On 2 August 1980 at 10.25 am , an improvised explosive device ( IED ) made with 20 kilograms of a TNT mixture was detonated inside Bologna 's main railway station . The IED was contained in a suitcase , which was placed near the wall inside a lobby . The explosion killed 85 people and injured more than 200 . The wing of the station in which the bomb was detonated has been reconstructed but , as a testimony to the victims of the attack , the original pavement was maintained as well as a deep crack in the main wall . The attack is also known in Italy as the '' Strage di Bologna '' , the '' Bologna massacre ''
Bologna massacre
Bologna massacre
Bologna Centrale railway station