75 percent of terrorist attacks in 2016 occurred in 10 countries

 75 percent of terrorist attacks in 2016 occurred in 10 countries



The Berri News Agency reported that 75% of the terrorist attacks in 10 countries of the world occurred in 2016.

The agency reported in its report, «Journal News» that a truck bomb exploded between a crowd of citizens to watch fireworks in the French city of Nice. With an announcement claiming responsibility for the attack that killed 86 people and injured 433 others. But statistically, this attack is one of 36 fatal attacks in 2016 in the West.

Terrorist and death tolls for 2016 have fallen even as other statistics rise, according to new data released this month by the global terrorism database, the number of hostages held has doubled. Seven of the 10 attacks, including kidnappings and detentions of civilians, were also reported to be hostage, with more than 100 victims killed each.

"These attacks in the West are still a minority, a very small minority of the attacks we see," IRIN program director Eren Miller said. "It is clear that these major attacks are of great interest because they are unusual and worthy of filming, and that the Middle East remains in the background of the great vision."

The terrorist attacks have economic, social and religious goals, the agency said. Adding that the most deadly attack occurred in the Karrada-Baghdad district in 2016, near the end of Ramadan, and in a shopping mall full of citizens, when a suicide bomber detonated a truck full of explosives, killing 382 and wounding 200 others. In Syria, a preacher launched an attack in the city of Palmyra, killing 421 people, but 301 of them were Da'ash fighters who were killed during the battle against Syrian forces.

The agency said that the researcher and political analyst at the center of the statement in Baghdad, a fisherman, was in a hotel close to the night of the bombing. In a blog article, he spoke about the price of living in a country where terrorism is a daily threat. "We suddenly felt the bomb shudder and a loud explosion," he said. "We concluded it was close." "Living in Baghdad means learning to differentiate between real bombs or just a sound bomb."

Most attacks occurred in only 10 countries

Massive terrorist attacks that kill 50 or more people are extremely rare, accounting for only half of all incidents, the agency said. Last year, 72 attacks killed more than 50 people. With 75% of terrorist attacks in ten countries (Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, India, Pakistan, Philippines, Somalia, Turkey, Nigeria). "You will get very different numbers depending on where the data are collected and what language you speak," said Mia Blum, a communications professor at Georgia State University.

Deaths occur in only 5 countries

Globally, 34,623 people died of terrorist attacks in 2016, concentrated in only five countries (Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Nigeria, Somalia)

Iraq is the leader in the number of deaths, accounting for 35 percent of all deaths worldwide, equivalent to 33 deaths every day. Six out of the 10 worst terrorist attacks in Iraq in 2016 have been recorded, as well as statistics that 40% of attacks do not result in casualties.

In India, there were 126 terrorist bombings across India, and about 111 bombings did not result in deaths. Citing the report that terrorist groups bombed a school in northeastern India, which was used as an electoral polling station, preventing citizens from participating in local elections. In the Philippines, the Abu Sayyaf terrorist group carried out 23 kidnappings, of which $ 602,775 was ransom. In addition to the organization of Daqash, the most active terrorist group in 2016, it has carried out 1430 attacks in Syria and Iraq.

"The aim of publishing the figures and statistics is to create a shock effect in the world's population and to change their idea of ​​sympathy for terrorism wherever and how it was," the agency concluded.

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