1983 Beirut barracks bombings

When

23 Oct 1983

Kind

Terrorist attack

Coordinates

33.83° N, 35.49° E

Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, 1983 Beirut barracks bombings.

Beirut barracks bombing: Simultaneous suicide truck-bombings destroy both the French Army and United States Marine Corps barracks in Beirut, killing 241 U.S. servicemen, 58 French paratroopers and 6 Lebanese civilians.

1983 bombings in Beirut, Lebanon

On October 23, 1983, two truck bombs were detonated at buildings in Beirut, Lebanon, housing American and French service members of the Multinational Force in Lebanon (MNF), a military peacekeeping operation during the Lebanese Civil War. The attack killed 307 people: 241 U.S. and 58 French military personnel, six civilians and both the attackers.

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• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributorsCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Bei einem Anschlag auf einen US-Stützpunkt in der libanesischen Hauptstadt Beirut werden 241 US-Marines und 58 französische Fallschirmjäger getötet”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “double attentat à Beyrouth contre la Force multinationale de sécurité”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “В результате терактов против казарм американского и французского миротворческих контингентов в Бейруте (Ливан) погибли около 300 человек”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “ベイルート・アメリカ海兵隊兵舎爆破事件”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page