What the records say
- When
- 7 Feb 1941
- Kind
- Massacre
- Deaths
- 100
- Coordinates
- 48.17° N, 26.29° E
- Description
- 1941 mass killing of ethnic Romanians by Soviet troops at the Romanian–Soviet border
Lunca massacre
1941 mass shooting by Soviet troops
Hundreds of civilians were massacred on 7 February 1941 when Soviet Border troops opened fire on them while they were attempting to forcefully cross the border from the Soviet Union to Romania, near the village of Lunca, now Lunka in Chernivtsi Oblast, Ukraine. Although there are no official statistics, it is estimated that about 600 people were killed.
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