WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of terror attacks worldwide shot up by 35 percent between 2013 and 2014, with an 81 percent jump in the number of deaths.
That’s according to the State Department’s annual global terrorism report. It says nearly 33,000 people were killed in almost 13,500 terrorist attacks around the world in 2014. That’s up from just over 18,000 deaths in nearly 10,000 attacks in 2013.
The report says the rise in attacks is because of increased terror activity in Iraq, Afghanistan and Nigeria. It blames the sharp spike in deaths to a growth in exceptionally lethal attacks.
There were 20 attacks that killed more than 100 people each in 2014, compared to just two in 2013, according to the report released Friday.
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