The Top 5 Deadliest Terrorist Attacks in Western Europe

  Location Date Fatalities
(Injured)
Perpetrators
1 Lockerbie, Scotland
(airline bombing)
Dec 21st, 1988 270
(0)
Unknown
2 Madrid, Spain
(train bombing)
March 11th, 2004 191
(2,051)
Al Qaeda
3 Paris, France
(shooting attack)
Nov 13th, 2015 130
(368)
ISIL
4 Athens, Greece
(airline bombing)
Sept 8th, 1974 88
(0)
PFLP-GC
5 Bologna, Italy
(railway station bombing)
August 2nd, 1980 85
(200+)
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Sources:  Top 5 of Anything Research, 2016 including: University of Maryland: “Global Terrorism Database"

List Notes: Data is the top 5 deadliest terrorist attacks in Western Europe as of March, 2016. Number of fatalities do not include perpetrators.
Deadliest Terrorist Attacks in Western Europe

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