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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Owen Bowcott

UK terror attacks since 11 September 2001

Armed police outside parliament in London on Wednesday
Armed police outside parliament in London on Wednesday. Photograph: Andy Rain/EPA

• November 2001: Real IRA car bomb detonated in Birmingham by republican dissidents. No casualties.

• 7 July 2005: Four bombs carried by jihadi suicide bombers explode on tube trains and a bus in London, killing 56 people including the attackers.

• 21 July 2005: Four jihadi bombers fail to detonate their explosives on London transport system. No one hurt.

• June 2007: Two car bombs, packed with petrol, gas cylinders and nails, discovered in central London close to nightclubs in al-Qaida-inspired plot. The devices failed to ignite.

• June 2007: Several days later the same al-Qaida group drove a car into the glass doors of Glasgow airport. One of the attackers died and five people suffered minor injuries.

• May 2008: A Muslim convert tried to detonate a bomb in the toilet of a cafe in Exeter, injuring himself. No one else was hurt.

• March 2009: Two young soldiers shot dead by the Real IRA outside the Massereene Barracks in County Antrim. Two days later a PSNI officer was shot dead by Republican gunmen in Craigavon, Northern Ireland.

• April 2011: PSNI constable killed by a bomb planted under his car by dissident republicans in Omagh, Co Tyrone.

• May 2013: Fusilier Lee Rigby murdered by two Islamist extremists in Woolwich , south London.

• December 2015: Three people stabbed in Leytonstone tube station, east London, by an attacker shouting ”This is for Syria”.

• March 2016: Northern Ireland prison officer Adrian Ismay killed by a bomb planted under his car by republican dissidents. It exploded in east Belfast.

• June 2016: Labour MP Jo Cox shot dead in her Yorkshire constituency by a rightwing, white supremacist.

22 March 2017: Attack on Westminster leaves four dead and 20 injured.

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