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Some of the most recent major attacks in Europe
The deadly attack Thursday at a Bastille Day celebration in Nice, France, is the latest in a string of attacks in Europe in recent years. Here are some of the most recent major ones:
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Ambulances line up near the scene of an attack after a truck drove on to the sidewalk and plowed through a crowd of revelers who'd gathered to watch the fireworks in the French resort city of Nice, southern France, July 15. (AP/Claude Paris)
The deadly attack Thursday at a Bastille Day celebration in Nice, France, is the latest in a string of attacks in Europe in recent years. Here are some of the most recent major ones:
—July 14, 2016: A truck plows through Bastille Day revelers in Nice, killing dozens of people.
—March 22, 2016: Suicide attacks on the Brussels airport and subway kill 32 and injure hundreds. The perpetrators have been closely linked to the group that carried out the attacks in Paris.
— Nov. 13, 2015: 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.
— Feb. 14, 2015: 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.
— Jan. 7-9, 2015: A gun assault on the Paris offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and an attack on a kosher grocery store kills 17 people. Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula claims responsibility for the attack, saying it was in revenge for Charlie Hebdo's depictions of the Prophet Muhammad.
— May 24, 2014: 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.
— May 22, 2013: Two al-Qaeda-inspired extremists run down British soldier Lee Rigby in a London street, then stab and hack him to death.
— March 2012: A gunman claiming links to al-Qaeda kills three Jewish schoolchildren, a rabbi and three paratroopers in Toulouse, southern France.
— July 22, 2011: 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.
— Nov. 2, 2011: 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.
— March 2, 2011: Islamic extremist Arid Uka shoots dead two US airmen and injures two others at Frankfurt airport after apparently being inspired by a fake internet video purporting to show American atrocities in Afghanistan.
— July 7, 2005: 52 commuters are killed in London when four al Qaeda-inspired suicide bombers blow themselves up on three subway trains and a bus.
— March 11, 2004: Bombs on four Madrid commuter trains in the morning rush hour kill 191 people.
