Incident Date:
March 17, 2002
Incident Successful: Yes
Location: Islamabad Pakistan
Perpetrators:
Event Type: Armed Assault
Weapon Type(s): Explosives/Bombs/Dynamite (Grenade (not RPG))
Organization Type:
Suicide Attack: No
Hoax: No
Violent Extremism:
Doubt Terror: No
Target Information
1- Religious Figures/Institutions(Places of Worship)
Canadian Target: No
Canadian Victim: Yes
Canadian Perpetrator: No
By foreigners against foreign target(s) in Canada:
Victims: 5 fatalities, 45 injuries
Perpetrators: 2 involved, 0 fatalities, 0 injuries
Description: "03/17/2002: Two attackers threw grenades in the Protestant International Church in Islamabad's diplomatic compound between the U.S. and Chinese Embassies. Five people were killed and another forty-five wounded. The dead included two Americans, a Pakistani, an Afghan and an unidentified body that was most likely one of the attackers. The injured were mostly Americans and Pakistanis, with Iranians, Afghans, Swiss, Britons, Australians, Canadians, and an Iraqi. The attack was most likely carried out by members of one of the Pakistani extremists groups, though Pakistani sources suggest either India's Research and Analysis Wing (RAW)- the Indian intelligence organization or intra-Christian Protestant-Catholic conflicts."
References: 1) RAND-MIPT
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