What the records say
- When
- 3 Sep 1987
- Kind
- Massacre
- Deaths
- 5
- Coordinates
- 43.87° N, 21.42° E
- Description
- Mass shooting in Serbia
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Paraćin massacre
Mass shooting in Serbia
The Paraćin massacre was a mass shooting which targeted Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) soldiers in the military barracks in Paraćin, Yugoslavia on 3 September 1987. The perpetrator was Aziz Kelmendi, a 20-year-old Kosovo Albanian conscript. Kelmendi fired an automatic weapon into two sleeping rooms before he fled and committed suicide. The shootings left four soldiers dead and five wounded.
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- Wikipedia year pages (Turkish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Yugoslavya'nın Paraćin kentindeki askeri kışlaya, Yugoslav Halk Ordusu askerleri hedeflenerek silahlı saldırı düzenlendi”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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