Attacks on transport

6–11 August 2011 riots in cities and towns across England

On August 22, 2025, Iryna Zarutska, a 23-year-old Ukrainian woman, was killed at the East/West Boulevard station on the Lynx Blue Line, in Charlotte, North Carolina, United States. Zarutska, a Ukrainian refugee who had fled her country because of the Russian invasion, was fatally stabbed from behind while seated on the train. The suspect, Decarlos Dejuan Brown Jr., was arrested upon exiting the train and charged with first-degree murder. In December 2025, he was determined to be incapable of proceeding to trial on state charges.

mass shooting in Brooklyn subway

Racial slur followed by murder on a train in Portland, Oregon

political assassination in Madrid, Spain