List of terrorist incidents in 2009
Date Dead Injured Location and description
January 1 6 67 Guwahati , India . A serial blast kills 5 civilians and injures 67 in the city of Guwahati . Police believe the United Liberation Front of Assam are responsible for the attacks
January 1 4 16 Bajaur Agency , Pakistan . Militants fired rockets at a civil colony in the Bajaur Agency town of Khar killing four people and injuring 16 others . The attackers were able to get away before police and army officials caught them
January 2 23 72 Baghdad , Iraq . A relative of a Sunni tribal Sheikh blew himself up at a Sunni gathering south of Baghdad killing 23 people and wounding 72 others , including many of his relatives
January 2 4 37 Colombo , Sri Lanka . Hours after the capture of the Tamil Tigers capital in northern Sri Lanka , a suicide bomber in Colombo struck killing three security officers and himself and wounding an additional 37 others
January 2 0 25 Melitopol , Ukraine . A bomb exploded inside a bank injuring 25 people in the town of Melitopol . The bank and other buildings were damaged in the blast the bomber is unknown
January 3 0 3 Colombo , Sri Lanka . A bomb blast outside a mosque in Colombo injured three people
January 4 35 79 Baghdad , Iraq . A suicide bomb blast at a Shiite religious shrine in Baghdad killed at least 35 people and injured 79
January 4 7 28 Dera Ismail Khan , Pakistan . Police officers investigating explosives in the North-West town of Dera Ismail Khan were attacked by a teenage suicide bomber resulting in the deaths of 7 people and the injuring of another 28 . Five policemen are among the dead
January 8 1 2 Balochistan , Pakistan . One person was killed and two others injured in a bomb incident . The bomb had been placed on a sitting motorcycle and there is no information on who committed the act
January 9 12 20 Nimroz , Afghanistan . A car bomb in a market place killed 10 civilians and two Afghan police officers and injured at least 20 others
January 11 3 0 Southern Thailand , Thailand . Suspected Islamic insurgents in Thailand southern provinces shot and killed two Buddhist men and a Muslim woman as they headed to work at a rubber plantation
January 12 9 18 Baghdad , Iraq . Three explosions in a market , at a checkpoint and a military patrol resulted in the deaths of at least 9 Iraqis and the injuring of 18 others
January 14 1 15 Sui , Pakistan . A remote control triggered explosive detonated in Sui province killing one man and injuring 15 others including ten Pakistani soldiers
January 15 6 2 Bardhere Town , Somalia . A remote controlled landmine detonated killing 3 militiamen . 2 civilians were killed along with 2 wounded in an attack blamed on Islamist rebels . while injuring two more civilians in an attack by Al-shabab militants
January 17 0 0 Hernani , Spain . A blast went off at a television station in Hernani causing damage but no injuries . ETA is blamed for the attack
January 17 6 19 Kabul , Afghanistan . A suicide car bomber killed one US soldier , four civilians and wounded nineteen others
January 18 5 20 Qaiyara , Iraq . A Sunni political leader was killed along with four other people and at least 20 other people were wounded in a suicide bombing in the northern community of Qaiyara
January 18 0 4 Herat , Afghanistan . A bridge was blown up by Taliban insurgents wounding four Afghan civilians as foreign troops were apparently going over the bridge . No foreign fatalities or injuries reported
January 20 2 2 Kabul , Afghanistan . A bicycle bomb exploded killing two Afghan police officers and wounding two
January 21 4 10 Baghdad , Iraq . Ziyad al-Ain , a dean of Baghdad 's Islamic University and the Iraqi Under-secretary for the Education Ministry , Ammar Aziz Mohammed Ali , survived a car bomb but four others including a woman and a child were killed and ten others injured
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This is a timeline of incidents in 2009 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).