Jörg Ziercke, head of the Bundeskriminalamt (Federal Police), reports that the suspects saw the Muhammad cartoons as an "assault by the West on Islam" and the "initial spark" for the attack, originally planned to coincide with the 2006 Football World Cup in Germany.[21][22]	Al-Qaeda
July 31	17	22	Tibú and Bogotá: 16 soldiers die in an ambush in Tibu and a car bomb kills one and injures 22 in Bogotá. Both attacks are blamed on FARC.[23]	FARC	Colombian conflict

August

Date	Dead	Injured	Location and description	Perpetrator	Part of
August 4	5		Cali: A car bomb kills five outside a police station in Cali. The local government blames FARC.[24]	FARC	Colombian conflict
August 9	0	0	United Kingdom: The 2006 transatlantic aircraft plot is uncovered.	Al-Qaeda
August 13	2	10	Tiraspol: Two grenades explode on a trolleybus in Tiraspol, killing two people and injuring ten.[25]	Unknown	Transnistrian border customs issues
August 14	7	17	Colombo, Attack on Pakistani ambassador to Sri Lanka: A claymore mine is detonated when a convoy carrying Pakistani Ambassador to Sri Lanka, Bashir Wali Mohamed, was passing. Mohamed was unharmed but seven people were killed and seventeen more wounded. LTTE is suspected of being behind the attack.	LTTE (suspected)	Sri Lankan Civil War
August 16	5	50	Imphal: A bomb exploded in a temple near Imphal in Manipur, killing five and injuring nearly 50 other.[26]	Unknown
August 20	20	300+	Baghdad: Gunmen spray bullets on Shiites in Baghdad, killing 20 people and wounding more than 300.[27]	Al-Qaeda	Iraq war
August 21	13	47	Moscow, 2006 Moscow market bombing: A bomb exploded at Moscow's large Cherkizovsky Market, which is mostly frequented by Central Asian and Caucasian immigrants. Eight members from the group The Saviour were convicted for the bombing.	The Saviour

September

Date	Dead	Injured	Location and description	Perpetrator	Part of
September 8	37	125+	Malegaon, 2006 Malegaon bombings: Two bombings targeting a Mosque and a Muslim cemetery kill 37 and wound hundreds. The Students Islamic Movement of India was initially blamed but later investigation places the blame on the Hindu extremist group Abhinav Bharat	Abhinav Bharat (suspected)
September 11	12	3	Vladikavkaz, 2006 Vladikavkaz Mi-8 crash: An Mi-8 helicopter carrying fifteen high ranking Russian officers was shot down, killing twelve of the helicopter's occupants. Ossetian rebel group Kataib al-Khoul claimed responsibility.	Kataib al-Khoul Caucasian Front	Second Chechen War
September 12	1 (+3)	13	Damascus: Four attackers armed with grenades and machine guns attempt to storm the U.S. embassy in Damascus. Three of the gunmen and one Syrian guard are killed during a battle between the attackers and Syrian security forces. One Syrian employee of the embassy and at least ten bystanders are wounded, among them, seven Syrian telephone company workers and a senior Chinese diplomat. Police recover a car laden with explosives and other IEDs. Syrian Ambassador to the United States Imad Moustapha announces that his government suspects a group called Jund al-Sham is responsible.[28] See Damascus terrorist attacks.	Jund al-Sham (suspected)
September 15	1 (+4)		Dubba Port and Mareb, September 15 2006 Yemen attacks: Militants attempt to bomb two oil facilities but are stopped by guards before reaching the targets. One guard was killed.	Al-Qaeda	Al-Qaeda insurgency in Yemen
September 16	4	82	Hat Yai, 2006 Hat Yai bombings: four people killed, 82 injured, by six bombs along the main commercial street of Hat Yai. The devices were placed approximately 500 meters apart, and were remotely set off every five minutes.[29]	GMIP	South Thailand insurgency
September 18	5 (+6)		Baidoa: Eleven people, including the presidents brother and six attackers, are killed in an assassination attempt on the Somalian president.[30] See 2006 Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed assassination attempt.	Islamic Courts Union	War in Somalia
September 19	0	0	Oslo: A person fires with an automatic weapon on the Oslo Synagogue at night. On March 25, 2008, the trial against Arfan Qadeer Bhatti (29), of Pakistani origin, and two others (one Norwegian and one of Turkish origin) began, for the responsibility for the attack and for plots to attack the U.S. and Israeli embassies in Oslo.[31][32][33]	Arfan Qadeer Bhatti
September 28	12 (+1)	40	Kabul: A suicide bomber detonates his explosives outside the interior ministry in Kabul. The attack kills twelve and wounds over 40.[34] This is one of three hundred and fifty attacks mostly suicide bombings that killed six hundred and sixty nine civilians in 2006 according to Human Rights Watch.[35]	Taliban	War in Afghanistan

October

Date	Dead	Injured	Location and description	Perpetrator	Part of
October 3	0	0	// Brindisi: Turkish Airlines Flight 1476 is hijacked.	Hakan Ekinci
October 10-11	8	30-45	Central Mindanao, 2006 Central Mindanao bombings: Three bombings targeting markets and a town hall in Tacurong, Makilala, and Cotabato City	MILF, Abu Sayyaf, Jemaah Islamiyah (suspected)	Moro conflict
October 16	100-111 (+1)	150+	Habarana: An LTTE suicide bomber rams a truck packed with explosives into convoy of buses carrying unarmed Sri Lankan Navy personal going home, on leave, killing at least 92 Navy Personnel. The Government of Sri Lanka called this a terrorist attack[36]	LTTE	Sri Lankan civil war
October 19	0	5	Bogotá: A car bomb explodes in a military college in northern Bogotá, injuring five.[37]	FARC	Colombian conflict
October 28	2	4	Villavicencio: A car bomb kills two and injures four outside a military base in Villavicencio, Meta. FARC is blamed.[38]	FARC	Colombian conflict

November

Date	Dead	Injured	Location and description	Perpetrator	Part of
November 1	0	0	Belfast: The Real IRA detonates a series of firebombs in large hardware retailers, a sports store and toy shop all in Belfast, Northern Ireland; the hardware retailers and sports store were completely destroyed. No fatalities.[39]	Real IRA	Dissident Irish Republican campaign
November 20	5	25-66	West Bengal, 2006 West Bengal train explosion: A bomb exploded on a train traveling between New Jalpaiguri and Haldibari, killing five and injuring dozens. No once claimed responsibility.	Unknown
November 21	1	0	Beirut: Assassination of Pierre Amine Gemayel, an anti-Syrian politician and scion of Lebanon's most prominent Christian family blamed on Syria, Iran and Hezbollah despite their denials.[40]	Hezbollah (suspected)
November 21	215	257	Sadr City, 23 November 2006 Sadr City bombings: Al-Qaeda orchestrates a series of car bombings and mortar attacks on the Shia Baghdad slum Sadr City.	Al-Qaeda	Iraq War
November 24	0	0	Belfast: Michael Stone, prevented from murdering members of the Sinn Féin political party.[41][42]	Michael Stone	Dissident Irish Republican campaign
November 30	8 (+1)		Baidoa: A suicide bomber kills 8 in an attack in Baidoa.[43]	Islamic Courts Union	War in Somalia

December

Date	Dead	Injured	Location and description	Perpetrator	Part of
December 22	0	0	Rockford: Federal Agents disrupt Derrick Shareef's attack on an Illinois shopping mall planned for December 22. His intent was to commit "violent jihad" just before Christmas.[44]	Derrick Shareef
December 30	2	52	Madrid, 2006 Madrid–Barajas Airport bombing: ETA detonates a van bomb in the parking lot of Madrid–Barajas Airport, killing two and causing significant damage.	ETA	Basque conflict
December 31	3	38	Bangkok, 2006 Bangkok bombings: A total of nine explosions ripped through Bangkok on New Years' Eve, killing three people and injuring dozens. Insurgents from Thailand's troubled Southern region were blamed.	Pattani separatists	South Thailand Insurgency

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