The 1979 explosion at PKO Bank Polski's Rotunda office in Warsaw took place on 15 February 1979, at 12:37 p.m. As a result, 49 people died and 135 were injured. Officially, the disaster was caused by a gas explosion, but in the course of time much speculation appeared, and Varsovians talked among themselves that the building had been blown up by a bomb.
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