The deadly suicide bombing in Manchester, England, that killed 22 people and injured 59 others at an Ariana Grande concert Monday night is one of several terror attacks that have taken place in the U.K. in recent years.
The British people have endured politically-motivated attacks, attacks by right-wing extremists and attacks by Islamic extremists over the last few decades. It isn't the first attack of the UK, another attacks have happened in the past few years
The British people have endured politically-motivated attacks, attacks by right-wing extremists and attacks by Islamic extremists over the last few decades. It isn't the first attack of the UK, another attacks have happened in the past few years
-April 1999: David Copeland bombings
David Copeland was convicted in 2000 of killing three people and injuring 139 others after perpetrating a series of nail-bombing attacks that took place across the month of April 1999, according to reports by BBC News
-July 7, 2005: London Underground attack
Four suicide bombers armed with explosives attacked
civilians traveling on London Underground trains. More than 50 people
were killed and hundreds of others were injured.
-May 22, 2013: Murder of Lee Rigby
Two Islamic extremists murdered Lee Rigby, a British soldier
and veteran of the Afghanistan War, just outside an army barrack,
telling eyewitnesses the killing was "as an eye for an eye ... because
Muslims are dying by British soldiers every day".
-Dec. 5, 2015: Leytonstone knife attack
Shortly after the Paris attacks in November of 2015, a 29-year-old man,
Muhaydin Mire, was arrested for attempted murder after
trying to stab people in the Leytonstone metro station with a knife.
-March 22, 2017: Westminster Bridge attack
Three people were killed, including a police officer, and at least 29
people were hospitalized following an attack in London that took place
earlier this year. The attack began when a driver struck pedestrians and three police
officers on Westminster Bridge.
-May 23, 2017: Manchester suicide bombing
ISIS claimed responsibility for the deadly explosion at the Ariana
Grande concert in Manchester, England, Monday evening. Twenty-two people
died and 59 others were injured in the attack.
The attacker died at the scene after using an improvised explosive
device.
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