City of Poros ship attack

City of Poros ship attack
The ship at Piraeus one month before the attack
Location	off Athens, Greece
Date	July 11, 1988 18:48
Target	Cruise ship City of Poros
Attack type	Car bombing Attack by armed gunman
Deaths	11 total: 8 tourists on ship 1 perpetrator on ship 2 people in car bombing at pier
Injured	98
Perpetrators	Abu Nidal Organisation

The City of Poros was a Greek cruise ship that made day-cruises for Saronic Cruises to Hydra, Aegina and Poros from Flisvos Marina, a port in the Athens suburbs. The Saronic Cruises' ship was roughly 200 feet (60 m) long, and ran the regular 16 mile (26 km) trip between the two harbours every day, with a carrying capacity of 500 passengers. Four hours before the attack a car laden with explosives exploded on the pier prematurely, killing two Arab terrorists. On the evening of 11 July 1988, the ship was attacked by a Libyan-born Palestinian gunman who killed eight tourists before killing himself in a subsequent explosion. At the time of the attack, there were 471 people on board the ship.