Terror attacks in major European cities

Europe's major cities are increasingly on high alert for terror attack after more than two decades of militants attacking the public.

London, Paris, Berlin, Brussels - Europe's big cities are increasingly on high alert for terror attacks.

LONDON - March 22, 2017: Two people are dead and many are injured when a car mounts the footpath on Westminster Bridge before a man stabs a police officer with a knife at Westminster Palace.

PARIS - February/March 2017: Soldiers managed to stop an attempted attack at Paris Orly airport by shooting a man who tried to take a patrolling soldier's gun. In early February, a soldier on patrol shot an Egyptian assailant wielding a machete.

BERLIN - December 2016: Germany's capital was the scene of an attack which killed 12 people when a supporter of Islamic State steered a truck into a crowded Christmas market. The suspect, a 24-year-old Tunisian man, was shot by police near Milan a few days later.

NICE, FRANCE - July 2016: At least 86 people died when an attacker drove a truck into the crowded beach-front Promenade des Anglais. Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack.

BRUSSELS - March 2016: Islamist attackers set off several bombs at the airport of the Belgian capital and in a metro station, killing 32 people.

ISTANBUL - January 2016: An Islamic State suicide attacker killed 12 Germans when they blew themselves up in the middle of a tourist group near the Hagia Sophia and the Blue Mosque.

PARIS - November 2015: In a coordinated series of attacks on the Stade de France football stadium, several restaurants and the Bataclan music venue, Islamic State supporters killed 130 people and injured hundreds more.

COPENHAGEN - February 2015: A 22-year-old opened fire on a cafe in the Danish capital, killing one person. He then shot and killed a man guarding a synagogue before being shot himself by police.

PARIS - January 2015: Seventeen people died in an attack on the offices of Charlie Hebdo magazine and a kosher supermarket. Both attackers were later killed by police. Terror organisation Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) claimed responsibility.

BRUSSELS - May 2014: A French Islamist was arrested after shooting four people in the Jewish Museum of Belgium. The gunman was a self-proclaimed jihadist and had previously fought in Syria.

LONDON - July 2005: Four British Muslims set off bombs on the London Underground rail system and on a bus. The attacks killed 56 people and injured around 700.

MADRID - March 2004: Around 191 people died and 1500 were injured when coordinated bombs went off on Spanish commuter trains.


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