Worst Terrorist Attacks In History

Rank	Estimated Number Of Deaths	Name	Location	Date
1	2,996	September 11 attacks	New York City Arlington County, Virginia Stonycreek Township near Shanksville, Pennsylvania	2001, Sep 11
2	500	2007 Yazidi communities bombings	Kahtaniya and Adnaniyah	2007, Aug 14
3	449	May 2013 Iraq attacks	Across Iraq	2013
4	422	Cinema Rex fire	Abadan, Iran	1978
5	400	Massacre of Trujillo	Trujillo, Valle del Cauca	1990
6	389	July 2013 Iraq attacks	Across Iraq	2013
7	385	Beslan school hostage crisis	Beslan	2004
8	341	2016 Karrada bombing	Baghdad	2016
9	336+	2014 Gamboru Ngala attack	Gamboru Ngala	2014
10	329	Air India Flight 182	Irish Atlantic airspace	1985
11	307	1983 Beirut barracks bombing	Beirut	1983
12	293	Russian apartment bombings	Moscow, Volgodonsk, Buynaksk	1999
13	270	Pan Am Flight 103	Lockerbie, Scotland	1988
14	257	1993 Bombay bombings	Mumbai	1993
15	252	2001 Angola train attack	Angola	2001
16	238	MV Dara	Persian Gulf	1961
17	224	Metrojet Flight 9268	Sinai Peninsula	2015
18	224	1998 United States embassy bombings	Nairobi, Dar es Salaam	1998
19	222+	January 2012 Nigeria attacks	Mubi, Yola, Gombi, Maiduguri and Kano	2012
20	215	23 November 2006 Sadr City bombings	Sadr City	2006