List of terrorist incidents in 1998

This is a timeline of incidents in 1998 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
25 January	Suicide bombing	17	25	Kandy, Sri Lanka	Four likely members of the Black Tiger squad drove an explosives-laden truck into the Temple of the Tooth in Kandy, a major Buddhist shrine, killing seventeen and injuring 25.^[1]	Black Tiger	Sri Lankan civil war
25 January	Massacre	23		Jammu and Kashmir, India	23 Hindus are massacred by Lashkar-e-Taiba militants in the town of Wandhama in Jammu and Kashmir	Lashkar-e-Taiba	Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir

Date	Type	Dead	Injured	Location	Details	Perpetrator	Part of
14 February	Bombings	58	200+	Coimbatore, India	13 bombs exploded over the course of two hours in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, killing 58 people. The bombs were planted by islamic extremists from the Al Ummah organization and were meant to target Hindus as well as Hindu nationalist leader L.K. Advani.	Al Ummah

Date	Type	Dead	Injured	Location	Details	Perpetrator	Part of
2/6 April	Bombings	0	0	Riga, Latvia	On April 2, Latvia's only synagogue, the Peitav Synagogue was bombed. The blast caused extensive damage but did not harm anyone. Four days later the Russian Embassy was bombed. No one was ever convicted but Latvian nationalists are believed to be to have been responsible for the blasts.	Latvian nationalists (suspected)
17 April	Massacre	26		Udhampur, India	26 Hindus are massacred by Islamists in the town of Udhampur in the Jammu and Kashmir state.	Islamists	Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir

Date	Type	Dead	Injured	Location	Details	Perpetrator	Part of
14 May	Suicide bombing	1		Jaffna, Sri Lanka	Sri Lankan Major General Larry Wijeratne was killed in Jaffna by an LTTE suicide bomber.	LTTE	Sri Lankan civil war
17 May	Assassination	1		Jaffna, Sri Lanka	Jaffna mayor Sarojini Yogeswaran was shot to death outside her home by the LTTE. Her husband Vettivelu Yogeswaran had previously been assassinated by the LTTE in 1989.	LTTE	Sri Lankan civil war

Date	Type	Dead	Injured	Location	Details	Perpetrator	Part of
3 August	Massacre	35	11	Chamba district, India	35 Hindus were massacred by Pakistani islamists in two towns in the Chamba district of the Himachal Pradesh	Islamists	Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir
4 August	Attack	26		Colombia	Rebel groups ELN and FARC attack police and army bases, a major dam, oil pipelines and other targets in 17 of the 32 departments, killing at least 26 police officers.^[2]	ELN FARC	Colombian conflict
7 August	Truck bombings	224	4,000+	/ Nairobi, Kenya, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania	Two United States Embassies in Nairobi, Kenya and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania were bombed by members of al-Qaeda and the Egyptian Islamic Jihad. 224 people were killed in the blasts (213 in Nairobi, 11 in Dar es Salaam) and over 4,000 people were wounded.	al-Qaeda EIJ
15 August	Car bombing	29	220	Omagh, Northern Ireland	The 'real' IRA made a bomb with 500lb of explosives detonated in a market place killing 29 people, one woman who was pregnant with twins and injured 220 others.^[3]	Real IRA	The Troubles

Date	Type	Dead	Injured	Location	Details	Perpetrator	Part of
9 September	Massacre	34-39		Lake Radonjić, Yugoslavia	The Kosovo Liberation Army massacred between 34 and 39 Kosovo Serbs as well as several moderate Albanians	KLA	Kosovo war
29 September	Bombing	55	0	Near Mannar District, Sri Lanka	Lionair Flight 602 disappeared off the coast of Mannar District, Sri Lanka shortly after leaving Kankesanturai Airport in Jaffna. The LTTE had issued warning shortly before the plane disappeared. The wreckage of the plane was discovered in October 2012 and appeared to have been bombed.	LTTE	Sri Lankan civil war

Date	Type	Dead	Injured	Location	Details	Perpetrator	Part of
3 October	Kidnapping	4		Grozny, Russia	About 20 Chechen separatists kidnapped four engineers, three British and one New Zealand. The bodies of the engineers were found on 8 December.	Chechen separatists
29 October	Suicide car bombing	1 (+1 attacker)	3	Israel	A Hamas suicide car bomber detonates by a school bus killing 1 and injuring 3.^[4]	Hamas	Israel-Palestine conflict

Date	Type	Dead	Injured	Location	Details	Perpetrator	Part of
6 November	Suicide car bombing	0 (+2 attackers)	25	Jerusalem, Israel	Two suicide car bombers detonate in a Jerusalem market wounding 25. Palestine Islamic Jihad claims responsibility.^[4]	Hamas	Israel-Palestine conflict

Date	Type	Dead	Injured	Location	Details	Perpetrator	Part of
14 December	Massacre	6	15	Peć, Yugoslavia	Two men believed to be members of the Kosovo Liberation Army opened fire on café and killed six Young Serb men and wounded 15 others.	KLA	Kosovo war

^ "Timeline of the Tamil conflict". BBC News. 2000-09-04. Retrieved 2015-08-16.
^ The Miami Herald, August 5, 1998, Page 1A
^ "Bomb Atrocity Rocks Northern Ireland". BBC News. 16 August 1998. Retrieved 11 September 2007.
^ ^a ^b Cordesman, Anthony (2005). The Israeli-Palestinian War: Escalating to Nowhere. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 27.

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