Bloody Sunday | |
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Part of Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia | |
Location | Prostějov, Czechoslovakia |
Coordinates | 49°28′21″N 17°06′24″E / 49.4724°N 17.1068°E |
Date | 25 August 1968 20:02[1] |
Attack type | Mass shooting |
Deaths | 3 |
Injured | 9 |
Perpetrators | Soviet Armed Forces |
Bloody Sunday was a massacre on 25 August 1968 when Soviet soldiers shot three unarmed civilians in Prostějov during Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia. Nine others were injured.[2][3]