Wednesday, December 3, 2008

4100 terror attacks in India since 1970

India has experienced over 4100 terror attacks since 1970

Wed, Dec 3 01:35 PM

Washington, Dec.3 (ANI): A University of Maryland study has claimed that India has experienced over 4100 terror attacks since 1970.

According to the university's Global Terrorism Database (GTD), which the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) maintains, the number of fatalities number in the thousands.

This information is freely available online.

The GTD is the most comprehensive and detailed open-source terrorism database available. Funding comes from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

The GTD statistical summary on terrorism in India is as follows:

India has experienced 4,108 terrorist incidents occurring between 1970 and 2004.

During this period, India ranked sixth among all countries in terms of terrorist incidents (behind Peru, Colombia, El Salvador, the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland and Spain). more

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