Terrorist attack

St Nedelya Church assault

16 Apr 1925 · 42.70° N, 23.32° E

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When
16 Apr 1925
Kind
Terrorist attack
Killed
213
Coordinates
42.70° N, 23.32° E
Wounded
500

St. Nedelya Church bombing

1925 bombing of a church in Sofia, Bulgaria by Communist Party militants

The St Nedelya Church bombing was a terrorist attack on St Nedelya Church in Sofia, Bulgaria. It was carried out on 16 April 1925, when a group of the Military Organisation of the Bulgarian Communist Party directed and supplied by the Soviet Military Intelligence blew up the church's roof during the funeral service of General Konstantin Georgiev, who had been killed in a previous communist assault on 14 April.

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