Terrorist incidents in Pakistan in 2016

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This is a list of terrorist incidents in Pakistan in 2016.

January

13 January At least 15 people are killed and several injured after a bomb explodes near a polio centre near the Pakistani city of Quetta.[1][2]

20 January At least 20 people are killed and 60 wounded after gunmen open fire at Bacha Khan University.[3][4][5]

29 January A suicide bomber,attempted to enter Cantonement area in Zhob District when the Friday prayers were underway and blew himself at a check-post after security personnel signalled him to stop. Seven people were injured.Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan claimed responsibility.[6]

February

6 February - At least 9 people were killed and several others were wounded when a suicide bomber hit a vehicle of Frontier Corps (FC) in Quetta.[7][8]

March

7 March - At least 10 people including three police constables were killed and 14 others were injured in a suicide blast in the premises of a local court in Charsadda district in Pakistan’s troubled northwest, DPO Charsadda Khalid Sohail told Dunya News.[9]

16 March - A bomb detonates in a bus carrying government employees in Peshawar, Pakistan, killing 17 and injuring at least 53.[10]

27 March - At least 74 people were killed and 338 others were injured in a suicide bombing that hit the main entrance of Gulshan-e-Iqbal Park, one of the largest parks in Lahore.[11]

April

19 April -At least one person was killed and 17 others wounded on Tuesday after a suicide bomber attacked an Excise and Taxation office in Mardan, police and officials said.

See also

References

  1. http://www.dawn.com/news/1232683/blast-near-quetta-polio-centre-kills-14
  2. http://tribune.com.pk/story/1026612/casualties-feared-as-blast-hits-anti-polio-centre-in-quetta/
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  6. http://tribune.com.pk/story/1036367/security-personnel-children-among-six-injured-in-zhob-blast/
  7. http://www.dawn.com/news/1237816/nine-killed-34-injured-as-suicide-attack-targets-security-forces-vehicle-in-quetta
  8. http://tribune.com.pk/story/1041489/four-injured-in-quetta-blast-3/
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