What the records say
- When
- 27 Jul 2008
- Kind
- Terrorist attack
- Coordinates
- 41.01° N, 28.87° E
Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, 2008 Istanbul bombings.
2008 Istanbul bombings
2008 bombings with 17 fatalities, including 5 children
The 2008 Istanbul bombings occurred on July 27, 2008 when two explosions hit a busy shopping street in the Güngören district of Istanbul, killing seventeen people, five of them children, and injuring 154. The attacks occurred at 9:45 p.m. local time, 18:45 UTC, on a pedestrian street closed to traffic. The bombings were the deadliest civilian attacks in Turkey since the 2003 Istanbul bombings, five years earlier.
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