October
| Date | Dead | Injured | Location and description |
|---|---|---|---|
| October 1 | 15 | 22 | In the town of Bannu, in northwestern Pakistan, a male suicide bomber disguised as a woman and wearing a burqa sets off a blast that kills at least 15 people and injures 22 others. |
| October 2 | 13 | In Kabul, a suicide bomber wearing a pakul and a chador blows up a police bus, killing 13 officers and civilians. This occurs on the same day that a U.N. report finds that while 76% of all suicide bombings during 2007 in the country have targeted international and Afghan security forces, 143 civilians were killed by those bombs through August. | |
| October 3 | 0 | 1 | The Polish ambassador to Iraq, General Edward Pietrzyk, is injured in an assassination attempt in Baghdad. His convoy is hit by three bombs and is then fired upon. The diplomat sustains a leg wound and suffers burns in the attack and is evacuated from the scene via a Blackwater helicopter. The attacks kill three in his entourage and two Iraqi civilians and wound eleven Iraqi civilians. |
| October 11 | 3 | A suicide bomber kills three Ethiopian soldiers near a base in Baidoa where the Prime Minister was visiting. | |
| October 11 | 3 | 30 | Explosives kept in a tiffin box at a sufi shrine resulted in the Ajmer sharif dargah blast while devotees were breaking fast during Ramadan. The site of the blasts was close to the Rajasthan state Chief Minister's Iftar Party. |
| October 14 | 1 | 2 | In a suicide attack on a police station of the Amsterdam district Slotervaart, Bilal Bajaka, a 22-year-old Amsterdammer of Moroccan origin, severely injures two Dutch police officers by stabbing them eight times before he is shot dead by an injured policewoman. Bajaka was in contact with the Hofstad terrorist group and had been visited by Mohammed Bouyeri, the murderer of Theo van Gogh (film director). According to media reports, Bajaka's brother Abdullah was investigated in 2005 for planning a terrorist attack on an El-Al Boeing at Schiphol airport. On the day after Bajaka's death, a group of youths throw stones at a Slotervaart police station and set cars on fire. |
| October 14 | 6 | 20 | A bomb explodes in the Shingar Cinema in Ludhiana, killing at least six people and wounding 20, police say. |
| October 18 | 136 | 387 | Twin suicide bombings occur in Karachi near a truck carrying former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto through a crowded street of supporters eight hours after her return from exile, despite 20,000 security officers having been assigned to protect her. At least 136 are killed and 387 are wounded; Bhutto escapes unharmed. The Taliban or Al Qaeda are suspected. |
| October 21 | 12 | 16 | PKK stages an attack on the Turkish outpost in Hakkari. The attack wounds 16 and kills 12 Turkish soldiers carried out of northern Iraq. Also, eight soldiers are kidnapped. |
| October 26 | 2 | A pair of improvised explosive devices are thrown at the Mexican Consulate in New York City. The fake grenades were filled with black powder and detonated by fuses, causing very minor damage. Police investigate the connection between this and a similar attack against the British Consulate in New York in 2005. | |
| October 31 | 8 | 50 | Eight people died and over 50 were injured on Wednesday morning in a suspected terrorist blast on a bus in central Togliatti. |
Read more about this topic: List Of Terrorist Incidents, 2007
Famous quotes containing the word october:
“The autumnal change of our woods has not yet made a deep impression on our own literature yet. October has hardly tinged our poetry.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Especially when the October wind
With frosty fingers punishes my hair,”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)