What the records say
- When
- 12 Apr 2007
- Kind
- Terrorist attack
- Coordinates
- 33.32° N, 44.36° E
Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, 2007 Iraqi Parliament bombing.
Summary
A suicide bomber detonated a bomb inside a cafeteria outside the Iraqi Parliament chamber, killing one member of Parliament (down from eight killed, including three members of Parliament, as previously reported), and wounding 22 in the 2007 Iraqi Parliament Bombing. Seven of the wounded were members of Parliament. The building where the bombing occurred was inside the heavily fortified Green Zone.
2007 Iraqi Parliament bombing
Terrorist attack in Baghdad, Iraq
On 12 April 2007, the canteen of the Council of Representatives of Iraq building was attacked by a suicide bomber, killing one to eight people and wounding 23 others. The attack, in the heavily fortified Green Zone of Baghdad, occurred ten minutes after the Council of Representatives had adjourned for lunch. It was on the first floor of the Baghdad Convention Center, which houses the parliament.
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