Deadly year for Western Europe

UK – Mar 22, 2017: Four people killed and 40 injured after attacker drives car into pedestrians and stabs police officer to death inside gates of Parliament. Attacker – shot dead by police – is associated with Birmingham-based Islamic State-group linked to earlier Paris and Brussels attacks

France – Mar 18: Man is shot dead at Orly airport near Paris after attempt to snatch gun from soldier

France – Feb 3: Egyptian national, Abdullah Reda al-Hamamy, is shot and seriously wounded during attack on soldiers in shopping mall at Louvre museum, Paris

Germany – Dec 19, 2016: Twelve people killed and 48 injured in truck attack at crowded Christmas market in Berlin

France – Jul 26: Two men who had pledged allegiance to IS are shot dead after killing Catholic priest as he performs mass in his church in Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray

Germany – Jul 24: Fifteen people injured after IS-linked Syrian asylum seeker blows himself up outside wine bar in Ansbach

Germany – Jul 22: Ten people, including German-Iranian gunman, killed and 36 injured in attack at McDonald’s restaurant in Munich

France – Jul 14: IS-inspired truck attack during Bastille Day celebrations in Nice kills 86 people and injures scores more

France – Jul 14: Police officer and his partner stabbed to death at their home outside Paris in presence of their three-year-old son

Belgium – Mar 22: Three IS suicide bombers blow themselves up at Brussels airport and in metro train station in Belgian capital, killing 32 people. Police link attacks to Mohamed Abrini (above), suspect in November 2015 attacks in Paris which leave 130 people dead and
368 wounded. Abrini received money from Islamist group in Birmingham


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