Incident Date:
March 07, 1979
Incident Successful: Yes
Location: Vancouver, British Columbia Canada
Perpetrators:
Event Type: Facility/Infrastructure Attack
Weapon Type(s): Incendiary (Blunt Object)
Organization Type:
Suicide Attack: No
Hoax: No
Violent Extremism:
Doubt Terror: Yes
Target Information
1- Government(Government Buildings/Facilities)
Canadian Target: Yes
Canadian Victim:
Canadian Perpetrator:
By foreigners against foreign target(s) in Canada:
Victims: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries
Perpetrators: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries
Description: "03/07/1979: In the early morning a brick was used to break the front window of a Canada Employment Centre in East Hastings. A Molotov cocktail was thrown inside, but it failed to explode. Police believed that the attack was the work of a group believed to be responsible for 15 out of 22 recent firebombings in the Lower Mainland area. A Canada Employment Centre elsewhere in Vancouver had been firebombed twice in February in similar attacks."
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. 410"
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