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Gîsca school bombing

1950 CE · Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic, Europe · War

Gîsca school bombing
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On 4 April 1950, 29-year-old Vladimir Georgievich Tatarnikov arrived at School No. 20 in the village of Gîsca, in the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic, carrying a suitcase filled with 12 kilograms of explosives, which he had stolen from his place of work at DOSARM. He then detonated the suitcase, killing twenty-one students, two teachers, and himself.

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