The Cursed Dnieper
The earliest terrorist act with the intention to flood a city goes back to the Mongol conqueror Genghis Khan. In 1209, in order to put a quicker end to the siege on Yinchuan, the capital of the Western Xia dynasty (now in north-west China), Genghis Khan set out with his troops to divert a branch of the Huang He, the Yellow River. The makeshift dam broke and the ploy backfired. It was Genghis Khan’s camp that was flooded.
Gas and Gas / Nord Stream and old chemical munitions
Did the explosions followed by gas leaks on 26 September 2022 on the pipelines of the international consortium Nord Stream linking Russia and Germany awake, displace or dislocate chemical munitions dumped near or nearby them?
