List of terrorist incidents in 1991

This is a timeline of incidents in 1991 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
January 6	Bombing	3	7	La Dorada, Caldas, Colombia	A bomb kills three and wounds seven in La Dorada, Caldas. No group claims responsibility.	Unknown	Colombian conflict
January 9	Shooting	2 (+28)	8	Cerro Girasoles, Meta Department, Colombia	The so-called Toma del Cerro Girasoles was an attack perpetrated by the guerrilla of the (FARC) on January 9, 1991 against the Girasoles military base, located on the hill of the same name, located in the mountainous region of the north Of the Serranía de la Macarena, southern Colombia, in the department of Meta.In spite of the number of casualties on the side of the FARC, in the attack they depleted the ammunition of the garrison of the army that was in the base and had to surrender.	FARC	Colombian conflict
January 29	Ambush	9	Unknown	Tibú, Colombia	9 soldiers are killed in an ambush by the National Guerrilla Coordinator (CNG) in Tibú (Norte de Santander). The truck in which it was mobilized with explosive weapons and fire of machine guns.	Coordinadora Nacional Guerrillera	Colombian conflict
February 7	Mortar	0	4	London, United Kingdom	The Provisional IRA launches homemade mortar shells at 10 Downing Street in an attempt to assassinate Prime Minister John Major and his war cabinet.	PIRA	The Troubles
February 18	Bombing	1	38	London, United Kingdom	two bombs at London mainline stations, one at Victoria station and the other at Paddington station killing one person and injuring 38 other people all in the Victoria station bombing.	PIRA	The Troubles
February 26	Shooting	3	9	Amazonas State, Brazil	FARC guerrillas assaulted the Solimoes post in the remote region of the Traira river, border with Colombia. The coup leaves three Brazilian soldiers dead and nine wounded. In rensponse of the attack the Brazilian army launched the Operation Traira	FARC	Colombian conflict
March 2	Bombing	19	73	Colombo, Sri Lanka	At least 19 people, including Sri Lanka's Deputy Defence Minister, Ranjan Wijeratne killed in an LTTE car bomb explosion in Colombo. A further 73 people injured.	LTTE	Sri Lankan Civil War
March 20	Shooting, Kidnapping	3	59 kidnapped	Antioquia Department, Colombia	At the height of San Jose de Nus, near Cabañas Station, located in the jurisdiction of Caracolí (Antioquia), a group of ELN guerrillas stops a train and kidnaps 42 recruits from the National Army. On the same day, FARC rebels seize the population of Santa Helena del Opón, in Santander, killing 3 soldiers and kidnapping 17 more.	ELN and FARC	Colombian conflict
March 26	Hijacking	4 (attackers)	2	Singapore	Four members of the Pakistan People's Party hijack Singapore Airlines Flight 117 and demand the release of Asif Ali Zardari. The hijackers were killed after the plane was stormed by police and were the only fatalities.	Pakistan People's Party
April 19	Bombing	6 (+1 terrorist)	94	Patras, Greece	Two Palestinian terrorists tried to place a bomb to the British Consulate in Patras. The bomb exploded prematurely possibly due to an adjusting error, killing one terrorist and six other Greek bystanders.	Palestinian Islamic Jihad	Israeli–Palestinian conflict
May 6–7	Shooting	3 (+20)	10	San Pablo, Bolívar, Colombia	Guerrillas of the Simón Bolívar Coordinator attack the municipality of San Pablo (South of Bolívar). Three policemen die, but with backing of units of the Marine Corps, the subversives are rejected and the data of low about 20 militants.	CGSB	Colombian conflict
May 13	Bombing	9		Colombia	Nine police officers die while deactivating a bomb left behind by leftist guerrillas.	CGSB	Colombian conflict
May 21	Suicide bombing, assassination	15 (+1 attacker)		Sriperumbudur, India	Former Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi assassinated in a bomb blast believed to be the work of Sri Lankan Tamil terrorists belonging to the LTTE. This is also the first time that the suicide vest is used by any terrorist group.	LTTE	Sri Lankan Civil War
May 23	Shooting	10	1	Sardinata, Colombia	CGSB guerrillas ambush a police patrol in the corregimiento of Las Mercedes, Sardinata, Norte de Santander. 7 uniformed and 3 civilians killed. In other incident 3 militants were shot dead.	CGSB	Colombian conflict
May 29	Car bombing	9	44	Vic, Spain	A car bomb explodes near a Civil Guards barracks in Vic. Nine people, including 5 children, are killed.	ETA	Basque conflict
May 30	Bombing	11	8	Dagestan, Soviet Union	A train traveling from Moscow to Baku explodes near Karvin-Yurt station between Gudermes and Makhachkala in Dagestan, Russia. Eleven people die and eight are injured.	Unknown
June 15	Massacre	80-126		Ludhiana district, India	Sikh militants massacre mostly Hindu passengers on two trains near Ludhiana.	Sikh militants	Insurgency in Punjab
June 19	Shooting	15	15	Sucre, Colombia	ELN guerrillas ambush a police patrol in Corral Viejo, corregimiento of San Benito Abad (Sucre); There 7 uniformed die. Meanwhile, in Barranco Colorado, on the banks of the Ariari River, between the towns of Puerto Lleras and San José del Guaviare, guerrillas from front 1 of the FARC ambushed a patrol of the Marine Corps, and killed 8 soldiers.	ELN and FARC	Colombian conflict
June 21	Suicide car bombing	60	85	Colombo, Sri Lanka	Suicide car bombing targeting the build that housed the Joint Operations Command of the Sri Lankan Armed Forces.	LTTE	Sri Lankan Civil War
August 15	Attempted Arrack	3 (+12)	7	Santa Rosa de Simití, Colombia	Guerrillas from the Farc Front 24 are trying to take the population of Santa Rosa de Simití, over the department of Bolivar. The attack fails and 12 insurgents die.	FARC	Colombian conflict
September 16	Car bombing	3	30	Mutxamel, Spain	An ETA car bomb explodes while being towed away from an army barracks. The police were unaware it was a car bomb and had assumed it was an abandoned car.	ETA	Basque conflict
October	Plot	0	0	Toronto, Ontario, Canada	Five men of West Indian origin with links to Jamaat ul-Fuqra are arrested near the Canada–US border and later convicted of a plot to bomb a Hindu temple and an Indian theatre.	Jamaat ul-Fuqra
October 15	Massacre	202	83	Palliyagodella, Sri Lanka	LTTE cadres attacked a Muslim village and shot and hacked to death 182 civilians (171 of them were Muslims), twelve policemen and eight soldiers; 83 others were injured.	LTTE	Sri Lankan Civil War
October 18	Bombings	41	140	Rudrapur, India	Rudrapur bombings: Two time bomb blast, when people watching a Hindu pageant of Ramila, Rudrapur, Uttar Pradesh, India, which blame on Sikh separatist militant. Killing at least 41 and injuring 140 people.	Sikh militants	Insurgency in Punjab
November 18	Shooting	15 (+12)	Unknown	Putumayo District, Colombia	1 petty officer and 9 agents are killed, on the road connecting Villa Garzon and Mocoa (Putumayo).Meanwhile, 12 insurgents, one soldier and three other police officers were killed in other events in several departments of the country.	FARC Front 32	Colombian conflict
December 21	Bombing	0	6	Budapest, Hungary	Car bomb of RAF explodes near the bus of soviet Jewish migrants.	Red Army Faction
December 26	Massacre	49	20+	Punjab, India	Sikh militants massacre 49 mostly Hindu passengers on a train traveling between Ludhiana to Ferozepur.	Sikh militants	Insurgency in Punjab

See also

• List of terrorist incidents