What the records say
- When
- 9 Aug 1987
- Kind
- Shooting
- Killed
- 7
- Coordinates
- 37.79° S, 145.00° E
- Description
- 1987 mass shooting in Melbourne, Australia
- Injured
- 19
Hoddle Street massacre
Mass shooting in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
The Hoddle Street massacre was a mass shooting that occurred on the evening of Sunday, 9 August 1987, in Hoddle Street, Clifton Hill, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, in Australia. The shootings resulted in the deaths of seven people, and serious injury to 19 others.
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