Narsaq massacre | |
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Location | Narsaq, Kujalleq, Greenland |
Coordinates | 60°54′44″N 46°2′55″W / 60.91222°N 46.04861°W |
Date | 1 January 1990 |
Attack type | Mass shooting, mass murder |
Weapons | Remington Model 552 |
Deaths | 7 |
Injured | 1 |
Perpetrator | Abel Mikaelsen Klemmensen |
The Narsaq massacre was a mass shooting on 1 January 1990 in Narsaq, a southern Greenland town in the municipality of Kujalleq, 250 miles (400 km) south of the island's capital of Nuuk. Seven people were killed and one critically wounded during a party in the worst mass shooting in Greenland's history.[1]