Incident Date:
January 13, 1982 14:15
Incident Successful: Yes
Location: Toronto, Ontario Canada
Perpetrators: Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia (ASALA)
Event Type: Bombing/Explosion
Weapon Type(s): Explosives/Bombs/Dynamite (Time Fuse)
Organization Type: Separatist,
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: "01/13/1982: At 2:15 p.m., a bomb exploded in the stairwell of the Concourse Building on Adelaide St. in Toronto. One of the offices in the building was that of the honorary Turkish Consul. The bomb, which comprised six or seven aerosol cans wired together with a battery and a timer, was taped to a railing. The explosion caused limited property damage, and there were no injuries. Police defused another larger bomb at the scene. In letters sent to the press shortly after the incident, responsibility for the blast was claimed by an Armenian nationalist-separatist organization known as the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia. The Toronto Star later received an anonymous call in April of 1982, threatening that the Honorary Consul would lose his life if he did not resign his post before the end of April."
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. 185."
2) RCMP Chronology. p. 10.
3) GTD 1970-2012 data file
4) "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. 167"
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