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BEIJING, Nov. 10 (Xinhuanet) -- The death toll has climbed to at least 57 in a
series of blasts that rocked three hotels in the Jordanian capital of Amman
Wednesday night.
More than 120 others wounded in the blasts that struck the Grand Hyatt, the
Radisson SAS and the Days Inn hotels in downtown Amman.
Following are major terror attacks in the world after the Sept.11, 2001,
attacks:
On Oct. 12, 2002, two bombs ripped through a resort popular with foreigners
on the tourist island of Bali, Indonesia, killing 202 people and injuring at
least 330 others.
On Oct. 23, a group of Chechen gunmen seized a Moscow concert hall. During the
rescue of the hostages, more than 120 people were killed.
On May 12, 2003, three car bombings in the Saudi capital of Riyadh left 29
dead and nearly 200 injured.
On May 12 and 14, two blasts in Russia's Chechen districts of Nadterechny
and Gudermes claimed more than 70 lives and wounded more than 200 others.
On May 16, five bombings in Morocco's economic capital of Casablanca killed
41 people.
On July 5, at least 16 people were killed and more than 40 injured when
several blasts shook a popular rock festival at the Tushino airfield in
northwestern Moscow.
On Aug. 1, a truck bomb attack killed over 50 people and injured more than
80 others at a military hospital in the city of Mozdok in the Russian republic
of North Ossetia.
On Aug. 19, a terror bombing attack on the UN headquarters in Baghdad
killed 24 people with over 100 others wounded. The UN top envoy to Iraq, Sergio
Vieira de Mello, died in the attack.
On Aug. 25, two bombings in India's biggest financial and commercial city
of Bombay killed 52 people and injured 167 others.
On Aug. 29, a car bombing killed more than 100 people, including Iraq's top
Shiite Muslim leader Ayatollah Mohammed Baqeral-Hakim, and injured more than 200
others in Iraq's Shiite holy city of Najaf.
On Nov. 15, two car bombs rocked two synagogues in Istanbul, killing at
least 30 and injuring 300.
On Nov. 20, two suicide car bombs wrecked the British consulateand the HSBC
Bank headquarters in Istanbul, killing at least 30 and injuring 450.
On Feb. 1, 2004, twin suicide bombers killed 109 people in two Kurdish
party offices in Irbil, Iraq.
On March 2, explosions hit Shiite Muslim shrines in Karbala and Baghdad in
Iraq, killing at least 181.
On March 11, bomb explosions ripped through four commuter trains in Spain
and killed at least 192 people in the deadliest terror attacks in Spanish
history.
On Aug. 24, two Russian passenger jets crashed almost simultaneously after
taking off from Moscow's Domodedovo Airport, killing all of the 90 people on
board. Authorities blamed Chechen terrorists for the twin crashes.
On Sept. 1, heavily armed attackers stormed into a school in Beslan, North
Ossetia, in Russia and took children and others hostage. By the time the siege
ended two days later, a total of 331 people had died, with over 700 others
injured.
On Oct. 7, three car bombs exploded almost simultaneously at a hotel and
two coastal tourist camps along Egypt's border with Israel, killing 34 people,
including Israelis, Egyptians, Italiansand Russians.
On Feb. 28, 2005, a car bomb attack at a medical center in the Iraqi city
of Hilla, south of Baghdad, killed more than 110 civilians and wounded around
200.
On July 7 and 21, a series of explosions hit London subway and buses,
killing at least 56 and wounding 700 others in the deadliest terror attacks on
British soil in recent years.
On July 23, a series of blasts ripped through a luxury hotel and a coffee
shop in the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheik,killing at least 64
and wounding 124.
On Oct. 1, three blasts rocked the Indonesian tourist island ofBali,
killing at least 27 people, injuring 124 others.
On Oct. 29, a total of 59 people were killed and over 200 others injured in
three bomb blasts in New Delhi, India.
On Nov. 2, at least 20 Iraqis were killed and dozens of others wounded by a
car bomb blast in the southern Iraqi town of Musa. Enditem | 
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