As of 2026-10-12, 1983 Beirut barracks bombing tops the list with 307 deaths.
- #1 1983 Beirut barracks bombing — 307 deaths
Suicide bombing attack
On October 23, 1983, two truck bombs were detonated at buildings in Beirut, Lebanon, housing American and French service members of the Multinational Force in Lebanon (MNF), a military peacekeeping operation during the Lebanese Civil War. The attack killed 307 people: 241 U.S. and 58 French military personnel, six civilians and two of the attackers. Read more on Wikipedia.
Wikidata - #2 2016 Nice attack — 87 deaths
islamist terrorist attack in France on 14 July 2016
On the evening of 14 July 2016, a 19-tonne cargo truck was deliberately driven into crowds of people celebrating Bastille Day on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice, France, resulting in the deaths of 86 people and injuring 458 others. The driver was Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, a Tunisian living in France. The attack ended following an exchange of gunfire, during which he was shot and killed by police. Read more on Wikipedia.
Wikidata - #3 1981 Iraqi embassy bombing — 61 deaths
1981 Islamist terror attack in Beirut, Lebanon
On December 15, 1981, the Iraqi Shi'a Islamist group al-Dawa carried out a suicide car bombing targeting the Iraqi embassy in Beirut, Lebanon. The explosion leveled the embassy and killed 61 people, including Iraq's ambassador to Lebanon, and injured at least 100 others. Read more on Wikipedia.
Wikidata - #4 2019 Pulwama attack — 41 deaths
terrorist attack
The 2019 Pulwama attack occurred on 14 February 2019, when a convoy of vehicles carrying Indian security personnel on the Jammu–Srinagar National Highway was attacked by a vehicle-borne suicide bomber at Lethapora in the Pulwama district of the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir. The attack killed 40 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel as well as the perpetrator — Adil Ahmad Dar— who was a local Kashmiri youth from the Pulwama district. The responsibility for the attack was... Read more on Wikipedia.
Wikidata - #5 2024 Zhuhai car attack — 38 deaths
car attack in China, November 2024
On 11 November 2024, 62-year-old Fan Weiqiu drove his SUV into people on the exercise track at the Zhuhai Stadium sports center in Zhuhai, Guangdong, China, killing 38 and injuring 48 more. Weiqiu then attempted to kill himself with a knife; he was taken into custody and sent to a hospital. Weiqiu was believed to have been motivated by anger over a recent divorce settlement. He was sentenced to death in December 2024, and executed on 20 January 2025. Read more on Wikipedia.
Wikidata - #6 Eugen Grigore case — 24 deaths
revenge attack in Romania on July 1974
In July 1974, Romanian truck driver Eugen Grigore drove his cargo truck into a group of tents belonging to Romani nomads, killing 24 people and injuring 50 others. Grigore served approximately 27 years in prison. The case was not publicized at the time due to suppression by the Romanian state. Read more on Wikipedia.
Wikidata - #7 2025 New Orleans truck attack — 15 deaths
vehicle ramming attack in New Orleans, Louisiana, US
On January 1, 2025, an Islamist domestic terrorist attack occurred when Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a 42-year-old African-American Muslim man, rammed a pickup truck into a crowd on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, Louisiana, then exited the truck and engaged in a shootout with police before being fatally shot. Fourteen victims were killed, plus the perpetrator, and at least fifty-seven others were injured, including two police officers who were shot. The attack occurred during New Year celebrations in... Read more on Wikipedia.
Wikidata - #8 2025 Jinhua car attack — 14 deaths
vehicle-ramming attack in Jinhua, China
On April 22, 2025, a vehicle-ramming attack took place at an elementary school in Jinhua, Zhejiang, China, when a woman drove her car into pedestrians, killing multiple people and seriously injuring more than a dozen others. Among the victims were officers, parents, and nine students. Read more on Wikipedia.
Wikidata - #9 2017 Catalonia attacks — 14 deaths
jihadist terrorist attacks in Catalonia, Spain in August 2017
On the afternoon of 17 August 2017, 22-year-old Younes Abouyaaqoub drove a van into a crowd of pedestrians on La Rambla street in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, killing 13 people and injuring at least 130 others, one of whom died as a result of the injuries ten days later, on 27 August. Abouyaaqoub fled the attack on foot, then killed another person in order to steal the victim's car and escape. He was later killed by police in Subirats, a town 31 kilometres (19 mi) west of Barcelona, on 21... Read more on Wikipedia.
Wikidata - #10 2017 La Rambla attack — 14 deaths source Wikidata