Terrorism in India

The risk of terrorist attacks in India over the past years can be classified as very high. Compared to other countries here are quite a lot and also momentous incedents. Over the past 5 years a total number of 4043 terrorist incidents has been recorded, in which 1906 people have been killed and 3164 injured. Among them were 8 suicide acts.

In 670 incedents a total of 1939 people have been kidnapped or taken as hostage, though a ransom was rarely (93 times) extorted.

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Most frequent attack targets in India

(2013 to 2017)

Target	Attacks	Killed	Injured	Hostages
Private citizens	1109	838	1,226	1,306
Police	906	730	1,197	71
Government	526	170	194	207
Business	523	102	321	515
Transportation	186	69	252	71
Military	136	72	129	4
Educational institution	120	12	54	38
Political parties	95	43	199	19
Religious institutions	58	18	37	9
Telecommunication	55	3	6	2

Most affected regions

(2013 to 2017)

Region	Attacks	Killed	Injured	Hostages
Jammu and Kashmir	650	343	794	63
Chhattisgarh	606	435	382	547
Manipur	473	84	301	146
Jharkhand	418	196	190	304
Assam	331	183	332	115
Bihar	275	135	227	103
Odisha	252	127	95	204
Meghalaya	212	70	92	167
West Bengal	193	41	181	4
Maharashtra	108	80	73	64
Andhra Pradesh	82	85	213	50
Tamil Nadu	79	9	67	1
Uttar Pradesh	69	22	38	5
Kerala	68	5	20	5
Nagaland	34	7	21	20
Punjab	33	34	38	4
Madhya Pradesh	29	18	31	4
Karnataka	25	7	25	11
Telangana	24	4	5	32
Tripura	13	5	8	24

Terrorist organisations in India

Organisation	Attacks	Killed	Injured	Hostages
Maoists	1101	541	518	904
Garo National Liberation Army	103	45	59	54
People's Liberation Front of India	46	46	16	22
Indian Mujahideen	16	7	83	0
Zeliangrong United Front	12	2	3	7
Khasi Students Union	10	2	2	0
Tehrik al-Mojahedin	10	3	45	0
Hindu extremists	7	0	5	0
United Revolutionary Front	6	5	19	0
Islamic State	5	0	10	0
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh	5	2	2	0

All information sourced from the "National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism" (START) and its Global Terrorism Database. An act of terrorism is concidered every incident which is aimed at attaining a political, economic, religious, or social goal, but not for pure profit motives. In addition these incidents must not be legitimized by warfare activities, listet in the Geneva Conventions of 1949.