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Major Terrorist Attacks on Security
Forces and other high security targets
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Casualties
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2005 |
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November 23 |
Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) company headquarters, Srinagar |
In a Fidayeen (suicide squad) attack at Hawal on the outskirts of capital Srinagar, two terrorists and three CRPF personnel are killed while seven persons are wounded when the former storm a CRPF company headquarters of the 96th battalion housed at the defunct Firdos Cinema Hall. The heavily-armed terrorists are killed 15 minutes after they launched the attack. |
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November 16 |
Former Minister’s vehicle and escort convoys, Srinagar |
Four civilians are killed and 72 persons, including legislator and former Minister Usman Majeed along with 12 of his personal security guards and escort personnel, sustain injuries in a powerful car bomb explosion on the link connecting Maulana Azad Road with Residency Road near the main entrance of the J&K Bank Corporate Headquarters in Srinagar. |
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November 14 |
CRPF personnel, Srinagar |
Two CRPF personnel and an equal number of civilians are killed while 17 persons, including a Japanese journalist, sustain injuries when terrorists carry out a Fidayeen attack on a CRPF formation at the defunct Palladium Cinema in the Lalchowk area of Srinagar. Both the terrorists involved in the attack are believed to have escaped from the incident site. |
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November 2 |
Old residence of the outgoing Chief Minister, Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, Srinagar |
At least 10 persons including a 10-year-old boy, a female pedestrian, three police personnel and the terrorist himself are killed and 18 persons are wounded in a Fidayeen attack, when a JeM terrorist detonates a powerful car bomb in the Nowgam area of Srinagar near the old residence of Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, a few hours before the swearing in of Ghulam Nabi Azad as the tenth Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir. |
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July 20 |
Army convoy, Srinagar |
A Major of the Indian Army and two soldiers are among five people killed and 17 persons are wounded when a suspected suicide bomber rams an explosive-laden car into an Army vehicle. |
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June 24 |
Rashtriya Rifles convoy, Banks of the Dal Lake, Srinagar |
Nine soldiers are killed and 21 others sustain injuries when their bus is blown up by a car laden with a huge quantity of RDX. |
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May 12 |
Border Security Force (BSF) convoy, Srinagar |
Two women are killed and at least 60 persons, including 25 school children, are wounded in a grenade attack.
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April 6 |
Tourist Reception Centre, Srinagar |
A day before the bus from Srinagar to Muzaffarabad in Pakistan occupied Kashmir is to be flagged off, two Fidayeen terrorists attacked the Tourist Reception Centre which was reportedly accommodating 24 passengers. Both the terrorists were killed in the ensuing gun-battle and seven persons, including a police personnel, were injured. |
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March 30 |
Border Security Force post, Arampora |
Two terrorists and a paramilitary soldier were killed when a group of two Fidayeen terrorists attempted to storm a BSF post at Arampora in the Sopore town of Baramulla district. |
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February 24 |
Divisional Commissioner's office, Srinagar |
Three police personnel, a woman employee of the Revenue Department and two terrorists are killed and four persons sustain injuries during a Fidayeen attack at the Divisional Commissioner's office in the capital Srinagar. |
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January 7 |
Income Tax office, Srinagar |
A Deputy Commandant of the BSF, two soldiers, one police personnel and a civilian are killed and four persons sustain injuries when a two-member Fidayeen attacked the Income Tax office in Srinagar. While one of the terrorists was killed on January 7, the other was shot dead the next day. |
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2004 |
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December 9 |
Special Operations Group (SOG) camp, Shopian |
Two police personnel are killed and four more, including a Deputy Superintendent of Police, sustained injuries when terrorists attacked the Imam Sahib camp of the SOG in the Shopian area of Pulwama district. |
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December 3 |
SOG camp, Sopore |
Fidayeen terrorists attack a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) guarded SOG camp in Sopore, Baramulla district, killing five CRPF personnel and wounding two others. Two terrorists were also killed in the attack. |
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November 17 |
Sher-e-Kashmir International Cricket Stadium, Srinagar |
Security forces killed two Fidayeen terrorists near the Sher-e-Kashmir International Cricket Stadium in Sonwar Bagh, Srinagar, the venue of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s public meeting. |
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October 9 |
Army convoy |
In a suicide attack on an army convoy, at least four soldiers and a civilian driver were killed while 35 others sustained injuries near Hartrath bridge, Singhpura on the Srinagar-Baramulla highway. |
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September 12 |
Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) camp, Srinagar |
The overnight suicide attack on a paramilitary formation at Dalgate in the capital city of Srinagar ended on September 12 with the death of two Deputy Commandants of the CRPF. Both the suicide squad terrorists were killed by the security forces. |
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August 4 |
CRPF camp, Srinagar |
Nine CRPF personnel, including a company commander, and one terrorist are killed and nine people sustain injuries during an encounter after two terrorists stormed a CRPF camp in the Rajbagh locality of capital Srinagar. |
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July 28 |
CRPF camp, Srinagar |
Five CRPF personnel and two terrorists were killed during an overnight gun-battle inside the para-military force camp on the banks of Dal Lake in Srinagar. |
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July 19 |
Congress rally, Anantnag district |
Even as Deputy Chief Minister Mangat Ram Sharma escaped another assassination attempt - six days after a grenade attack in the capital Srinagar - at least six persons died and 50 others sustained injuries when terrorists carried out a grenade attack on three Congress Ministers and over a dozen senior Government officials during a rally at Kapran village in the Anantnag district. |
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July 13 |
Deputy Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, Mangat Ram Sharma |
Sharma escapes a bid on his life when terrorists fired a rifle grenade on his cavalcade near Lala Rukh Hotel in Srinagar. Five persons sustained injuries during the attack which occurred when Sharma was en route to Jehangir Chowk to attend the inauguration ceremony of Kashmir’s first fly-over. |
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July 2 |
Member of Parliament, Choudhury Lal Singh |
Six police personnel are killed and two others sustain injuries when terrorists attacked the convoy of Singh by detonating two improvised explosive devices at Sangom Bahthi in the Doda district. |
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May 23 |
Border Security Force (BSF) vehicle |
At least 30 persons, including 19 BSF personnel, six women and five children, are killed during an IED explosion at Lower Munda, near Qazigund, on the Srinagar-Jammu highway. |
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April 25 |
Chief Minister’s daughter and People’s Democratic Party (PDP) chief, Mehbooba Mufti |
In the second terrorist attack on Mehbooba Mufti, at least three persons are killed and 30 sustain injuries during an election rally at Khull Ahmedabad in the Kulgam district. |
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April 23 |
Congress party headquarters, Srinagar |
10 persons are wounded in a terrorist attack on the Congress headquarters in Srinagar. |
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April 14 |
State Health Minister Lal Singh |
Unidentified terrorists hurl a grenade targeting the election rally of Congress candidate from Udhampur-Doda parliamentary constituency and State Health Minister Lal Singh killing two persons and injuring 22 others. |
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April 8 |
Election rally of the ruling PDP |
At least 11 persons are killed and 58 others are wounded during a terrorist attack on an election rally of the PDP in the border town of Uri in Baramulla district. Among those injured are Finance Minister Muzaffar Hussain Baig and Housing Minister Ghulam Hassan Mir.
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March 9 |
Press Enclave, Srinagar |
Offices of the Press Information Bureau and Directorate of Information of the Government of Jammu and Kashmir are destroyed during a fire even as troops kill two suicide squad terrorists who attacked and occupied the three-storeyed building in the Press Enclave area. |
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March 3 |
District Jail, Jammu |
Seven persons, including four police personnel and two under-trial terrorists, are killed and six persons sustain injuries when a lone suicide terrorist attacked a police bus carrying 13 under-trials, mostly terrorists, from the district jail to the Court complex in Jammu. |
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January 2 |
Jammu Railway Station |
Two Fidayeen (suicide squad) terrorists attack the Jammu Railway Station killing four soldiers and injuring nine others and six civilians. |
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November 18 |
15 Corps Headquarters at Indira Nagar in the capital Srinagar. |
One soldier is killed and two others are injured when two Fidayeen terrorists launched an attack outside the Army's 15 Corps Headquarters. |
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October 17 |
Official residence of Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed on Maulana Azad Road in capital Srinagar. |
Security forces foil the first Fidayeen attack on the official residence. Both the terrorists and two BSF personnel are killed while ten persons, including three photojournalists, sustain injuries. |
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September 4 |
Security force camp in Poonch town. |
Security forces foil a Fidayeen attack killing two foreign mercenaries. A woman is killed while three persons, including two infants, are injured in terrorist firing. |
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July 22 |
Army camp at village Bangti on the Tanda road in Akhnoor, Jammu. |
A three-member fidayeen (suicide squad) storms an army camp killing eight SF personnel, including a Brigadier, and injuring 12 others, including four top Generals, a Brigadier and two Colonels.
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June 28 |
Army installation at the Dogra Regiment camp in Sunjwan on the outskirts of Jammu city. |
In the first major terrorist strike since Prime Minister Vajpayee's April 18-peace initiative, two fidayeen (suicide squad) terrorists attack an army installation killing 12 soldiers and injuring seven others, including a Lieutenant, before being killed by the troops.
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May 15 |
Army unit in Poonch town. |
A suicide terrorist in police uniform carries out a attack outside an army unit in the Poonch town killing one security force personnel before escaping from the spot. He was later killed during an encounter near the Betar nullah the next day.
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April 26 |
Local station of the All India Radio in Srinagar. |
A group of fidayeen attacks the local station of AIR. Three terrorists and two SF personnel are killed and eight others injured in the ensuing encounter.
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April 25 |
Sector-11 headquarters of the Border Security Force at Madar in the Bandipore area of Baramulla district. |
Two unidentified terrorists conduct a suicide attack killing three BSF personnel. Later, both the terrorists and a civilian are killed in retaliatory firing. Four more BSF personnel and three civilians sustain injuries in the attack.
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March 14 |
Poonch Bus Stand, Poonch district. |
Three civilians and a Deputy Superintendent of Police are killed in a fidayeen (suicide squad) attack on a Muharram procession. |
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2002 |
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December 19 |
Army post in Khablan village, Thanamandi area, Rajouri district. |
A Lashkar-e-Toiba suicide terrorist and one SF personnel are killed while three more SF personnel are injured in a suicide attack. |
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November 24 |
Raghunath and Panjbakhtar temples, Jammu |
13 persons, including three fidayeen, killed. |
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November 22 |
CRPF camp, Srinagar |
Six SF personnel killed. |
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August 6 |
Amarnath pilgrims, Anantnag |
Nine pilgrims killed. |
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May 29 |
District Police Lines, Doda |
Three SF personnel killed. |
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May 14 |
Three fidayeen attack Kaluchak cantonment in Jammu. |
36 persons, including SF personnel, their family members and civilians, killed; 48 injured. |
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March 30 |
Two fidayeen attack Raghunath temple in Jammu. |
Three SF personnel killed and 20 injured. Both fidayeen killed in retaliatory action. |
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March 29 |
A group of three fidayeen (suicide) terrorists attack a Border Security Force (BSF) camp at Kalakote. |
Two SF personnel killed and another inured. |
| 2001 | ||
| December 4 |
A three-member fidayeen (suicide) squad, of the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) attacked a SF camp at Handwara, Kupwara. |
Two SF personnel killed. Two SF personnel and two civilians injured. Three fidayeen killed in retaliatory action. |
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November 27 |
Unidentified terrorists ambushed an SF search party at Sopore , Baramulla. |
Seven SF personnel killed. |
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December 4 |
A three-member fidayeen (suicide) squad, of the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) attacked a SF camp at Handwara, Kupwara. |
Two SF personnel killed. Two SF personnel and two civilians injured. Three fidayeen killed in retaliatory action. |
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November 27 |
Unidentified terrorists ambushed an SF search party at Sopore , Baramulla. |
Seven SF personnel killed. |
| November 17 | Three terrorists attack a security force (SF) base at Ramban, Doda. | 10 SF personnel and four civilians killed. |
| October 1 | Four Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) suicide terrorists, fidayeen, attack the State Legislature Complex in Srinagar. | 11 SF personnel and 24 civilians killed. Four fidayeen killed in retaliatory action. |
| September 17 | SF personnel sleeping inside the basement of a building in Handwara, Kupwara, attacked by two fidayeen of the LeT using grenades. One fidayeen was killed by SF personnel in the building while the other escaped after the attack. | Nine SF personnel killed. One fidayeen killed in retaliatory action. |
| September 9 | IED explodes under an army truck at Angrala, Udhampur. | One officer and four personnel killed, One soldier injured |
| September 8 | IED explodes under an army vehicle at Dharamkund, Udhampur | One officer and five personnel killed, two personnel injured |
| September 6 |
IED explodes under a civilian bus carrying SF personnel at Khooni Nallah, Doda |
Five killed, 17 others injured |
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August 29 |
IED explodes under a bus carrying personnel returning after a search operation at Hangalpua, Anantnag |
Eight including, two civilians killed, 14 including eight civilians injured |
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August 23 |
Six terrorists attack Poonch police station |
Seven killed |
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July 15 |
Lashkar terrorists attack base at Shahlal, Kupwara. |
Five killed, eight others injured |
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May 25 |
Hizb terrorists ambush patrol party at Gorikund, Udhampur. |
Five killed, two injured |
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April 14 |
Fidayeen attack on Army base at Lassipora, Kupwara. |
Six personnel killed |
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March 26 |
Fidayeen attack on CRPF base at Wazir Bagh in Srinagar |
Four personnel killed |
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March 2 |
Ambush at Morha Chatru in Rajouri district. Lashkar claims responsibility saying that attack was carried out jointly with Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM), Hizb-e-Islami and Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM). |
15 personnel killed. |
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March 1 |
Hizb ambush at Janglat Mandi, Anantnag |
A Colonel and one personnel killed. A Brigadier and three other personnel injured |
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February 9 |
Fidayeen squad drawn from LeT and Al Umar Mujahideen attack police control room in Srinagar |
Eight personnel killed |
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January 18 |
Two separate land mine blasts targeted at security force convoys in Pulwama and Kaigam |
Nine personnel killed |
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2000 |
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December 25 |
Second human bomb attack targeting Army Head Quarters at Badami Bagh in Srinagar. |
Four personnel killed |
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December 22 |
A Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) fidayeen squad launches an attack within the army garrison at Red Fort in New Delhi. All members of the squad escape after the attack. |
Three personnel killed |
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December 16 |
Fidayeen attack on a camp at Mendhar in Rajouri district, the two attackers manage to escape after the attack. |
Two personnel killed |
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October 21 |
Terrorists use unmanned pony to carry an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) into a security force camp at Lapri in Udhampur district. |
Two personnel killed, four others injured. |
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August 10 |
Twin attacks in Srinagar. First a grenade explosion which led to a gathering of security forces in the area. Then a car bomb exploded. |
12 personnel killed, 42 others injured |
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April 19 |
First human bomb attack targeting Army Head Quarters at Badami Bagh in Srinagar. |
Two personnel |
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January 7 |
Metreological Centre, Srinagar |
Four personnel |
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1999 |
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December 27 |
Special Operations Group HQ, Srinagar |
One DSP, 11 personnel |
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December 15 |
Army camp, Rafiabad |
Several injured |
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December 13 |
Civil Lines area, Srinagar |
Five personnel |
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December 2 |
Army HQ, Baramulla |
One JCO |
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November 3 |
Army Corps Headquarters, Badamibagh, Srinagar |
10 personnel, including Defence Public Relations Officer |
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August 13 |
Army camp, Beerwah |
Three personnel |
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August 7 |
Army camp, Trehgam |
Colonel, three personnel |
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August 6 |
Army camp, Natnoos |
Major, two JCOs |
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July 13 |
BSF camp, Bandipora |
DIG & four personnel |
| Note: | IED
- Improvised Explosive Device CRPF - Central Reserve Police Force SOG - Special Operations Group, Jammu and Kashmir Police |
JCO
- Junior Commissioned Officer DSP - Deputy Superintendent of Police DIG - Deputy Inspector-General of Police |
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