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Terrorism

Volume 471: debated on Monday 4 February 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many UK citizens were (a) injured and (b) killed abroad as a result of terrorist activity in each of the last 10 years, broken down by country in which such incidents occurred. (178913)

Our records show that the number of UK citizens injured and killed aboard as a consequence of terrorist activity in each of the last 10 years, broken down by the country in which the incidents occurred, is as follows:

Number of deaths

Number injured

Afghanistan

1

0

Russia

4

0

Greece

1

0

USA

67

0

Indonesia

29

33

Turkey

4

19

Iraq

64

81

Saudi Arabia

6

1

Spain

0

5

Egypt

11

7

Qatar

1

0

Israel

1

0

Jordan

1

0

Thailand

0

4

Pakistan

0

1

Maldives

0

2

Bangladesh

0

1

Sri Lanka

0

2

These figures are for both British and dual British nationals. They include British nationals working for private security firms killed or injured in Iraq or Afghanistan, but do not include British nationals who were killed or injured in the armed forces.

To the best of our knowledge the figures provided are accurate. However, it is possible that we are unaware of some cases, especially injuries. Prior to 2001 we did not keep separate statistics for deaths and injury as a result of terrorist incidents.