A pick-up truck driver ploughed into cyclists and pedestrians in New York last night, killing eight people in the first deadly "act of terror" in the city since 11 September 2001.
Vehicles have previously been used as weapons of terror, often by supporters of the Islamic State militant group, attacking nations in the US-led coalition fighting the jihadists in Iraq and Syria.
Barcelona
On 17 August, a driver deliberately ran a van into crowds on Barcelona's popular Las Ramblas Boulevard, in what police described a "terrorist attack".
It was followed hours later by a car attack in the seaside resort town of Cambrils.
Fifteen people were killed in the attacks.
All members of the terror cell behind the attacks were either killed or arrested by Spanish police.
Charlottesville
On 12 August, at a far-right rally in Charlottesville in the US state of Virginia, a 32-year-old woman was killed and other people were injured when a car rammed, deliberately according to eyewitnesses, into a crowd of counter-protesters.
London
On 22 March, a 52-year-old British convert to Islam, Khalid Masood, mowed down pedestrians on Westminster Bridge near parliament and stabbed a policeman, killing five people and injuring around 50 before being shot dead by police.
The attack was claimed by IS.
On 3 June, the British capital was hit again when three attackers struck pedestrians with a van before stabbing multiple people in the London Bridge area. Eight people were killed before the assailants were shot dead by police. The attack was also claimed by IS.
On 19 June, a van was driven into a crowd of Muslim worshippers near a mosque in London's Finsbury Park area. One man died and another 11 people were injured. A 47-year-old man was arrested and charged with terrorism-related murder and attempted murder.
Paris
On the same day, Adam Dzaziri, a 31-year-old who had sworn allegiance to the IS, was killed when he rammed a car loaded with guns and a gas canister into a police van on Paris's Champs-Elysees. No one else was injured.
Two months later, on 19 August, a 36-year-old Algerian man, named as Hamou B, drove a BMW into a group of soldiers outside a barracks in the western Paris suburb of Levallois-Perret, injuring six. After a car chase, police shot and wounded the suspect.
Stockholm
An 7 April, a truck attack in the Swedish capital killed five people, including an 11-year-old Swedish girl, a Briton, and one Belgian. Fifteen others are injured.
An Uzbek national, Rakhmat Akilov, 39, confessed to using a stolen beer truck to mow down pedestrians on Stockholm's busiest shopping street Drottninggatan.
According to Uzbek police, he had tried to join IS in 2015.
Berlin
On 19 December last year, Tunisian national Anis Amri, 24, hijacked a truck and slammed into a crowd of people at a Christmas market in Berlin, killing 12 and injuring 48.
Amri was shot dead by Italian police in Milan four days later after travelling through several European countries. IS claimed responsibility.
Nice
On 14 July 2016, Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, a 31-year-old Tunisian, ploughed a 19-tonne truck into a Bastille Day crowd, killing 86 people on the famous beachfront avenue.
IS later claimed Bouhlel as one of its followers.
