The 2007 Tal Afar bombings took place on March 27, 2007 when two lorry bombs targeted Shia areas of the town of Tal Afar, Iraq, killing 152 and wounding 347 people. [2] Tal Afar (also Tal Afar, Tall Afar, Tell Afar, Tel Afar) (in Arabic: تل عفر, in Kurdish: Telehfer) (also تلعفر) is a city in northern Iraq, about 30 miles west of Mosul. ... March 27 is the 86th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (87th in leap years). ... 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the Anno Domini (common) era. ... Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) is a high-precison atomic time standard. ... A suicide attack is an attack in which the attacker (attacker being either an individual or a group) intends to kill others and intends to die in the process of doing so (see suicide). ... Car bombings are common in Iraq since the US-led invasion This is a list of major terrorist attacks of the Iraq War. ... The 2003 Jordanian embassy bombing in Baghdad was the detonation of a truck bomb outside of the Jordanian embassy in Iraq on August 7, 2003. ... The Canal Hotel after the bombing. ... The Imam Ali Mosque bombing was the detonation of two car bombs outside of the Imam Ali Mosque in Najaf on August 29, 2003. ... The 27 October 2003 Baghdad bombings were the simultaneous suicide car bombings targeting the Red Cross compound, and four Iraqi police stations in Baghdad. ... The 2003 Nasiriyah bombing was a suicide attack on the Italian military police headquarters in Nasiriyah, Iraq, south of Baghdad on November 12, 2003. ... The 2003 Karbala bombings consisted of four suicide attacks on the coalition military barracks in Karbala, Iraq, 110 kilometres (70 miles) south of Baghdad on December 27, 2003. ... The 2004 Irbil bombings was a double suicide attack on the offices of Kurdish political parties in Irbil, north of Baghdad on February 2, 2004. ... The Ashura massacre of March 2, 2004 in Iraq was a series of planned terrorist explosions that killed 170 and injured 500 Iraqi Shias Muslims commemorating the Ashura festival. ... On April 21, 2004, a series of large car bomb explosions ripped through Basra, Iraq. ... The 2004 Kufa shelling occurred on August 26, 2004 when the main mosque in Kufa, Iraq was hit by a barrage of mortars, killing 74 people, and injuring 315. ... On December 21, 2004, fourteen U.S. soldiers, four U.S. citizen Halliburton employees, and four Iraqi soldiers allied with the U.S. military were killed in an attack on a dining hall at Forward Operating Base Marez next to the main U.S. military airfield at Mosul. ... The 2005 Al Hillah bombing killed 127 people on February 28, 2005 in Al Hillah, Iraq. ... The 2005 Musayyib bombing was a suicide attack on a marketplace in Musayyib, a town 35 miles south of Baghdad on July 16, 2005. ... The 17 August 2005 Baghdad bombings was a terrorist attack that occured when three powerful car bombs ripped through civilian targets in central Baghdad, killing 43 people and injuring 76. ... The 14 September 2005 Baghdad bombing occurred when a suicide car bomber detonated his vehicle in a crowd of construction workers who had gathered in Baghdads Oruba Square looking for jobs. ... The Al Askari Mosque in Samarra before and after the February 2006 bombing. ... The Buratha Mosque bombing was a triple suicide bombing that occurred on April 7, 2006 in Baghdad. ... The 1 July 2006 Sadr City bombing was a suicide car bombing in Sadr City on July 1, 2006. ... The 2006 Sadr City bombings were a series of car bombs and mortar attacks in Iraq that began on November 23 at 15:10 Baghdad time (12:10 Greenwich Mean Time) and ended at 15:55 (12:55 GMT). ... There are very few or no other articles that link to this one. ... The Baghdad market bombing was the detonation of a large truck bomb in a busy market in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad on February 3, 2007. ... Two car bombs exploded in Baghdad, Iraq at 12:20, February 12, 2007 in the Shorja market district, killing 76 people, and injuring 155-180. ... Three car bombs exploded in mainly Shia areas of Baghdad, killing at least 63 people and injuring more than 120 on February 18, 2007. ... The 2007 Al Hillah bombings happened on March 6, 2007 when two bombers wearing explosive vests blew themselves up in a large crowd of Shiite pilgrims in Al Hillah, Iraq. ... March 27 is the 86th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (87th in leap years). ... 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the Anno Domini (common) era. ... Tal Afar (also Tal Afar, Tall Afar, Tell Afar, Tel Afar) (in Arabic: تل عفر, in Kurdish: Telehfer) (also تلعفر) is a city in northern Iraq, about 30 miles west of Mosul. ...

Bombings

One suicide bomber lured victims to buy wheat loaded on his truck, then detonated it. A second truck bomb exploded in a used car lot.

Reprisal act

After the bombings, gunmen, apparently Shia-affiliated policemen, roamed the town's Sunni neighbourhoods for two hours shooting at Sunni residents and homes. At least 70 people have been handcuffed and shot in the head. [3]

External links

• Gunmen kill dozens in Iraqi town