USING VEHICLES AS WEAPONS OF TERROR
Vehicles have been used as weapons of terror several times over the past year, often by by followers of the Daesh group, attacking nations in the US-led coalition fighting militants in Iraq and Syria
June 19, 2007
Adam Dzaziri, a Daesh militant, rammed a car loaded with guns and gas canister into a police van on Paris’s Champs-Elysees. No one was injured.
December 19, 2016
Tunisian national Anis Amri, 24, hijacks a truck and slams into a crowd of people at a Christmas market in Berlin, killing 12 people and injuring at least 48.
March 22, 2017
A British convert to Islam, Khalid Masood, mows down pedestrians on Westminster Bridge and stabs a policeman, killing five people. The attack claimed by Daesh.
April 7, 2017
A truck attack in the Swedish capital kills five people, including an 11-year-old Swedish girl, a Briton, and one Belgian. Fifteen others are injured.
June 3, 2017
Three attackers strike pedestrians with a van and go on a stabbing spree wearing fake suicide vests in bars in the London Bridge area. Eight people are killed.
June 19, 2017
A van drives into a crowd of Muslim worshippers near a mosque in London’s Finsbury Park area. One man dies and another 11 people are injured.
August 9, 2017
An Algerian man, named Hamou B., drives a BMW into soldiers in the western Paris suburb of Levallois-Perret, injuring six. Cops shot and wounded the suspect.
August 17, 2017
14 people were killed when a van sped into the historic promenade, which was packed with tourists, knocking people down in a scene of chaos and horror.