DAS Building bombing
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Coordinates". Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Template:Campaignbox Colombian conflict
The DAS Building bombing was a truck bomb attack in Bogotá, Colombia, at 7:30 am on December 6, 1989, targeting the Administrative Department of Security (DAS) headquarters.
A truck parked near the building exploded, killing 57 people instantly and injuring 2,248.[1][2] The bomb blast, an estimated 9.000 kg of dynamite, destroyed 14 city blocks and destroyed more than 300 commercial properties. The last victim of the bombing died on April 27, 1990. It was the deadliest car bomb attack in Latin America before being succeeded by the AMIA bombing 5 years later.[3] It is widely believed that the Medellín Cartel was responsible for the attack, in an attempt to assassinate DAS director Miguel Maza Márquez, who escaped unharmed. The same group was believed to be behind the bombing of Avianca Flight 203 9 days before.[4][5]
The DAS building bombing was the last in the long series of attacks that targeted Colombian politicians, officials, and journalists in 1989, which started with the January 18 killing of 12 judicial officials in Simacota.[6]
References
<templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" />
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
.svg){kind=link}
- Pages with script errors
- Pages with broken file links
- 1989 murders in Colombia
- 20th century in Bogotá
- 20th-century mass murder in Colombia
- 1989 building bombings
- Building bombings in Colombia
- Car and truck bombings in Colombia
- Attacks on government buildings and structures in Colombia
- 1989 in politics
- December 1989 in South America
- Failed assassination attempts in South America
- Car and truck bombings in the 1980s
- Mass murder in 1989
- Mass murder in Bogotá
- Medellín Cartel
- Organized crime events in Colombia
- Terrorist incidents in Bogotá
- Terrorist incidents in Colombia in the 1980s
- Terrorist incidents in South America in 1989
- Military history of Bogotá
- Attacks on headquarters