List of terrorist incidents involving railway systems

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The following is a list of terrorist incidents involving railway systems:

Before 1960[]

Location	Date	Dead	Injured	Details	Perpetrators	Part of
Biatorbágy, Hungary	September 13, 1931	22	120	The Vienna Express was derailed by a bomb planted by Szilveszter Matuska, who said he did it because he got sexual pleasure watching trains crash.	Szilveszter Matuska
Tarnów, Poland	August 28, 1939	20	35	Tarnów train station bombing: A German agent placed a suitcase bomb at a busy railway station.	Antoni Guzy (Nazi German agent)	Nazi German invasion of Poland (World War II)
Rehovot, Mandatory Palestine	April 22, 1947	8		Five British Army officers, two Palestinian Arab adults and a 3-year-old boy were killed when a military train was mined.[1]	Lehi
Lydda, Mandatory Palestine	May 15, 1947	2	11	Seven bombs exploded along train tracks near Lydda, killing two British lieutenants and injuring eleven people.[2]	Lehi
Lydda, Mandatory Palestine	August 9, 1947	1		British troop train bombed, killing the engineer.[3]	Irgun
Haifa, Mandatory Palestine	September 29, 1947	0	1	British troop train bombed near Haifa, one person was injured.[4]	Irgun
Rehovot, Mandatory Palestine	February 29, 1948	28	35	Cairo–Haifa train bombings 1948: Jewish militants mined a British military train in retaliation for the Ben Yehuda Street Bombing. No civilians were hurt in the attack.	Lehi	1948 Palestine war
Binyamina, Mandatory Palestine	March 31, 1948	40	60	Cairo–Haifa train bombings 1948: British military train is mined by Jewish militants. Though some soldiers were on the train, all casualties were civilians.	Lehi	1948 Palestine war
Tokyo, Japan	July 15, 1949	6	20	Mitaka incident: A train was deliberately crashed into the Mitaka Station in Tokyo. The Japanese government blamed the Japanese Communist Party for the attack but the only person convicted of the attack, Keisuke Takeuchim, was not a member of a party and his guilt remains in doubt.	Keisuke Takeuchi (suspected)
, Japan	August 17, 1949	3		Matsukawa derailment: A Tōhoku Main Line train is derailed between Kanayagawa and Matsukawa stations, killing three crew members. The Japanese government blamed the Japanese Communist Party for the attack but later retracted.	Unknown
Col des Nuages, French Indochina	June 24, 1953	100+		1953 Col des Nuages derailment: A passenger train crashed into a ravine after passing through a sabotaged viaduct. Indochinese Communist Party rebels were blamed for the attack.	Viet Minh	First Indochina War

1960s[]

Location	Date	Dead	Injured	Details	Perpetrators	Part of
Vitry-le-François, France	June 18, 1961	28	100+	1961 Vitry-Le-François train bombing: A Strasbourg-Paris train is derailed by a bomb on the track, planted by the Organisation armée secrète. The fact that the derailment was deliberately caused was kept secret by the government for many years.	OAS	Algerian War

1970s[]

Location	Date	Dead	Injured	Details	Perpetrators	Part of
San Benedetto Val di Sambro, Italy	August 4, 1974	12	48	Italicus Express bombing 1974: A bomb explodes on the Italicus Express second-class train car before dawn. The first explosion was caused by a bomb; the second was thought possibly to be caused by a short circuit. Responsibility was claimed by the neo-fascist terrorist organization Ordine Nero. The defendants, Mario Tuti, Luciano Franci, Piero Malentacchi, and Margherita Luddi were all found not guilty of planting the bomb on the Italicus Rome-Munich vacation express due to a lack of evidence. They were acquitted in 1983. After the acquittals, no group officially took responsibility for the attack.	Ordine Nero	Years of Lead
Wijster, Netherlands	December 2–14, 1975	3		1975 Dutch train hostage crisis: Seven terrorists hijacked the Hoogeveen-Beilen train with about 50 passengers held them hostage for twelve days, killing three hostages.	South Moluccan freedom fighters
Alexandria, Egypt	August 14, 1976	8	51	A bomb explodes on a train loaded with workers and peasants at 10:45 am. The bomb was left on the luggage rack and exploded while the train was traveling from the yard to the station. Egypt blamed Libya for organizing the attack.[5]	Libya (suspected)	Lead up to Libyan–Egyptian War
Moscow, Soviet Union	January 8, 1977	7	37	1977 Moscow bombings: A series of bombings in Moscow. The first bomb went off on a crowded train between the Izmailovskaya and Pervomaiskaya stations of the Moscow Metro.	Unknown
Glimmen, Netherlands	May 23 - June 11, 1977	8	6	1977 Dutch train hostage crisis: Nine South Moluccans hijacked a train and held hostages for twenty days. Two hostages and six hostage-takers were killed and six people were injured before the M-Squadron raided the train.	South Moluccan separatists
Madrid, Spain	July 29, 1979	7	100+	July 1979 Madrid bombings	ETA	Basque conflict

1980s[]

Location	Date	Dead	Injured	Details	Perpetrators	Part of
Dunmurry, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom	January 17, 1980	3	5	Dunmurry train explosion: A premature detonation of a Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) incendiary bomb occurred on board a Ballymena to Belfast passenger train service.	Provisional IRA	The Troubles
Bologna, Italy	August 2, 1980	85	200+	Bologna massacre: An IED explodes at Bologna Centrale railway station. The attack has been attributed to the neo-fascist terrorist organization Nuclei Armati Rivoluzionari and connected to the EU-investigated Operation Gladio.	Nuclei Armati Rivoluzionari	Operation Gladio
San Benedetto Val di Sambro, Italy	December 23, 1984	16	200+	Train 904 bombing: A bomb in a train between Florence and Rome killed 16 and wounded more than 200.	Sicilian Mafia	Years of Lead
Bunovo, Sofia Province, Bulgaria	March 9, 1985	7	9	A bomb planted by pro-Turkish terrorists in a train from Bourgas to Sofia killed 7 and wounded 9.[6]	Pro-Turkish militants
Lima, Peru	June 26, 1986	7	38	A bomb blast on a train killed an American and 6 others in Peru. Peruvian government blames Communist insurgents for the bombing.[7]	Shining Path	Internal conflict in Peru

1990s[]

Location	Date	Dead	Injured	Details	Perpetrators	Part of
Ludhiana district, India	June 15, 1991	80-126		1991 Punjab killings: Sikh militants stopped two trains and massacred Hindu passengers on board. Occurred just five hours after polling closed for the 1991 Indian general election.	Sikh militants	Punjab insurgency
Ludhiana district, India	December 26, 1991	49	20	Sikh militants massacred 49 Hindu passengers aboard a train and injured at least twenty more.[8]	Sikh militants	Punjab insurgency
near Asyut, Egypt	February 19, 1994	0	4	Gunmen open fire on an Asyut-Luxor train from fields beside the railway track.[9]	Unknown
Baku, Azerbaijan	March 19, 1994	14	49	1994 Baku Metro bombings - A suicide bombing takes place on 20 January at a station of Baku Metro. The lead railroad car was destroyed and the station's roof partially collapsed.	Sadval
Baku, Azerbaijan	July 3, 1994	13	58	1994 Baku Metro bombings - A remote controlled-gelatine explosive explodes on a metro train between 28 May and Gənclik stations of the Baku Metro.	Sadval
Tokyo, Japan	March 20, 1995	13	6252	Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway - Sarin Gas was released at 5 locations causing mass injury and loss of life.	Aum Shinrikyo
Paris, France	July 25, 1995	8	80	1995 Paris Metro bombing - A gas bottle exploded in the Saint-Michel - Notre-Dame station of line B of the RER (Paris regional train network).	Armed Islamic Group	Algerian Civil War
Palo Verde, Arizona	October 9, 1995	1	78	1995 Palo Verde, Arizona derailment - Amtrak Sunset Limited derails after rails are deliberately shifted out of position. The saboteurs were never identified.	Unknown
Paris, France	December 3, 1996	4	170	1996 Paris Métro bombing: Bomb explodes in a car of an RER train at Port Royal station.[10]	Armed Islamic Group	Algerian Civil War
Western Assam, India	December 30, 1996	33		Brahmaputra Mail train bombing: The Kokrajhar-Fakiragram Junction mail train was destroyed by a bomb. The rail line was frequently by military trains as well which may have been the bomb's intended target.	National Democratic Front of Bodoland (suspected)	Assam conflict

2000s[]

Location	Date	Dead	Injured	Details	Perpetrators	Part of
Manila, Philippines	December 30, 2000	22	120	Rizal Day bombings - Islamist militants bombed a train at the Blumentritt LRT Station as part of Rizal Day bombings.	Jemaah Islamiyah (suspected)	Rizal Day bombings
Angola	August 10, 2001	252	165	2001 Angola train attack - UNITA forces derailed a train with an anti-tank mine between the towns of Zenza and Dondo and then attacked the passengers with small arms fire.	UNITA	Angolan Civil War
Jaunpur, India	May 13, 2002	12	80	Jaunpur train crash - An act of sabotage which caused the derailment of a passenger train at Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh.	Student's Islamic Movement of India (suspected)
Rafiganj, India	September 10, 2002	130	500?	Rafiganj train disaster - The derailment of a train on a bridge over the Dhave River in North-Central India, which was reportedly due to sabotage by a local Maoist terrorist group, the Naxalites.	Communist Party of India	Naxalite–Maoist insurgency
Kurnool, India	December 21, 2002	20	80	Kurnool train crash: Deliberate derailment of a passenger train.	Lashkar-e-Taiba (suspected)
Mumbai, India	January 27, 2003	1	28	January 2003 Mumbai bombing: A bomb placed on a bicycle exploded outside the Vile Parle railway station in Mumbai, killing a woman and injuring dozens of people.	Lashkar-e-Taiba (suspected)
Mumbai, India	March 13, 2003	10	70	2003 Mumbai train bombing: A bomb exploded on a train as it entered Mulund railway station.	Lashkar-e-Taiba (suspected)
Stavropol Krai, Russia	September 3, 2003	7	80	A blast which ripped through a commuter train in Stavropol Krai, Russia going from Kislovodsk to Mineralnye Vody.[11]	Riyadus-Salihiin	Second Chechen War
Stavropol Krai, Russia	December 5, 2003	46	170	2003 Stavropol train bombing (December) - A suicide bomber caused a blast which ripped through a commuter train in Stavropol Krai, Russia going from Kislovodsk to Mineralnye Vody as it was leaving Yessentuki.	Riyadus-Salihiin	Second Chechen War
Moscow, Russia	February 6, 2004	41	120	February 2004 Moscow metro bombing - Suicide bomber detonates bomb near Avtozavodskaya station.	Riyadus-Salihiin	Second Chechen War
Madrid, Spain	March 11, 2004	192	2050	2004 Madrid train bombings - Ten near-simultaneous explosions occur between Alcalá de Henares and Madrid Atocha railway station during the morning rush hour. See Reactions to the 2004 Madrid train bombings.	Al-Qaeda	Islamic terrorism in Europe
London, United Kingdom	July 7, 2005	56	700	7 July 2005 London bombings - Four explosions (3 on the London Underground and 1 on a bus) rock the transport network in London.	Al-Qaeda	Islamic terrorism in Europe
Jaunpur, India	July 28, 2005	13	50	2005 Jaunpur train bombing - An explosion destroyed a carriage of an express train near the town of Jaunpur in Uttar Pradesh.	Unknown
Mumbai, India	July 11, 2006	209	714	11 July 2006 Mumbai train bombings - Seven explosions in eleven minutes rock the Western Line on the Mumbai Suburban Railway.	Lashkar-e-Taiba	Kashmir conflict
West Bengal, India	November 20, 2006	7	53	2006 West Bengal train disaster - A bomb explodes on a train near Belacoba station in West Bengal.[12]	Unknown
Panipat, India	February 18, 2007	68	50	2007 Samjhauta Express bombings - Bombs were set off in two carriages, both filled with passengers, just after the train passed Diwana station near the Indian city of Panipat.	Abhinav Bharat or Lashkar-e-Taiba	Kashmir conflict
Colombo, Sri Lanka	May 26, 2008	8	72	A packed commuter train carrying 200 passengers on board, on which a time bomb exploded at Dehiwela railroad station, carried out by the LTTE.[13]	LTTE	Sri Lankan civil war
Mumbai, India	November 26, 2008	58	104	Part of 2008 Mumbai attacks: Three terrorists, including Ajmal Kasab, opened fire on the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus in Mumbai. This was deadliest attack of a series of attacks in Mumbai on November 26, 2008 that killed 166 people in total.	Lashkar-e-Taiba	Kashmir conflict
Bologoye, Russia	November 27, 2009	27	95	2009 Nevsky Express bombing - A 7-kilogram (15 lb) explosive device derailed at least three of the 14 cars of the Nevsky Express at Bologoye on a journey from Moscow to St Petersburg while traveling at 200 kilometres per hour. A second bomb exploded during salvage operations.[14]	Caucasus Emirate	Insurgency in the North Caucasus

2010s[]

Location	Date	Dead	Injured	Details	Perpetrators	Part of
Moscow, Russia	March 29, 2010	40	102	2010 Moscow Metro bombings - A double suicide bombing at Lubyanka and Park Kultury stations of the Moscow Metro.	Caucasus Emirate Al-Qaeda	Insurgency in the North Caucasus
West Midnapore, West Bengal, India	May 28, 2010	148	200+	2010 Gyaneshwari Express derailment - In the West Midnapore district of West Bengal, India, a sabotaged railway track caused a train to derail before an oncoming goods train, killing at least 148 passengers.	Communist Party of India (Maoist)	Naxalite–Maoist insurgency
Minsk, Belarus	April 11, 2011	15	204	2011 Minsk Metro bombing: A nail bomb exploded at the Kastryčnickaja metro station in central Minsk, killing 15. Two men were arrested in connection with the bombings and executed in 2012.	Dzimitry Kanavalau and Vlad Kavalyou
Chennai, India	May 1, 2014	1	14	2014 Chennai train bombing: Two bombs explode on a train entering Chennai Central railway station	Indian Mujahideen (suspected)
Istanbul, Turkey	December 1, 2015	0	5	2015 Istanbul metro bombing: A pipe bomb exploded near the Bayrampaşa—Maltepe station of the Istanbul Metro.	Unknown
Belgium, Brussels	March 22, 2016	20	200	Part of 2016 Brussels bombings: A suicide bomber detonated at the Maalbeek metro station in Brussels about an hour after two other suicide bombers detonated at Zaventem airport	Islamic State	Islamic terrorism in Europe
Würzburg, Germany	July 18, 2016	1	5	2016 Würzburg train attack: A 17-year-old Afghan refugee stabbed four people on a train in Würzburg before fleeing the train, stabbing another person outside before being shot dead by police.	Islamic State	Islamic terrorism in Europe
Madhya Pradesh, India	March 7, 2017	0	10	2017 Bhopal–Ujjain Passenger train bombing: Ten passengers were injured in the first ISIS attack in India.[15]	Islamic State
Saint Petersburg, Russia	April 3, 2017	14	64	2017 Saint Petersburg Metro bombing: A briefcase bomb packed with shrapnel exploded on a Saint Petersburg Metro train between Sennaya Ploshchad and Tekhnologichesky Institut stations. A total of 14 people were killed, and 64 others were injured.[16][17]	Unknown	Unknown
London, United Kingdom	September 15, 2017	0	30	Parsons Green train bombing: An explosion occurred on a District line train at Parsons Green Underground station. Thirty people were injured.	Islamic State	Islamic terrorism in Europe

Failed attacks[]

• Najibullah Zazi was arrested before attempting to bomb stations of the New York City Subway in 2009.
• Farooque Ahmed plotted to bomb Washington Metro stations in 2010.

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