Pages in category "Vehicle rampage"
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Year 2017
March 12, 2017 34 killed 17 injured
Not Terrorist Bus Hits 2 At Bus Stop Kills 34 Haiti Parade Rampage In Haiti a bus driver panicked over accidentally striking two pedestrians at a bus stop fled and then crashed into 3 Easter season "rara" parades killing 34. It is common for bus drivers to flee the scene of an accident. Angry crowds attacked the stopped bus as the driver fled, and is still sought and the cause and motive of the crash is "unclear". Of course, terrorism is not even suspected as a possibility by anyone.
Sunday (Feb. 26) in London,
five car wash workers were injured when a suspected drunk driver lost control and struck them before being caught trying to flee the scene on foot.
Drunk not-terrorist (cover story?) January 30, 2017 two were killed and seven injured when a drunk driver whose blood-alcohol content was .40 -- five times the Kentucky limit --
plowed into a group of people standing near a food truck in a parking lot.
2 dead, 7 hurt after driver crashes into crowd at food truck in Kentucky Chicago Tribune Two pedestrians were killed and seven others injured after police say a drunken driver whose blood-alcohol content was five times the legal limit lost control of his vehicle and plowed into a crowd standing near a food truck in a Kentucky parking lot. struck a parked car and continued into the parking lot Police say Erdley had slurred speech, smelled of alcohol, and fell asleep several times after he was arrested.
Year 2016
December 30, 2016
Ukraine police arrest man suspected of crash, beheading sister of tax official, arson and planning Berlin copycat truck attack reuters uk Ukrainian police arrested a 31-year-old man on Friday accused of killing a woman and her daughter, in a village in the southern Odessa region before setting fire to two houses and who they also suspect was planning to mow down citizens with a truck, like the attacks on the Berlin Christmas market and in Nice. He escaped in a stolen truck, a friend of the man told police said he was planning to run over a large crowd of people with the truck. man had threatened an attack by saying: "Odessa will cry, I will ram into the city in a truck." Name was not released so not certain that suspect was muslim as in case other attacks.
Cops hunt Berlin 'copycat' truck driver 'who beheaded mum and ...Daily Star Dec 30, 2016 - A SUSPECTED killer who wanted to copy the “Berlin lorry attack” is on the ... sniffer dogs, elite police troops and the Ukrainian national guard. Driving at 100mph he caused a “traffic accident” before being blocked by police as he tried to enter the populated Black Sea port city. woman he beheaded is understood to be the sister of a senior tax official motives for beheading the woman and her daughter are not known.
2016 Berlin attack A terrorist attack on 19 December 2016, during which a
truck was driven into the
Christmas market next to the
Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church at
Breitscheidplatz in
Berlin, left 12 people dead and 56 others injured. The
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL/ISIS/IS) claimed responsibility for the attack
2016 Ohio State University attack On November 28, 2016, a suspected terrorist
car ramming attack and mass stabbing occurred at 9:52 a.m. EST at
Ohio State University (OSU)'s
Watts Hall in
Columbus, Ohio. The attacker,
Somali refugee Abdul Razak Ali Artan, was shot and killed by the first responding OSU police officer, and 13 people were hospitalized for injuries. Artan was inspired by terrorist propaganda from the
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and radical Muslim cleric
Anwar al-Awlaki.
Amaq News Agency released a statement claiming the attacker responded to an ISIL call to attack
coalition citizens
Year 2014
1 killed, 3 injured May 26, 2014
Dustin Frederick Brown Drunken Bellingham Rampage Blamed On Possessed Pickup In Bellingham Washington, Dustin Frederick Brown sent text messages to friends saying he was too drunk to drive before he plowed his truck into four pedestrians in Bellingham. Brown told police he only had one beer and that when the throttle became stuck his truck was "possessed" as it took him on "an amusement ride from hell." A mechanic told the police the throttle could not stick that way, and it worked fine. Of four pedestrians were hit, Dragan Skrobonja, 37, was killed. The truck continued and hit several moving and parked cars. When he shifted into reverse a bystander grabbed the driver and pummeled the driver, knocking him out.
May 23, 2014
Elliot Rodger UC Santa Barbara Shooting "Virgin Killer" 9:30 pm Friday night near UC Santa Barbara 7 people dead including killer, 7 hospitalized when Elliot Rodgers shot at crowds from his BMW trading shots with police for 10 minutes. He was found with 4 handguns with 400 rounds of ammunition. He first stabbed his 3 Chinese (2 roommates and a visitor) at a house before his cross-town drive-by killing spree often driving on the wrong side of the road. His of partial Asian ancestry a his mother is Malaysian Chinese Li Chin. His father is Peter Rodger who was an assistant director for The Hunger Games movie.
May 22, 2014 122 casualties 31 killed 91 injured
Uyghur Region Urumqi China Bombing Car Rampage Kills 31 In Urumqi China, capital of the Uyghur Autonomous Region, 31 were killed and 91 injured as two SUVs drove from opposite directions deliberately running over people while tossing explosive bombs in a morning marketplace area. No groups took credit, but media is pointing to militant muslim Uyghur separatists who have also been behind a series of bombing and stabbing attacks at train stations as it is the second mass casualty attack since the April 30 railway station attack in the same city. Western media reports it appears to be a very obvious case of terrorism.
Year 2015
2016 has also seen the
trial of Bosnian Muslim Alen Rizvanović, who drove his car through the central shopping district of Graz, Austria in 2015, killing four. Despite evidence to the contrary, the incident was widely reported as a traffic accident in Austrian media.
Year 2013
The two murderers of off-duty British soldier Lee Rigby used a car in 2013. They had knives and a cleaver, and a non-functioning revolver to scare off bystanders.
5 dead 38 injured Monday October 28, 2013
Jeep Plows Through Sidewalk At Tiananmen Square in China At about noon in Beijing's Tinanmen Square, a jeep squeezed by the only opening in a barrier, entered a sidewalk and drove nearly 500 yards driving over tourists and police, until it hit a column near the portrait of Mao Tse-tung and caught fire. The driver and two passengers were killed. Casualties were later revised to five dead and 38 injured. It was still not yet obvious whether it was an accident, but the Los Angeles Times speculated that circumstances indicated it could be China's first deliberate suicide attack at one of the most closely guarded locations in China.
Not terrorist (???) 2 killed April 4, 2013 Truck Crashes Into Saudi Airport Killing Two Iranian Pilgrims information nigeria A service truck driven by a Nepalese man crashed into a passenger lounge at Jeddah international airport in Saudi Arabia, killing two Iranian pilgrims and injuring four others, reports said on Friday.
Year 2008
No terrorist motive: Akihabara massacre
mass murder that took place on Sunday, June 8, 2008, in the
Akihabara shopping quarter
Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. At 12:33 p.m., a man drove into a crowd with a truck, killing three people and injuring two; he then stabbed at least 12 people using a
dagger (initially reported as a
survival knife[1]), killing four people and injuring eight.
[2][3][4][5] arrested 25-year-old Tomohiro Katō (加藤 智大 Katō Tomohiro
?) on suspicion of
attempted murder.
[4][5] sentenced to death by the Tokyo District Court in 2011, and the sentence was upheld on appeal in 2015.posted suicidal message "I will kill people in Akihabara." "I would never have become addicted to my mobile phone. I'm lower than trash because at least the trash gets recycled." also referred to "a stabbing spree in Tsuchiura." cited as Hikikomori or Internet suicide.
Year 2007
Islamist terrorist 2007 Glasgow Airport attack e 2007 Glasgow Airport attack was a an
Islamism-inspired
terrorist ramming attack which occurred on 30 June 2007, at 15:11
BST, when a dark green
Jeep Cherokee loaded with
propane canisters was driven into the glass doors of the
Glasgow Airport terminal and set ablaze.
[3] a close link was quickly established to the
2007 London car bombs the previous day. Police identified the two men as
Bilal Abdullah, a British-born,
Muslim doctor of
Iraqi descent working at the Royal Alexandra Hospital,
[10][11] and
Kafeel Ahmed, also known as Khalid Ahmed, an engineer and the driver, who was treated for fatal burns at the same hospital.
[12] The newspaper
The Australian alleged that a
suicide note indicated that the two had intended to die in the attack.
[13] Kafeel Ahmed died from his injuries on 2 August.
[14] Bilal Abdullah was later found guilty of conspiracy to commit murder and was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum of 32 years.
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