Explosion

Vergarola explosion

18 août 1946 · 44.87° N, 13.85° E

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18 août 1946
Type
Explosion
Coordonnées
44.87° N, 13.85° E
Description
supposed bomb attack against Italian population in Pula, 1946
Deaths
70

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Vergarola explosion

1946 explosion in Pula, Croatia

The Vergarola explosion, also known in Italy as the Vergarolla massacre, took place on 18 August 1946 when the sudden detonation of 12 large pieces of assorted ordnance, containing an estimated 9 tons of explosives, killed more than 100 people and injured 100 others at Vergarola beach, in Pula (Pola), which was at the time under temporary Allied military administration. The ordnance, which "had been swept from the w…

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