Backgrounder: Major terror attacks worldwide since 9/11
Xinhua, September 11, 2015 Adjust font size:
Friday marks the 14th anniversary of 9/11 terror attacks, which killed nearly 3,000 people.
Following are some major terror attacks since September 11, 2001.
On Mar. 20, 2015, two mosques in Yemen's Sanaa came under suicide attack during midday prayers. The blasts killed 142 people and wounded more than 351, making it the deadliest terrorist attack in Yemen's history. The Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack.
On the morning of Jan. 7, 2015, two terrorists forced their way into the office building of the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo in Paris and killed 11 people in the building with assault rifles and other weapons. The terrorists, who also injured another 11 in the building, killed a French National Police officer when they tried to escape from the building. Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula claimed the responsibility for the shooting.
Starting on Jan. 3, 2015, Boko Haram militants opened fire on northern Nigerian villages, slaughtering hundreds of innocent villagers. Some estimated that the death tolls might be as many as 2,000 people.
On Dec. 16, 2014, Taliban gunmen stormed a military-run school in northwestern Pakistan and killed 141 people, 132 of them children. The gunmen methodically shot schoolchildren in the head and set fire to some victims in a horrifying 9-hour rampage.
On Sept. 21, 2013, at least 67 died and 175 others were seriously injured in a four-day siege beginning on Sept. 21, 2013, at Westgate Shopping Mall in Kenya's capital of Nairobi. Al-Shabaab, a jihadist terrorist group based in Somalia, claimed the responsibility for one of the deadliest terror attacks in Kenya.
On July 22, 2011, a Norwegian far-right terrorist, Anders Breivik, perpetrated two separate terrorist attacks in Oslo and on the island of Utoya on Jul. 22, 2011. The van bomb he placed amid government buildings killed eight people. Then he shot dead 69 participants of a Workers' Youth League summer camp on Utoya island.
From Nov. 26 to Nov. 29, 2008, armed terrorists launched coordinated attacks in Mumbai, India, including luxury hotels and the main railway station, killing 166 people, including the chief of Mumbai Anti-Terrorist Squad.
On July 11, 2006, a series of seven bomb blasts took place over a period of 11 minutes on the Suburban Railway in Mumbai. The bombs, which were kept in pressure cookers, exploded at rush hour when lakhs of office-goers use Mumbai's local trains to get back home from work. Around 190 people were killed and about 800 were injured.
On July 7, 2005, four suicide bombers separately denoted three bombs in quick succession aboard London Underground trains across the city and, later, a fourth on a double-decker bus in Tavistock Square. 52 civilians were killed and over 700 more injured in the attacks. Endi