What the records say
- When
- 12 Apr 1999
- Kind
- Rail accident
- Coordinates
- 42.91° N, 22.05° E
- Description
- 1999 US attack in the Kosovo War
- Deaths
- 14
Grdelica train bombing
US attack in the Kosovo War
The Grdelica train bombing occurred on 12 April 1999, when two AGM-130 missiles fired by a USAF F-15E Strike Eagle fighter bomber hit a passenger train while it was passing across a railway bridge over the South Morava river in the Grdelica gorge, some 300 kilometres (190 mi) south of Belgrade, Serbia.
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- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Ударом натовского самолёта F-15E уничтожен пассажирский поезд номер 393, следовавший из Ниша через Вранье, Скопье в Афины и проходивший по мосту Грделичка…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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