Incident Date:
October 18, 1971
Incident Successful: No
Location: Ottawa, Ontario Canada
Perpetrators: Canadian Hungarian Freedom Fighters
Event Type: Bombing/Explosion
Weapon Type(s): Incendiary (Gasoline or Alcohol)
Organization Type: Leftist,
Suicide Attack: No
Hoax: No
Violent Extremism:
Doubt Terror: No
Target Information
1- Diplomatic(Embassies/Consulates)
Canadian Target: No
Canadian Victim:
Canadian Perpetrator:
By foreigners against foreign target(s) in Canada:
Victims: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries
Perpetrators: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries
Description: "10/18/1971: Two dynamite bombs were found near the USSR Embassy in Ottawa, and 11 Molotov cocktails were found near the site where buses carrying demonstrators protesting Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin’s visit had parked. A police confrontation with a suspicious man who fled on foot led to the discovery of two dynamite bombs. Eleven Molotov cocktails were later found near parked buses, which had been used to carry demonstrators who were protesting Premier Kosygin's visit in Ottawa. Both bombs, consisting of six sticks of dynamite each, were armed and ready to explode."
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. p. 180."
2) RCMP Chronology. p. 4.
3) RAND
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