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The '''2021 City of Asilica Terrorist Attack''', also called the '''21/6 attacks''' or '''21/6/21''', were two related terrorist acts that took place in Asilica, the capital city of [[Asilica]], on June 21st, 2021. While the final tally of casualties has not yet been released by Asilican authorities, the most recent estimate is more than 850 people dead and more than 1,500 people injured.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://forum.theeastpacific.com/viewtopic.php?p=246973#p246973|title=GRAND COUNCIL BOMBING UPDATE: Casualties reach 1,500, 12 Grand Councilors found alive|date=June 21, 2021|website=RTN}}</ref> The first terrorist act was the explosion of what is believed to have been an improvised [[wikipedia:ANFO|ammonium nitrate fertilizer-based bomb]] mounted in a van or truck at 8:01am local time, just after the Grand Council had gaveled into session.<ref name="RN1">{{cite web|url=https://forum.theeastpacific.com/viewtopic.php?p=246939#p246939|title=SANCTUARY LOST: TERRORIST BOMBING AT NATIONAL ASSEMBLY KILLS AT LEAST 400, OVER A THOUSAND INJURED|date=June 21, 2021|website=RTN}}</ref> The blast entirely demolished the building housing the [[Asilica#National Assembly|Grand Council]] of Asilica, the lower house of that country's legislature. All those inside, including Chancellor [[Asilica#Chancellor|Lisetta Gronden]] and the entire Council of State, were killed instantly. Also catastrophically damaged were the
The second act of terror was a mass shooting committed by Benedikt Schöner,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://forum.theeastpacific.com/viewtopic.php?p=246971#p246971|title=Asilican president addresses attacks as Rosalican government responds to security concerns|date=June 22, 2021|website=The Rosalica Tribune}}</ref> a 51-year old Asilica canton man who was employed by the canton as a garbage collector. Schöner, who was not reported as missing from work because he had bribed a coworker to fraudulently swipe his time card, was parked in his car across the street from the Senate building, several blocks to the north of the blast, at the time of the explosion. Armed with an LR-10 automatic assault rifle, legally purchased from a licensed militia equipment dealer, he shot at victims of the blast as they fled. Schöner shot at least 48 people, 19 of whom died. This act alone would have ranked as the single deadliest terror incident in Asilican history, a record previously held by the 1997 University of Valladia shooting in which 13 women were killed by self-proclaimed anti-feminist activist Franz Stenzel.
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