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What are the top ten terrorist attacks in history?
In 2005, The Sun summarized 10 the most horrible and bloody attacks in human history.

10th place:1September 1999 13, a powerful bomb destroyed a residential area in Moscow, Russia, killing 1 18 people.

Ninth place:1996165438+1On October 23rd, hijackers forced an Ethiopian passenger plane into the Indian Ocean, killing 127 people.

Eighth place: 1995 April19, a * * * building was bombed in Oklahoma, USA, and *** 169 people were killed in the incident.

Seventh place: A series of bombings in Madrid since March 2004 1 1, in which 200 people were killed and 1500 people were injured.

Sixth place: June 65438+10/October 65438+February 2002, two bomb explosions occurred in Bali, an Indonesian resort, which killed 202 people.

Fifth place:1998 On August 7th, al-Qaeda bombed the American embassies in Nairobi, Kenya and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, killing 253 people.

Fourth place:1988 65438+On February 2 1, a bomb exploded on American Airlines 103 flight, killing 259 people on board and/or on the ground1,causing the Lockerbie air crash that shocked the world.

Third place:1March 1993 12, Mumbai, India 13 bomb attacks, followed by riots in Hinduism, killing 300 people.

Second place:1983101On October 23rd, the US Marine Corps barracks and another French paratrooper battalion in Beirut were attacked by suicide bombs, killing 300 people.

First place: September 1, 200 1 1 "91event" in new york and Washington. Suicide bombers hijacked passenger airliners and crashed into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, killing more than 3,000 people.

The standard should be the number of deaths.