List of deaths by car bombing
This is a list of deaths caused by car bombing as the primary method.
| Date | Country | Place | Type | Target | Perpetrator/ Suspected perpetrator |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/04/25 | Russia | Moscow | car bomb | Yaroslav Moskalik, Lieutenant general in the Russian Armed Forces | |
| 2022/08/20 | Russia | Bolshiye Vyazyomy | car bomb | Darya Dugina, journalist and activist | |
| 2017/10/17 | Malta | Bidnija | car bomb (remote) | Daphne Caruana Galizia, journalist and blogger | Unknown, pending investigation[1] |
| 2017/06/27 | Ukraine | Kyiv | car bomb | Maksym Shapoval, Chief officer of Ukrainian intelligence agency | |
| 2016/07/20 | Ukraine | Kyiv | car bomb | Pavel Sheremet, Belarusian journalist and human rights activist. | |
| 2011/04/02 | United Kingdom | Killyclogher, Northern Ireland | car bomb | Ronan Kerr, PSNI officer | Dissident republicans |
| 2008/11/17 | Israel | Tel Aviv | car bomb | Yaakov Alperon, Israeli mobster | |
| 2008/10/23 | Croatia | Zagreb | motorcycle bomb (remote) | Ivo Pukanić, Croatian journalist（with one other） | Serbian mafia |
| 2007/07/09 | China | Jinan | car bomb (remote) | Liu Haiping, Official of the natural resources department of Jinan. | |
| 2005/12/12 | Lebanon | Beirut | car bomb (remote) | Gebran Tueni, lawmaker | Strugglers for the Unity and Freedom of al-Sham |
| 2005/06/28 | Iraq | Baghdad | suicide car bomb | Dhari Ali al-Fayadh, Iraqi politician | Al-Qaeda in Iraq |
| 2005/06/21 | Lebanon | Beirut | car bomb (remote) | George Hawi, former Lebanese Communist Party head | |
| 2005/06/02 | Lebanon | Beirut | car bomb (remote) | Samir Kassir, journalist | |
| 2005/02/14 | Lebanon | Beirut | suicide truck bomb | Rafic Hariri, former Lebanese Prime Minister (with 20 others) | |
| 2004/05/17 | Iraq | Baghdad | suicide car bomb | Ezzedine Salim, Iraqi Governing Council leader | Al-Qaeda in Iraq |
| 2004/02/13 | Qatar | Doha | car bomb (remote) | Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, former President of Chechen Republic of Ichkeria | GRU |
| 2003/11/20 | Turkey | Istanbul | suicide truck bomb | Roger Short, British Consul-General (with 27 others) | |
| 2003/09/17 | Denmark | Glostrup | car bomb (remote) | Mickey Larsen, outlaw biker | Bandidos Motorcycle Club |
| 2003/08/29 | Iraq | Najaf | car bomb (remote) | Ayatollah Mohammed Baqr al-Hakim, Iraqi cleric (with 84 others) | |
| 2003/08/19 | Iraq | Baghdad | suicide truck bomb | Sérgio Vieira de Mello, United Nations special representative (with 22 others) | Al-Qaeda in Iraq |
| 2002/05/20 | Lebanon | Beirut | unknown | Mohammed Jihad Ahmed Jibril, son of PFLP-GC leader Ahmed Jibril | |
| 2002/01/24 | Lebanon | Beirut | car bomb (remote) | Elie Hobeika, Phalangist militia leader | |
| 2000/02/22 | Spain | Vitoria | car bomb (remote) | Fernando Buesa, Basque Socialist Party leader | ETA |
| 1999/10/21 | Turkey | Ankara | car bomb (tilt-based) | Ahmet Taner Kışlalı, prominent Turkish intellectual, lawyer, politician | |
| 1999/03/15 | United Kingdom | Lurgan, Northern Ireland | car bomb (tilt-based) | Rosemary Nelson, Irish human rights lawyer | Red Hand Defenders |
| 1996/12/25 | India | Dimapur, Nagaland | car bomb (remote) | Assassination attempt on Kihoto Hollohon. He escaped but his wife and 4 others were killed. | NSCN-IM |
| 1996/11/01 | United States | Tucson, Arizona | car bomb (remote) | Gary Triano, Businessman | |
| 1995/08/31 | India | Chandigarh | suicide car bomb | Beant Singh, Chief minister of Punjab (with 17 others) | Babbar Khalsa |
| 1992/07/19 | Italy | Palermo, Sicily | car bomb (remote) | Paolo Borsellino, Italian judge (with 5 others) | Sicilian Mafia |
| 1992/05/23 | Italy | Capaci, Sicily | car bomb (remote) | Giovanni Falcone, Italian judge (with 4 others) | Sicilian Mafia |
| 1991/03/02 | Sri Lanka | Colombo | car bomb (remote) | Ranjan Wijeratne, Minister of Foreign Affairs (with 18 others) | LTTE |
| 1990/07/30 | United Kingdom | Hankham, England | car bomb (remote) | Ian Gow, Conservative MP | Provisional IRA |
| 1989/12/12 | Colombia | Bogotá | car bomb | Assassination attempt on Miguel Maza Márquez. He escaped but 63 others were killed. | Medellín Cartel |
| 1989/11/22 | Lebanon | Beirut | car bomb (remote) | Rene Moawad, President of Lebanon (with 23 others) | |
| 1989/05/16 | Lebanon | Beirut | car bomb (remote) | Hassan Khaled, Lebanese spiritual leader (with 21 others) | |
| 1988/06/28 | Greece | Athens | car bomb (remote) | William Nordeen, United States diplomat | Revolutionary Organization 17 November |
| 1987/12/22 | United Kingdom | Lisburn, Northern Ireland | car bomb | John McMichael, Ulster Defence Association leader | Provisional IRA |
| 1987/04/27 | United Kingdom | County Armagh, Northern Ireland | car bomb (remote) | Sir Maurice and Lady Gibson | Provisional IRA |
| 1985/05/21 | Botswana | Gaborone | car bomb | Vernon Nkadimeng, ANC member | Apartheid secret police |
| 1985/03/08 | Lebanon | Beirut | car bomb | Assassination attempt on Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah. He escaped but 80 others were killed. | CIA linked Lebanese counter-terrorism unit |
| 1979/03/30 | United Kingdom | Palace of Westminster | car bomb (tilt-based) | Airey Neave, Conservative MP | Irish National Liberation Army |
| 1979/01/22 | Lebanon | Beirut | car bomb (remote) | Ali Hassan Salameh, Black September leader (with 8 others) | Mossad |
| 1977/10/18 | United States | Evansville, Indiana | car bomb | Ray Ryan, businessman and professional gambler | Chicago Outfit suspected |
| 1976/09/21 | United States | Washington, D.C. | unknown | Orlando Letelier, Chilean exile (with one other) | Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional[2] |
| 1976/06/02 | United States | Phoenix, Arizona | car bomb (remote) | Don Bolles, investigative reporter | |
| 1975/10/23 | United Kingdom | Kensington, London | car bomb | Gordon Fairley, Australian surgeon and oncologist | Provisional IRA |
| 1974/09/30 | Argentina | Buenos Aires, Argentina | car bomb (remote) | Carlos Prats, Former Chilean army commander under Salvador Allende Presidency | Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional[3] |
| 1973/12/20 | Spain | Madrid | car bomb (remote) | Luis Carrero Blanco, Prime Minister of Spain. See also: Assassination of Luis Carrero Blanco | ETA |
| 1972/02/22 | United Kingdom | Aldershot Garrison | car bomb | Gerard Weston, British Roman Catholic priest and military chaplain (with 6 others) | Official IRA |
| 1965/03/30 | South Vietnam | Saigon | car bomb | Barbara Robbins, CIA employee (with 21 others) | Viet Cong |
| 1948/03/11 | Mandatory Palestine | Jerusalem | car bomb | Leib Yaffe, poet, journalist and editor of Haaretz (with 12 others) | |
| 1928/12/04 | United States | Saint Paul, Minnesota | car bomb | "Dapper" Danny Hogan, "Irish Mob" boss |
See also
References
- ^ "Malta blogger Daphne Caruana Galizia dies in car bomb attack". BBC News. 2017-10-16. Retrieved 2017-10-16.
- ^ Lettieri, Mike (1 June 2007). "Posada Carriles, Bush's Child of Scorn". Washington Report on the Hemisphere. 27 (7/8).
- ^ Dictan nueva orden de detención en caso Prats Archived September 28, 2007, at the Wayback Machine, El Mostrador, May 22, 2000 (in Spanish)