Incidents of

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are mostly related to the

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, which has been going on for decades. Sporadic incidents have also occurred elsewhere (mostly in

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), although such events are much less common.

List of notable terrorist incidents

1972 Israeli Bangkok Embassy hostage crisis The Israeli Bangkok embassy hostage crisis occurred on 28 December 1972. It was a raid by a squad of four Palestinian militants, belonging to the Black September organization, on the Israeli embassy building in Bangkok in which the militants he ...

* 1999 Burmese Embassy Siege * 2006 Bangkok bombings * 2012 Bangkok bombings *

** December 2009 Narathiwat bombing **

2005 Songkhla bombings The 2005 Songkhla bombings were a series of three bombings that took place on 3 April 2005 in the cities of Hat Yai and Songkhla of Thailand's Songkhla Province. They and are believed to be part of the ongoing south Thailand insurgency. At least ...

2006 Hat Yai bombings The 2006 Hat Yai bombings took place in Hat Yai, Songkhla Province, Thailand on 16 September 2006 and are believed to be part of the ongoing South Thailand insurgency. At least four people were killed and 82 were injured."Bomb Blast Aftermath." ...

** 2007 South Thailand bombings ** 2007 Songkhla bombings **

2012 Southern Thailand bombings The 2012 Southern Thailand bombings were a series of bombings that took place in Yala, Yala Province and in Hat Yai, Songkhla Province, on 31 March 2012. Attacks Yala The first attack involved a truck bomb that ripped through a busy shoppi ...

** 2019 Yala attack *

2015 Bangkok bombing On 17 August 2015, a bombing took place inside the Erawan Shrine at the Ratchaprasong, Ratchaprasong intersection in Pathum Wan District, Bangkok, Thailand, killing 20 people and injuring 125. Thai police were reported to have arrested two su ...

August 2016 Thailand bombings On August 11, 2016, two bombs exploded in the Thai resort town of Hua Hin. One person was killed and 23, many of them tourists, were injured. The next day, several more bombings took place, again targeting Hua Hin as well as Surat Thani, Phuket ...

* 2019 Bangkok bombings

External sources

* * * Terrorism by country Terrorism in Asia by country Human rights abuses in Thailand {{Terrorism-stub