Thai authorities investigating this month ’ s deadly Bangkok bomb attack on Monday announced finding more bomb - making attackConflict.Attack.DetonateExplodein a raid on an apartment in the capital and arrest warrants for two new suspects – a 26 arrestJustice.ArrestJailDetain.Unspecifiedyear - old Thai woman and a foreign man .
The bomb was placed at the entrance to the building and exploded on a Friday afternoon , during a busy lunchtime period . More than 300 people were eating in the neighbouring El Tobogan restaurant at the time of the explosion , two of whom were among the dead . The explosion caused significant damage to nearby buildings , shattering the windows of the nearby General Directorate of Security , while two cars parked nearby were totally destroyed . The bomb caused part of the Rolando Cafe ' s ceiling to collapse and guests staying in a pension above were injured due to falling through the gaps in the placedArtifactExistence.ManufactureAssemble.Unspecified. The police immediately arrived and cordoned explodedConflict.Attack.DetonateExplodethe scene .
The Oklahoma City bombing nearly 22 years ago was an act of domestic terror bombingConflict.Attack.DetonateExplodeU . S . military veteran Timothy McVeigh and his accomplice , Terry Nichols . The bombing destroyed one third of the Alfred P . Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City , Oklahoma , killing 168 people and injuring 680 others . In his documentary killingLife.Die.UnspecifiedOklahoma City , injuringLife.Injure.UnspecifiedBarak Goodman revisits the bombing as the first major domestic terrorist attack in the United States on April 19 , 1995 .
The second Birmingham pub bombings pre - inquest review takes place this week . Andy Richards reveals for the first time the tragic story of young victim bombingsConflict.Attack.DetonateExplodePaula Nash .
As the story starts to turn from the explosions to the investigation , stay with VOA as we continue our coverage . Nearly four hours after the blasts rocked the Boston Marathon , here is blastsConflict.Attack.DetonateExplodeVOA knows :
The man who the authorities sayContact.Contact.Unspecifiedset offConflict.Attack.DetonateExplodepowerful bombs in Manhattan and on the Jersey Shore over the weekend planned the attacks for months , conducted a dry run just days before unleashing his assault and took inspiration from “ Brother Osama bin Laden ” and other international terrorists , according to a criminal complaint filed in federal court on Tuesday .
On 19 September 2019 , a suicide car bombingConflict.Attack.DetonateExplodeoccurred outside a hospital in Qalati Ghilji , Zabul Province , Afghanistan .
The device exploded in Brick Lane , the centre of one of the capital ' s biggest Bangladeshi communities and a popular Saturday market . Surrounding buildings explodedConflict.Attack.DetonateExplodetwo cars were severely damaged . Local people said rumours of bomb threats had been sweeping the Brick Lane area all week .
On 24 July 2019 , a female suicide bomber blewConflict.Attack.DetonateExplodeherself up inside the office of the Mayor of Mogadishu , Abdirahman Omar Osman during a security meeting .
The Oklahoma City bombing bombingConflict.Attack.DetonateExplodeApril 19 , 1995 was a watershed moment in American history and indelibly changed the way Americans viewed terrorism and public safety . While the effects of the bombing are well - documented , not as much attention has been paid to the motivations of the bomber , Timothy McVeigh . He was spurred to action by the events of the Waco siege , where the FBI engaged in a 51 - day standoff standoffConflict.Attack.Unspecifiedthe Branch Davidians , a small religious group suspected of owning illegal weapons . However , this was not the first incident that inspired his later actions . In 1992 , the Weaver family entered into their own standoff standoffConflict.Attack.Unspecifiedfederal agents , after Randy Weaver failed to show up to court on illegal weapons charges . Over the course of the standoff , his wife , Vicki Weaver , and twelve - year - old son Samuel were killed killedLife.Die.UnspecifiedBoth Waco and Ruby Ridge galvanized the far right , who saw it as the government using deadly force against their own citizens , who merely wished to live their lives as they saw fit . McVeigh was further influenced by The Turner Diaries , a novel in which the protagonist blows blowsConflict.Attack.DetonateExplodea government building as a part of a revolution against the government . These three factors are analyzed in regards to the influence they had on McVeigh ’ s decision to attack attackConflict.Attack.DetonateExplodeMurrah building .
Material is added to this site on a regular basis - information on this page may change Since this was the most devastating day of violence in Belfast up to that time , and many of the injured suffered serious mutilation , the impact on public opinion was enormous , and many observers regarded it as a point at which PIRA [ Provisional Irish Republican Army ] put itself outside the pale of political negotiation . Flackes and Elliott ( 1994 ) Northern Ireland : A Political Directory 1968 - 1993 Many watching the television news reports were reduced to tears by horrifying pictures of firemen and rescue workers . . . scraping up the remains of human beings into plastic bags . . . Bardon ( 1992 ) A History of Ulster ' Bloody Friday ' is the name given to the events that occurred in Belfast on Friday 21 July 1972 . During the afternoon of ' Bloody Friday ' the Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) planted and exploded 22 bombs which , in the space of 75 minutes , killed 9 people and seriously injured approximately 130 others . In addition to the bombs there were numerous hoax warnings about other explosive devices which added to the chaos in the streets that afternoon . Many people believe these hoax warnings were deliberately used to reduce the explodedConflict.Attack.DetonateExplodeof the security forces in dealing with the real bombs . As the quotes above make clear , the killing and maiming had a profound impact on most people in Northern Ireland . ' Bloody Friday ' also led to the decision by the British Government to implement ' Operation Motorman ' when , in the biggest British military operation since the 1956 Suez crisis , the British Army entered and ended the ' no - go ' areas of Belfast and Derry .
A child ' s terror as the ruthless IRA bombers strike , crystalises the anguish of the day of murder Youngest of the nine who died in the IRA holocaust - 14 year old Glynn Stephen Parker , of Belfast . Timetable of terror Between 2 . 10 and 3 . 15 on the afternoon of July 21 a total of 19 bombs exploded in various parts of Belfast . Nine people died in the explosions - seven civilians and two soldiers . The injured were - 77 women and girls and 53 men and boys . It was at first thought that 11 had died . This is the timetable of terror on this day of murderous , ruthless bombing of the civilian population : - 2 . 10 - Smithfield bus station . Explosion in strikeConflict.Attack.DetonateExplodecar left in an enclosed yard . Extensive damage to houses in nearby Samuel diedLife.Die.Unspecified. Many houses damaged . 2 . 16 - Brookvale Hotel , Brookvale Ave . , Antrim Road . Three men armed with a sub - machine gun planted a bomb in the building in a suitcase explodedConflict.Attack.DetonateExplodehotel was wrecked and adjoining houses were damaged diedLife.Die.Unspecified2 . 23 - LMS Railway Station , York Road . injuredLife.Injure.Unspecifiedin a suitcase left on the platform . Extensive damage to the station interior and the roof was blown off diedLife.Die.Unspecified2 . 45 - Star Taxis , Crumlin Road . The explosion was in bombingConflict.Attack.DetonateExplodecar beside the houses of the warders from the nearby Crumlin Road prison . ExplosionConflict.Attack.Unspecifiedblast wrecked the taxi offices and caused damages to the damageArtifactExistence.DamageDestroyDisableDismantle.Damage. 2 . 48 - Oxford Street bus station damagedArtifactExistence.DamageDestroyDisableDismantle.DamageExplosion in a car which had been driven into the rear of the station . Extensive damage to the office block and superficial damage to adjoining property . Six people killed and nearly 40 injured .
Former chief of Amn Lashkar ( peace committee ) in Lower Dir , Malak Khan Badshah , remained unhurt while his son and a security guard were injured when a roadside improvised explosive device ( IED ) exploded injuredLife.Injure.Unspecifiedhis vehicle at Barjo Gat area of Maidan in explodedConflict.Attack.DetonateExplodejurisdiction of Lal Qila police station here on Thursday , police and residents said .
" We have information that 126 people have been killed in the explosion inside the military training center , eight special commandoes are among the dead , " said a senior official in the defense ministry in Kabul , killedLife.Die.Unspecifiedon condition explosionConflict.Attack.DetonateExplodeanonymity .