It's 10.25 a.m. on August 2nd, 1980. Explosives hidden in an unattended suitcase detonate in an air-condition

waiting room at the Bologna train station, which at the time was full of people. People seeking

relief from the heat of the day. It was August after all.

The explosion collapses the roof of the waiting room. It destroys the main building and hit the Ancona Kiyaso train, which was waiting on the first platform.

The station was full of travelers that Saturday. And the city was utterly unprepared for a major disaster.

Many of the passerbyes and travelers who were at the train station that day provided first aid to victims and helped rescue people who were buried under the rubble.

In all, 85 people were killed and over 200 grievously wounded.

And the reason for the attack and who carried it out is something that's been debated to this day.

And it may just tie in with last week's episode about Operation Gladiow. Featuring Jerusalem from Thinking Side Race Podcast and filmmaker Vincent Calderney.

This is The Shocking Details.

Hey there, welcome to another episode of The Shocking Details.

I'm Joe, joined as usual by Vincenzo Caldoni.

I was going to do that when I screwed up.

Vincent Caldoni.

I like Vincenzo.

Vincenzo, your son, Vincenzo.

Yeah, okay.

But back to our story here, a big bomb goes or you know a pile of explosives go explode at least

there's still some contention about that actually but due to the large number of casualties

and a kind of a lack of emergency vehicles available to transport the injured to hospitals

firefighters use buses private cars taxis, to get these people to help.

Doctors and hospital staff returned early from vacation to care for the victims. Hospital apartments,

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