JOC bombing

{{short description|1991 car bombing in Sri Lanka}}

{{Infobox terrorist attack

|title=JOC bombing

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|location=Flower Road, Colombo, Sri Lanka

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|date=June 21, 1991

|time-begin=Rush hour

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|timezone=UTC+5:00

|type=suicide car bomb

|fatalities=60{{Cite web |url=http://www.thesundayleader.lk/20071202/Issues.htm |title=Fall out of Eelam War IV, sundayleader |access-date=2015-06-09 |archive-date=2013-12-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131222050447/http://www.thesundayleader.lk/20071202/Issues.htm |url-status=dead }}

|injuries=85 civilians

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The JOC bombing was a suicide car bomb on June 21, 1991, during rush hour in Flower Road outside the building housing the Joint Operations Command (JOC) of the Sri Lankan Armed Forces in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The attack was carried out by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) with 60 killed including 20 civilians and 85 civilians injured.{{cite web |title=Sri Lanka Bomb Said to Kill Up to 60 (Published 1991) |website=The New York Times |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230629110759/https://www.nytimes.com/1991/06/22/world/sri-lanka-bomb-said-to-kill-up-to-60.html |archive-date=2023-06-29 |url-status=live |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/06/22/world/sri-lanka-bomb-said-to-kill-up-to-60.html}}