2024 Vogoci bombing
| 2024 Vogoci bombing | |
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| File:2024 Vogoci bombing.jpg Smoke rising from the site of the attack | |
| Location | Vogoci, Vogiss, Saint Offeat |
| Date | May 6th, 2024 10:01 AM |
Attack type | Terror attack, car bombing |
| Deaths | 83 |
Non-fatal injuries | 211 |
| Perpetrators | Lorcan O'Ferrell |
| Motive | Sympathies to the ELN movement in their insurgency in Wallenland |
The 2024 Vogoci bombing was a terrorist attack that occured on May 6th, 2024 in Vogoci, Saint Offeat, when a van bomb detonated in the proximity of several foreign diplomatic offices, with the main target being the Wallenland embassy. The 236 lb urea nitrate–hydrogen gas enhanced device exploded shortly past 10 in the morning, destroying the front facade of the Wallenland embassy and causing major destruction to the adjacent embassies of Alcarres and Jyau. 83 people were killed in the bombing, and 211 were injured. More than half of those killed were Wallen embassy staffers and tourists. The bombing was the deadliest terrorist attack in Saint Offeat since the Troubles of the 1930s.
The attack was carried out by Lorcan O'Ferrell, a 22-year-old Offeatean student at Vepovo Royal University and People's Party of Offeat member who was sympathetic to the leftist movement of the ELN militant group in Wallenland and opposed the Wallenland government's military campaign in Agōmòlām, likening it to a genocide. After the bombing, O'Ferrell confessed on his FriendSpot account to carrying out the attack and sought to attack a Wallen-owned cafe in Vogoci immediately after, but he was arrested before he was able to.