Five attacks on sporting events

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PARIS: Three explosions targeting the Borussia Dortmund team bus left one person injured and forced the postponement of Tuesday’s Champions League match against Monaco in Germany.Here are other attacks that have rocked sporting events.

Here are other attacks that have rocked sporting events.

Six Pakistani police and two civilians were killed when gunmen opened fire on a bus carrying Sri Lanka’s national cricket team on March 3, 2009, ahead of the third day’s play of a Test match against Pakistan in Lahore. The attack was blamed on a Pakistani militant group.

Pakistani policemen stand guard as a bus carrying security personnel enters The Gaddafi Stadium after masked gunmen attacked the Sri Lankan team in Lahore on March 3, 2009. Masked gunmen opened fire on the Sri Lankan cricket team's bus in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore, killing at least eight people and wounding six team members, police said. PHOTO: AFP

Eleven Israeli athletes perished at the 1972 Munich Games after gunmen from the Palestinian Black September group broke into the Olympic village on September 5 and took them hostage. Two athletes were immediately shot dead with nine more killed, as well as a police officer, in a bungled rescue operation.

A Palestinian guerrilla member (C) appears on the balcony of the Israeli house watching an official (L) at the Munich Olympic village in 1972 . PHOTO: AFP

Three people were killed, including Togo’s assistant manager, and nine others injured when the Togolese team bus was attacked by gunmen from a separatist group on January 8, 2010, as it travelled through the volatile Angolan province of Cabinda ahead of the Africa Cup of Nations tournament.

A picture grabbed on the Televisao Publico de Angola channel shows Emmanuel Adebayor in Cabinda. PHOTO: AFP

Three suicide bombers targeted the French national stadium on November 13, 2015, as France hosted Germany in an international friendly on a night that Paris was rocked by a series of deadly coordinated attacks. One man was killed by an explosion outside the ground. The attacks around Paris left 130 dead.
Spectators wait on the pitch of the Stade de France stadium in Seine-Saint-Denis, Paris' suburb on November 13, 2015 after a series of gun attacks occurred across Paris as well as explosions outside the national stadium where France was hosting Germany. At least 18 people were killed, with at least 15 people had been killed at the Bataclan concert hall in central Paris, only around 200 metres from the former offices of Charlie Hebdo which were attacked by jihadists in January. AFP PHOTO / MATTHIEU ALEXANDRE (Photo credit should read MATTHIEU ALEXANDRE/AFP/Getty Images)
Revellers were enjoying a rock concert during the Olympic Games at Atlanta’s Centennial Park when a pipe bomb exploded in the early hours of July 27, 1996, killing two people and injuring more than 100. A US extremist Eric Rudolph was jailed for the attack.

This 27 July 1996 file photo shows a general view of the scene of an explosion which rocked Centennial Park, built for visitors to the Olympic Games in downtown Atlanta, Georgia. The Federal Bureau of Investigation 31 May 2003 arrested Eric Rudolph, accused of planting a bomb that killed two people and injured scores more at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, Georgia, an FBI spokesman said. Rudolph, 36, was arrested in North Carolina, according to FBI spokesman John Iannarelli. He had made the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list on accusations that he had also planted bombs at a gay nightclub and an abortion clinic. Local police in Murphy, North Carolina initially apprehended Rudolph at a municipal trash dump 31 May. Fingerprints confirmed his identity, Iannarelli said. AFP PHOTO Georges GOBET (Photo credit should read GEORGES GOBET/AFP/Getty Images)

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