Terrorist attack
Open on the mapAt Sriperumbudur, India, a suicide bomber from LTTE attacks a political meeting, killing former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and at least 14 others
21 May 1991 · 12.96° N, 79.95° E
What the records say
- When
- 21 May 1991
- Kind
- Terrorist attack
- Coordinates
- 12.96° N, 79.95° E
Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, Assassination of Rajiv Gandhi.
2 sources record it
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributorsCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “ラジーヴ・ガンディー元インド首相暗殺。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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