Two powerful car bombs ripped through a market in central Baghdad

Quand

22 janv. 2007

Type

Attentat terroriste

Coordonnées

33.33° N, 44.41° E

Placé à : coordinates of the event it links, 22 January 2007 Baghdad bombings.

Two powerful car bombs ripped through a market in central Baghdad, killing at least 88 people and wounding 160 others. The blasts at the Baghdad market were aimed at a Shiite area and seemed timed to inflict maximum damage, occurring at noon local time, one of the busiest times of day. In addition to the market attacks, a bombing in a Shiite town north of Baghdad killed 15 people. Later that same day, a Sunni mosque in the Dura section of Baghdad was blown up; there were no reports of casualties.

2007 terrorist attack in Baghdad, Iraq

The 22 January 2007 Baghdad bombings was a terrorist attack that occurred when two powerful car bombs ripped through the Bab Al-Sharqi market in central Baghdad, killing at least 88 people and wounding 160 others in one of the bloodiest days since the US invasion of Iraq. The attack occurred two days after the start of the 10-day Shiite mourning period leading up to Ashura.

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