1985 Frankfurt Airport bombing

When

19 Jun 1985

Kind

Terrorist attack

Coordinates

50.03° N, 8.57° E

Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, Sprengstoffanschlag auf dem Flughafen Frankfurt am Main.

Terrorist attack in Germany

On the afternoon of 19 June 1985, a bombing at the Frankfurt Airport, West Germany, killed three and wounded 74 people. The bomb had been placed inside a wastepaper basket in the departure lounge at the airport. When it exploded, the blast created a three-foot hole in the concrete floor of the terminal and destroyed many of the airline counters close to the counter of Alitalia Airlines.

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