Charlie Hebdo shootings Europe’s latest deadly terror attack
A gun assault on the Paris offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo Wednesday was the deadliest terrorist attack in postwar France.
| Date | Some other terror attacks in Western Europe: |
|---|---|
| July 25, 1995 | In France's previous deadliest post-World War II attack, a bomb at the Saint-Michel subway station in Paris kills eight people and injures some 150. It was one of a series of bombings claimed by Algeria's GIA, or Armed Islamic Group. |
| August 15, 1998 | A car bomb planted by Irish Republican Army dissidents kills 29 people in the town of Omagh, in the deadliest incident of Northern Ireland's four-decade conflict. |
| March 11, 2004 | Bombs on rush-hour trains kill 191 at Madrid's Atocha station in Europe's worst Islamic terror attack. |
| July 7, 2005 | 52 commuters are killed when four al Qaida-inspired suicide bombers blow themselves up on three London subway trains and a bus. |
| July 22, 2011 | Anti-Muslim extremist Anders Behring Breivik plants a bomb in Oslo then attacks a youth camp on Norway's Utoya island, killing 77 people, many of them teenagers. |
| Nov. 2, 2011 | Offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris are firebombed after the satirical magazine runs a cover featuring a caricature of the Prophet Muhammad. No one is injured. |
| March 2012 | A gunman claiming links to al-Qaida kills three Jewish schoolchildren, a rabbi and three paratroopers in Toulouse, southern France. |
| May 22, 2013 | Two al-Qaida inspired extremists run down British soldier Lee Rigby in a London street, then stab and hack him to death. |
| May 24, 2014 | Four people are killed at the Jewish Museum in Brussels by an intruder with a Kalashnikov. The accused is a former French fighter linked to the Islamic State group in Syria. |
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