Terrorist attack
Open on the map127 Iraqis are killed by a suicide car bomb outside a medical center in Hilla, south of Baghdad
28 Feb 2005 · 32.48° N, 44.43° E
What the records say
- When
- 28 Feb 2005
- Kind
- Terrorist attack
- Coordinates
- 32.48° N, 44.43° E
Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, 2005 Al Hillah bombing.
Summary
127 Iraqis are killed by a suicide car bomb outside a medical center in Hilla, south of Baghdad. The bomber, who later turned out to be a U.S. educated Jordanian lawyer from al Qaeda targeted a large crowd of mainly teachers and police recruits outside a health clinic. It was the deadliest single blast in Iraq's history.
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