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Bologna massacre | |
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![]() Ruins of the Bologna station west wing after the bombing | |
Location | Bologna Centrale railway station, Italy |
Date | 2 August 1980 10:25 (UTC+2) |
Attack type | Bombing |
Weapon | Time bomb |
Deaths | 85 |
Injured | Over 200 |
Perpetrators | Luigi Ciavardini, Valerio Fioravanti, and Francesca Mambro (members of the Nuclei Armati Rivoluzionari) |
The Bologna massacre (Italian: strage di Bologna) was a terrorist bombing of the Bologna Centrale railway station in Bologna, Italy, on the morning of 2 August 1980, which killed 85 people and wounded over 200.[1] Several members of the neo-fascist terrorist organization Nuclei Armati Rivoluzionari (NAR, Armed Revolutionary Nuclei) were sentenced for the bombing,[2] although the group denied involvement.