Five attacks on sporting events

PARIS: Three explosions targetting 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:



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. 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. PHOTO: AFP



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. PHOTO: AFP