1992 Houari Boumédiène Airport bombings

Terrorist incident in Algeria Houari Boumédiène Airport bombings Algiers, Algeria 26 August 1992 Algerian Civil War 9 123 Armed Islamic Group of Algeria On 26 August 1992 in Algiers, Algeria, two bombs exploded and another was defused.Bomb kills 9, injures 100 at Algiers airport The first exploded at Houari Boumedienne Airport, killing 9 people and injuring another 123. The bomb destroyed the Air France counter, wounding two of the carrier's employees. The airport was closed temporarily.Associated Press 1992-08-27 Blast at Algiers Airport Kills 9 and Wounds 100 en-US The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/1992/08/27/world/blast-at-algiers-airport-kills-9-and-wounds-100.html 2023-03-05 0362-4331 A few minutes later, another exploded near an Air France office in central Algiers; it did not cause any injuries because the area had been evacuated three minutes before it exploded. A third bomb, at a Swissair office in central Algiers, was defused. No group claimed responsibility for the bombings, which took place during the Algerian Civil War, but officials said that the airport bombing was carried out by the Armed Islamic Group of Algeria (GIA). On 26 May 1993, 38 people (26 in absentia) were sentenced to death for their roles in the airport bombing; 17 others were imprisoned and another three acquitted.Algerian court sentences 38 to death in airport bombing See also List of terrorist incidents, 1992 References Category:1992 murders in Algeria Category:Terrorist incidents in Africa in 1992 Category:Algiers in the Algerian Civil War Category:Terrorist incidents in Algeria in the 1990s Category:Improvised explosive device bombings in Algiers Category:Terrorist attacks on airports in Africa Category:Islamic terrorist incidents in 1992 Category:Islamic terrorism in Algeria Category:August 1992 in Africa Category:20th-century mass murders in Algeria Category:Mass murders in Algiers Category:Building bombings in Algeria Category:1992 building bombings Category:Airport bombings in Africa Category:Armed Islamic Group of Algeria attacks