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List of terrorist incidents in India

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This is a list of terrorist incidents in India. In July 2016, the Government of India released data on a string of terror strikes in India since 2005 that claimed 707 lives and left over 3,200 injured.^[1]

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#	Date	Incidents & Description	Location	People Killed	Injured	Status of the Case
1	8 June 1980	Mandai massacre	Tripura	500		N/A
2	2 August 1984	Meenambakkam bomb blast^[2]	Tamil Nadu	30	25	Verdict given
3	7 July 1987	1987 Haryana killings^[3]	Haryana	36	60	N/A
4	21 May 1991	Assassination of Rajiv Gandhi	Tamil Nadu	15
5	15 June 1991	1991 Punjab killings^[4]	Punjab	126	200
6	17 October 1991	1991 Rudrapur bombings	Uttarakhand	41	140
7	8 November 1991	1991 Kalyan train bomb blast^[5]^[6]^[7]	Mumbai	12	65	Verdict given
8	12 March 1993	1993 Bombay bombings^[8]^[9]	Mumbai	257	700+
9	16 March 1993	1993 Bowbazar bombing	Kolkata (Formerly Calcutta), West Bengal	69
10	9 April 1993	Palar blast	Karnataka	22	13
11	8 August 1993	1993 bombing of RSS office in Chennai	Tamil Nadu	11	7
12	5–6 December 1993	Trains and Ajmer^[10]	Rajasthan
13	21 May 1996	1996 Lajpat Nagar blast	Delhi	13	39
14	22 May 1996	1996 Dausa blast	Rajasthan	14	37
15	30 December 1996	Brahmaputra Mail train bombing	Assam	33	150	N/A
16	14 February 1998	1998 Coimbatore bombings	Tamil Nadu	58	200+	Verdict given
17	20 May 2000	Bagber massacre	Tripura	25
18	May–July 2000	2000 Church bombings of South India	Karnataka, Goa and Andhra Pradesh	0		Verdict given
19	9 June 2001	Charar-e-Sharief mosque attack	Charari Sharief	4	60
20	22 December 2000	2000 terrorist attack on Red Fort^[11]	Delhi	3	14	Verdict given
21	1 October 2001	2001 Jammu and Kashmir legislative assembly car bombing	Jammu and Kashmir	38
22	13 December 2001	2001 Indian Parliament attack in New Delhi	Delhi	7	18	Verdict given
23	22 January 2002	American Cultural Centre attack	Kolkata	5	20
24	13 May 2002	2002 Jaunpur train crash^[12]	N/A	12	80
25	30 March 2002	2002 Raghunath temple attacks^[13]	Jammu	11	20
26	10 September 2002	Rafiganj train wreck	Bihar	200	150+
27	24 November 2002	2002 Raghunath temple attacks^[13]	Jammu	14	45
28	6 December 2002	2002 Mumbai bus bombing^[14]	Mumbai	2	14
29	21 December 2002	Kurnool train crash	Andhra Pradesh	20	80
30	24 September 2002	Attack on Akshardham temple	Gujarat	31	80	Verdict given
31	27 January 2003	January 2003 Mumbai bombing^[15]	Mumbai	1	28
32	13 March 2003	March 2003 Mumbai bombing^[16]	Mumbai	10
33	23 March 2003	2003 Nadimarg Massacare	Nadimarg, Jammu and Kashmir	25	1
34	14 August 2003	Kamalnagar massacre^[17]	Tripura	14		N/A
35	25 August 2003	August 2003 Mumbai bombings	Mumbai	52
36	2 January 2004	Jammu railway station attack^[18]	Jammu	4	14
37	15 August 2004	2004 Dhemaji school bombing	Assam	18	40
38	2 October 2004	2004 Dimapur bombings	Dimapur, Nagaland	30	100
39	5 July 2005	2005 Ram Janmabhoomi attack^[19]	Ayodhya	6
40	28 July 2005	2005 Jaunpur train bombing^[20]	N/A	13	50
41	29 October 2005	2005 Delhi bombings: Three powerful serial blasts in New Delhi at different places^[21]	Delhi	70	250
42	28 December 2005	2005 Indian Institute of Science shooting	Karnataka	1	4
43	19 February 2006	2006 Ahmedabad railway station bombing	Gujarat	0	25
44	7 March 2006	2006 Varanasi bombings: Three synchronized terrorist attacks in Varanasi in Shri Sankatmochan Mandir and Varanasi Cantonment Railway Station^[22]^[23]	Varanasi	28	101
45	11 July 2006	2006 Mumbai train bombings: Series of 7 train bombing during the evening rush hour in Mumbai	Mumbai	209	714
46	8 September 2006	2006 Malegaon bombings: Series of bomb blasts in the vicinity of a mosque in Malegaon, Maharashtra	Maharashtra	40	125
47	18 February 2007	2007 Samjhauta Express bombings	Haryana	70	50
48	18 May 2007	Mecca Masjid bombing	Hyderabad	16	100
49	25 August 2007	August 2007 Hyderabad bombings - Two blasts in Hyderabad's Lumbini park and Gokul Chat.	Hyderabad	42	54
50	11 October 2007	Ajmer Dargah bombing^[24]	Rajasthan	3	17
51	14 October 2007	One blast in a movie theatre in the town of Ludhiana^[24]	Ludhiana	6
52	24 November 2007	A series of near-simultaneous explosions at courthouse complexes in the cities of Lucknow, Varanasi, and Faizabad^[24]	Uttar Pradesh	16	70
53	1 January 2008	Terror attack on CRPF camp in Rampur, Uttar Pradesh by Lashkar-e-Taiba,^[25]	Uttar Pradesh	8	5
54	13 May 2008	Jaipur bombings: 9 bomb blasts along 6 areas in Jaipur^[26]	Jaipur	71	200	Verdict given^[26]
55	25 July 2008	2008 Bangalore serial blasts: 8 low intensity bomb blasts in Bangalore	Bangalore	1	20	arrests made
56	26 July 2008	2008 Ahmedabad bombings: 17 serial bomb blasts in Ahmedabad	Gujarat	56	200	arrests made
57	13 September 2008	13 September 2008 Delhi bombings: 5 bomb blasts in Delhi markets	Delhi	33	130
58	27 September 2008	27 September 2008 Delhi bombing: Bombings at Mehrauli area, 2 bomb blasts in Delhi flower market	Delhi	3	21
59	29 September 2008	29 September 2008 western India bombings: 10 killed and 80 injured in bombings in Maharashtra (including Malegaon) and Gujarat bomb blasts	Maharashtra	10	80
60	1 October 2008	2008 Agartala bombings	Agartala	4	100
61	21 October 2008	2008 Imphal bombing	Imphal	17	40+
62	30 October 2008	2008 Assam bombings	Assam	81	470
63	26 November 2008	2008 Mumbai attacks^[27]^[28]	Mumbai	171	300+	Verdict given
64	1 January 2009	2009 Guwahati bombings^[29]	Assam	6	67
65	6 April 2009	2009 Assam bombings^[30]	Assam	9	63
66	13 February 2010	2010 Pune bombing^[31]	Pune	17	54
67	15 February 2010	Silda camp attack	West Bengal	28
68	6 April 2010	April 2010 Maoist attack in Dantewada	Chhattisgarh	84 (including 8 terrorists)	8
69	17 May 2010	2010 Dantewada bus bombing	Chhattisgarh	31-44	15
70	28 May 2010	Jnaneswari Express train derailment	West Bengal	148	200+
71	7 December 2010	2010 Varanasi bombing^[32]	Varanasi	2	37
72	13 July 2011	2011 Mumbai bombings	Mumbai	26	130
73	7 September 2011	2011 Delhi bombing^[33]	Delhi	15	74
73	13 February 2012	2012 attacks on Israeli diplomats	Delhi	0	4
75	1 August 2012	2012 Pune bombings	Pune	0	1
76	21 February 2013	2013 Hyderabad blasts	Hyderabad	18	131
77	13 March 2013	March 2013 Srinagar attack	Jammu and Kashmir	7	10
78	17 April 2013	2013 Bangalore blast	Bengaluru	0	16
79	25 May 2013	2013 Naxal attack in Darbha valley	Chhattisgarh	32	32
80	24 June 2013	June 2013 Srinagar attack	Jammu and Kashmir	8	19
81	7 July 2013	July 2013 Maoist attack in Dumka	Chhattisgarh	2
82	7 July 2013	Bodh Gaya bombings	Bihar	0	5
83	27 October 2013	2013 Patna bombings	Bihar	6	85
84	26 December 2013	2013 Jalpaiguri bombing	West Bengal	5	5
85	11 March 2014	2014 Chhattisgarh attack	Chhattisgarh	16	3
86	25 April 2014	Blast in Jharkhand^[34]	Jharkhand	8	4-5
87	28 April 2014	Blast in Budgam District^[35]	Jammu and Kashmir	0	18
88	1 May 2014	2014 Chennai train bombing	Tamil Nadu	1	14
89	1 May 2014	May 2014 Assam violence	Assam	33
90	12 May 2014	Maoist blast in Gadchiroli District^[36]	Jharkhand	7	2
91	23 December 2014	December 2014 Assam violence	Assam	85
92	28 December 2014	2014 Bangalore bombing^[37]	Bengaluru	1	5
93	20 March 2015	2015 Jammu attack^[38]	Jammu and Kashmir	6	10
94	4–9 June 2015	2015 Manipur ambush	Manipur	176 (including 158 terrorists)	15	Surgical strike by Indian Armed Forces near India Myanmar border killing 156 terrorists.^[39]^{[circular reference]}
95	27 July 2015	2015 Gurdaspur attack in Dina Nagar, Gurdaspur district	Punjab	10	15
96	2 January 2016	2016 Pathankot attack in Pathankot Air Force Station, Pathankot	Punjab	7
97	25 June 2016	2016 Pampore attack	Pampore	8	22
98	5 August 2016	2016 Kokrajhar shooting.^[40]	Kokrajhar, Assam	14	15
99	18 September 2016	2016 Uri attack^[41]	Uri, Jammu & Kashmir	23	8	India claimed surgical strike on terrorist camps across Line of Control, Pakistan denied that a cross-border strike took place.^[42]
100	3 October 2016	2016 Baramulla attack	Baramulla, Jammu & Kashmir	5
101	6 October 2016	2016 Handwara attack at rashtriya riffles camp	Handwara, Jammu & Kashmir
102	29 November 2016	2016 Nagrota army base attack	Nagrota, Jammu & Kashmir	10
103	7 March 2017	2017 Bhopal–Ujjain Passenger train bombing	Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh		10
104	24 April 2017	2017 Sukma attack	Sukma district, Chhattisgarh	26
105	11 July 2017	2017 Amarnath Yatra attack	Anantnag, Jammu & Kashmir	8	18
106	10 February 2018	2018 Sunjuwan attack	Sunjuwan, Jammu and Kashmir	11	11
107	13 March 2018	2018 Sukma attack	Sukma district, Chhattisgarh	9
108	14 February 2019	2019 Pulwama attack	Awantipora, Jammu & Kashmir	46		Air strikes by Indian Air Force on Pakistani Islamic militant group Jaish-e-Mohammed
109	7 March 2019	2019 Jammu Bus stand grenade blast^[43]	Jammu City, Jammu & Kashmir	3	28-35	Arrest made of a teen aged student of 9th standard of a local school.
110	9 April 2019	2019 Dantewada attack^[44]	Dantewada, Chhattisgarh	5
111	9 April 2019	2019 killing of RSS worker in Kishtwar^[45]	Kishtwar, Jammu and Kashmir	2		Curfew imposed in Kishtwar and adjoining areas
112	1 May 2019	Gadchiroli Naxal bombing^[46]	Maharashtra, Deccan Plateau	16		Unknown
113	12 June 2019	June 2019 Kashmir attack^[47]	Awantipora, Jammu & Kashmir	5(+1)	4	Got away
113	21 March 2020	2020 Sukma Maoists attack	Sukma district, Chhattisgarh	17	15
114	3 April 2021	2021 Sukma–Bijapur attack	Sukma district, Chhattisgarh	22 (+9)	32
115	8 April 2023	2023 Elathur train arson^[48]	Elathur, Kozhikode district, Kerala	3		Unknown. Culprit is believed to be a lone wolf.
116	20 April 2023	2023 Poonch-Rajouri Attack^[49]	Poonch, Rajouri, Jammu and Kashmir	5	1
117	26 April 2023	2023 Dantewada bombing^[50]	Bastar district, Chhattisgarh	11 (10 Policemen and 1 driver)
118	31 July 2023	2023 Jaipur Express killings^[51]	Palghar, Maharashtra	1 RPF Officer and 3 civilian passengers killed		Suspect is an RPF Officer influenced by Hindutva Ideology who targeted Muslim train passengers.
119	29 October 2023	Ernakulam Jehovah's Witness Convention Center Blast ^[52]	Kochi, Kerala	3	36	Perpetrator is a former member of the Jehovah's Witness religion community.

Year	Number of incidents	Deaths	Injuries
2018	748	350	540
2017	1000	470	702
2016	1025	467	788
2015	884	387	649
2014	860	490	776
2013	694	467	771
2012	611	264	651
2011	645	499	730
2010	663	812	660
2009	672	774	854
2008	534	824	1,759
2007	149	626	1,187
2006	167	722	2,138
2005	146	466	1,216
2004	108	334	949
2003	196	472	1,183
2002	184	599	1,186
2001	234	660	1,144
2000	180	671	761
1999	112	469	591
1998	61	398	411
1997	193	853	1,416
1996	213	569	952
1995	179	361	616
1994	107	389	405
1993	42	525	1,564
1992	237	1,152	917
1991	339	1,113	1,326
1990	349	907	1,042
1989	324	874	769
1988	358	966	1,033
1987	166	506	429
1986	96	340	163
1985	39	51	79
1984	159	195	364
1983	47	59	217
1982	13	64	102
1981	16	24	12
1980	10	17	13
1979	20	31	19
1978	0	0	0
1977	1	0	0
1976	1	0	0
1975	1	4	0
1974	0	0	0
1973	0	0	0
1972	1	0	0
1971	0	0	0
1970	0	0	0
Total	12,002	19,866	30,544

List_of_terrorist_incidents_in_India

List of terrorist incidents in India

List of Terror Attacks in India

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