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This is a timeline of incidents in 1994 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 | Perpetrators | Part of |
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| February 25 | Mass shooting | 29 (+1) | 125 | Hebron, West Bank | Cave of the Patriarchs massacre: Israeli Baruch Goldstein killed 29 and injures 125 Palestinian worshippers in an attack in the Cave of the Patriarchs (Ibrahimi Mosque) in Hebron before being killed.[1][2] | Baruch Goldstein | |
| February 27 | IED | 10 | 60 | Zouk Mikael, Lebanon | Church bombing. Samir Geagea, leader of the Lebanese Forces and seven others tried and convicted. Geagea's conviction was later overturned. | ||
| March 1 | Mass shooting | 1 | 4 | New York City, United States | 1994 Brooklyn Bridge shooting: Rashid Baz killed a Hasidic seminary student and wounds four on the Brooklyn Bridge in response to the Cave of the Patriarchs massacre.[3] | Rashid Baz | |
| March 19 | Suicide bombing | 14 (+1) | 49 | Baku, Azerbaijan | 1994 Baku Metro bombings: 14 people were killed and 49 injured in the first attack of the Baku Metro bombings.[4] | Lezgin separatists | |
| April 6 | Shootdown, assassination | 12 | 0 | Kigali, Rwanda | Assassination of Juvénal Habyarimana and Cyprien Ntaryamira: 12 people, including Rwandan President Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundian President Cyprien Ntaryamira were killed when their airplane was shot down. The shootdown was the catalyst for the Rwandan genocide | ||
| April 6 | Suicide car bombing | 8 (+1) | 55 | Afula, Israel | Afula bus suicide bombing: A Hamas suicide bomber detonated his car packed with explosives in front of an Egged bus that was boarding students | Hamas | |
| April 13 | Suicide bombing | 5 (+1) | 30 | Hadera, Israel | Hadera bus station suicide bombing: A suicide bomber detonated, killing 5.[5] | Hamas | |
| June 27/28 | Chemical attack | 8 | 500 | Matsumoto, Japan | Matsumoto sarin attack: Members of the Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult released sarin gas near the homes of several judges who presiding over legal cases involving the cult. | Aum Shinrikyo | |
| June 16 | Mass shooting | 3 | 1 | Belfast, Northern Ireland | Three UVF members were killed by the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) on Shankill Road. | INLA | The Troubles |
| June 18 | Mass shooting | 6 | 5 | Loughinisland, Northern Ireland | Six Catholic civilians were killed and five wounded in an Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) attack at on a pub in County Down. | UVF | The Troubles |
| July 3 | Bombing | 13 | 42 | Baku, Azerbaijan | 1994 Baku Metro bombings: A bomb exploded on the Baku Metro, killing 13 and wounding 42 in the second attack of Baku Metro bombings.[4] | Lezgin separatists | |
| July 18 | Suicide car bombing | 85 (+1) | 300+ | Buenos Aires, Argentina | AMIA bombing: A suicide bomber rammed his car into the building of the Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina (Argentine Israelite Mutual Association) killing 85 people. The bombing has never been officially solved, but Argentina, Israel and the United States accused Hezbollah and Iran of being behind the attack and Argentina named 21-year-old Hezbollah operative Ibrahim Hussein Berro as the bomber | Unknown | |
| July 19 | Bombing | 21 | 0 | Colón, Panama | Alas Chiricanas Flight 901: a plane was brought down by a bomb shortly after takeoff, killing all 21 people on board, twelve of whom were Jews. The bombing was never solved though an organization calling itself Ansar Allah claimed responsibility and the fact that many of passengers were Jews suggests that the bombing could have been motivated by the Israeli–Palestinian conflict | Unknown | |
| July 26 | Bombings | 0 | 26 | London, United Kingdom | 1994 London Israeli Embassy attack: The Israeli embassy was severely damaged by a car bomb and twenty people were injured. 13 hours later, the Balfour House, which once housed many Jewish organizations was also bombed, injuring six. Two Palestinian students allegedly linked to Hezbollah were convicted for the bombings. | Hezbollah | |
| August 18 | Mass shooting | 18 | 2 | Gingaraba, Chocó Department, Colombia | ELN members massacred 8 soldiers and 11 civilians while burning a bus. Only two women survived.[6] | ELN | |
| August 28 | Shootout | 8 (+8) | 0 | Tamara, Casanare Department, Colombia | 7 soldiers and 8 guerrillas died after troops of the 16th Brigade of the Army and 28 and 45 fronts of the FARC clashed in La Picacha[7] | ELN | |
| September 4 | Suicide bombing | 12 (+2) | 46 | Bagratashen, Armenia | 1994 Bagratashen bombing: A briefcase bomb planted in crowded market by two ethnic Azeris from Georgia, Imran Huseinov and Turkmen Jafarov, exploded, killing the two perpetrators and twelve others. | Imran Huseinov Turkmen Jafarov |
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| September 19 | Assassination | 1 | 0 | Medellín, Colombia | ELN militants assassinated the president of the First Committee of the House of Representatives, José Arlen Uribe Márquez.[8] | ELN | |
| October 9 | Mass shooting | 2 | 16 | Jerusalem, Israel | Nahalat Shiv'a#Terrorist incidents: Two Palestinian policemen who defectedtoHamas opened fire on Israelis in the Nahalat Shiv'a neighborhood | Hamas | |
| October 19 | Suicide bombing | 22 (+1) | 56 | Tel Aviv, Israel | Dizengoff Street bus bombing: A Hamas suicide bomber detonated on a bus, killing 22 people and injuring 56.[5] | Hamas | |
| October 24 | Suicide bombing, assassination | 3+ (+1) | Colombo, Sri Lanka | Sri Lankan Leader of the Opposition Gamini Dissanayake and MPs Ossie Abeygunasekera, Weerasinghe Mallimarachchi and G. M. Premachandra were assassinated by an LTTE suicide bomber. | LTTE | ||
| November 2 | Ambush | 13 | 23 | Purace, Cauca, Colombia | Guerrillas of the FARC and ELN, ambush a column of the National Police. A captain, a lieutenant and 9 agents were killed, as were two students in a school bus.[9] | FARC and ELN | |
| November 9 | Suicide bombing, assassination | 1 (+1) | Grandpass, Sri Lanka | Former MP Ossie Abeygunasekera was assassinated by a LTTE female suicide bomber | LTTE | ||
| December 11 | Bombing | 1 | 10 | Minamidaitōjima, Japan | Philippine Airlines Flight 434: A bomb exploded on a plane which was en route from Cebu to Tokyo. The bomb killed one passenger but did not destroy the plane. Ramzi Yousef had planted the bomb on the previous leg of the plane's journey from Manila to Cebu. The bombing was a test run for the later unsuccessful Bojinka plot | Al-Qaeda | |
| December 24–26 | Hijacking | 3 (+4) | 25 | Marseille, France | Air France Flight 8969: Four GIA members hijacked an Air France plane with the intention of crashing it into the Eiffel Tower. However, after killing three passengers, the plane was raided in Marseille by the GIGN and all four hijackers were killed | GIA | |
| December 25 | Suicide bombing | 0 (+1) | 13 | Jerusalem, Israel | A Hamas suicide bomber detonates at a bus stop, wounding 13.[5] | Hamas |
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