List of terrorist incidents in 2006
Date Type Dead Injured Location Details Perpetrator Part of
August 4 Car bombing 5 Cali , Colombia A car bomb kills five outside a police station in Cali . The local government blames FARC FARC Colombian conflict
August 9 Terrorism plot 0 0 United Kingdom The 2006 transatlantic aircraft plot is uncovered Al-Qaeda ( suspected )
August 13 Grenade attack 2 10 Tiraspol , Transnistria Two grenades explode on a trolleybus in Tiraspol , killing two people and injuring ten Unknown Transnistrian border customs issues
August 14 Mine attack 7 17 Colombo , Sri Lanka Attack on Pakistani ambassador to Sri Lanka : A claymore mine is detonated when a convoy carrying Pakistani Ambassador to Sri Lanka , Bashir Wali Mohamed , was passing . Mohamed was unharmed but seven people were killed and seventeen more wounded . LTTE is suspected of being behind the attack LTTE ( suspected ) Sri Lankan Civil War
August 16 Bombing 5 50 Imphal , India A bomb exploded in a temple near Imphal in Manipur , killing five and injuring nearly 50 other Unknown
August 20 Shooting 20 300+ Baghdad , Iraq Gunmen spray bullets on Shiites in Baghdad , killing 20 people and wounding more than 300 Islamist insurgents Iraq War
August 21 Bombing 13 47 Moscow , Russia 2006 Moscow market bombing : A bomb exploded at Moscow 's large Cherkizovsky Market , which is mostly frequented by Central Asian and Caucasian immigrants . Eight members from the group Spas were convicted for the bombing Spas
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This is a timeline of incidents in 2006 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).