Incident Date:
June 24, 1970 06:28
Incident Successful: Yes
Location: Ottawa, Ontario Canada
Perpetrators: Front de Libération du Québec (FLQ)
Event Type: Bombing/Explosion
Weapon Type(s): Explosives/Bombs/Dynamite (Unknown Explosive Type)
Organization Type: Separatist,
Suicide Attack: No
Hoax: No
Violent Extremism:
Doubt Terror: No
Target Information
1- Military(Military Barracks/Base/Headquarters/Check Post)
2- Telecommunication
Canadian Target: Yes
Canadian Victim:
Canadian Perpetrator:
By foreigners against foreign target(s) in Canada:
Victims: 1 fatalities, 2 injuries
Perpetrators: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries
Description: "06/24/1970: One of the Defence Department's main communication centres was blasted at 6:28 a.m., killing an employee and injuring two others. The bomb was planted by separatists on St-Jean Baptiste Day as a symbol of their defiance of the federal authority. The explosion blew out windows in the surrounding area as far as one block from the site. Just before the explosion, Ottawa radio station CKOY received a telephone call warning that a blast was about to take place. Damage was estimated at more than $10,000. According to police, laboratory tests confirmed that the workings of the bomb were similar to those used in a spate of recent Front de Liberation du Quebec (FLQ) bombings in Montreal."
References: 1) "Kellett, A., Beanlands, B., Deacon, J., Jeffrey, H., & Lapalme, C. (1991). Terrorism in Canada 1960-1989, User Report no. 1990-16. Ottawa: Solicitor General Canada, National Security Coordination Centre, Police and Security Branch.274."
2) RCMP Chronology. p. 2.
3) "Ross, Jeffrey I. (1992). ATIC IV: Chronology of Domestic and International Terrorist Events in Canada, 1960-1990. Montreal, Qc: International Centre for Comparative Criminology. p. 69"
4) "Morf, G. (1970). Terror in Quebec: Case Studies of the FLQ. Toronto, ON: Clarke, Irwin & Company Limited. p. 159"
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