Piazza Fontana bombing

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Piazza Fontana bombing
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Milan's Banca Nazionale dell'Agricoltura building in December 2007
Location	Piazza Fontana, Milan, Italy
Date	12 December 1969 16:45 (UTC+1)
Target	Banca Nazionale dell'Agricoltura
Attack type	Mass murder, bombing
Weapons	Bomb
Deaths	17
Injured	88
Perpetrators	New Order

The Piazza Fontana bombing (Italian: Strage di Piazza Fontana) was a terrorist attack that occurred on 12 December 1969 when a bomb exploded at the headquarters of Banca Nazionale dell'Agricoltura (the National Agricultural Bank) in Piazza Fontana (near the Duomo) in Milan, Italy, killing 17 people and wounding 88. The same afternoon, another bomb exploded in a bank in Rome, and another was found unexploded in the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.^[1] The attack was carried out by the Third Position, neo-fascist paramilitary terrorist group Ordine Nuovo, and possibly undetermined collaborators.