List of terrorist incidents, 1980

This is a timeline of incidents in 1980 that have been labelled as "terrorism" and are not believed to have been carried out by a government or its forces (see state terrorism and state-sponsored terrorism).

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January

Date	Type	Dead	Injured	Location	Details	Perpetrator	Part of
17January	Bombing	3	5	Dunmurry, Northern Ireland	An incendiary bomb planted on a train by the Provisional IRA prematurely detonated and set the train on fire, killing 3 and wounding 5.	Provisional IRA	The Troubles
20 January	Bombing	4	10	Alonsotegi, Spain	A Spanish unionist paramilitary called the Grupos Armados Españoles bombed a bar that was known as a meeting place for Basque nationalists	Grupos Armados Españoles	Basque conflict

February

Date	Type	Dead	Injured	Location	Details	Perpetrator	Part of
1 February	Shooting, grenade	6 (+2 attackers)	0	Ispaster, Spain	Basque group ETA kills 6 Civil Guards in a gun and grenade attack at Ispaster. 2 ETA members are killed by grenades they have thrown.	ETA	Basque conflict
27 February - 27 April	Siege	1 (an attacker)	5	Bogotá, Colombia	Seventeen members of the 19th of April Movement held 60 hostages at the Dominican embassy for 2 months before escaping to Cuba. The only fatality was a young militant killed by police on the first day of the siege.	M-19	Colombian conflict

April

Date	Type	Dead	Injured	Location	Details	Perpetrator	Part of
7-8 April	Shooting, hostage-taking	3 (+5 attackers)	16	Misgav Am, Israel	Five Palestinian terrorists from the Iraqi-backed Arab Liberation Front penetrated kibbutz Misgav Am in Israel during night time and entered the nursery. They killed the kibbutz secretary and an infant boy. They held the rest of the children hostage, demanding the release of about 50 terrorists held in Israeli prisons. The first raid of an IDF infantry unit was unsuccessful, but a second attempt, a few hours later, succeeded, and all the terrorists were killed. Two kibbutz members and one soldier were killed, four children and 11 soldiers were injured.[1]	Arab Liberation Front	Israel-Palestine conflict

July

Date	Type	Dead	Injured	Location	Details	Perpetrator	Part of
13 July	Shooting, ambush	2 (+2 attackers)	3	Orio, Spain	Several members of ETA shoot and ambush a group Spanish Civil Guards, killing two and injuring three. The guards managed to kill two of the attackers.	ETA	Basque conflict
27 July	Grenade	1	20	Antwerp, Belgium	A member of the Abu Nidal Organization throws two hand grenades into a group of Jewish schoolchildren waiting for a bus stop in Antwerp, Belgium, killing one and wounding twenty. Said Al Nasr was found guilty and sentenced to life in prison,[2]	Said Al Nasr Abu Nidal Organization	Israel-Palestine conflict
31 July	Shooting	2	2	Athens, Greece	Two members of the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia attacked a Turkish family near the Turkish embassy in Athens. The father and 14-year-old daughter were killed while the mother and 16-year-old son were seriously wunded.	ASALA

August

Date	Type	Dead	Injured	Location	Details	Perpetrator	Part of
3 August	Bombing	85	200+	Bologna, Italy	Three members of the neo-fascist group Nuclei Armati Rivoluzionari detonate a time bomb at Bologna Central Station	Nuclei Armati Rivoluzionari
5 August	Shooting	2	11	Lyon, France	Two members of the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia stormed the Turkish Consulate in Lyon and opened fire, killing a doorman and a French visitor.	ASALA

September

Date	Type	Dead	Injured	Location	Details	Perpetrator	Part of
20 September	Shooting	4	0	Markina-Xemein, Spain	Four members of Basque separatist group ETA kill four Spanish Civil Guards at a bar.	ETA	Basque conflict
26 September	Bombing	12 (+1 attacker)	211	Munich, Germany	A bomb at the Oktoberfest fairgrounds in Theresienwiese, Munich, Germany kills 12, including the alleged bomber Gundolf Kohler, a member of the neo-Nazi Military Sport Group Hoffman, and injures 213.	Gundolf Kohler

October

Date	Type	Dead	Injured	Location	Details	Perpetrator	Part of
3 October	Bombing	4	46	Paris, France	A motorcycle bomb kills four people and injures over forty at the rue Copernic synagogue in Paris, France. Authorities blamed the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine..	PFLP	Israel-Palestine conflict

November

Date	Type	Dead	Injured	Location	Details	Perpetrator	Part of
20 September	Shooting	5	5	Zarautz, Spain	Two ETA members open fire on Civil Guards in a bar with machine guns. Four guards and a civilian are killed and 5 other people are wounded.	ETA	Basque conflict

December

Date	Type	Dead	Injured	Location	Details	Perpetrator	Part of
31 December	Bombing	15	85	Nairobi, Kenya	At least 15 people were killed and 85 injured in a bombing at the Jewish-owned Norfolk Hotel in Nairobi, Kenya. The Kenyan government said the bomber was a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.	PFLP	Israel-Palestine conflict

See also

• List of terrorist incidents

References

1. Israel American Jewish Yearbook, 1982
2. Mikolus, Edward (1989). International Terrorism in the 1980s: 1980-1983. Iowa State University Press. p. 71.