What the records say
- When
- 7 Aug 2003
- Kind
- Terrorist attack
- Coordinates
- 33.33° N, 44.38° E
Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, Jordanian embassy bombing in Baghdad.
Jordanian embassy bombing in Baghdad
2003 unclaimed attack in Iraq
On 7 August 2003, a bomb exploded outside the Jordanian embassy in Baghdad, Iraq, killing 17 people and injuring dozens more. The bomb, concealed in a minibus, exploded outside the walls of the embassy compound at around 11:00am local time. The force of the explosion sent a car onto a nearby rooftop and killed several people nearby including women and children.
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