Major terrorist attacks. The world's largest terrorist attack

TASS DOSSIER. On November 17, the head of the FSB, Alexander Bortnikov, said that the A321 crash over the Sinai, where more than 220 people died, was a terrorist attack. According to him, traces of foreign-made explosives were found on the wreckage of the plane and things.

Less than two weeks after the events in Egypt, terrorists carried out a series of attacks in Paris. 129 people were killed and over 350 were injured. It is the second deadliest terrorist attack in Europe after Madrid, when 190 people were killed in train station bombings in 2004.

Listed below are the 10 largest terrorist attacks in the world by death toll, excluding attacks that occurred in countries where there was military conflict at the time. In eight cases, the attacks were carried out by radical Islamist groups.

The September 11 terrorist attacks in the USA. 2996 dead

On September 11, 2001, in the United States, suicide bombers from the terrorist organization Al-Qaeda hijacked passenger planes and crashed them into two towers of the World Trade Center (New York) and into the Pentagon building - the headquarters of the US Department of Defense (Arlington County). , Virginia). The fourth hijacked airliner crashed near Shanksville (Pennsylvania). As a result of this world's largest series of terrorist attacks, 2 thousand 996 people were killed and over 6 thousand people were injured. The organizer of the terrorist attack was the al-Qaeda group and its leader Osama bin Laden.

Beslan. Russia. 335 dead

On September 1, 2004, in Beslan (North Ossetia-Alania), militants led by Ruslan Khuchbarov (“Rasul”) captured more than 1 thousand 100 students from school number 1, their relatives and teachers. On September 2, after negotiations with the ex-president of the Republic of Ingushetia, Ruslan Aushev, the bandits released 25 women and children. On September 3, shooting and explosions began at the school, which forced an assault. Most of the hostages were released, 335 people died. Among the dead were 186 children, 17 teachers and school staff, 10 employees of the Russian FSB, two employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations. The militants were destroyed, only one survived - Nurpashi Kulaev (in 2006 he was sentenced to death, commuted to life imprisonment due to a moratorium on the execution of death sentences). International terrorist Shamil Basayev (liquidated in 2006) took responsibility for the terrorist attack.

Boeing 747 Air India. 329 dead

On June 23, 1985, an Air India Boeing 747 passenger plane, flying flight AI182 on the route Montreal (Canada) - London - Delhi, crashed in the waters of the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Ireland. The cause of the disaster was the explosion of a bomb planted in luggage by Indian Sikh extremists. All 329 people on board (307 passengers and 22 crew members) were killed in the disaster. Canadian citizen Inderjit Singh Reyat was sentenced to 5 years in prison on charges of participating in the preparation of a terrorist attack in 2003. Prior to this, he served a 10-year prison sentence for preparing an explosion at Narita Airport (Japan), which occurred on the same day as the VT-EFO disaster. Reyat was later charged with perjury and sentenced to 9 years in prison in 2011.

Boko Haram attack in Nigeria. More than 300 dead

On May 5-6, 2014, gunmen killed over 300 residents in a nighttime attack on the town of Gamboru, Borno State. Survivors fled to neighboring Cameroon. Most of the city was destroyed.

Lockerbie attack. 270 dead

On December 21, 1988, a Pan Am (USA) Boeing 747 passenger plane, operating scheduled flight 103 on the route Frankfurt am Main - London - New York - Detroit, crashed in the air over Lockerbie (Scotland). A bomb placed in luggage exploded on board. All 243 passengers and 16 crew members on board, as well as 11 people on the ground, were killed. In 1991, two Libyan citizens were accused of organizing an explosion. In 1999, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi agreed to hand over both suspects to a Dutch court. One of them, Abdelbasset Ali al-Megrahi, was found guilty on January 31, 2001 and sentenced to life imprisonment (released in 2009 due to a fatal illness diagnosed in him, died in 2012). In 2003, the Libyan authorities admitted responsibility for the terrorist attack and paid compensation in the total amount of 2.7 billion US dollars - 10 million dollars for each person killed.

Bombay attacks. India. 257 dead

On March 12, 1993, 13 car bombs were simultaneously detonated in crowded areas of Bombay (now Mumbai). The terrorist attack killed 257 people and injured over 700. The investigation established that the organizers of the explosions were Islamic terrorists. The attack was a response to earlier clashes between Muslims and Hindus in the city. One of the organizers, Yakub Memon, was sentenced to death, which was carried out on July 30, 2015. Two of his accomplices are wanted.

Airplane A321 "Kogalymavia". 224 dead

On October 31, 2015, a passenger aircraft Airbus A321-231 (registration number EI-ETJ) of the Russian airline Metrojet (Kogalymavia), flying flight 9268 from Sharm el-Sheikh (Egypt) to St. Petersburg, crashed 100 km from El-Arish city in the north of the Sinai Peninsula. There were 224 people on board - 217 passengers and seven crew members, all of whom died.

Russian President Vladimir Putin promised that those responsible and those involved in the terrorist attack on the plane would be found and punished. “We must do this without a statute of limitations, know them all by name. We will look for them wherever they are hiding. We will find them anywhere on the planet and punish them,” Putin assured.

Bombing of the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. 224 dead

On August 7, 1998, two simultaneous terrorist attacks occurred in Nairobi (the capital of Kenya) and Dar es Salaam (the former capital of Tanzania), targeting the US embassies in these countries. Parked trucks filled with explosives exploded near the embassies. A total of 224 people died, of which 12 were US citizens, the rest were local residents. The organizer of the explosions was the al-Qaeda group.

Terrorist attacks in Mumbai. India. 209 dead

On July 11, 2006, Islamic terrorists detonated explosive devices hidden in pressure cookers in the carriages of seven local trains in the suburbs of Mumbai (Khar Road, Bandra, Jogeshwari, Mahim, Borivli, Matunga stations " and "Mira Road"). The attack occurred during the evening rush hour. 209 people were killed and more than 700 were injured. At the end of the investigation into the crime, the court sentenced 12 people to various prison terms, 5 of them were sentenced to death.

Terrorist attack in Bali. Indonesia. 202 dead

On October 12, 2002, a suicide attack and car bomb explosion near nightclubs in the resort town of Kuta (Bali) killed 202 people, 164 of them foreign tourists. 209 people were injured. About 30 people were arrested in connection with the terrorist attack. In 2003, an Indonesian court recognized a number of members of the Jamaah Islamiyah organization as the organizers of the terrorist attack. In 2008, three of them - Abdul Aziz, also known as Imam Samudra, Amrozi bin Nurhasim and Ali (Muklas) Gurfon - were executed by court. Muklas' brother Ali Imron was sentenced to life imprisonment.

Al-Qaeda mentioned in the material is included in the Unified Federal List of Organizations recognized as terrorist in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation. Their activities on the territory of the Russian Federation are prohibited.

The sad statistics of victims of terrorist attacks in the world is growing every year.

About the largest terrorist attacks in modern history.

On June 23, 1985, terrorists blew up an Air India Boeing 747 over the Atlantic. The terrorist attack killed 329 people and was considered the largest before September 11, 2001.

On October 23, 1983, in Beirut, Hezbollah militants blew up two trucks with explosives near the barracks of US Marines and French paratroopers. 299 people died.

On June 23, 1985, Sikh extremists detonated a bomb on board an Air India Boeing 747 en route from Montreal to London. 329 people died.

On December 21, 1988, a Pan American Boeing 747 flying from London to New York crashed over Lockerbie, Scotland. The disaster occurred as a result of an explosion of a Libyan intelligence officer on board. 270 people died.

On December 27, 1988, at the airports of Rome and Vienna, terrorists of the Palestinian organization Abu Nidal shot with machine guns passengers standing at the ticket counters of Israeli airlines. 16 people were killed and more than 120 were injured.

On September 19, 1989, a bomb exploded on board a DC-10 of the French airline UTA, flying from the Congo to Paris. 171 people died.

On March 12, 1993, a series of terrorist attacks were carried out in Bombay (now Mumbai). The explosions were organized by a criminal group headed by Davud Ibrahim. Terrorists detonated 13 cars filled with explosives near the stock exchange, immigration department, post office and several hotels. The explosions killed 257 people.

On March 20, 1995, members of the Aum Shinrikyo sect sprayed sarin gas at 16 Tokyo subway stations. More than 3 thousand people were injured. 12 died.

On April 19, 1995, in Oklahoma (USA), far-right terrorist Timothy McVeigh detonated a bomb in the Alfred Murray Federal Building. 168 people died.

On June 14, 1995, in Budennovsk, a detachment of militants led by Shamil Basayev captured a hospital where about two thousand people were staying. The hostages were kept for six days without food or water. As a result of the terrorist attack, 143 hostages were killed and about 400 were injured.

On August 7, 1998, a truck loaded with explosives was detonated near the US Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya. 213 people died. More than five thousand people were injured. The radical organization “Islamic Army for the Liberation of Islamic Shrines” took responsibility for the attack.

On September 4, 1999, in the city of Buynaksk (Dagestan), a 5-story residential building was blown up, in which the families of officers of the 136th brigade of the Ministry of Defense lived. Two entrances collapsed completely. 64 people died, including 23 children. 146 people were seriously injured. According to the investigation, this terrorist attack was organized and financed by the leaders of the illegal armed group Islamic Institute "Caucasus" Emir al-Khattab and Abu Umar.

On the night of September 8–9, 1999, a residential building on 19 Guryanova Street in Moscow was blown up. As a result of the terrorist attack, more than 90 people were killed and about 200 were injured.

On September 13, 1999, a residential building on Kashirskoye Highway was blown up in Moscow. It was completely destroyed. More than 120 people died.

On September 16, 1999, a residential building was blown up in the city of Volgodonsk, Rostov Region. 18 people died, including two children, and 310 people were injured.

On September 11, 2001, three planes flown by al-Qaeda terrorists crashed into the skyscrapers of the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon building. Another crashed in Pennsylvania. Al-Qaeda, led by Osama Bin Laden, claimed responsibility for the attack. According to his own statement, the attacks were carried out "because we are a free people who do not accept injustice, and we want to return freedom to our nation." The victims of the terrorist attacks were 2,977 people: 246 passengers and crew members of aircraft, 2,606 people in New York, another 125 in the Pentagon building. More than 1,600 bodies were identified, but about 1,100 people could not be identified.

On the night of October 13, 2002, on the island of Bali (Indonesia), as a result of a series of suicide bombings near a discotheque in the city of Kuta, about 190 people were killed and more than 300 were injured. At the same time, explosive devices were detonated near the US consulates in Bali and the Philippine Consulate General in Manado, the capital of North Sulawesi province.

On October 23, 2002, a group of militants led by Chechen separatist Movsar Barayev took over 900 hostages in the building of the Moscow Theater Center on Dubrovka during the musical “Nord-Ost”. During the storming of the building, three days later, gas was released into the hall where the terrorists and hostages were located. According to official data, 130 people were killed and more than 700 people were injured.

On November 20, 2003, five explosions occurred in Istanbul, including at the British Consulate General and at a branch of one of the British banks. As a result of the attack, 28 people were killed and 450 people were injured. Al-Qaeda and the Turkish radical Islamist group “Front of the Islamic Mujahideen of the East” took responsibility for the incident.

On February 6, 2004, on the stretch between the Avtozavodskaya and Paveletskaya stations on a Moscow metro train, a suicide bomber detonated a bomb. As a result of the terrorist attack, 41 people were killed and about 250 were injured.

As a result of a series of explosions, on March 11, 2004, several explosions occurred at the Atoche train station in Madrid. 191 people were killed and 1,800 were injured. Al-Qaeda claimed responsibility for the attack. The terrorist attack was the deadliest in Europe since the end of World War II.

On September 1, 2004, terrorists seized school No. 1 in Beslan. Two days later, as a result of the storming of the building, 334 people (186 of whom were children) were killed and more than 800 people were injured.

On July 7, 2005, explosive devices went off on three London Underground trains. Another bomb exploded on the bus. 56 people were killed and more than 700 were injured. The terrorist attack was the largest in London since World War II.

From November 26 to 29, 2008, a series of terrorist attacks known as the “Attack on Mumbai” occurred. Islamic terrorists from the Deccan Mujahideen organization attacked in several places at once. One group opened fire with machine guns in the Victoria Station building, two others took hostages at the Taj Mahal and Oberoi hotels, and the fourth attacked a police station. A total of seven attacks were recorded (including on a hospital and a Jewish center). As a result of the terrorist attack, about 170 people were killed and more than 300 were injured.

On September 22, 2013, a militant attack on visitors to the Westgate shopping center in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi killed 67 people and injured more than 200 people. A group of armed men - believed to be about ten people - seized the fashionable Westgate shopping center. The terrorist group Al-Shabab claimed responsibility for the incident.

On April 2, 2015, at least 147 people were killed in an attack by militants of the radical Islamist group Al-Shabaab on a university in the Kenyan city of Garissa, and about 80 more were injured. The terrorists killed mostly Christians. Law enforcement agencies in Kenya reported that four attackers were killed and another was detained.

In 2015, more than three thousand people became victims of terrorist attacks around the world. This year, according to our conservative estimates, this figure has already exceeded 1,200 lives. The very word “terrorist attack” has become somehow commonplace and familiar, the reaction to this horror has dulled, become routine and fleeting. Almost every day we receive messages about new terrorist attacks, we worry, are horrified by the number of victims, we sympathize with our families - and then we forget. As two well-known politicians noted after the news of the terrorist attack in Nice, one has to offer condolences almost every week. Vox Populi today recalls the major terrorist attacks of our time, which together claimed the lives of about 5.5 thousand people.

9/11 attack

The largest terrorist attack in the world occurred on September 11, 2001 in the United States. Its victims were 2,993 people, almost nine thousand people were injured.

On the morning of September 11, 19 terrorists hijacked four passenger planes, two of which were flown into the World Trade Center towers located in the southern part of Manhattan in New York. As a result of the attacks, the towers collapsed, causing severe damage to adjacent buildings.

The third plane hijacked by terrorists attacked the Pentagon in Washington.

The fourth airliner did not reach its target - the passengers and crew of the plane tried to take control, and as a result, the plane crashed into a field in Pennsylvania.

The international Islamist organization Al-Qaeda claimed responsibility for the attack. Its leader was Osama bin Laden, who ten years after the disaster was killed by the American military.

Mumbai attacks

The series of terrorist attacks that took place in Mumbai from November 26 to 29, 2008 have been called the worst terrorist attacks in Indian history. This disaster claimed about 170 lives and injured more than 600 people.

During these days, ten terrorists, according to various sources, carried out about ten attacks in different places in Mumbai, but the terrorists placed their main emphasis on the most famous and largest hotel in the city - the Taj Mahal. First, two invaders burst into the hotel and open random fire from machine guns in the lobby. At the same time, two terrorists who were previously in the hotel break into the rooms and shoot the guests who do not understand anything, some of them are driven to the first floor. The battle for the hotel and the people in it lasted about 64 hours. The shooting and explosions practically did not subside. As a result of the anti-terrorist operation on November 29, the fourth and last terrorist who seized the Taj Mahal was killed.

The attack is being blamed on Lashkar-Taiba, one of the largest and most active terrorist organizations in South Asia.

The only surviving terrorist who took part in a series of terrorist attacks in Mumbai was sentenced to death by an Indian court in 2010. Two years later, the terrorist asked for pardon, but the sentence was upheld and was soon carried out.

Terrorist attacks in Norway

On July 22, 2011, the calm and serene life of Norway was shocked by two terrorist attacks committed by a terrorist Anders Breivik. The 32-year-old Norwegian confessed to both attacks. The tragedy claimed the lives of 77 people and injured 319.

On July 22, at about four o'clock in the afternoon local time, an explosion occurred in the government quarter of Oslo. A radio-controlled bomb weighing about 500 kilograms was planted in a minivan parked near a government building. The powerful explosion killed seven people on the spot, another died in hospital from his injuries, and 209 people were injured.

An hour and a half after the explosion, terrorist Anders Breivik arrived in a passenger car at the ferry crossing near the island of Utøya, where at that time the traditional youth summer camp of the ruling Workers' Party was being held. Dressed in a police uniform, Anders presented a fake ID and reported the need for safety training in connection with the terrorist attack in the capital. Gathering several dozen young people around him, he opened targeted fire on them. For an hour and a half, Breivik shot people, killing 67 people.

The trial of the “Norwegian shooter” took place in 2012. The terrorist was found sane, guilty of the death of 77 people and sentenced to 21 years in prison.

Explosions in Madrid

On March 11, 2004, a series of terrorist attacks rocked the Spanish capital. Ten bombs exploded within minutes of each other in the vicinity of Madrid. All explosions went off in four commuter trains. The tragedy claimed the lives of 191 people and injured more than two thousand people.

An organization that is part of al-Qaeda took responsibility for the bloody disaster. During the investigation, it was suggested that the date of the terrorist attacks in Madrid was chosen with symbolic meaning - the explosions occurred 911 days (and exactly 2.5 years) after the terrorist attacks in the United States on September 11, 2001 (9/11).

Explosions of residential buildings in Russia

From September 4-16, 1999, a series of terrorist attacks occurred in Russia, killing 307 people and injuring more than 1,700 people. Residential buildings were blown up in three cities at once - Buinaksk, Moscow and Volgodonsk.

In 2003, the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation named the customers and performers. The explosions were carried out by Karachay and Dagestan Wahhabis ordered by Arab mercenaries Amira Khattab And Abu Umara in order to divert the attention of the Russian authorities from the events in Dagestan, where at that time there were battles between federal troops and invading armed detachments of militants from Chechnya, who led Shamil Basayev and the Arab mercenary Khattab.

"Nord-Ost" - terrorist attack on Dubrovka

From October 23 to October 26, 2002, a group of armed militants led by Movsar Barayev held hostage the audience of the musical “Nord-Ost”. The total number of captured was 916 people. The hostages gathered in the hall were left without food or water for a long time. The invaders demanded the withdrawal of troops from the territory of the Chechen Republic.

On the third day of the capture of the Theater Center, the besiegers began pumping sleeping gas into the building through the ventilation, after which the Ministry of Internal Affairs burst into the theater. As a result of the operation to free the hostages, all the terrorists who were in the building at that time were killed.

According to official data, the terrorist attack claimed the lives of 130 hostages. Moreover, of the dead hostages, 5 people were shot before the assault, the rest died after liberation. Speaking about the gas used, the chief doctor of Moscow Andrey Seltsovsky stated that “in their pure form, no one will die from the use of such special means.” According to the doctor, the impact of the special gas only complicated a number of destructive factors to which the hostages were exposed (stressful situation, physical inactivity, lack of food, etc.)

Terrorist attack in Budennovsk

On June 14, 1995, 195 militants led by Shamil Basayev, attacked the Russian city of Budennovsk (Stavropol Territory). The terrorists took more than 1,600 city residents hostage and drove them to the local hospital. Those who refused to go were shot on the spot. On the way to the hospital, the bandits killed more than 100 people.

The criminals demanded a cessation of hostilities in Chechnya and the withdrawal of federal troops from its territory.

On June 17, early in the morning, Russian special forces attempted to storm the hospital, but it was unsuccessful.

After negotiations between the terrorists and the Russian government on June 19, 1995, most of the hostages were released, and the terrorist group was provided with transport to move to Chechnya. The terrorists took with them 123 hostages from among those who agreed to accompany them. Upon arrival in Chechnya, the people were released, and the bandits fled.

As a result of the terrorist attack, 129 people were killed and 415 people were injured by gunshots.

Tragedy in Beslan

The tragedy that occurred on September 1, 2004 in Beslan is unlikely to ever be erased from our memory.

On the morning of September 1, during a ceremonial ceremony dedicated to the beginning of the new school year, terrorists took hostages. For almost three days, in the mined building of School No. 1, terrorists held 1,128 hostages - mostly children, their parents and school staff - in difficult conditions. The hostages were denied even the minimum natural needs.

As a result of the terrorist attack, 333 people died, including 186 children, and over 800 were injured. To assess the scale of the terrorist attack, it is enough to say that during the four years of the Great Patriotic War, Beslan lost 357 men on various fronts.

Almost simultaneously, an explosion occurred near the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, visitors to several restaurants were shot, and the massacre at the Bataclan concert hall was tripled. The death toll is more than 130 people, about two hundred more were injured.

The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the attacks, calling them "French 9/11."

Unfortunately, we could go on and on about the terrorist attacks that claimed lives. People who came to watch the fireworks from the beautiful and serene promenade in Nice. Or people lying helplessly on a Tunisian beach...

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What is a terrorist attack? In other words, this is the commission of an explosion, shooting, arson or other similar actions that frighten the population and necessarily create a danger of human death.

This article will talk about the terrible world tragedies that were a consequence of the actions of bandit groups and led to numerous losses among the population. The article provides a list of the largest terrorist attacks in the world.

Responsibility for such disasters, as a rule, is taken by groups hiding behind Islam.

Top 10 loudest of the 21st century

Here is a list of the world's largest tragedies by number of victims.

1. September terrorist attack in 2004 in Beslan, North Ossetia. As a result, 335 people were killed (including 186 children), 2000 were injured.

2. March 2004 - the largest terrorist attack in Europe since the 2nd World War, committed in 4 Madrid trains (Spain). A total of 192 people were killed and 2,000 were injured.

4. One of the bloodiest terrorist attacks in Pakistan occurred in October 2007. The result was 140 dead and 500 wounded.

5. In October 2002, on Dubrovka in Moscow, during a performance of a musical called “Nord-Ost,” a group of armed militants killed 130 people. More than 900 people became hostages.

6. The world's largest terrorist attack occurred in the United States of America in 2001 on September 11th. The militants' actions (4 passenger planes were hijacked) resulted in 2,973 casualties.

7. In September 1999, an explosion occurred on the street. Guryanov in a 9-story building in Moscow. As a result, 92 people were killed and 264 were injured.

Another explosion 3 days later, also in a residential building, claimed 124 lives and injured 9 people.

8. As a result of the militant attack in June 1995 on the city of Budenovsk, 129 people were killed and 415 were injured. More than 1,600 hostages were taken to hospitals.

9. The explosion of a Boeing 747 flight from London to New York over Scotland in December 1988 killed 270 passengers and crew members.

10. The crash of a Russian passenger plane over the Sinai Peninsula in 2015 killed 224 people.

Below is a more detailed description of some of the most tragic terrorist attacks.

Twin Towers

Let's look at the largest terrorist attacks abroad using the example of 2 events that brought a huge number of victims, especially among American citizens.

The day of September 11th became a mourning day for all residents of this country and people around the world. Terrorists numbering 11 (the international territorial organization Al-Qaeda), divided into 4 groups, hijacked four passenger airliners in the United States and sent 2 of them to the New York Twin Towers of a large shopping center.

Both towers were collapsed along with adjacent buildings. The 3rd plane was directed towards the Pentagon building (not far from Washington). The crew of the 4th plane, together with the passengers of the flight, tried to escape by seizing control of the airliner from the terrorists. However, it crashed in Pennsylvania (Shanksville).

The largest terrorist attack in history claimed a total of 2,973 lives (including 60 police officers and 343 firefighters). The exact amount of damage caused is unknown (about $500 billion).

"Boeing 747"

As a result of the Boeing 747 crash over Scotland in 1988, 259 passengers and crew members and 11 residents of the town were killed.

It was an American PanAmerican plane flying from London to New York. This terrible disaster turned out to be tragic for some residents of Lockerbie, due to the destruction of the liner on the ground. Among the dead were mainly citizens of Great Britain and the United States.

Charges were brought against 2 Libyans, although the state itself did not officially admit guilt. However, it paid compensation to the families of the victims of this tragedy (Lockerbie).

In connection with the events that took place, in 1992 the UN Security Council imposed international sanctions against the regime of M. Gaddafi, which were subsequently lifted.

During all this time, many assumptions have been made about the involvement of senior representatives of the Libyan leadership in organizing that disaster, but none of them (except for the guilt of former intelligence officer Abdelbaset al-Megrahi) was proven by the court.

These two cases represent the largest terrorist attacks in the world.

Tragedy in Beslan

Russia has suffered a huge number of terrorist attacks, which resulted in many casualties among innocent civilians, including children.

The terrible tragedy in Beslan (North Ossetia) is the world's largest terrorist attack, which claimed the lives of a huge number of children.

On September 1, a detachment of terrorists (30 people) under the leadership of R. Khachbarov seized the building of school No. 1, where he held 1,128 people hostage (mostly children). The next day (Sept. 2), the ex-president of the Republic of Ingushetia, Ruslan Aushev, who was let into the school building by the bandits, managed to persuade the invaders to release about 25 women with small children and release with him.

Everything happened spontaneously. When in the middle of the day a car drove into the school site with the aim of picking up the corpses of people killed by bandits, several explosions were suddenly heard in the building itself, after which shooting began from all sides. Women and children began to jump out of the opening in the wall and out of the windows. At that time, all the men in the school had already been killed by terrorists.

The surviving children and women were released.

"Nord-Ost"

Many of the world's largest terrorist attacks involved the taking of huge numbers of hostages. This happened in Moscow on October 23, 2002 (21:15).

Militants led by M. Baraev broke into the Theater Center, located on Dubrovka (Melnikova Street), during the performance of “Nord-Ost”. There were only 916 people in the building at that time (including approximately 100 children).

The room was completely mined by the militants. Attempts to establish contact with them were successful, and after a certain time, State Duma deputy I. Kobzon, journalist M. Franchetti and 2 doctors from the Red Cross were able to enter the seized building. Thanks to their actions, 1 woman and three children were taken out of the building.

On the evening of October 24, the Al-Jazeera TV channel showed Barayev. This video was recorded before the theater center was captured. In it, the terrorists presented themselves as suicide bombers, and their demand was to withdraw Russian troops from Chechnya.

On October 26, special forces carried out an assault using nerve gas, after which they captured the building, and the terrorists, along with the leader, were completely destroyed (50 people). Among them were women (18). Three bandits were detained.

A total of 130 people died.

Statistics on victims of terrorist attacks over the past 10 years

Over the past 10 years, more than 6 thousand terrorist attacks have occurred worldwide. More than 25 thousand people became their victims.

Currently, according to various expert estimates, there are approximately 500 extremist groups and terrorist organizations. What is worrying is the fact that recently, more and more often, the targets of these gangster formations are places of mass gathering of citizens (remember the largest terrorist attack in the world).

Also, so-called “technological terrorism” is increasingly taking place, where the latest developments and technologies are used. In addition, recently there has been an increase in extremism among young people. Foreign citizens of different ethnic backgrounds are increasingly becoming targets of attacks.

2015 terrorist attack

The world's largest terrorist attack in the air occurred recently - in 2015 in the skies over Egypt.

The terrible accident with the Airbus-A321 aircraft (Russian airline Kogalymavia) was a shock for the entire society.

During the flight, a homemade explosive device with a power of up to 1 kg was detonated on board the airliner. into TNT. equivalent. This happened on October 31st. A total of 224 people died. After this tragedy, the Federal Air Transport Agency suspended regular, transit and charter passenger flights to Egypt from November 6.

A group from the Sinai wilayat (province) of the banned “Islamic State” (IS) in Russia took responsibility for the crime.

What happened on the peninsula is one of the bloodiest in the world.

Conclusion

In the 21st century, terrorism has become quite active and more sophisticated. Numerous news about tragedies fill the press and television channels. Almost every month (or even more often) terrible attacks are committed all over the planet, claiming the lives of civilians. This kind of action is a disease of the earth. Attempts by some authorities to protect the population from such disasters have so far been unsuccessful.

Al-Qaeda claimed responsibility for the world's largest terrorist attack. Nineteen terrorists, having hijacked four passenger airliners, carried out a suicide attack unprecedented in its scale of cruelty. As a result of plane crashes, the destruction of the World Trade Center towers and damage to the Pentagon, 2,974 people died.

2. Terrorist attacks in Bali (10/12/2002, Indonesia).

The worst terrorist attack in Indonesian history killed 202 people, 164 of whom were foreigners. The radical organization Jemaah Islamiyah was found responsible for the three explosions. Three organizers were sentenced to death.

3. Terrorist attack on Dubrovka (Nord-Ost) (10/23/2002 - 10/26/2002, Russia).

A group of armed terrorists held 916 people for several days in the building of the Moscow Bearing House of Culture. As a result of the operation of the security forces, all militants were eliminated. According to official statistics, 130 hostages died. Shamil Basayev took responsibility for the terrorist attack.

4. Terrorist attacks in Istanbul (11/15/2003 and 11/20/2003, Türkiye).

As a result of the first terrorist attack, suicide car bombs killed 25 people and injured more than 300. Five days later, a series of explosions killed another 28 people and injured 450. Al-Qaeda, as well as the Islamist group of radicals “Front of Islamic Conquerors of the Great East,” claimed responsibility for the attacks.

5. Explosions in the Moscow metro (02/06/2004 and 03/29/2010, Russia).

In 2004, a suicide bomber killed 41 people and injured 250. In 2010, two explosions also killed 41 people and injured 88 people. Doku Umarov took responsibility for the latest terrorist attack.

6. Terrorist attacks in Madrid (03/11/2004, Spain).

Took place 3 days before the parliamentary elections. As a result of four explosions in electric train cars, 191 people were killed and 2,050 passengers were injured. It is noteworthy that the explosions took place exactly 911 days after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 in the United States.

7. A series of explosions in Iraq (06/24/2004, Iraq).

A series of explosions and attacks on police stations affected five cities in the country. More than 70 people were killed and dozens were seriously injured.

8. Terrorist attack in Beslan (09/01/2004 -- 09/03/2004, Russia)

One of the most brutal in history. For more than two days, the terrorists held about 1,100 people hostage, mostly children. As a result of the terrorist attack, 334 people died, of which 186 were children. The only surviving terrorist was sentenced to life imprisonment.

9. Explosions in London (07/07/2005 and 07/21/2005, Great Britain).

The first four explosions in the London Underground killed 52 people and injured about 700 more. The second series of terrorist attacks, fortunately, resulted in no casualties. All surviving terrorists were brought to justice.

10. Explosions in Qahtaniya (08/14/2007, Iraq).

The city of Qakhtanya, inhabited by Yazidi Kurds, a religious minority, was targeted by terrorists who blew up four fuel tankers loaded with explosives. At least 500 people were injured in the explosions.