Bahr El-Baqar primary school bombing

When

8 Apr 1970

Kind

Terrorist attack

Coordinates

30.86° N, 31.91° E

Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, Bahr El-Baqar primary school bombing.

Israeli Air Force F-4 Phantom II fighter bombers kill 47 Egyptian school children at an elementary school in what is known as Bahr el-Baqar massacre. The single-floor school is hit by five bombs and two air-to-ground missiles.

1970 bombing of a school in an Israeli Air Force strike

The Bahr el-Baqar primary school in the Egyptian village of Bahr el-Baqar was bombed by the Israeli Air Force on 8 April 1970. Of the 130 children who were attending the school, 46 were killed and over 50 wounded. The school itself was completely demolished. A part of the War of Attrition, the attack was one of a series of airstrikes conducted in Egypt by Israel during Operation Priha.

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