1981 Iraqi embassy bombing in Beirut

Quand

15 déc. 1981

Type

Attentat terroriste

Coordonnées

33.88° N, 35.48° E

Placé à : coordinates of the event it links, 1981 Iraqi embassy bombing in Beirut.

1981 Iraqi embassy bombing in Beirut: An Islamic Dawa Party car bomb destroys the Iraqi Embassy in Lebanon, killing 61 people in one of the earliest significant post-World War II suicide attacks.

Shia Islamist terror attack in Lebanon

On December 15, 1981, the Iraqi Shi'a Islamist group al-Dawa carried out a suicide car bombing targeting the Iraqi embassy in Beirut, Lebanon. The explosion leveled the embassy and killed 61 people, including Iraq's ambassador to Lebanon, and injured at least 100 others.

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