What the records say
- When
- 9 Jun 2004
- Kind
- Terrorist attack
- Coordinates
- 50.97° N, 7.01° E
Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, 2004 Cologne bombing.
2004 Cologne bombing
Bombing in a Turkish area of Cologne, Germany
On 9 June 2004, a nail bomb detonated in Cologne, Germany, in a business area popular with immigrants from Turkey. Twenty-two people were wounded, with four sustaining serious injuries. A barber shop was destroyed; many shops and numerous parked cars were seriously damaged by the explosion and by the nails added to the bomb for extra damage. Authorities initially excluded the possibility of a terrorist attack.
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