Terrorist Attacks Against Emergency Medical Services: Secondary Attacks are an Emerging Risk.
Cindy T J SchmeitzDennis G BartenKevin W Y van BarneveldHarald G De CauwerLuc MortelmansFrits van OschJaap WijnandsEdward C TanArjen BoinPublished in: Prehospital and disaster medicine (2022)
This analysis of the GTD, which identified 184 terrorist attacks against EMS over a 50-year period, demonstrates that terrorist attacks against EMS have significantly increased during the years and that secondary attacks are an emerging risk. Bombings and explosions are the most common attack type. Terrorist attacks against EMS are most prevalent in countries with high level of internal conflicts, however, they have also occurred in western countries. These incidents may hold valuable information to prevent future attacks.