Gîsca school bombing
| Gîsca school bombing | |
|---|---|
A memorial for the victims of the bombing, pictured some time in 2007 | |
| Location | 46°46′44″N 29°25′30″E / 46.77889°N 29.42500°E Gîsca, Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union (now Moldova) |
| Date | 4 April 1950 |
| Target | Natalya Dmitrievna Donicha, a teacher at school N°20 in Gîsca |
Attack type | |
| Weapons | Improvised explosive device |
| Deaths | 24 (including the perpetrator) |
| Injured | Unknown |
| Perpetrator | Vladimir Georgievich Tatarnikov |
| Motive | Unrequited love |
On 4 April 1950, 29-year-old Vladimir Georgievich Tatarnikov arrived at School No. 20 in the village of Gîsca, in the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic (now Moldova), carrying a suitcase filled with 12 kilograms (26 pounds) of explosives, which he had stolen from his place of work at DOSARM. He then detonated the suitcase, killing twenty-one students, two teachers, and himself.
This event was the first school massacre in the Soviet Union and remains the only school massacre in Moldova.