Malga Sasso barracks bombing information

Malga Sasso bombing
Part of South Tyrol insurgency
Location	Malga Sasso-Steinalm Province of Bolzano Italy
Coordinates	46°59′49″N 11°29′29″E / 46.99694°N 11.49139°E / 46.99694; 11.49139
Date	9 September 1966 11:30 am
Target	Guardia di Finanza
Attack type	Time bombing
Weapons	IED hand grenades
Deaths	3 guards
Injured	4 guards
Perpetrator	South Tyrolean Liberation Committee

The Malga Sasso bombing (Italian: Strage di Malga Sasso, German: Anschlag auf der Steinalm) was a major bomb attack on an Italian Guardia di Finanza outpost not far from the Brennero pass, in the Province of Bolzano, near the border with Austria. The attack was carried out on 9 September 1966 by members of the South Tyrolean Liberation Committee (BAS), a paramilitary organization seeking the independence of German-speaking South Tyrol from Italy. Two guards were killed by the blast on the spot, while a third died of wounds several days later. Three others were seriously injured. The separatist militants Alois Larch, Alois Rainer and Richard Kofler were prosecuted and sentenced by the Italian Justice in 1976.