June
| Date | Dead | Injured | Location and description |
|---|---|---|---|
| June 3 | 7 | 20 | A car bomb suicide attack on the Prime Minister's house in Mogadishu kills six guards and injures 20, while PM Ali Mohamed Gedi survives his third assassination attempt unhurt. |
| June 4 | 1 | 0 | Another suicide car bomb was detonated near an Ethiopian Army Base. |
| June 8 | 1 | 28 | An explosion occurs outside a tea shop in the city of Yala and kills one woman and wounds 28 other people. |
| June 8 | 2 | 5 | A bomb explodes on a bus as it is traveling through the town of Hub, in Balochistan province. Two passengers die and five suffer injuries. |
| June 8 | 10 | An improvised bomb explodes aboard a bus in a remote area of Cotabato; ten people are injured. | |
| June 10 | 14 | A bomb explodes outside a clothing store in Istanbul and injures 14 people. | |
| June 11 | 1 | 37 | A bomb explodes in a business district of Nairobi. The blast occurs outside the Ambassador Hotel, just a few blocks from the U.S. Embassy—scene of a devastating bomb attack in 1998—killing one person and injuring 37 others. |
| June 14 | A car bomb kills ten people in Beirut, Lebanon. Among the dead is the MP Walid Eido. | ||
| June 14 | Motihar police are able to defuse a bomb planted at the main gate of the Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology (RUET). The bomb is the latest in a series targeting the area and is claimed by Jadid al Qaeda. | ||
| June 19 | 75 | 204 | A truck bomb blast on a square near the al-Khilani mosque kills at least 75 and wounds 204. |
| June 24 | 6 | 2 | A suicide car bomb targets and kills six members of Unifil, near the border with Israel; two others are also injured. The casualties are Spanish and Colombian nationals. |
| June 29 | 4 | 10 | Four people are dead and ten are injured by three launched rockets and fired AK-47s in an assassination attempt on prime minister Guillaume Soro. |
| June 29, June 30 | 5 | 2007 Glasgow International Airport attack, 2007 London car bombs, 2007 UK terrorist incidents. Car bomb plot, suspected Al-Qaeda. At Glasgow-International Airport, a car rams into terminal one, causing minor injuries to five people and setting off a blaze. An explosive device catches fire instead of detonating. In London's West End, an attempt to set off two car bombs by suspected cell-phone triggers fails. One car is towed before the device is discovered in an underground car park. Police link two the incidents and find suicide notes on two suspects in the London incident.
Eight men are arrested, one Glasgow suspect is critically burned. One of the five men could be an associate of Dhiren Bharot, a high-level Al-Qaeda operative. Authorities say the London bombs could have caused "significant loss of life." Police link the two incidents to the same two people. |
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| June 29 | Sri Lanka Navy personnel find a truck packed with over 1000 kg (2200 lbs.) of high explosives in the eastern port city of Trincomalee. It is suspected that Tamil Tiger (LTTE) rebels were planning to use it to blow up a major civilian target in the area. Two weeks earlier, a similar explosive-laden Tamil Tigers truck was detected close to Colombo, the capital city of Sri Lanka. |
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