List of terrorist incidents, 1987

This is a timeline of incidents in 1987 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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Date	Type	Dead	Injured	Location	Details	Perpetrator	Part of
April 17	Massacre	127	64	North Central Province, Sri Lanka	127 Sri Lankan Sinhalese civilians, who were travelling in 3 buses and 2 trucks to Trincomalee were killed by the cadres of the cadres of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam organization, commonly known as LTTE.[1][2][3] The cadres clad in military uniforms stopped the vehicles and dragged out the passengers and shot them to death with automatic weapons after brutally assaulting them with clubs. The near the village of Aluth Oya, on the Habarana Trincomalle road in North Central Province of Sri Lanka.	LTTE	Sri Lankan civil war
April 21	Car bombing	113		Colombo, Sri Lanka	Car bomb at bus terminal in Colombo, Sri Lanka kills 110 people.[4] This attack was carried by LTTE.[5] [6]	LTTE	Sri Lankan civil war
April 25	Bombing	0	18	Athens, Greece	Bombing of Greek Air Force bus carrying American military personnel. A group called November 17 claims responsibility.[7]	November 17 Organization
June 2	Massacre	34	4	Ampara District, Sri Lanka	A bus carrying Buddhist monks was stopped and 30 Buddhist monks and four civilians were killed in Arantalawa by LTTE.	LTTE	Sri Lankan civil war
June 19	Car bombing	21	45	Barcelona, Spain	A car bomb at the Hipercor shopping centre placed by Basque separatist group ETA kills 21 people and injures 45 more.	ETA	Basque conflict
July 6	Massacre	38		Haryana, India	38 Hindu bus passengers are massacred by Sikh militants in Haryana.[8]	Khalistan Commando Force	Punjab insurgency
July 7	Massacre	34	30+	Haryana, India	Sikh militants from the Khalistan Commando Force massacre 34 Hindu bus passengers after setting up a phony road block in Haryana.	Khalistan Commando Force	Punjab insurgency
August 18	Grenades	2	16	Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte, Sri Lanka	A member of the banned communist party Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (People's Liberation Front) threw two hand grenades into the Parliament of Sri Lanka, narrowly missing president J. R. Jayewardene and prime minister Ranasinghe Premadasa and killing an MP and a Ministry secretary.	Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna	JVP insurgency
November 8	Bombing	12	63	Enniskillen, Northern Ireland	PIRA Bombing targeting a group of Ulster Defence Regiment soldiers making their way to a funeral. Most of the deaths were civilians.	PIRA	The Troubles
December 11	Car bombing	11	88	Zaragoza, Spain	ETA car bombing targeting a Civil Guard barracks in Zaragoza. Eleven people, five of them children, were killed and 88 people, mostly civilians, wounded.	ETA	Basque conflict
December 31	Massacre	30		Kathankadu, Sri Lanka	LTTE cadres armed with sharp weapons and small arms, carried out the killing of 30 Muslim civilians in Kathankadu.[9]	LTTE	Sri Lankan civil war

References

1. Tamils Kill 18 Near Site of Massacre, Los Angeles Times, April 20, 1987
2. Map of worst terrorist attacks worldwide: 100 or more fatalities, Robert Johnston
3. Gory carnage of killing innocent civilians-Chronology of Ltte Terror - Part 30, Daily News
4. BBC News: Timeline of the Tamil conflict, September 4, 2000
5. The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism, ROBERT A. PAPE The University of Chicago, American Political Science Review Vol. 97, No. 3 August 2003
6. defence.lk
7. New York Times: Leftists Claim Athens Attack, April 26, 1987
8. Hazarika, Sanjoy. "34 HINDUS KILLED IN NEW BUS RAIDS; SIKHS SUSPECTED". nytimes.com. New York Times. Retrieved March 16, 2016.
9. "LTTE Atrocities, Year 1987". 1987. Ministry of Defence, Government of Sri Lanka. Retrieved 16 August 2015.