Incident Date:
July 06, 1987 06:00
Incident Successful: Yes
Location: Baden-Wuerttemberg Germany
Perpetrators:
Event Type: Bombing/Explosion
Weapon Type(s): Explosives/Bombs/Dynamite (Remote Device)
Organization Type:
Suicide Attack: No
Hoax: No
Violent Extremism:
Doubt Terror: Yes
Target Information
1- Military(Military Barracks/Base/Headquarters/Check Post)
Canadian Target: Yes
Canadian Victim: Yes
Canadian Perpetrator:
By foreigners against foreign target(s) in Canada:
Victims: 0 fatalities, 1 injuries
Perpetrators: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries
Description: "07/06/1987: Unidentified individual(s) cut through two perimeter fences at a Canadian Forces North Atlantic Treaty Organization base fuel depot outside Lahr, Baden-Wuerttemberg and bombed it. Saboteurs set off remote control bombs at 6:00 a.m., injuring a fireman and causing US$1.6 to 4 million damage. Some 62,000 liters of fuel and four trucks burned. Six armoured ammunition carriers were gutted and nine metric tons of gasoline and oil in the fuel storage compound were burned."
References: 1) GTD 1970-2012 data file
2) EIDB
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