List of terrorist incidents in 2005

This is a timeline of incidents in 2005 that have been labelled as "terrorism" and are not believed to have been carried out by a government or its forces (see state terrorism and state-sponsored terrorism).

Guidelines

• To be included, entries must be notable (have a stand-alone article) and described by a consensus of reliable sources as "terrorism".
• List entries must comply with the guidelines outlined in the manual of style under MOS:TERRORIST.
• Casualty figures in this list are the total casualties of the incident including immediate casualties and later casualties (such as people who succumbed to their wounds long after the attacks occurred).
• Casualties listed are the victims. Perpetrator casualties are listed separately (e.g. x (+y) indicate that x victims and y perpetrators were killed/injured).
• Casualty totals may be underestimated or unavailable due to a lack of information. A figure with a plus (+) sign indicates that at least that many people have died (e.g. 10+ indicates that at least 10 people have died) – the actual toll could be considerably higher. A figure with a plus (+) sign may also indicate that over that number of people are victims.
• If casualty figures are 20 or more, they will be shown in bold. In addition, figures for casualties more than 50 will also be underlined.
• Incidents are limited to one per location per day. If multiple attacks occur in the same place on the same day, they will be merged into a single incident.
• In addition to the guidelines above, the table also includes the following categories:

  0 people were killed/injured by the incident.

  1–19 people were killed/injured by the incident.

  20–49 people were killed/injured by the incident.

  50–99 people were killed/injured by the incident.

  100+ people were killed/injured by the incident.

January

Total incidents: 2

Date	Type	Deaths	Injuries	Location	Details	Perpetrators	Part of
January 13	Car bombing, shooting	6 (+3)	5	Karni crossing, Israel	Karni border crossing attack: Three Palestinian militants destroyed the border fence with a car bomb and crossed into Israeli territory, opening fire on civilians	Hamas Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades Popular Resistance Committees	Second Intifada
January 15	Raid, shootout	4 (+6)		Dagestan, Russia	January 2005 Dagestan Raids: Russian security forces raid two Islamist safehouses in Makhachkala and Kaspiysk, 4 commandos died in the raids as did six militants.	Shariat Jamaat	Second Chechen War

February

Total incidents: 3

Date	Type	Deaths	Injuries	Location	Details	Perpetrators	Part of
February 14	Bombing	22		Beirut, Lebanon	Assassination of Rafic Hariri: Former Lebanese prime minister Rafic Hariri and 21 others after a massive bomb detonated near his motorcade.	Hezbollah (suspected)	Unknown
February 25	Suicide bomber	5 (+1)	50+	Tel Aviv, Israel	Stage Club bombing: A suicide bomber kills five Israelis and undermines a weeks-old truce between the two sides.	Islamic Jihad	Second Intifada
February 28	Suicide car bombing	127 (+1)	Hundreds	Hillah, Iraq	2005 Al Hillah bombing: Suicide car bombing of a police recruiting station in Hillah	Islamist insurgents	Iraq War

March

Total incidents: 0

April

Total incidents: 3

Date	Type	Deaths	Injuries	Location	Details	Perpetrators	Part of
April 3	Bomb	2-5	66	Thailand	2005 Songkhla bombings: Two people killed (possibly five), 54 injured, by three explosions in Hat Yai -one at the airport, one at a hotel, and another at a department store.	PULO	South Thailand insurgency
April 7	Suicide Bomber	3 (+1)	18	Cairo, Egypt	April 2005 Cairo terrorist attacks: A suicide bomber detonated an explosive device on Sharia al-Moski. Three foreign tourists (two French and one American) were killed, and 11 Egyptians and seven other overseas visitors were injured.	Abdullah Azzam Brigades
April 30	Suicide bombing, shooting	0 (+3)	10	Cairo, Egypt	April 2005 Cairo terrorist attacks: A man suspected of being involved in the 7 April attack committed a suicide bombing at a bus station while being pursued by police, injuring seven people. A few hours later, two women opened fire on a tourist bus, injuring three people before they committed suicide.	Abdullah Azzam Brigades

May

Total incidents: 3

Date	Type	Deaths	Injuries	Location	Details	Perpetrators	Part of
May 4	Suicide bombing	60	150	Erbil, Iraq	2005 Erbil bombing: A suicide bomber detonated near a police recruitment center.	Ansar al-Sunna	Iraq War
May 7	Bombings	11	162	Yangon, Myanmar	May 2005 Yangon Bombings: Two supermarkets are bombed nearly simultaneously.	Karen National Union (suspected)	Internal conflict in Myanmar
May 28	Bombings	22	90	Sulawesi, Indonesia	2005 Tentena market bombings: Two bombs were detonated at an open air market frequented by Christians.	Jemaah Islamiyah

June

Total Incidents: 0

July

Total incidents: 10

Date	Type	Deaths	Injuries	Location	Details	Perpetrators	Part of
July 1	Bomb	11	25	Makhachkala, Russia	Makhachkala Rus bombing: Blast killed 10 soldiers and wounded 7.	Shariat Jamaat	Second Chechen War
July 5	Shooting, grenade	1 (+5)	3	Ayodhya, India	2005 Ram Janmabhoomi attack: Five terrorists attacked the Ram temple before being killed by security forces.	Lashkar-e-Taiba	Ayodhya dispute
July 6	Bombing	38-53	71	Badarmude, Nepal	Badarmude bus explosion: A bomb detonated near a bus while passing across a bridge, causing the bridge to collapse.	Communist Party of Nepal (suspected)	Nepalese Civil War
July 7	Suicide bombing	52 (+4)	700+	London, United Kingdom	7 July 2005 London bombings: Four suicide bombers detonated bombs that were hidden in back packs, killing 52 people and injuring 700. Three were in tube trains and one on a number 30 bus, the incident happened a day after London was announced to be host of the 2012 Olympic Games.	Islamists
July 12	Suicide bombing	5 (+1)	90+	Netanya, Israel	12 July 2005 HaSharon Mall suicide bombing: Islamic Jihad takes responsibility for a suicide bombing which kills five people at a shopping mall.	Islamic Jihad	Second Intifada
July 16	Bombing	5	14	Kuşadası, Turkey	2005 Kuşadası minibus bombing: A bomb exploded on a minibus carrying people to a beach	PKK (suspected)	Kurdish–Turkish conflict
July 16	Suicide bombing	100	150	Musayyib, Iraq	2005 Musayyib bombing: A suicide bomber detonates in a crowded market. A gas truck was passing as the bomber detonated, which made the event even more disastrous.	Islamist insurgents	Iraq War
July 21	Bombings	0	1	London, United Kingdom	21 July 2005 London bombings: Four small explosions at three London Underground stations and on a bus, but only detonators of the bombs exploded and no major injuries occurred. A fifth bomber dumped his device without attempting to detonate. The attackers were attempting to recreate the successful bombings on London public transportation that occurred two weeks earlier.	Islamists
July 23	Bombings	64-88	150	Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt	2005 Sharm el-Sheikh bombings: A market and two hotels frequented by foreigners are bombed. The Egyptian government claimed 64 people were killed but local hospitals reported 88 deaths.	Abdullah Azzam Brigades
July 28	Bombing	13	50	Jaunpur, India	2005 Jaunpur train bombing: An express train en route to Delhi is bombed near Jaunpur. The perpetrators were never caught but Islamic extremists are strongly suspected.	Islamic extremists (suspected)

August

Total incidents: 2

Date	Type	Deaths	Injuries	Location	Details	Perpetrators	Part of
August 17	Bombings	2	100+	Across Bangladesh	2005 Bangladesh bombings: Over 500 bombs exploded in over 300 cities and towns across 63 of Bangladesh's 64 districts.	Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh HuJI	Internal conflict in Bangladesh
August 17	Car bombings	43	76	Baghdad, Iraq	17 August 2005 Baghdad bombings: Two car bombs detonated at a busy bus station. A third bomb detonated on a road that was being used to transport victims of the first blasts to the hospital	Islamist insurgents	Iraq War

September

Total incidents: 2

Date	Type	Deaths	Injuries	Location	Details	Perpetrators	Part of
September 14	Suicide bombings	160	570	Baghdad, Iraq	14 September 2005 Baghdad bombings: More than a dozen bombs rip through Baghdad. The deadliest blast occurred in the mostly Shia district of Kadhimiya and targeted a crowd of laborers looking for work.	Al-Qaeda in Iraq	Iraq War
September 29	Car bombings	95	100+	Balad, Iraq, Iraq	2005 Balad bombings: Three near simultaneous car bombs explode at a market and outside a police station and a bank	Islamist insurgents	Iraq War

October

Total incidents: 7

Date	Type	Deaths	Injuries	Location	Details	Perpetrators	Part of
October 1	Bomb	0 (+1)	0	Norman, Oklahoma, United States	2005 University of Oklahoma bombing: Joel Henry Hinrichs III detonated a bomb near the packed football stadium at the University of Oklahoma, killing himself in the process.	Joel Henry Hinrichs III
October 1	Suicide car bombings	20 (+3)	100	Bali, Indonesia	2005 Bali bombings: Three suicide car bombings target a resort and Kuta town square, places popular with western tourists.	Jemaah Islamiyah
October 7	Shooting	8	20	Mong, Pakistan	2005 Mong shootings: Three unknown men opened fire on an Ahmadiyya mosque.	Unknown
October 13–14	Raid	49 (+89)	115+	Nalchik, Russia	2005 Nalchik raid: Several hundred militants belonging to the Caucasian Front and Yarmuk Jamaat attack several targets across Nalchik, including several government buildings, police stations and the airport. In total, 142 people were killed in the attacks including at least 35 members of Russian security forces, at least 14 civilians and at least 89 militants.	Caucasian Front Yarmuk Jamaat	Second Chechen War
October 26	Suicide bomber	7 (+1)	55	Hadera, Israel	Hadera Market bombing: A Palestinian suicide bomber detonates a bomb near a falafel stand that kills himself and six others. Twenty-six people were also wounded.	Islamic Jihad	Second Intifada
October 29	Assault	3	1	Poso, Indonesia	2005 Indonesian beheadings of Christian girls: In Central Sulawesi, four Christian schoolgirls aged 15 to 17 years on their way home from school were assaulted by six masked Muslim men who beheaded three of them, Theresia Morangke, Alfita Poliwo, and Yarni Sambue, with machetes and placed their severed heads in front of a church and a police station. The fourth girl, Noviana Malewa, survived but suffered serious machete wounds. The terrorists belong to the group Tanah Runtuh whose leader Hasanuddin confessed at his trial that the well-planned assault was inspired and financed by Guru Sanusi, a former Muslim rebel (Moro Islamic Liberation Front) from Mindanao. Central Jakarta District Court sentenced two of the killers to 14 years in prison and mastermind Hasanuddin to 20 years.	Islamists
October 29	Bombings	62	210	Delhi, India	2005 Delhi bombings: Two markets and a bus are bombed in a span of about 30 minutes in Delhi.	Lashkar-e-Taiba

November

Total incidents: 2

Date	Type	Deaths	Injuries	Location	Details	Perpetrators	Part of
November 9	Suicide bombings	60 (+3)	115+	Amman, Jordan	2005 Amman bombings: Three suicide bombings targeting hotels frequented by foreign diplomats.	Al-Qaeda in Iraq
November 18	Suicide car bombings	74+ (+2)	100+	Khanaqin, Iraq	2005 Khanaqin bombings: Two suicide car bombers detonate at two Shia mosques near Iranian border.	Islamist insurgents	Iraq War

December

Total incidents: 3

Date	Type	Deaths	Injuries	Location	Details	Perpetrators	Part of
December 5	Suicide bombing	5 (+1)	40+	Netanya, Israel	5 December 2005 HaSharon Mall suicide bombing: A suicide bomb attack kills at least five people.	Islamic Jihad	Second Intifada
December 28	Shooting	1	4	Bangalore, India	2005 Indian Institute of Science shooting: Two men stormed the Indian Institute of Science and opened fire, killing Munish Chander Puri, the Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at IIT Delhi and wounding four others. The perpetrators were never caught but are strongly suspected to be Islamic extremists.	Islamic extremists (suspected)
December 31	Bombing	8	53	Palu, Indonesia	2005 Palu market bombing: A butcher's shop that was frequented by Christians and sold non-Halal food was bombed.	Jemaah Islamiyah

See also

• List of non-state terrorist incidents
• List of Palestinian suicide attacks
• List of Palestinian rocket attacks on Israel, 2001–2006