Editing Car bomb (section)

==Timeline==
{{main|List of mass car bombings}}

===20th century===
* 1920: The [[Wall Street bombing]] — Suspected that Italian anarchist [[Mario Buda]] (a member of the "[[Galleanists]]") parked a horse-drawn wagon filled with explosives and [[Fragmentation (weaponry)|shrapnel]] in the [[Financial District (Manhattan)|Financial District]] of [[New York City]]. The blast killed 38 and wounded 143.
* 1927: The [[Bath School disaster]] — [[Andrew Kehoe]] used a detonator to ignite [[dynamite]] and hundreds of [[pound (mass)|pounds]] of [[pyrotol]] which he had secretly planted inside a school. As rescuers started gathering at the school, Kehoe drove up, stopped, and detonated a bomb inside his shrapnel-filled vehicle, killing himself and the [[Superintendent (education)|school superintendent]], and killing and injuring several others.{{citation needed| reason = this doesn't cited version above or details in linked pages |date=May 2025}} In total, Kehoe killed 44 people and injured 58, making the Bath School bombing the deadliest act of [[mass murder]] in a school in U.S. history.{{citation needed| reason = need to cite both the number itself and the "deadliest" and confirm if current |date=May 2025}}
* Militant group [[Lehi (group)|Lehi]] were the first group to use car bombs in the [[Mandatory Palestine|British Mandate for Palestine]] during the 1940s.
[[File:Scene of Viet Cong terrorist bombing in Saigon, Republic of Vietnam., 1965.jpg|thumb|[[Vietcong]] car bombing aftermath scene in [[Saigon]], 1965.]]
* The [[Viet Cong]] guerrillas used them throughout the [[Vietnam War]] in the 1960s and 1970s.
* The [[Organisation armée secrète|OAS]] used them at the end of the [[French rule in Algeria]] in 1961 and 1962.
* The [[Sicilian Mafia]] used them to assassinate independent magistrates starting in the 1960s and up to the early 1990s.
* The [[Provisional Irish Republican Army|IRA]] used them frequently during its [[Provisional IRA campaign 1969–1997|1960s to 1990s campaign]] during [[the Troubles]] in [[Northern Ireland]] and England. The 1998 [[Omagh bombing]] by the [[Real IRA]], an IRA splinter group, caused the most casualties in [[the Troubles]] from a single car bomb. [[Ulster Loyalism|Loyalist]] organisations in Northern Ireland of the 1960s and 1970s such as the [[Ulster Volunteer Force (1966)|Ulster Volunteer Force]] (UVF) and [[Ulster Defence Association]] used car bombs against civilians in both [[Northern Ireland]] and the [[Republic of Ireland]]. The 1974 UVF bombs in [[Dublin and Monaghan bombings|Dublin and Monaghan]]<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/297183.stm Car bomb kills Northern Ireland lawyer] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090909071025/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/297183.stm |date=2009-09-09 }} ''BBC News'', 15 March 1999.</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Taylor|first=Peter|author-link = Peter Taylor (Journalist)|title=Loyalists|publisher=[[Bloomsbury Publishing]]|year=1999|pages=125–126|isbn=0-7475-4519-7}}</ref> caused the most casualties in a single day during [[the Troubles]].
* Palestinian writer [[Ghassan Kanafani]] was assassinated by a car bomb on 8 July 1972 with his 17-year-old niece Lamees Najim in [[Beirut]] by the Israeli [[Mossad]].
* Former [[Chile]]an General [[Carlos Prats]] was killed by a car bomb on September 30, 1974, along with his wife.
* Freelance terrorist [[Carlos the Jackal]] claimed responsibility for three car bomb attacks on French newspapers accused of pro-Israeli bias during the 1970s.
* [[Cleveland]] mobster [[Danny Greene]] frequently used car bombs against his enemies, beginning in 1968. Afterwards, they also began to be used against Greene and his associates. The use of car bombs in Cleveland peaked in 1976, when 36 bombs exploded in the city, most of them car bombs, causing it to be nicknamed "Bomb City." Several people, including innocent bystanders, were killed or wounded. Greene himself was finally killed in a car bomb explosion himself, on October 6, 1977.
* Agents of the Chilean intelligence agency [[Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional|DINA]] were convicted of using car bombs to assassinate [[Orlando Letelier]] in 1976 and [[Carlos Prats]] in 1974, who were exiled opponents of dictator [[Augusto Pinochet]]. Letelier was killed in [[Sheridan Circle]], in the heart of [[Embassy Row]] in [[Washington, D.C.]]<ref name="Lettieri 2007">{{cite journal|last1=Lettieri|first1=Mike|title=Posada Carriles, Bush's Child of Scorn|journal=Washington Report on the Hemisphere|date=1 June 2007|volume=27|issue=7/8}}</ref>
* The [[Tamil Tigers]] of [[Sri Lanka]] frequently made use of car bombs during that country's [[Civil war in Sri Lanka|civil war]] in a campaign which lasted from 1976 until the group's defeat in 2009.
* From 1979 to early 1983, under the guise of the [[Front for the Liberation of Lebanon from Foreigners]], [[Israel Defense Forces]] commanders [[Rafael Eitan]], Avigdor Ben-Gal and Meir Dagan launched a campaign of bombings, including car, bicycle, and even donkey bombs. Initially conducted as a response to [[1979 Nahariya attack|the killing of Israeli civilians at Nahariya]]. Largely indiscriminate in its targeting of those associated with the [[Palestine Liberation Organization]] in south, Lebanon, the FLLF attacks killed hundreds of Palestinians and Lebanese, mainly in [[Tyre, Lebanon]], [[Sidon]] and the surrounding PLO run refugee camps. After 1981, as part of Ariel Sharon's policy of goading the PLO into committing more acts of terror, justifying a military response, FLLF attacks escalated in intensity and scope, spreading to Beirut and northern Lebanon by September. The FLLF even took credit for fictional attacks on the IDF to maintain its cover as a Lebanese organisation.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Bergmen |first1=Ronan |title=How Arafat Eluded Israel's Assassination Machine |newspaper=The New York Times |date=23 January 2018 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/23/magazine/how-arafat-eluded-israels-assassination-machine.html |agency=New York Times Magazine}}</ref> Its most prominent attack on October 1, 1981, in West Beirut killed at least 50 and injured over 250 people. Seven other similar bombs were found and defused before they could explode.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Kifner |first1=John |title=BOMB AT P.L.O. OFFICE KILLS AT LEAST 50 |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/10/02/world/bomb-at-plo-office-kills-at-least-50.html |agency=New York Times |date=October 2, 1981}}</ref>
* The German [[Red Army Faction]] occasionally used car bombs, such as in an unsuccessful attempt to attack a [[NATO]] school for officers in 1984.
* The Basque separatist group {{lang|eu|[[Euskadi Ta Askatasuna]]|italic=no}} (ETA) attempted their first car bomb assassination in September 1985 and carried out at least 80 massive car bomb attacks in Spain during the last decade before putting its activities on hold in 2011.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.elmundo.es/eta/atentados/index.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090817150624/http://www.elmundo.es/eta/atentados/index.html|url-status=live|title=elmundo.es &#124; Especial ETA: la dictadura del terror|archive-date=August 17, 2009|website=www.elmundo.es}}</ref>
* Constable Angela Taylor died on her way to collect lunch, the sole fatality of the [[Russell Street bombing]] in Melbourne, Australia on 27 March 1986. 22 others were injured.
* On 23 November 1986, two members of the [[Armenian Revolutionary Federation]] carried out the [[Melbourne Turkish consulate bombing]] using a car bomb, which resulted in the death of one of the attackers.
* Suicide car bombs were a regular feature against Israel in the [[1982 Lebanon War]] which lasted from 1982 until Israel's withdrawal in 2000. The bombing campaign was waged by several groups, most prominently [[Hezbollah]].
* In the 1980s, the Colombian drug lord [[Pablo Escobar]] used vehicle bombs extensively against government forces and population centers in [[Colombia]] and [[Latin America]]. The most notable car bombing attack was the 1989 [[DAS Building bombing]], which killed 63 and injured about 1,000. Also, on July 4, 1989, a car bomb killed governor of Antioquia [[Antonio Roldán Betancur]] and five others; a prominent member of Escobar's Medellin Cartel later confessed to the crime.
* During the [[Soviet–Afghan War]] of the 1980s, at a variety of training camps in the tribal areas of [[Pakistan]],<ref>{{cite book |last1=Davis |first1=Mike |chapter=Car-Bomb University |pages= |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WG7nDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT74 |title=Buda's Wagon: A Brief History of the Car Bomb |date=2017 |publisher=Verso Books |isbn=978-1-78478-664-9 }}</ref> the Pakistani [[Inter-Services Intelligence]] (ISI), with the aid of the [[United States]]' [[Central Intelligence Agency]] (CIA) and Britain's [[MI6]], trained [[mujahideen]] in the preparation of car bombs. Car bombs became a regular occurrence during the war, the Afghan civil conflicts which followed, and then during the [[United States invasion of Afghanistan|U.S. invasion of Afghanistan]] from 2001 and the [[War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)|war in Afghanistan]] ending in 2021.
* On 26 February 1993, ([[1993 World Trade Center bombing|World Trade Center bombing]]) Islamist terrorists led by [[Ramzi Yousef]] detonated a Ryder van filled with explosives in the parking garage of the [[World Trade Center (1973-2001)|World Trade Center]] in [[New York City]]. Yousef's plan had been to cause one of the towers to collapse into the other, destroying both and killing thousands of people. Although this was not achieved, six people were killed, 1,402 others injured, and extensive damage was caused.
* On 18 April 1993, a tanker containing 500 kilograms of explosives exploded near the mosque in [[Vitez]], destroying the offices of the Bosnian War Presidency, killing at least six people and injuring 50 others. The [[International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia|ICTY]] accepted that this action was a piece of pure [[terrorism]] committed by elements within the [[Croats|Croat]] forces, as an attack on the Bosniak population of Stari Vitez - [[Vitez]] old town.  [[Croatian Defence Council|HVO]] members tied a [[Bosniaks|Bosniak]] male civilian from a concentration camp to the steering wheel and set the truck in motion towards the old town.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Kordic and Cerkez - Judgement - Part three: IV|url=https://www.icty.org/x/cases/kordic_cerkez/tjug/en/kor-tj010226e-5.htm|access-date=2020-10-13|website=www.icty.org}}</ref>
* On 20 October 1994, [[Hamas]]-led bus bombing in [[Tel Aviv]], [[Israel]] lead to the death of 22 civilians and the injury of 50. At that time, it was the deadliest [[suicide bombing]] in [[History of the State of Israel|Israeli history]], and the [[Dizengoff Street bus bombing|first successful attack]] in Tel Aviv.
* The [[Quebec Biker War]] that lasted from 1994 to 2002 involved the use of car bombings, including one that killed a drug dealer and an 11-year-old boy on 9 August 1995.
* On 19 April 1995, [[Timothy McVeigh]] detonated a Ryder [[box truck]] filled with an explosive mixture of [[ANFO|ammonium nitrate fertilizer and fuel oil]] (ANFO) in front of the [[Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building]] in [[Oklahoma City]] during the [[Oklahoma City bombing]], killing 168 people, including 19 children who were in the daycare.
* On 25 June 1996, a truck bomb [[Khobar Towers bombing|destroyed the Khobar Towers military complex]] in Saudi Arabia, killing 19 [[United States Air Force]] (USAF) personnel and injuring 372 persons of all nationalities.
* In the late 1990s and early 2000s, vehicular explosives were used by [[Chechen people|Chechen]] nationalists against targets in Russia.
* On 20 April 1999, [[Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold]] planned to use two car bombs as the last act of the [[Columbine High School massacre]], apparently to murder first responders. Both failed to explode.

===21st century===
*On 2 December 2001, a [[Hamas]] assailant boarded a bus in [[Haifa, Israel]], and then detonated himself, leading to [[Haifa bus 16 suicide bombing|the death of 15 civilians]].
*Southeast Asia-based militant Islamist group [[Jemaah Islamiyah]] utilized car bombs in their campaigns during the early 2000s, the most prominent being the [[2002 Bali bombings]], which killed 202 people.
*Former [[Lebanon|Lebanese]] Prime Minister [[Rafic Hariri]] was assassinated by a car bomb during [[Assassination of Rafic Hariri|Valentine's Day of 2005.]] 21 others were also killed.
*[[2010 Times Square car bombing attempt|A car bomb which had misfired]] was discovered in [[Times Square]], [[New York City]] on May 1, 2010. The bomb had been planted by [[Faisal Shahzad]]. Evidence suggests that the bombing was planned by the [[Pakistani Taliban]].
*On [[2010 Stockholm bombings|11 December 2010]], a car bomb exploded in central [[Stockholm]] in [[Sweden]], slightly injuring two bystanders. Twelve minutes later, an Iraqi-born Swedish citizen accidentally detonated six pipe bombs he was carrying, but only one exploded.<ref name="Gardham-1">{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the-uk/8198043/Sweden-suicide-bomber-Taimur-Abdulwahab-al-Abdaly-was-living-in-Britain.html|title=Sweden suicide bomber: Taimur Abdulwahab al-Abdaly was living in Britain|last=Gardham|first=Duncan|author2=Oscarsson, Marcus  |author3=Hutchison, Peter|date=12 December 2010|newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|access-date=12 December 2010|location=London| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110121205611/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the-uk/8198043/Sweden-suicide-bomber-Taimur-Abdulwahab-al-Abdaly-was-living-in-Britain.html| archive-date= 21 January 2011 | url-status= live}}</ref> The bomber was killed but there were no other casualties. It is believed that the attacks were the work of homegrown terrorists who were protesting Sweden's involvement in the war in Afghanistan and the publication in Sweden of cartoons depicting [[Muhammad]].
*On 22 July 2011, in the [[2011 Norway attacks|Norway massacre]], far-right extremist [[Anders Behring Breivik]] detonated a car bomb within the [[Regjeringskvartalet|executive government quarter]] of [[Oslo]], [[Norway]], killing 8 people.
*In 2013, Afghan security forces intercepted a truck bomb deployed by the [[Haqqani network|Haqqanis]]. It was the largest truck bomb ever built, with some 61,500 lbs of explosives.<ref>{{Cite web |title=HAQQANI NETWORK |url=https://www.dni.gov/nctc/groups/haqqani_network.html |access-date=2023-09-18 |website=www.dni.gov}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2013-11-13 |title='Block-Buster' Truck Bomb One of the Biggest Ever |url=https://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/afghanistan-block-buster-truck-bomb-biggest/story?id=20863072 |access-date=2023-09-18 |website=ABC News |language=en}}</ref> It was ultimately defused. The bomb was over 10 times the size of the car bomb used on the Murrah Building in Oklahoma City. While the bomb was not detonated, it caused security changes throughout the region and the closure of the US Army base FOB Goode near Gardez.<ref>{{Cite conference |last1=Kemper |first1=Bart |date=January 2019 |title=Blast Modeling for Facility Security Management |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/330741964 |conference=ISEE 45th Annual Conference on Explosives and Blasting Techniques |page=6}}</ref>
*During June 2015, in [[Ramadi]], [[Iraq]], a vehicle-borne [[Improvised explosive device|IED]] resulted in the collapse of an 8-story tall building during battle between the [[Iraqi Army|Iraqi military]] and [[Islamic State|Daesh (ISIS)]]. The Daesh truck bomb was fired upon by a [[rocket-propelled grenade]] to detonate it.{{sfn|Kaaman|2019|page=5}}
*On 30 August 2016, Kurdish female soldier from YPJ, [[Asia Ramazan Antar]], was killed in [[Manbij offensive (2016)|Manbij offensive]], when ISIS suicide bombers drove cars filled with explosives towards the Kurdish front. 
*On 16 October 2017, Maltese journalist and blogger [[Daphne Caruana Galizia]] died in a car bomb attack.<ref name="tom2017-10-16">{{cite news|title=Daphne Caruana Galizia killed in Bidnija car blast|url=https://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20171016/local/car-goes-up-in-flames-in-bidnija.660575|work=[[Times of Malta]]|date=16 October 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171016160502/https://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20171016/local/car-goes-up-in-flames-in-bidnija.660575|archive-date=16 October 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref>
*On 25 December 2020, a [[2020 Nashville bombing|car bomb was detonated]] in downtown [[Nashville, Tennessee]], injuring at least 8 and killing the perpetrator, Anthony Quinn Warner.
* On 14 November 2021, a [[Liverpool Women's Hospital bombing|car bomb exploded]] outside of a women's hospital in [[Liverpool]] after a man detonated an IED suicide vest inside a taxi, killing him and severely injuring the driver.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2022/08/21/daughter-putins-rasputin-alexander-dugin-killed-mystery-moscow/ | title=Liverpool explosion: Three arrested under Terrorism Act after car blast at hospital | newspaper=BBC News | date=15 November 2021 }}</ref>
* During the [[Russian invasion of Ukraine]], [[Ukrainian resistance during the Russian invasion of Ukraine|Ukrainian partisans]] have made extensive use of vehicular bomb attacks on Russian and collaborative officials in occupied areas, such as in the [[2022 Crimean Bridge explosion]]
*On 20 August 2022, [[Aleksandr Dugin]]'s daughter, [[Darya Dugina]], was killed in [[Bolshiye Vyazyomy]], [[Moscow Oblast]] by a bomb placed on Dugin's car.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2022/08/21/daughter-putins-rasputin-alexander-dugin-killed-mystery-moscow/ | title=Daughter of 'Putin's Rasputin' Alexander Dugin killed in mystery Moscow car bomb | newspaper=The Telegraph | date=21 August 2022 | last1=Kilner | first1=James }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last1=Roth |first1=Andrew |last2=Farrer |first2=Martin |date=2022-08-21 |title=Daughter of Putin ally Alexander Dugin killed by car bomb in Moscow |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/21/daughter-of-putin-ally-alexander-dugin-killed-in-car-bomb-in-moscow-reports |access-date=2024-07-30 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref>
*In late February 2023, it was reported that the [[Russian Army]] attempted to use a [[MT-LB]] filled with [[OFAB-100-120]] aerial bombs and mine-clearing charges from the [[UR-77]] vehicle against Ukrainian positions.<ref>{{cite web |title=Russia uses explosive-equipped armored vehicles to blow up Ukrainian positions |url=https://mil.in.ua/en/news/russia-uses-explosive-equipped-armored-vehicles-to-blow-up-ukrainian-positions/ |website=Militarnyi |access-date=3 September 2023}}</ref> 
*On 18 June 2023, the Russian Army was documented as using a [[T-55 tank]] filled with approximately 6 tons of high explosives against entrenched [[Ukrainian Ground Forces|Ukrainian Forces]] near [[Marinka, Ukraine|Marinka]], [[Donetsk Oblast]] with the intent of clearing the trenches.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Axe |first1=David |title=The Russians Packed A Robotic T-55 Tank With Explosives And Rolled It Toward Ukrainian Lines |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2023/06/18/the-russians-packed-a-robotic-t-55-tank-with-explosives-and-rolled-it-toward-ukrainian-lines/?sh=5a9a5c9e2f86 |website=Forbes |access-date=3 September 2023 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Newdick |first1=Thomas |title=Ancient Russian T-54 Tank Turned Into Rolling Bomb Explodes In Massive Shockwave |url=https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/ancient-russian-t-54-55-tank-turned-into-rolling-bomb-explodes-in-massive-shockwave |website=The Drive |access-date=3 September 2023 |language=en |date=19 June 2023}}</ref>
*On 10 September 2023, it was reported that Ukraine's [[128th Mountain Assault Brigade (Ukraine)|128th Mountain Assault Brigade]] converted a captured [[T-62 tank]] into a VBIED filled with 1.5 tons of explosives and drove it against Russian positions in the [[Zaporizhzhia Oblast|Zaporizhzhia region]]. The tank hit a mine and exploded before it could reach the enemy positions.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Baker |first1=Sinéad |title=Ukraine hit Russia with one of its own prized tactics — turning an old, captured tank into a giant rolling bomb |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/ukraine-uses-russia-tactic-turning-tank-rolling-bomb-against-it-2023-9?r=US&IR=T |access-date=15 September 2023 |work=Business Insider}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Baker |first1=Sinéad |title=The guy who drove a rolling tank bomb at Russian soldiers jammed the accelerator down before jumping out of a hatch, Ukraine says |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/ukraine-rolling-tank-bomb-driver-jammed-accelerator-jumped-out-hatch-2023-9 |access-date=15 September 2023 |work=Business Insider}}</ref>
*On 13 July 2024, [[Thomas Matthew Crooks]] [[Attempted assassination of Donald Trump in Pennsylvania|attempted to assassinate]] [[Donald Trump]], the former president of the United States, at a campaign rally near [[Butler, Pennsylvania]]. Crooks attempt was unsuccessful and he was killed in the process. Following his death, investigators found explosive devices in the trunk of his car, suggesting he planned to set off an explosion remotely as a possible distraction.<ref>{{cite news|date=15 July 2024|title=A shooting range, a gun store, and a ladder purchase: Tracking the Trump rally gunman's movements leading up to his attack|work=[[CNN]]|url=https://edition.cnn.com/2024/07/15/us/thomas-crooks-trump-rally-shooting-invs/index.html|access-date=16 July 2024}}</ref>
*On January 1, 2025, at approximately 8:39 a.m. PST, a [[2025 Las Vegas Cybertruck explosion|Tesla Cybertruck exploded]] outside the main entrance of the Trump International Hotel in [[Las Vegas]]. The driver, identified as 37-year-old U.S. Army Special Forces Sergeant Matthew Alan Livelsberger from Colorado Springs, Colorado, died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound just before the explosion. Seven bystanders sustained minor injuries from the blast.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Danner |first=Chas |date=2025-01-06 |title=What We Know About the Cybertruck Explosion at Trump's Las Vegas Hotel |url=https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/cybertruck-explosion-trump-las-vegas-hotel-what-we-know.html?utm_campaign=feed-part&utm_medium=social_acct&utm |access-date=2025-02-11 |website=Intelligencer |language=en}}</ref>