List of terrorist incidents in 1986

This is a timeline of incidents in 1986 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).

January

Date	Type	Dead	Injured	Location	Details	Perpetrator	Part of
9 January	Bombing	0	2	Valparaiso, Chile	A bomb explodes in Valparaiso wounding two children of 12 and 8 years	Manuel Rodriguez Patriotic Front	Armed resistance in Chile (1973-90)

February

Date	Type	Dead	Injured	Location	Details	Perpetrator	Part of
3 February	Bombing	0	8	Paris, France	A bomb exploded in a shopping gallery at the Champs-Élysées, wounding eight people. The bombing was claimed by the Hezbollah-affiliated Committee for Solidarity With Arab and Middle Eastern Political Prisoners (CSPPA).	CSPPA, Hezbollah	1985–86 Paris attacks
4 February	Bombing	0	4	Paris, France	A bomb exploded in the basement record section of the Gibert Jeune bookstore on the Place Saint-Michel, tearing up the floor and setting the building ablaze. Four people were wounded. The bombing was claimed by the Hezbollah-affiliated Committee for Solidarity With Arab and Middle Eastern Political Prisoners (CSPPA).	CSPPA, Hezbollah	1985–86 Paris attacks
5 February	Bombing	1	16	Santiago, Chile	A bomb was detonated in front of a police bus killing one police and wounding 16 others	Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front	Armed resistance in Chile (1973-90)
5 February	Bombing	0	4	Paris, France	A bomb exploded in the basement record section of the Gibert Jeune bookstore on the Place Saint-Michel, tearing up the floor and setting the building ablaze. Four people were wounded. The bombing was claimed by the Hezbollah-affiliated Committee for Solidarity With Arab and Middle Eastern Political Prisoners (CSPPA).	CSPPA, Hezbollah	1985–86 Paris attacks
9 February	Land mine	39		Serunuwara, Sri Lanka	When refugees from Serunuwara, Dehiwatta were being escorted by army personnel along Ella/Kantalai road, LTTE exploded a mine killing 35 civilians and four army personnel.	LTTE	Sri Lankan civil war
26 February	Shooting	1	0	Santiago, Chile	During a opposition protest a policeman was shot dead by extremist	Manuel Rodriguez Patriotic Front	Armed resistance in Chile (1973-90)

March

Date	Type	Dead	Injured	Location	Details	Perpetrator	Part of
2 March	Bombing	1	1	Osorno, Chile	A bomb exploded in a train rail killing a woman and injuring critically another person	Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front	Armed resistance in Chile (1973-90)
9 March	Bombing	0	2	Santiago, Chile	A bomb exploded in a bank hall wounding critically 2 costumers	Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front	Armed resistance in Chile (1973-90)
10 March	Shooting	9	Unknown	Córdoba, Colombia	Militants of EPL kill one corporal and eight police officers during an ambush in Cintura, a rural area of Pueblo Nuevo in southern Córdoba.	EPL	Colombian conflict
13 March	Car bombing	60		Damascus, Syria	Car bombing in Damascus. Pro-Iraqi militants were blamed for the attack.	Pro-Iraqi militants (suspected)
17 March	Bombing	0	9	Paris, France	A bomb exploded on the TGV Paris-Lyon high-speed rail, wounding nine people. The bombing was claimed by the Hezbollah-affiliated Committee for Solidarity With Arab and Middle Eastern Political Prisoners (CSPPA).	CSPPA, Hezbollah	1985–86 Paris attacks
20 March	Bombing	2	28	Paris, France	A bomb exploded in the Point-Show shopping gallery on the Champs-Élysées, killing two people and wounding 28. The bombing was claimed by the Hezbollah-affiliated Committee for Solidarity With Arab and Middle Eastern Political Prisoners (CSPPA).	CSPPA, Hezbollah	1985–86 Paris attacks
20 March	Ambush	8	16	Cauca Department, Colombia	A thick column of guerrillas ambushes a mixed patrol of the Army and the police that composed by 10 vehicles and 3 armored ones were mobilized by the place known as The S in the way that of Caloto leads to Toribio in the north of the Cauca. In armored attack 1 is destroyed, and 7 agents die and 1 soldier and wound other 16.	Coordinadora Nacional Guerrillera	Colombian conflict
27 March	Car bombing	1	22	Melbourne, Australia	Car bombing of the Russell Street Police Headquarters in Melbourne by three men linked to organize crime. Policewoman Angela Taylor was the sole fatality.	Craig Minogue Stan Taylor Peter Reed
31 March	Knife attack	0	2	Santiago, Chile	Two policeman were attacked with knifes during opposition protest	Unknown	Armed resistance in Chile (1973-90)

April

Date	Type	Dead	Injured	Location	Details	Perpetrator	Part of
2 April	Bombing	4	7	Argos, Greece	Bombing of TWA Flight 840 mid-flight, killing four Americans, including a baby. Flight 840 had previously been hijacked in 1969. Investigators concluded the bomb had been planted by a Lebanese woman who was an Abu Nidal Organisation member.	Abu Nidal Organisation	Israel-Palestine conflict
5 April	Bombing	3	229	West Berlin, West Germany	Bombing at a discothèque frequented by American soldiers, killing two and a Turkish woman. A trial in the U.S. found Libya guilty of organizing the attack.	Four Libyans
April	Car bombings	144		Damascus, Syria	Car bombings in five towns around Damascus. Pro-Iraqi militants were blamed for the attack.	Pro-Iraqi militants (suspected)
11 April	Ambush	0	1	Santiago, Chile	A policeman was wounded when he was shot in his patrol car by extremist	Manuel Rodriguez Patriotic Front	Armed resistance in Chile (1973-90)
17 April	Attempted bombing	0	0	London, United Kingdom	A Semtex bomb was found in the luggage of an Irish woman who was about to board an El Al flight from London to Tel Aviv. The bomb had been planted by her Jordanian husband Nezar Hindawi who was arrested the next day.	Nezar Hindawi

May

Date	Type	Dead	Injured	Location	Details	Perpetrator	Part of
3 May	Bombing	21	41	Katunayake, Sri Lanka	LTTE bomb explodes aboard Air Lanka flight carrying mainly French, British and Japanese tourists killing 21 (including 13 foreigners - of whom 3 British, 2 German, 3 French, 2 Japanese, 1 Maldivian and 1 Pakistani) and injuring 41 on Bandaranaike International Airport.	LTTE	Sri Lankan civil war
16 May	Ambush	8	20	Antioquia, Colombia	guerrillas ambush an Army truck in Alto La Brava, corregimiento of the municipality of Remedios, Antioquia. 8 military deaths and other 20 wounded.	FARC Militants	Colombian conflict
29 May	Armed Attack	12 (+11)	Unknown	Valle del Cauca Department, Colombia	Members of the M-19 and the indigenous guerrillas of Quintin Lame ambush units of the III Army Brigade in Restrepo (Valle). Five soldiers die and 11 subversives die. In the fighting, 7 civilians were also killed, hit by a bomb while taking refuge in a school.	M-19 and Quintin lame armed movement	Colombian conflict

June

Date	Type	Dead	Injured	Location	Details	Perpetrator	Part of
10 June	Shooting	0	1	Santiago, Chile	In a vehicle in movement FPMR militants shoot at a group of policemen injuring one police	Manuel Rodriguez Patriotic Front	Armed resistance in Chile (1973-90)

July

Date	Type	Dead	Injured	Location	Details	Perpetrator	Part of
3 July	Bombing	0	4	Santiago, Chile	A bomb detonated inside a bus injuring 4 passengers	Manuel Rodriguez Patriotic Front	Armed resistance in Chile (1973-90)
14 July	Car bombing	12	32	Madrid, Spain	Car bombing of a traffic school in which young Civil Guards were studying.	ETA	Basque conflict
25 July	Bombing	0	36	Santiago, Chile	A bomb was detonade in a trashcan near a bus wounding 36 persons	Manuel Rodriguez Patriotic Front	Armed resistance in Chile (1973-90)

August

Date	Type	Dead	Injured	Location	Details	Perpetrator	Part of
4 August	Car Bombing	1	1	Santiago, Chile	A car bomb was detonated outside the "los libertadores" regiment killing one soldier and wounding other	Manuel Rodriguez Patriotic Front	Armed resistance in Chile (1973-90)]
13 August	Ambush	7	Unknown	Santander Department, Colombia	ELN guerrillas attempt to assassinate the commander in charge of the V Army Brigade, Colonel Elkin Antonio Bocaccio, on the Barrancabermeja-Bucaramanga road. One corporal and six high school welders were shot dead.	ELN	Colombian conflict
14 August	Shooting	4 (+2)	3 (+4)	Cali, Colombia	Rescue operation of a cattle rancher in the neighborhood Alfonso López Pumarejo, to the northeast of Cali. The arrested, 3 civilians (included a child) and 2 guerrillas of the M-19, die in the combat.	M-19	Colombian conflict

September

Date	Type	Dead	Injured	Location	Details	Perpetrator	Part of
5 September	Hijacking, hostage-taking	20	120	Karachi, Pakistan	Four gunmen from the Abu Nidal Organization hijack Pan Am Flight 73 at Sahar International Airport in Karachi. After a 16-hour siege, the Pakistani Army raided the plane and the militants opened fire on the passengers, killing 20.	Abu Nidal Organization	Israel-Palestine conflict
6 September	Mass shooting	22	0	Istanbul, Turkey	Gunmen from the Abu Nidal Organization open fire on the Neve Shalom Synagogue, killing 22.	Abu Nidal Organization	Israel-Palestine conflict
7 September	Shooting	5	11	Cajón del Maipo, Chile	The President Augusto Pinochet suffered an armed attack while returning from a rest weekend at his residence in El Melocotón. The attack, carried out by the armed organization of extreme left called Patriotic Front Manuel Rodríguez (FPMR), finished with 5 dead and 11 wounded; However, the FPMR did not achieve its objective and Pinochet remained alive.	Frente Patriotico Manuel Rodriguez	Armed resistance in Chile (1973–90)
8 September	Bombing	2	28	Paris, France	A bomb exploded in the post office of the Paris City Hall, killing one person and wounding 18 others. The bombing was claimed by the Hezbollah-affiliated Committee for Solidarity With Arab and Middle Eastern Political Prisoners (CSPPA).	CSPPA, Hezbollah	1985–86 Paris attacks
12 September	Bombing	0	54	Paris, France	A bomb exploded in the cafeteria of the Casino supermarket in the Quatre Temps shopping centre in La Défense, wounding 54 people. The bombing was claimed by the Hezbollah-affiliated Committee for Solidarity With Arab and Middle Eastern Political Prisoners (CSPPA).	CSPPA, Hezbollah	1985–86 Paris attacks
14 September	Bombing	2	0	Paris, France	A bomb exploded after being found in the Pub-Renault, a fashionable cafe and restaurant on the Champs-Élysées, killing two policemen. The bombing was claimed by the Hezbollah-affiliated Committee for Solidarity With Arab and Middle Eastern Political Prisoners (CSPPA).	CSPPA, Hezbollah	1985–86 Paris attacks
15 September	Bombing	1	56	Paris, France	A bomb exploded in the Paris Police Prefecture, killing one person and wounding 56. The bombing was claimed by the Hezbollah-affiliated Committee for Solidarity With Arab and Middle Eastern Political Prisoners (CSPPA).	CSPPA, Hezbollah	1985–86 Paris attacks
17 September	Bombing	7	60	Paris, France	A bomb was thrown into a shopping street at rue de Rennes from a passing car, blowing in several store fronts and cars. The attack killed seven people and wounded 60. The bombing was claimed by the Hezbollah-affiliated Committee for Solidarity With Arab and Middle Eastern Political Prisoners (CSPPA).	CSPPA, Hezbollah	1985–86 Paris attacks

November

Date	Type	Dead	Injured	Location	Details	Perpetrator	Part of
17 November	Assassination	1	0	Paris France	The General manager of the nationalized Renault Georges Besse were shot dead shot several times at about 20:30 local time (1930 GMT).	Action Directe
23 November	Bombing	1 (an attacker)	0	Melbourne, Australia	Two members of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation, Hagop Levonian and Levon Demirian attempt to bomb the Turkish Consulate in Melbourne. The bomb prematurely detonated and Levonian was killed.	Armenian Revolutionary Federation

December

Date	Type	Dead	Injured	Location	Details	Perpetrator	Part of
25 December	Hijacking, grenade	63	Dozens	Arar, Saudi Arabia	Four men hijacked Iraqi Airways Flight 163 en route from Baghdad to Amman. A grenade explosion forced the plane to attempt an emergency landing, however another grenade exploded and causing the pane to crash near Arar, Saudi Arabia, killing 60 passengers and 3 crew members. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility and Iraq has accused Iran of organizing the attack.	Islamic Jihad	Iran-Iraq war
31 December	Arson	98	140	San Juan, Puerto Rico	Three employees at the Dupont Plaza Hotel set the hotel on fire over a labor dispute. Their intention was only to scare tourists away.	Héctor Escudero Aponte José Rivera López Arnaldo Jiménez Rivera

• A bomb place on a bus in the West Bank kills one and severely injures three. A Jordanian Mahmoud Mahmoud Atta is arrested, extradited to Israel, convicted, sentenced to life in prison and freed by the Israeli Supreme Court. After the September 11 attacks, he was confused with ringleader Egyptian Mohamed Atta.

See also

• List of terrorist incidents