Pizzolungo bombing
| Pizzolungo bombing | |
|---|---|
After the blast | |
| Location | Pizzolungo, Italy |
| Coordinates | 38°03′29″N 12°33′30″E / 38.0581°N 12.5583°E |
| Date | 2 April 1985 8:35 (GMT) |
Attack type | Assassination |
| Weapons | Car bomb (made using TNT) |
| Deaths | 3 |
| Injured | 5 |
| Perpetrator | Sicilian Mafia |
The Pizzolungo Bombing was a car-bomb attack on 2 April 1985 undertaken by the Sicilian Mafia in order to kill Carlo Palermo, a magistrate in Pizzolungo, Sicily. Palermo had been investigating an international drug and arms trafficking network in which Italian politicians may have been involved. Palermo was injured in the attack and three passersby were killed: Barbara Rizzo and her young twin sons, Salvatore and Giuseppe Asta.