1975 Beirut bus massacre

When

13 Apr 1975

Kind

Massacre

Deaths

27

Coordinates

33.89° N, 35.51° E

1975 armed clashes between Phalangist and Palestinian organizations in Beirut, Lebanon

The 1975 Beirut bus massacre, also known as the Ain el-Rammaneh incident and Black Sunday, was the collective name given to a short series of armed clashes involving Phalangist and Palestinian elements in the streets of central Beirut, which is commonly presented as the spark that set off the Lebanese Civil War in the mid-1970s.

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• Wikidata: massacres and genocidesWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Bus massacre: The Kataeb militia kills 27 Palestinians during an attack on their bus in Ain El Remmeneh, Lebanon”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Massacre du bus de Beyrouth : La milice des Kataeb tue 27 Palestiniens lors de l'attaque de leur bus à Ain El Remmeneh, au Liban”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “В Ливане с вооружённых столкновений между палестинцами и христианской милицией в пригороде Бейрута Айн-эль-Раммане начинается гражданская война”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page