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 3729 terrorist incidents has been recorded, in which 1745 people have been killed and 3134 injured. Among them were 5 suicide acts.

In 595 incedents a total of 1852 people have been kidnapped or taken as hostage, though a ransom was rarely (85 times) extorted.

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Most frequent attack targets in India

(2012 to 2016)

Target	Attacks	Killed	Injured	Hostages
Private citizens	1007	760	1,163	1,203
Police	805	690	1,224	76
Government	515	161	189	186
Business	450	96	329	538
Transportation	174	26	171	70
Military	150	72	154	4
Educational institution	127	11	57	41
Political parties	76	35	192	17
Religious institutions	55	13	36	6
Telecommunication	52	3	6	2

Most affected regions

(2012 to 2016)

Region	Attacks	Killed	Injured	Hostages
Chhattisgarh	518	378	387	519
Manipur	509	88	343	136
Jammu and Kashmir	491	253	672	24
Jharkhand	390	206	230	291
Assam	357	186	393	140
Odisha	291	131	99	193
Bihar	251	135	246	89
Meghalaya	218	81	100	168
Maharashtra	116	91	80	68
West Bengal	116	46	162	1
Tamil Nadu	86	15	82	1
Andhra Pradesh	70	45	136	42
Kerala	59	5	24	5
Uttar Pradesh	56	17	36	5
Madhya Pradesh	31	17	21	4
Nagaland	30	5	20	19
Punjab	25	18	26	4
Karnataka	22	5	24	11
Telangana	16	2	5	31
Tripura	14	4	8	27

Terrorist organisations in India

Organisation	Attacks	Killed	Injured	Hostages
Maoists	1068	559	526	893
Garo National Liberation Army	130	55	64	71
People's Liberation Front of India	36	41	14	18
Indian Mujahideen	21	7	84	0
Tehrik al-Mojahedin	8	0	34	0
Zeliangrong United Front	6	3	2	4
Communist Party of India- Marxist	6	1	5	0
United Revolutionary Front	6	5	19	0
Base Movement	5	0	5	0
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh	5	2	2	0
Al-Ummah	4	3	16	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.