This is a list of mass stabbings that have occurred in Belize since the 2000s. Mass stabbings are incidents involving several victims of violence enabled by sharp, pointed, or bladed instruments. This list includes incidents where three or more persons are so harmed in one location at roughly the same time. For this list, perpetrators are not excluded from casualty tallies. Similarly, stabbings in non-public places, and those associated with organised crime, gangs, drug wars, or terrorism are not excluded. [n 1]
Date | District (place) | Dead | Injured | Total | Description | Nb |
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30 Jun 2025 | Belize (Caye Caulker) | 1 | 4 | 5 | A 19 year old was killed, and two teenagers and two police constables injured, by knife cuts and stabs during a late night brawl at Munchies Fast Food on Reyes Street. Motive not clear. | [1] |
17 Apr 2025 | Belize (Belize) | 0 | 3 | 3 | Three passengers were injured by knife cuts during the 2025 Tropic Air hijacking incident. Motive not clear. | [n 2] |
20 May 2019 | Stann Creek (San Roman) | 0 | 3 | 3 | Three people were injured by machete cuts in their residences. Motive not clear. | [2] |
15 Sep 2018 | Belize (Belize) | 0 | 3 | 3 | At least three people (including a minor) were injured by cuts and stabs during a bar brawl at Pier One in BTL Park. Purportedly due to a private feud. | [n 3] |
24 Jun 2016 | Orange Walk (Yo Creek) | 0 | 6 | 6 | Six people (including three children) were injured by machete cuts in their residence. Purportedly related to mental illness. | [3] |
11 Nov 2015 | Toledo (San Pedro Columbia) | 0 | 3 | 3 | A father and his two sons were injured by machete cuts during an altercation in their residence. Purportedly related to domestic violence or a family feud. | [4] |
1 Apr 2015 | Belize (Belize) | 1 | 2 | 3 | One man was killed, and another man and a 13-year-old injured, by machete cuts during an altercation at their residence on Cut Avenue. Purportedly related to domestic violence or alcohol. | [5] |
8 Jan 2013 | Belize (Belize) | 4 | 0 | 4 | Four men (including a 19-year-old) were killed by knife cuts to their throats in their flats at a residential complex on Dean and Plues Streets. Purportedly gang-related. | [n 4] |
15 Dec 2012 | Belize (Belize) | 0 | 4 | 4 | Four people (including a 16-year-old) were injured by knife cuts and stabs while attending a music concert at BTL Park. Purportedly gang-related. | [n 5] |
27 Sep 2012 | Stann Creek (Hopkins) | 1 | 3 | 4 | A man was killed by machete cuts while on his way home from work. A bit earlier, a mother and her two underage children had been injured by machete cuts while on their way home from a fishing trip to Sittee River. Both stabbings purportedly connected; motive not clear. | [6] |
3 Jun 2012 | Toledo (Punta Gorda) | 1 | 2 | 3 | A father was killed, and his wife and their adult son injured, by machete cuts during a break in at Tropics Inn off Southern Highway. Motive not clear. | [n 6] |
13 Mar 2011 | Corozal (Cristo Rey) | 0 | 3 | 3 | Three people (including an 18- and 17-year-old) were injured by machete cuts during an altercation at a liquor store. Motive not clear. | [7] |
19 Sep 2010 | Orange Walk (San Carlos) | 2 | 1 | 3 | A 16- and 17-year-old were killed, and a man injured, by machete cuts while working at their ranch in the village outskirts. Purportedly drug-related. | [8] |
28 May 2007 | Cayo (San Ignacio) | 0 | 3 | 3 | A man and two women (including two seniors) were injured by machete cuts during an altercation at their residence. Purportedly related to a family feud. | [9] |
3 Jun 2006 | Cayo (Ontario) | 3 | 0 | 3 | Two parents and their 10-month-old daughter were killed by machete cuts in their residence off Western Highway. Motive not clear. | [n 7] |