List of terrorist incidents in 1992

This is a timeline of incidents in 1992 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).

Date	Type	Dead	Injured	Location	Details	Perpetrator	Part of
February 5	Bombings	3	23	Ürümqi, China	Four bombs targeting public buildings and two buses explode in Ürümqi, killing three and injuring 23.	Uyghur nationalists	Xinjiang conflict
February 5	Mass shooting	5	9	Belfast, Northern Ireland	Five Catholic civilians are killed in a UDA attack on a Irish nationalist shop.	UDA	The Troubles
February 6	Car bombing	5	7	Madrid, Spain	Four military personnel and a civilian employee of the military are killed by an ETA car bomb in Madrid	ETA	Basque conflict
February 14	Melee attack	3	1	Gal'ed, Israel	A group of Israeli Arabs hack three IDF soldiers to death with knives, axes and a pitchfork. One other soldier is seriously wounded.	Palestinian Islamic Jihad	Israeli-Palestinian conflict
March 1	Bombing	0	0	Istanbul, Turkey	The Neve Shalom Synagogue in Istanbul is bombed by Hezbollah but no one is hurt. The bombing was the second of three attacks to occur at the synagogue with the others occurring in 1986 and 2003.[1]	Hezbollah	South Lebanon conflict
March 17	Suicide car bombing	29 (+1 attacker)	242	/ Buenos Aires, Argentina	An Islamic Jihad suicide bomber rams his car into the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires, destroying the embassy and a Catholic church and school that were nearby. Many of the dead were children. Argentina has accused Hezbollah of being involved in the attack.	Islamic Jihad Hezbollah (suspected)	South Lebanon conflict
April 10	Truck bombing	3	91	London, United Kingdom	The Baltic Exchange building is destroyed by a Provisional IRA semtex truck bomb.	PIRA	The Troubles
April 28-29	Bombings	1	4	Taipei and Kaohsiung, Taiwan	Seven bombs were discovered at McDonald's restaurants across Taiwan, three of which exploded. One police officer was killed and four civilians were injured. A plumber named Chen Hsi-Hsieh was convicted of the bombings and was found to have been attempting to extort money from McDonald's. His accomplice Pan Che-Ming was also convicted.	Chen Hsi-Hsieh Pan Che-Ming
April 29	Massacres	157		Polonnaruwa District, Sri Lanka	A series of massacres occur in several towns in the eastern portion of the Polonnaruwa District in Sri Lanka. The LTTE, Home Guards and Sri Lankan Police were blamed for the massacres.	LTTE Home Guards Sri Lankan Police	Sri Lankan civil war
May 24	Melee attack	1		Bat Yam, Israel	A 15-year-old Jewish girl named Helena Rapp is stabbed to death in Bat Yam by 18-year-old Islamic Jihad member Fouad Abd El Hani El Omrin.	Palestinian Islamic Jihad	Israeli-Palestinian conflict
July 16	Truck bombings	25	155	Lima, Peru	Two large truck bombs explode in the wealthy Miraflores District of Lima, killing 25, injuring 155 and damaging hundreds of houses and businesses. The communist group Shining Path claimed responsibility and the bombings were the deadliest attacks during Shining Path's insurgency.	Shining Path	Internal conflict in Peru
August 8	Land mine	8		Jaffna, Sri Lanka	Eight high ranking Sri Lankan military officers, including Mohan Jayamaha and Denzil Kobbekaduwa are killed by an LTTE land mine in Jaffna.	LTTE	Sri Lankan civil war
September 1	Bombing	9	7	Medellin, Colombia	Nine die, including a six-month-old baby, and seven are injured when a bomb explodes in a suburb of Medellín.[2]	Medellin Cartel
November 16	Suicide bombing, assassination	4 (+1 attacker)		Colombo, Sri Lanka	Head of the Sri Lankan Navy Clancy Fernando is killed in a suicide bombing along with Lieutenant commander Sandun Gunasekera, his Flag Lieutenant and his driver.	LTTE	Sri Lankan civil war
December 3	Bombing	14		Medellin, Colombia	Ten police officers and four civilians die when a bomb planted by drug traffickers explode in Medellín.[3]	Medellin Cartel
December 13	Kidnapping and murder	1	0	Lod, Israel	Israeli soldier Nissim Toledano is kidnapped by Hamas, who threatened to kill him unless Israel released Sheikh Ahmed Yassin. After Israel failed to release Yassin, Toledano was murdered.	Hamas	Israeli-Palestinian conflict
December 29	Bombing	0	52	Medellin, Colombia	Two police officers and 50 civilians wounded when a car bomb explodes at a party in a suburban area of Medellín.[4]	Medellin Cartel
December 29	Bombings	2	7	Aden, Yemen	Al-Qaeda bombs the Gold Mohur Hotel and Aden Mövenpick Hotel in Aden in hopes of killing American soldiers, but only succeed in killing an Austrian tourist and a hotel employee. The bombings were the first attack on Americans by Al-Qaeda.	Al-Qaeda

See also

• List of terrorist incidents

References

1. "Neve Şalom'a ilk saldırı değil (Not the first attack on Neve Shalom)" (in Turkish). Hürriyet daily website. 2003-11-15. Retrieved 2016-05-14.
2. St. Louis Post-Dispatch, September 2, 1992, Page 11A
3. San Antonio Express-News, December 4, 1992, Page 9A
4. Chicago Sun-Times, December 30, 1992, Page 60