TASS DOSSIER. On November 17, the head of the FSB, Alexander Bortnikov, said that the A321 crash over the Sinai, where more than 220 people died, was a terrorist attack. According to him, traces of foreign-made explosives were found on the wreckage of the plane and things.

Less than two weeks after the events in Egypt, terrorists carried out a series of attacks in Paris. 129 people were killed and over 350 were injured. It is the second deadliest terrorist attack in Europe after Madrid, when 190 people were killed in train station bombings in 2004.

Listed below are the 10 largest terrorist attacks in the world by death toll, excluding attacks that occurred in countries where there was military conflict at the time. In eight cases, the attacks were carried out by radical Islamist groups.

The September 11 terrorist attacks in the USA. 2996 dead

On September 11, 2001, in the United States, suicide bombers from the terrorist organization Al-Qaeda hijacked passenger planes and crashed them into two towers of the World War II. shopping center(New York) and to the Pentagon building - the headquarters of the US Department of Defense (Arlington County, Virginia). The fourth hijacked airliner crashed near Shanksville (Pennsylvania). As a result of this world's largest series of terrorist attacks, 2 thousand 996 people were killed and over 6 thousand people were injured. The organizer of the terrorist attack was the al-Qaeda group and its leader Osama bin Laden.

Beslan. Russia. 335 dead

On September 1, 2004, in Beslan (North Ossetia-Alania), militants led by Ruslan Khuchbarov (“Rasul”) captured more than 1 thousand 100 students from school number 1, their relatives and teachers. On September 2, after negotiations with the ex-president of the Republic of Ingushetia, Ruslan Aushev, the bandits released 25 women and children. On September 3, shooting and explosions began at the school, which forced an assault. Most of the hostages were released, 335 people died. Among the dead were 186 children, 17 teachers and school staff, 10 employees of the Russian FSB, two employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations. The militants were destroyed, only one survived - Nurpashi Kulaev (in 2006 he was sentenced to death, commuted to life imprisonment due to a moratorium on the execution of death sentences). International terrorist Shamil Basayev (liquidated in 2006) took responsibility for the terrorist attack.

Boeing 747 Air India. 329 dead

On June 23, 1985, an Air India Boeing 747 passenger plane, flying flight AI182 on the route Montreal (Canada) - London - Delhi, crashed in the waters Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Ireland. The cause of the disaster was the explosion of a bomb planted in luggage by Indian Sikh extremists. All 329 people on board (307 passengers and 22 crew members) were killed in the disaster. Canadian citizen Inderjit Singh Reyat was sentenced to 5 years in prison on charges of participating in the preparation of a terrorist attack in 2003. Prior to this, he served a 10-year prison sentence for preparing an explosion at Narita Airport (Japan), which occurred on the same day as the VT-EFO disaster. Reyat was later charged with perjury and sentenced to 9 years in prison in 2011.

Boko Haram attack in Nigeria. More than 300 dead

On May 5-6, 2014, gunmen killed over 300 residents in a night attack on the town of Gamboru, Borno State. Survivors fled to neighboring Cameroon. Most of the city was destroyed.

Lockerbie attack. 270 dead

On December 21, 1988, a Pan Am (USA) Boeing 747 passenger plane, operating scheduled flight 103 on the route Frankfurt am Main - London - New York - Detroit, crashed in the air over Lockerbie (Scotland). A bomb placed in luggage exploded on board. All 243 passengers and 16 crew members on board, as well as 11 people on the ground, were killed. In 1991, two Libyan citizens were accused of organizing an explosion. In 1999, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi agreed to hand over both suspects to a Dutch court. One of them, Abdelbasset Ali al-Megrahi, was found guilty on January 31, 2001 and sentenced to life imprisonment (released in 2009 due to his diagnosis fatal disease, died in 2012). In 2003, the Libyan authorities admitted responsibility for the terrorist attack and paid compensation in the total amount of 2.7 billion US dollars - 10 million dollars for each person killed.

Bombay attacks. India. 257 dead

On March 12, 1993, 13 car bombs were simultaneously detonated in crowded areas of Bombay (now Mumbai). The terrorist attack killed 257 people and injured over 700. The investigation established that the organizers of the explosions were Islamic terrorists. The attack was a response to earlier clashes between Muslims and Hindus in the city. One of the organizers, Yakub Memon, was sentenced to death, which was carried out on July 30, 2015. Two of his accomplices are wanted.

Airplane A321 "Kogalymavia". 224 dead

On October 31, 2015, a passenger aircraft Airbus A321-231 (registration number EI-ETJ) of the Russian airline Metrojet (Kogalymavia), flying flight 9268 from Sharm el-Sheikh (Egypt) to St. Petersburg, crashed 100 km from El-Arish city in the north of the Sinai Peninsula. There were 224 people on board - 217 passengers and seven crew members, all of whom died.

Russian President Vladimir Putin promised that those responsible and those involved in the terrorist attack on the plane would be found and punished. “We must do this without a statute of limitations, know them all by name. We will look for them wherever they are hiding. We will find them anywhere on the planet and punish them,” Putin assured.

Bombing of the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. 224 dead

On August 7, 1998, two simultaneous terrorist attacks occurred in Nairobi (the capital of Kenya) and Dar es Salaam (the former capital of Tanzania), targeting the US embassies in these countries. Parked trucks filled with explosives exploded near the embassies. A total of 224 people died, of which 12 were US citizens, the rest were local residents. The organizer of the explosions was the al-Qaeda group.

Terrorist attacks in Mumbai. India. 209 dead

On July 11, 2006, Islamic terrorists detonated explosive devices hidden in pressure cookers in the carriages of seven local trains in the suburbs of Mumbai (Khar Road, Bandra, Jogeshwari, Mahim, Borivli, Matunga stations " and "Mira Road"). The attack occurred during the evening rush hour. 209 people were killed and more than 700 were injured. At the end of the investigation into the crime, the court sentenced 12 people to various prison terms, 5 of them were sentenced to death.

Terrorist attack in Bali. Indonesia. 202 dead

On October 12, 2002, a suicide attack and car bomb explosion near nightclubs in the resort town of Kuta (Bali) killed 202 people, 164 of them foreign tourists. 209 people were injured. About 30 people were arrested in connection with the terrorist attack. In 2003, an Indonesian court recognized a number of members of the Jamaah Islamiyah organization as the organizers of the terrorist attack. In 2008, three of them - Abdul Aziz, also known as Imam Samudra, Amrozi bin Nurhasim and Ali (Muklas) Gurfon - were executed by court. Muklas' brother Ali Imron was sentenced to life imprisonment.

Al-Qaeda mentioned in the material is included in the Unified Federal List of Organizations Recognized in accordance with the Law Russian Federation terrorist. Their activities on the territory of the Russian Federation are prohibited.

This small explosion with a TNT equivalent capacity of 24 tons (in fact, there were two explosions - the first three tons, the second 21 tons) is already in full swing as the largest non-nuclear explosion in the history of mankind. Which of course is absolute nonsense.

There have been many explosions in history, an order of magnitude, two orders of magnitude, and even three orders of magnitude stronger than what happened at night. Officially, the most powerful, pre-planned non-nuclear explosion is considered to be the British bombing of the fortifications of the German island of Heligoland on April 18, 1947, when 6,700 tons of explosives were used (4,000 torpedo warheads, 9,000 depth charges, 91,000 various artillery shells). The power of the explosion was 3.2 kt TNT

Thus, the power of the Helgoland explosion was four times less than the power of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima. It is clear that no one was injured in the explosion, and the explosion itself was documented in detail. The island was returned to Germany in 1952. Now this is a resort place where, please note, the use of bicycles is prohibited.

However, in 1985-93 in the United States, a series of 5 non-nuclear explosions were carried out at the White Sands test site in New Mexico, the power of two of which, known as Minority Scale and Minority Picture, exceeded the power of the explosion at Heligoland: 4,304 kt June 27, 1985 years and 4.25 kt on May 14, 1987.

But the very “bagaboom”, which had nothing to do with the fission reaction of uranium nuclei, occurred in the USSR, at the Baikonur Cosmodrome on July 3, 1969, during the second launch of the Soviet “lunar” launch vehicle N-1. The launch of the rocket went normally, but at an altitude of 200 meters, the engines of the first stage began to turn off one after another, the last, 18th, turned the rocket 90 degrees and at the 23rd second of the flight it fell flat on the launch pad. As a result of the explosion, the power of which is estimated at 5 kt of TNT equivalent in our country, and in the west (based on the amount of fuel on board the rocket) at 7 kt, the launch pad was destroyed and the neighboring one was severely damaged.

It should be noted that all four N-1 launches ended in accidents, but only in the second case did the explosion of the entire rocket occur directly on the ground.

What’s interesting is that during the four most powerful non-nuclear explosions in human history, not a single person was injured.

The largest "unorganized" explosions in peacetime are the explosion of ammonium nitrate cargo on the cargo ship "Grandcamp", which occurred in Texas City on April 16, 1947 (just two days before the explosion in Heligoland), the power of which is estimated at 2.7-3.2 ct TNT, as a result of which and subsequent fires in the city on the Gulf Coast killed 581 people and injured another 8,451, as well as a series of explosions at the Cyprus naval base Evangelos Florakis on July 11, 2011, with a total of approximately the same power. In the case of the recent explosion, during which 13 people were killed and another 62 were injured, there was enchanting carelessness - 98 containers of explosives were stored in the bright sun, where they were heated in 40 degree heat for several days.

IN war time the most terrible explosion became famous explosion in Halifax, Canada on December 6, 1917, when the French transport Mont Blanc, filled to capacity with explosives, collided with the Norwegian ship Imo. The force of the explosion was 2.9 kt TNT. 2,000 people were killed and another 9,000 were injured. For information, the population of the city of Halifax at that time was 50 thousand people.

A column of smoke after an explosion in Halifax.

Interestingly, this city had to experience something similar again when, on July 18, 1945, ammunition detonated at the Bedford Arsenal in the outskirts of the city. However, in this case there were only a few lightly wounded.

However, the Halifax explosion is far from the deadliest of all non-nuclear explosions in history.

If we talk about a separate explosion, then the explosion of the Turkish arsenal in the Rhodes Fortress on April 4, 1856 is certainly one of them. The Turks used orthodox churches, located on the territory of the palace as warehouses for gunpowder. One fine morning, as the church bells rang, the gunpowder detonated. Approximately 4,000 people died.

But the most terrible non-nuclear explosion in terms of consequences was carried out by the British on June 7, 1917 on the hills of Messina, when during the Battle of Passchendaele under German positions 22 charges with a capacity of 9.1 to 43.4 tons of explosives (455 tons in total) were simultaneously detonated. The total German losses amounted to 10 thousand people.

The first truly Big Bang apparently occurred on April 4, 1585 during the Spanish siege of Anteverp. At that time, the Spaniards occupied a large stone bridge at the entrance to the city, which prevented the Dutch (they later became Belgians) from receiving supplies along the Scheldt. Then the besieged equipped four huge fireships, each displacing 800 tons. Three did not reach the target, but the last fourth one swam to the bridge, but did not immediately explode. The Spaniards decided to capture it and at that moment the explosives detonated. Up to 800 Castilians died, a small tsunami went up the Scheldt, and a black cloud covered the city. The earth shook noticeably 35 kilometers from Antwerp, in Ghent.

Explosion in Antwerp. French engraving from 1727.

Just like that, and you are Tianjin, Tianjin...

Humanity spends enormous amounts of money and enormous efforts to create weapons that are as effective as possible in destroying their own kind. And, as science and history show, it succeeds in this. About what will happen to our planet if suddenly a fire erupts on Earth nuclear war, many films have been made and dozens of books have been written. But the most terrible thing is still the dry description of the weapons tests carried out mass destruction, reports formulated in terse, clerical military language.

A projectile of incredible power was developed under the leadership of Kurchatov himself. As a result of seven years of work, the most powerful explosive device in the history of mankind was created. According to various sources, the bomb had from 57 to 58.6 megatons of TNT equivalent. For comparison, the explosion of the Fat Man atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki was equivalent to 21 kilotons of TNT. Many people know how much trouble she has caused.

"Tsar Bomba" served as a demonstration of the strength of the USSR to the Western community

As a result of the explosion, fire ball with a radius of about 4.6 kilometers. The light radiation was so powerful that it could cause third-degree burns at a distance of about 100 kilometers from the explosion site. The seismic wave that arose as a result of the tests circled three times Earth. The nuclear mushroom rose to a height of 67 kilometers, and the diameter of its “cap” was 95 kilometers.

Until 2007, American high-explosive aerial bomb, affectionately known as the Mother Of All Bombs by the US military, was considered the largest non-nuclear bomb in the world. The length of the projectile is more than 9 meters, its weight is 9.5 tons. Moreover, most of this weight falls on the explosive. The force of the explosion was 11 tons of TNT. That is, two “Moms” are enough to smash an average metropolis into dust. However, it is encouraging that bombs of this type have not yet been used in military operations. But one of the “Moms” was sent to Iraq just in case. Apparently, in the belief that the peacekeepers cannot do without weighty arguments.


The "Mother of All Bombs" was the most powerful non-nuclear weapon until the "Daddy of All Bombs" appeared.

According to the official description of the munition, “the force of the MOAB explosion is sufficient to destroy tanks and people on the surface within a few hundred meters and demoralize troops in the surrounding area who survived the explosion.”


This is our answer to the Americans - the development of an aircraft vacuum bomb of increased power, unofficially called the “Daddy of all bombs.” The ammunition was created in 2007 and now this particular bomb is considered the most powerful non-nuclear projectile in the world.

Bomb test reports indicate that the Papa's kill area is so large that it can reduce the cost of producing the ammunition by reducing precision requirements. Indeed, what's the point of a targeted hit if it will destroy everything around within a radius of 200 meters. And even at a distance of more than two kilometers from the epicenter of the explosion, a person will be knocked off his feet by the shock wave. After all, the power of “Papa” is four times greater than that of “Mom” - the force of the explosion of a vacuum bomb is 44 tons of TNT. As a separate achievement, the testers argue that the projectile is environmentally friendly. “The test results of the created aviation munition showed that in its effectiveness and capabilities it is comparable to nuclear munitions, at the same time, I want to especially emphasize this, the effect of this munition does not pollute at all environment compared to nuclear weapons,” the acting report said. Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces Alexander Rukshin.


"Daddy of all bombs" is about four times more powerful than "Mom"

The names of these two Japanese cities have long become synonymous with a large-scale disaster. The US military actually tested atomic bombs on humans, dropping shells on Hiroshima on August 6 and Nagasaki on August 9, 1945. Most of the victims of the explosions were not military personnel at all, but civilians. Children, women, old people - their bodies instantly turned into coal. Only silhouettes remained on the walls - this is how light radiation acted. Birds flying nearby burned in the air.


"Mushrooms" of nuclear explosions over Hiroshima and Nagasaki

The number of victims has not yet been accurately determined: many did not die immediately, but later, as a result of developing radiation sickness. "Little" with an estimated yield of 13 to 18 kilotons of TNT, dropped on Hiroshima, killed between 90 and 166 thousand people. In Nagasaki, “Fat Man” with a capacity of 21 kilotons of TNT ended the lives of 60 to 90 thousand people.


"Fat Man" and "Little Boy" are on display in the museum - as a reminder of the destructive power nuclear weapons

This was the first and so far only time that nuclear weapons were used in military action.

The Podkamennaya Tunguska River was of no interest to anyone until June 17, 1908. On this day, at about seven o'clock in the morning, a huge fireball flashed over the territory of the Yenisei basin and exploded over the taiga near Tunguska. Now everyone knows about this river, and versions of what exploded over the taiga have since been published to suit every taste: from an alien invasion to a manifestation of the power of angry gods. However, the main and generally accepted cause of the explosion is still the fall of a meteorite.

The explosion was so strong that trees were knocked down over an area of ​​more than two thousand square kilometers. Windows were broken in houses located hundreds of kilometers from the epicenter of the explosion. A few more days after the explosion in the area from the Atlantic to central Siberia


Since the first nuclear test on July 15, 1945, more than 2,051 other nuclear weapons tests have been recorded around the world.

No other force represents such absolute destruction as nuclear weapons. And this type of weapon quickly becomes even more powerful over the decades after the first test.

Trial nuclear bomb in 1945 it had a yield of 20 kilotons, that is, the bomb had an explosive force of 20,000 tons of TNT. Over the course of 20 years, the United States and the USSR tested nuclear weapons with a total mass of more than 10 megatons, or 10 million tons of TNT. For scale, this is at least 500 times stronger than the first atomic bomb. To bring the size of the largest nuclear explosions in history to scale, the data was derived using Alex Wellerstein's Nukemap, a tool for visualizing the horrific effects of a nuclear explosion in the real world.

In the maps shown, the first ring of explosion is a fireball, followed by a radiation radius. The pink radius displays almost all destruction of buildings and fatal 100%. In the gray radius, stronger buildings will withstand the explosion. In the orange radius, people will suffer third-degree burns and flammable materials will ignite, leading to possible firestorms.

The largest nuclear explosions

Soviet tests 158 and 168

On August 25 and September 19, 1962, less than a month apart, the USSR conducted nuclear tests over the Novaya Zemlya region of Russia, an archipelago in northern Russia near the Arctic Ocean.

No videos or photographs of the tests remain, but both tests involved the use of 10-megaton atomic bombs. These explosions would have burned everything within 1.77 square miles at ground zero, causing third-degree burns to victims in an area of ​​1,090 square miles.

Ivy Mike

On November 1, 1952, the United States conducted an Ivy Mike test over the Marshall Islands. Ivy Mike - the first in the world H-bomb and had a yield of 10.4 megatons, which is 700 times stronger than the first atomic bomb.

Ivy Mike's explosion was so powerful that it vaporized the island of Elugelab where it was blown up, leaving a 164-foot deep crater in its place.

Castle Romeo

Romeo was the second nuclear explosion in a series of tests carried out by the United States in 1954. All explosions took place at Bikini Atoll. Romeo was the third most powerful test of the series and had a yield of approximately 11 megatons.

Romeo was the first to be tested on a barge in open waters, and not on the reef, since the United States was quickly running out of islands on which to test nuclear weapons. The explosion will burn everything within 1.91 square miles.


Soviet Test 123

October 23, 1961 Soviet Union conducted nuclear test No. 123 over Novaya Zemlya. Test 123 was a 12.5 megaton nuclear bomb. A bomb this size would burn everything within 2.11 square miles, causing third-degree burns to people over an area of ​​1,309 square miles. This test also left no records.

Castle Yankee

Castle Yankee, the second most powerful of the series of tests, was conducted on May 4, 1954. The bomb had a yield of 13.5 megatons. Four days later, its radioactive fallout reached Mexico City, a distance of about 7,100 miles.

Castle Bravo

Castle Bravo was carried out on February 28, 1954, was the first of a series of Castle tests and the largest US nuclear explosion of all time.

Bravo was originally intended to be a 6-megaton explosion. Instead, the bomb produced a 15-megaton explosion. His mushroom reached 114,000 feet in the air.

The US military's miscalculation resulted in the radiation exposure of approximately 665 Marshallese residents and the death from radiation exposure of a Japanese fisherman who was 80 miles from the explosion site.

Soviet tests 173, 174 and 147

From August 5 to September 27, 1962, the USSR conducted a series nuclear tests over Novaya Zemlya. Test 173, 174, 147 and all stand out as the fifth, fourth, and third strongest nuclear explosions in history.

All three explosions produced had a power of 20 Megatons, or about 1000 times stronger than the Trinity nuclear bomb. A bomb of this strength would destroy everything within three square miles in its path.

Test 219, Soviet Union

On December 24, 1962, the USSR conducted test No. 219, with a yield of 24.2 megatons, over Novaya Zemlya. A bomb of this strength can burn everything within 3.58 square miles, causing third-degree burns in an area of ​​up to 2,250 square miles.

Tsar bomb

On October 30, 1961, the USSR detonated the largest nuclear weapon ever tested and created the largest man-made explosion in history. The result was an explosion 3,000 times stronger than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

The flash of light from the explosion was visible 620 miles away.

The Tsar Bomba ultimately had a yield of between 50 and 58 megatons, double more than the second by the size of a nuclear explosion.

A bomb of this size would create a fireball measuring 6.4 square miles and would be capable of causing third degree burns within 4,080 square miles of the bomb's epicenter.

First atomic bomb

First nuclear explosion was the size of the Tsar Bomb, and to this day the explosion is considered to be of almost unimaginable size.

According to NukeMap, this 20-kiloton weapon produces a fireball with a radius of 260 m, approximately 5 football fields. Damage estimates indicate that the bomb would deliver lethal radiation 7 miles wide and produce third-degree burns over 12 miles. If such a bomb were used in lower Manhattan, more than 150,000 people would be killed and the fallout would extend into central Connecticut, according to NukeMap calculations.

The first atomic bomb was tiny by nuclear weapons standards. But its destructiveness is still very great for perception.

What is a terrorist attack? In other words, this is the commission of an explosion, shooting, arson or other similar actions that frighten the population and necessarily create a danger of human death.

This article will talk about the terrible world tragedies that were a consequence of the actions of bandit groups and led to numerous losses among the population. The article provides a list of the largest terrorist attacks in the world.

Responsibility for such disasters, as a rule, is taken by groups hiding behind Islam.

Top 10 loudest of the 21st century

Here is a list of the world's largest tragedies by number of victims.

1. September terrorist attack in 2004 in Beslan, North Ossetia. As a result, 335 people were killed (including 186 children), 2000 were injured.

2. March 2004 - the largest terrorist attack in Europe since the 2nd World War, committed in 4 Madrid trains (Spain). A total of 192 people were killed and 2,000 were injured.

4. One of the most bloody terrorist attacks in Pakistan occurred in October 2007. The result was 140 dead and 500 wounded.

5. In October 2002, on Dubrovka in Moscow, during a performance of a musical called “Nord-Ost,” a group of armed militants killed 130 people. More than 900 people became hostages.

6. The world's largest terrorist attack occurred in the United States of America in 2001 on September 11th. The militants' actions (4 passenger planes were hijacked) resulted in 2,973 casualties.

7. In September 1999, an explosion occurred on the street. Guryanov in a 9-story building in Moscow. As a result, 92 people were killed and 264 were injured.

Another explosion 3 days later, also in a residential building, claimed 124 lives and injured 9 people.

8. As a result of the militant attack in June 1995 on the city of Budenovsk, 129 people were killed and 415 were injured. More than 1,600 hostages were taken to hospitals.

9. The explosion of a Boeing 747 flight from London to New York over Scotland in December 1988 killed 270 passengers and crew members.

10. Russian plane crash passenger plane over the Sinai Peninsula in 2015 killed 224 people.

Below are more detailed description some of the most tragic terrorist attacks.

Twin Towers

Let's look at the largest terrorist attacks abroad using the example of 2 events that brought a huge number of victims, especially among American citizens.

The day of September 11th became a mourning day for all residents of this country and people around the world. Terrorists numbering 11 (the international territorial organization Al-Qaeda), divided into 4 groups, hijacked four passenger airliners in the United States and sent 2 of them to the New York Twin Towers of a large shopping center.

Both towers were collapsed along with adjacent buildings. The 3rd plane was directed towards the Pentagon building (not far from Washington). The crew of the 4th plane, together with the passengers of the flight, tried to escape by seizing control of the airliner from the terrorists. However, it crashed in Pennsylvania (Shanksville).

The worst terrorist attack in history killed a total of 2,973 human lives(including 60 police officers and 343 firefighters). The exact amount of damage caused is unknown (about $500 billion).

"Boeing 747"

As a result of the Boeing 747 crash over Scotland in 1988, 259 passengers and crew members and 11 residents of the town were killed.

It was an American PanAmerican plane flying from London to New York. This terrible disaster It turned out to be tragic for some residents of Lockerbie, due to the destruction of the liner on the ground. Among the dead were mainly citizens of Great Britain and the United States.

Charges were brought against 2 Libyans, although the state itself did not officially admit guilt. However, it paid compensation to the families of the victims of this tragedy (Lockerbie).

In connection with the events that took place, in 1992 the UN Security Council introduced laws against the regime of M. Gaddafi international sanctions, which were removed.

During all this time, many assumptions have been made about the involvement of senior representatives of the Libyan leadership in organizing that disaster, but none of them (except for the guilt of former intelligence officer Abdelbaset al-Megrahi) was proven by the court.

These two cases represent the largest terrorist attacks in the world.

Tragedy in Beslan

Russia has suffered a huge number of terrorist attacks, which resulted in many casualties among innocent civilians, including children.

The terrible tragedy in Beslan (North Ossetia) is the world’s largest terrorist attack that claimed lives huge amount children.

On September 1, a detachment of terrorists (30 people) under the leadership of R. Khachbarov seized the building of school No. 1, where he held 1,128 people hostage (mostly children). The next day (Sept. 2), the ex-president of the Republic of Ingushetia, Ruslan Aushev, who was let into the school building by the bandits, managed to persuade the invaders to release about 25 women with small children and release them with him.

Everything happened spontaneously. When in the middle of the day a car drove into the school site with the aim of picking up the corpses of people killed by bandits, several explosions were suddenly heard in the building itself, after which shooting began from all sides. Women and children began to jump out of the opening in the wall and out of the windows. At that time, all the men in the school had already been killed by terrorists.

The surviving children and women were released.

"Nord-Ost"

Many of the world's largest terrorist attacks involved the taking of huge numbers of hostages. This happened in Moscow on October 23, 2002 (21:15).

Militants led by M. Baraev broke into the Theater Center, located on Dubrovka (Melnikova Street), during the performance of “Nord-Ost”. There were only 916 people in the building at that time (including approximately 100 children).

The room was completely mined by the militants. Attempts to establish contact with them were successful, and after a certain time, State Duma deputy I. Kobzon, journalist M. Franchetti and 2 doctors from the Red Cross were able to enter the seized building. Thanks to their actions, 1 woman and three children were taken out of the building.

On the evening of October 24, the Al-Jazeera TV channel showed Barayev. This video was recorded before the theater center was captured. In it, the terrorists presented themselves as suicide bombers, and their demand was to withdraw Russian troops from Chechnya.

On October 26, special forces carried out an assault using nerve gas, after which they captured the building, and the terrorists, along with the leader, were completely destroyed (50 people). Among them were women (18). Three bandits were detained.

A total of 130 people died.

Statistics on victims of terrorist attacks over the past 10 years

Over the past 10 years, more than 6 thousand terrorist attacks have occurred worldwide. More than 25 thousand people became their victims.

Currently, according to various expert estimates, there are approximately 500 extremist groups and terrorist organizations. The worrying fact is that in Lately More and more often, the targets of these gangster formations are places of mass gathering of citizens (remember the largest terrorist attack in the world).

Also, so-called “technological terrorism” is increasingly taking place, where latest developments and technology. In addition, recently there has been an increase in extremism among young people. Foreign citizens of different ethnic backgrounds are increasingly becoming targets of attacks.

2015 terrorist attack

The world's largest terrorist attack in the air occurred recently - in 2015 in the skies over Egypt.

The terrible accident with the Airbus-A321 aircraft (Russian airline Kogalymavia) was a shock for the entire society.

During the flight, a homemade explosive device with a power of up to 1 kg was detonated on board the airliner. into TNT. equivalent. This happened on October 31st. A total of 224 people died. After this tragedy, the Federal Air Transport Agency suspended regular, transit and charter passenger flights to Egypt from November 6.

A group from the Sinai wilayat (province) of the banned “Islamic State” (IS) in Russia took responsibility for the crime.

What happened on the peninsula is one of the bloodiest in the world.

Conclusion

In the 21st century, terrorism has become quite active and more sophisticated. Numerous news about tragedies fill the press and television channels. Almost every month (or even more often) terrible attacks are carried out all over the planet, claiming lives peaceful people. This kind of action is a disease of the earth. Attempts by some authorities to protect the population from such disasters have so far been unsuccessful.