13,400 terrorist attacks around world in 2016

The National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) has published an overview on terrorism in 2016, Sky News reported Wednesday.

In 2016, more than 13,400 terrorist attacks took place around the world, resulting in more than 34,000 total deaths, including more than 11,600 perpetrator deaths. This represents a 9 percent decrease in the total number of terrorist attacks, and a 10 percent decrease in the total number of deaths, in comparison to 2015.

Terrorism in Western Europe continued to comprise a very small proportion of global terrorism in 2016 - 2 percent of all attacks, and less than 1 percent of all deaths that resulted from terrorist attacks around the world.

Although terrorist attacks took place in 108 countries in 2016, they were heavily concentrated geographically. The vast majority of attacks (87%) and deaths (97%) occurred in the Middle East & North Africa, South Asia, and Sub-Saharan Africa.

Ten of the 11 deadliest terrorist attacks in 2016 took place in the Middle East & North Africa, including nine in Iraq.

Three of these exceptionally deadly terrorist attacks were bombings, including the deadliest attack in 2016, in which a suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden vehicle at a shopping center in the Karada neighborhood of Baghdad in July, killing at least 382 people and wounding 200 others.

Source : Mena