The world has witnessed a rise in terror attacks especially in the last
decade with last night's deadly vehicle and knife attack on London
Bridge and in nearby Borough Market being the latest attack in Europe in
recent years.
Here's a timeline of some major terror attacks in Europe
in recent times;
—May 22, 2017: A suicide bomber killed 22 people and injured dozens
during an Ariana Grande concert at Manchester Arena in northern
England.
—April 7, 2017: A man driving a hijacked beer truck struck pedestrians at a Stockholm department store, killing 4 people.
—March 22, 2017: A man drives his rented SUV into pedestrians at
London's Westminster Bridge, killing four people. The attacker then
stabbed a police officer to death.
—Dec. 19, 2016: A hijacked truck plows through a Christmas market in Berlin, killing 12.
—July 14, 2016: A truck driver targets Bastille Day revelers in Nice, killing 86.
—March 22, 2016: Suicide attacks on the Brussels airport and subway kill
32 and injure hundreds. The perpetrators have been closely linked to
the group that carried out earlier attacks in Paris.
— Nov. 13, 2015: Islamic State-linked extremists attack the Bataclan
concert hall and other sites across Paris, killing 130 people. A key
suspect in the attack, 26-year-old Salah Abdeslam, is arrested in
Brussels on March 18, 2016.
— Feb. 14, 2015: A gunman kills Danish filmmaker Finn Noergaard and
wounds three police officers in Copenhagen. A day later the gunman, Omar
El-Hussein, attacks a synagogue, killing a Jewish guard and wounding
two police officers before being shot dead.
— Jan. 7-9, 2015: A gun assault on the Paris offices of the satirical
magazine Charlie Hebdo and an attack on a kosher grocery store kills 17
people. Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula claims responsibility for the
attack, saying it was in revenge for Charlie Hebdo's depictions of the
Prophet Muhammad.
— May 24, 2014: Four people are killed at the Jewish Museum in Brussels
by an intruder with a Kalashnikov. The accused is a former French
fighter linked to the Islamic State group in Syria.
— May 22, 2013: Two al-Qaida-inspired extremists run down British
soldier Lee Rigby in a London street, then stab and hack him to death.
— March 2012: A gunman claiming links to al-Qaida kills three Jewish
schoolchildren, a rabbi and three paratroopers in Toulouse, southern
France.
— July 22, 2011: Anti-Muslim extremist Anders Behring Breivik plants a
bomb in Oslo then launches a shooting massacre on a youth camp on
Norway's Utoya island, killing 77 people, many of them teenagers.
— Nov. 2, 2011: The offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris are firebombed
after the satirical magazine runs a cover featuring a caricature of the
Prophet Muhammad. No one is injured.
— March 2, 2011: Islamic extremist Arid Uka shoots dead two U.S. airmen
and injures two others at Frankfurt airport after apparently being
inspired by a fake internet video purporting to show American atrocities
in Afghanistan.
— July 7, 2005: 52 commuters are killed in London when four al
Qaida-inspired suicide bombers blow themselves up on three subway trains
and a bus.
— March 11, 2004: Bombs on four Madrid commuter trains in the morning rush hour kill 191 people.
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