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SOME MAJOR ATTACKS IN EUROPE IN RECENT YEARS

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The deadly vehicle and knife attack on London Bridge and in nearby Borough Market is the latest attack in Europe in recent years. Here are some recent major ones:

A suicide bomber kills 22 people and injured dozens during an Ariana Grande concert at Manchester Arena in northern England.

A man driving a hijacked beer truck strikes pedestrian­s at a Stockholm department store, killing 4 people.

:Aman drives his rented SUV into pedestrian­s at London’s Westminste­r Bridge, killing four people. The attacker then stabs a police officer to death.

A hijacked truck plows through a Christmas market in Berlin, killing 12.

A truck driver targets Bastille Day revelers in Nice, killing 86.

Suicide attacks in the Brussels airport and subway kill 32 and injure hundreds. The perpetrato­rs have been closely linked to the group that carried out earlier attacks in Paris.

Islamic State-linked extremists attack the Bataclan concert hall and other sites across Paris, killing 130 people. A key suspect in the attack, 26-year-old Salah Abdeslam, is arrested in Brussels on March 18, 2016.

A gunman kills Danish filmmaker Finn Noergaard and wounds three police officers in Copenhagen. A day later the gunman, Omar El-Hussein, attacks a synagogue, killing a Jewish guard and wounding two police officers before being shot dead.

:Agun assault on the Paris offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and an attack on a kosher grocery store kills 17 people. Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula claims responsibi­lity for the attack, saying it is in revenge for Charlie Hebdo’s depictions of the Prophet Muhammad.

Four people are killed at the Jewish Museum in Brussels by an intruder with a Kalashniko­v. The accused is a former French fighter linked to the Islamic State group in Syria.

Two alQaida-inspired extremists run down British soldier Lee Rigby in a London street, then stab and hack him to death.

A gunman claiming links to al-Qaida kills three Jewish schoolchil­dren, a rabbi and three paratroope­rs in Toulouse, southern France.

Anti-Muslim extremist Anders Behring Breivik plants a bomb in Oslo then launches a shooting massacre on a youth camp on Norway’s Utoya island, killing 77 people, many of them teenagers.

The offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris are firebombed after the satirical magazine runs a cover featuring a caricature of the Prophet Muhammad. No one is injured.

Islamic extremist Arid Uka shoots dead two U.S. airmen and injures two others at the Frankfurt airport after apparently being inspired by a fake internet video purporting to show American atrocities in Afghanista­n.

52 commuters are killed in London when four al Qaida-inspired suicide bombers blow themselves up on three subway trains and a bus.

Bombs on four Madrid commuter trains in the morning rush hour kill 191 people.

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 ?? THIBAULT CAMUS / ASSOCIATED PRESS 2015 ?? A woman is evacuated from the Bataclan concert hall amid a terrorist incident in Paris on Nov. 13, 2015. Islamic State-linked extremists attacked the concert hall and other sites across Paris that day, killing 130 people.
THIBAULT CAMUS / ASSOCIATED PRESS 2015 A woman is evacuated from the Bataclan concert hall amid a terrorist incident in Paris on Nov. 13, 2015. Islamic State-linked extremists attacked the concert hall and other sites across Paris that day, killing 130 people.

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