Western Europe Accounted For 1% Of Terror Victims In 2016

People gather around an impromptu memorial a day after a van crashed into pedestrians at Las Ramblas in Barcelona, Spain August 18, 2017. Sergio Perez, Reuters

AFP: W. Europe had less than 1% of terror victims in 2016: study

Western Europe accounted for less than one percent of the 34,676 people killed in terror attacks in 2016 and only two percent of attacks, according to a new report.

The Middle East and North Africa bore the brunt of last year's extremist violence, according to figures from the Global Terrorism Database maintained by the University of Maryland.

The report offers a different perspective after carnage in France, Britain and other European countries including Spain, where police are probing a terror cell behind attacks last week.

Western Europe suffered two percent of the attacks in 2016 -- 269 out of a total of 13,488 -- and fewer than one percent of victims: 238 out of 34,676 (0.7 percent).

In contrast, terror attacks killed 19,121 people in north Africa and the Middle East -- 55 percent of the total.

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