1985 Rome and Vienna airport attacks

When

27 Dec 1985

Kind

Event

Coordinates

41.81° N, 12.25° E

Description

Rome and Vienna airport attacks: Abu Nidal terrorists open fire in the airports of Rome and Vienna, leaving 18 dead and 120 injured.

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1985 terror attacks by Palestinian nationalists

The Rome and Vienna airport attacks were two major terrorist attacks carried out on 27 December 1985. Seven Arab terrorists attacked two airports in Rome, Italy, and Vienna, Austria, with assault rifles and hand grenades. Nineteen civilians were killed and over a hundred were injured before four of the terrorists were killed by El Al Security personnel and local police, who captured the remaining three.

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• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributorsCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Bei einem Terroranschlag am Flughafen Wien-Schwechat werden drei vor dem Schalter der israelischen Fluggesellschaft El Al wartende Passagiere getötet und mehr…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “attentats palestiniens mortels simultanés dans les aéroports de Rome et de Vienne contre la compagnie El Al ; 19 morts et 115 blessés”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “ローマ空港・ウィーン空港同時テロ事件。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page