List of terrorist incidents in 1992
This is a timeline of incidents in 1992 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).
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| Date | Type | Dead | Injured | Location | Details | Perpetrator | Part of |
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| February 5 | Bombings | 3 | 23 |  Ürümqi, China |
Four bombs targeting public buildings and two buses explode in Ürümqi, killing three and injuring 23. | Uyghur nationalists | Xinjiang conflict |
| February 5 | Mass shooting | 5 | 9 |  Belfast, Northern Ireland |
Five Catholic civilians are killed in a UDA attack on a Irish nationalist shop. | UDA | The Troubles |
| February 6 | Car bombing | 5 | 7 |  Madrid, Spain |
Four military personnel and a civilian employee of the military are killed by an ETA car bomb in Madrid | ETA | Basque conflict |
| February 14 | Melee attack | 3 | 1 |  Gal'ed, Israel |
A group of Israeli Arabs hack three IDF soldiers to death with knives, axes and a pitchfork. One other soldier is seriously wounded. | Palestinian Islamic Jihad | Israeli-Palestinian conflict |
| March 1 | Bombing | 0 | 0 |  Istanbul, Turkey |
The Neve Shalom Synagogue in Istanbul is bombed by Hezbollah but no one is hurt. The bombing was the second of three attacks to occur at the synagogue with the others occurring in 1986 and 2003.[1] | Hezbollah | South Lebanon conflict |
| March 17 | Suicide car bombing | 29 (+1 attacker) | 242 | / Buenos Aires, Argentina |
An Islamic Jihad suicide bomber rams his car into the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires, destroying the embassy and a Catholic church and school that were nearby. Many of the dead were children. Argentina has accused Hezbollah of being involved in the attack. | Islamic Jihad Hezbollah (suspected) |
South Lebanon conflict |
| April 10 | Truck bombing | 3 | 91 |  London, United Kingdom |
The Baltic Exchange building is destroyed by a Provisional IRA semtex truck bomb. | PIRA | The Troubles |
| April 28-29 | Bombings | 1 | 4 |  Taipei and Kaohsiung, Taiwan |
Seven bombs were discovered at McDonald's restaurants across Taiwan, three of which exploded. One police officer was killed and four civilians were injured. A plumber named Chen Hsi-Hsieh was convicted of the bombings and was found to have been attempting to extort money from McDonald's. His accomplice Pan Che-Ming was also convicted. | Chen Hsi-Hsieh Pan Che-Ming |
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| April 29 | Massacres | 157 |  Polonnaruwa District, Sri Lanka |
A series of massacres occur in several towns in the eastern portion of the Polonnaruwa District in Sri Lanka. The LTTE, Home Guards and Sri Lankan Police were blamed for the massacres. | LTTE Home Guards Sri Lankan Police |
Sri Lankan civil war | |
| May 24 | Melee attack | 1 | Bat Yam, Israel |
A 15-year-old Jewish girl named Helena Rapp is stabbed to death in Bat Yam by 18-year-old Islamic Jihad member Fouad Abd El Hani El Omrin. | Palestinian Islamic Jihad | Israeli-Palestinian conflict | |
| July 16 | Truck bombings | 25 | 155 |  Lima, Peru |
Two large truck bombs explode in the wealthy Miraflores District of Lima, killing 25, injuring 155 and damaging hundreds of houses and businesses. The communist group Shining Path claimed responsibility and the bombings were the deadliest attacks during Shining Path's insurgency. | Shining Path | Internal conflict in Peru |
| August 8 | Land mine | 8 | Jaffna, Sri Lanka |
Eight high ranking Sri Lankan military officers, including Mohan Jayamaha and Denzil Kobbekaduwa are killed by an LTTE land mine in Jaffna. | LTTE | Sri Lankan civil war | |
| September 1 | Bombing | 9 | 7 |  Medellin, Colombia |
Nine die, including a six-month-old baby, and seven are injured when a bomb explodes in a suburb of Medellín.[2] | Medellin Cartel | |
| November 16 | Suicide bombing, assassination | 4 (+1 attacker) | Colombo, Sri Lanka |
Head of the Sri Lankan Navy Clancy Fernando is killed in a suicide bombing along with Lieutenant commander Sandun Gunasekera, his Flag Lieutenant and his driver. | LTTE | Sri Lankan civil war | |
| December 3 | Bombing | 14 | Medellin, Colombia |
Ten police officers and four civilians die when a bomb planted by drug traffickers explode in Medellín.[3] | Medellin Cartel | ||
| December 13 | Kidnapping and murder | 1 | 0 | Lod, Israel |
Israeli soldier Nissim Toledano is kidnapped by Hamas, who threatened to kill him unless Israel released Sheikh Ahmed Yassin. After Israel failed to release Yassin, Toledano was murdered. | Hamas | Israeli-Palestinian conflict |
| December 29 | Bombing | 0 | 52 | Medellin, Colombia |
Two police officers and 50 civilians wounded when a car bomb explodes at a party in a suburban area of Medellín.[4] | Medellin Cartel | |
| December 29 | Bombings | 2 | 7 |  Aden, Yemen |
Al-Qaeda bombs the Gold Mohur Hotel and Aden Mövenpick Hotel in Aden in hopes of killing American soldiers, but only succeed in killing an Austrian tourist and a hotel employee. The bombings were the first attack on Americans by Al-Qaeda. | Al-Qaeda |
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