Passenger train attacks in recent years
2009-11-28 18:16
Paris - Following the derailment of a Moscow to Saint Petersburg express late on Friday, blamed on sabotage, here is a list of other attacks on passenger trains in recent years:
July 24, 1996: A bomb attack blamed on Sri Lankan Tamil Tiger separatists kills 70 and injures more than 600 in a train near Colombo.
Dec 30, 1996: A bomb blast in India's eastern state of Assam attributed to Bodo guerrillas leaves 38 dead and 63 wounded.
August 10, 2001: Angola's Unita claims responsibility for an attack that kills 260 people and injures 160 some 200km east of Luanda in Cuanza-Norte province.
Dec 5, 2003: Chechen separatists are blamed for the death of 46 passengers, with more than 150 hurt, in southwestern Russia 48 hours before parliamentary elections.
March 11, 2004: Simultaneous blasts aboard four rush-hour commuter trains in Madrid claimed by Al-Qaeda leave 191 dead and some 1 900 wounded.
July 28, 2005: A bomb in India's Shramjeevi Express kills 12 people near Jaunpur, 190km east of Lucknow.
July 11, 2006: Attacks on trains and stations in the Mumbai area leave 186 dead and some 700 wounded. India blames Pakistani intelligence and the Islamist Lashkar-e-Taiba.
Feb 19, 2007: Sixty-eight passengers are burned to death in an incendiary bomb attack on the Samjhauta (Friendship) Express travelling from India to Pakistan.
Aug 14, 2007: A bomb under the track derails the Nevsky Express between Moscow and Saint Petersburg, injuring 60.
Urban transport systems have also come under attack, including suicide blasts claimed by a group linked to Al-Qaeda which killed 56 people and wounded 700 in the London underground and a bus on July 7, 2005.