Vergarola explosion

Wann

18. Aug. 1946

Art

Explosion

Koordinaten

44.87° N, 13.85° E

Description

supposed bomb attack against Italian population in Pula, 1946

Deaths

70

Im Gebiet platziert, nicht an einem genauen Ort.

1946 explosion in Pula, Croatia

The Vergarola explosion, also known in Italy as the Vergarolla massacre, took place on 18 August 1946 when the sudden detonation of 12 large pieces of assorted ordnance, containing an estimated 9 tons of explosives, killed more than 100 people and injured 100 others at Vergarola beach, in Pula (Pola), which was at the time under temporary Allied military administration. The ordnance, which "had been swept from the w…

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