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Aftermath of the Bologna train station bombing of 1980 Black-and-white photo of rescuers searching through rubble and twisted metal after the bombing at Bologna central station, with the damaged station building in the background.
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Aftermath of the Bologna train station bombing of 1980
Aftermath of the Bologna train station bombing of 1980 Rescue workers comb through the rubble of Bologna Centrale railway station in Italy following a bomb explosion on August 2, 1980, that killed 85 people and injured more than 200 more.

Bologna train station bombing of 1980

terrorist attack, Italy
Also known as: Bologna massacre, Bologna neofascist bombing
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Fid Backhouse and others
Fid Backhouse is one of several contributors to 501 Most Devastating Disasters. Their work appears in Encyclopaedia Britannica as part of a joint publishing agreement with the publisher of 501...
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Bologna train station bombing of 1980, terrorist attack on the Bologna Centrale railway station in Bologna, Italy, on August 2, 1980, that killed 85 people and injured more than 200. Members of an Italian neofascist group were convicted of murder and other charges connected to the bombing, although the full truth and identification of those behind the bombing may never be known. On an August Saturday morning in 1980, at 10:25, the air-conditioned Centrale station...

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