List of terrorist incidents in July–December 2012
Date Type Dead Injured Location Details
1 Bombings , shootings 18 40+ Garissa , Kenya Masked militants attacked worshipers with hand grenades and automatic gunfire at two churches in the northern Kenyan city of Garissa , killing at least 18 and injuring dozens more . Garissa has been the site of several attacks , most of which Kenyan authorities blame on groups allied to or sympathetic with the Somali organization Al-Shabaab
1 Arson 0 0 Montreal , Canada Assailants threw an incendiary device at St-Michel 's Haitian Radio Station in Saint-Michel neighborhood , Montreal , Canada . There were no reported casualties in the attack . No group claimed responsibility for the incident
3 Bombings , shootings 40 122 Al Diwaniyah , Iraq A powerful truck bomb exploded near a Shi'ite mosque in the southern Iraqi city of Diwaniyah , killing at least 26 and injuring 75 others . Earlier in the day , blasts in Karbala , Taji and Tuz Khormato killed 10 and injured 47 . Gunmen shot dead 4 people in Baqubah , including a soldier and a policeman
4 Bombing , shootings 11 22 Wasit Province , Iraq A car bomb in the central Iraqi city of Zubaidiyah killed at least 8 people and left 22 others injured . Unidentified gunmen assassinated two police officers and a parliament official in the capital Baghdad
4 Ambush 5 3 Putumayo Department , Colombia Colombian leftist guerrillas ambushed a convoy belonging to state oil company Ecopetrol , killing 5 workers and injuring 3 others . The assault took place in a remote part of the southern Putumayo Department , near the border with Ecuador
6 Car bombing 7 20 Ramadi , Iraq A car bomb in the central Iraqi city of Ramadi killed at least 7 people and left 20 others injured
8 Bombings , shootings 35 unknown Kandahar , Afghanistan At least 35 people , including 7 NATO soldiers , were killed in a string of roadside bombs and shootings in one of the most violent days in the country for months . Six US troops were killed after an IED struck their patrol vehicle in eastern Afghanistan , while at least 22 civilians died in four similar bombings near Kandahar . Six police officers were killed during clashes in neighboring Helmand Province
9 Ambush 7 5 Wazirabad , Pakistan Gunmen killed 6 soldiers and a policeman at a riverside encampment in eastern Pakistan , an area where attacks are rare compared to other parts of the country . The Tehrik-i-Taliban claimed responsibility for the incident
11 Suicide bombing 8 15 Sana ' a , Yemen At least eight people were killed and fifteen others injured after a suicide attack at a police academy in the Yemeni capital Sana ' a
13 Suicide bombing 5 6 Maiduguri , Nigeria A teenage suicide bomber killed 5 people and injured 6 others at the central mosque in the northern Nigerian city of Maiduguri . The bomber narrowly missed the deputy governor of Borno State , Zanna Umar Mustapha , as well as a local religious leader
14 Suicide bombing 23 60 Aybak , Afghanistan At least 23 people were killed and 60 injured in a suicide attack at the wedding of MP Ahmad Khan Samangani 's daughter in northern Afghanistan . In addition to the former militia commander and close friend of Abdul Rashid Dostum , the police and intelligence chiefs for Samangan Province , as well as a division commander for the ANA were among the victims
18 Suicide bombing 7 34 Burgas , Bulgaria At least 7 people were killed after a suicide bomber detonated his explosives near a tourist bus at the Burgas Airport on the southern Bulgarian Black Sea coast . Among the victims were the Bulgarian driver and five Israeli tourists , as well as the bomber . More than 30 others were injured in the attack , for which no one has yet claimed responsibility . Bulgaria blamed Hezbollah for the attack after an investigation
18 Bombing 4 2 Damascus , Syria A remotely operated bomb exploded in the National Security Building on Rawda Square in Damascus during a meeting of Cabinet ministers and senior security officials . Syrian state media reported that Minister of Defense Dawoud Rajiha was killed along with deputy vice president Hasan Turkmani and Assef Shawkat , Bashar al-Assad 's brother-in-law and deputy defense minister . Several other senior officials were seriously injured , including interior minister Mohammad Ibrahim al-Shaar and the country 's intelligence chief Hisham Bekhtyar , who died two days after the attack . The group Liwa al Islam ( The Brigade of Islam ) and the Free Syrian Army both claimed responsibility for the bombing
19 Shooting , bombing 1 1 Kazan , Tatarstan , Russia The Mufti of Tatarstan , Ildus Fayzov , was injured after his car exploded as he was leaving a radio station , according to the Russian Investigative Committee . His deputy , Valiulla Yakupov , was shot dead outside his home at about the same time . Though there was no claim of responsibility , a spokesman for the Committee said that the two Muftis were known for denouncing extremism and , as a result , such activities were being considered as possible motives
21 Suicide bombing 9 15 Kurram Valley , Pakistan A suicide bombing killed at least 9 people and injured 15 others in north-western Pakistan . The blast went off at the entrance to an anti-Taliban commander 's compound in Kurram Agency , part of the tribal regions which border Afghanistan
22 Car bombings , shootings 23 74 Mahmoudiyah , Baghdad and Najaf , Iraq Explosions in central and southern Iraq killed at least 23 people and wounded 74 others . The deadliest attacks took place in Mahmoudiyah and Al-Mada'in , where five bombings killed 11 and left 41 injured . Twin car bombs struck Najaf , leaving 5 dead and 14 wounded . Roadside attacks in Diyala Province killed 5 security personnel and injured three others . In Mosul , a bombing near a police patrol killed an officer and injured 16 others , while a sniper shot an Iraqi soldier dead in Fallujah
23 Car bombings , suicide bombings , shootings 116 299 across Iraq At least 116 people were killed in bombings and gun attacks across Iraq in a coordinated surge of violence against mostly Shi'ite Muslim targets . The deadliest attacks occurred north of Baghdad , where insurgents attacked an army post near Dhuluiya and set off at least seven car bombs in nearby Taji , killing a total of 48 and leaving scores injured . Explosions rocked the capital 's Sadr City neighborhood , as well as Kirkuk , Mosul , Samarra , Dujail , Khan Bani Saad City , Tuz Khormato and Diwaniyah . Militants also attacked various army checkpoints in the eastern Diyala Province
26 Shootings 12 1 near Baqubah , Iraq Insurgents attacked an Iraqi Army checkpoint near the town of Hadid , 10 kilometers north of Baqubah . At least 11 policemen were killed during the fighting , and a helicopter brought as a reinforcement was shot down by militants , killing a soldier and injuring another
31 Car bombings 24 61 Baghdad , Iraq Twin car bombs struck a shopping district in the upscale Shi'ite Karradah neighborhood in the Iraqi capital , killing 21 and leaving more than 50 others injured . A lieutenant was killed and 2 soldiers wounded in a failed assault on a security building nearby , while north of Fallujah two people were killed and 3 injured by a car bomb
July
This is a timeline of individual violent attacks which took place from July to December 2012, including attacks by state and non-state actors for political motives. Ongoing military conflicts are listed separately.