ATTACKS IN NEW YORK CITY

2017

James Harris Jackson, a 28-year-old white man, stabbed Timothy Caughman, an African-American, multiple times with a sword in March. Caughman later died of his injuries .

2016

Three bombs exploded in the New York area, two in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighbourhood and one in New Jersey, in September, wounding 31 people. Several unexploded bombs were also found.

2010

Times Square was evacuated in May when a car bomb that failed to explode. It was found in vehicle. Faisal Shahzad, a naturalised American, later pleaded guilty and was sentenced to life imprisonment.

2008

An individual detonated a small pipe bomb in front of the US Armed Forces recruiting station in Times Square in March. There were no injuries.

2001

On the morning of Sept. 11, members of Al Qaeda flew two passenger planes into the north and south towers of Manhattan’s World Trade Centre. The attacks killed 2,996 people.

1997

Palestinian teacher Ali Hassan Abu Kamal opened fire on the observation deck of the Empire State Building in February, killing one person and wounding six others before shooting himself.

1994

Lebanese-born immigrant Rashid Baz shot at a van of Orthodox Jewish students on the Brooklyn Bridge, killing one and wounding three others.

1993

Militants detonated a truck bomb below the North Tower of the World Trade Centre in February, killing six people and injuring over a thousand.