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Baghdad market bombing
Location	Baghdad, Iraq
Target(s)	Market
Date	2007-02-03 (UTC+3)
Attack Type	Truck bomb
Fatalities	132 [1]
Injuries	339
Perpetrator(s)	Unknown: legal proceedings have not yet taken place.

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. The suicide attack killed at least 132 people and injured 339 others.^[1] The bomb, estimated to be about a tonne in weight, brought down at least 10 buildings and coffee shops and obliterated market stalls in a largely Shi‘ite enclave less than a half mile from the Tigris River.^[2] Image File history File links Current_event_marker. ... Image File history File links Smokebaghdad. ... Baghdad (Arabic ) is the capital of Iraq and of Baghdad Governorate. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... February 3 is the 34th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... ... Car bomb in Iraq, made from a number of concealed artillery shells in the back of a pickup truck. ... Car bombings are common in Iraq since the US-led invasion This is a list of major terrorist attacks of the Iraq War. ... 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 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. ... 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 Al Askari Mosque in Samarra before and after the February 2006 bombing. ... 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. ... A car bomb is a bomb that is placed in a car or truck and is intended to be exploded while there. ... Baghdad (Arabic ) is the capital of Iraq and of Baghdad Governorate. ... February 3 is the 34th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... The Tigris (Old Persian: Tigr, Syriac Aramaic: Deqlath, Arabic: دجلة, Dijla, Turkish: Dicle; biblical Hiddekil) is the eastern member of the pair of great rivers that define Mesopotamia, along with the Euphrates, which flows from the mountains of Anatolia through Iraq. ...

Casualties and aftermath

The attacks killed at least 135 people and injured 339 others, making it the most fatal attack since the Sadr City bombings of November 2006. The blast was the worst of four massive bomb attacks in the past three weeks, all targeting dense Shiite areas in Baghdad and Hilla, including an attack on January 22, 2007 in another central Baghdad market that killed at least 88 people and injured more than 160 others.^[2] The same market was hit by a series of car bombs on December 2, 2006, which killed more than 50 people. After the explosion, the closest hospital was quickly overwhelmed with patients affected by the blast. Once they couldn't handle the onslaught of patients, they started sending off the injured and redirecting ambulances to another nearby hospital.^[3] The Health Ministry official said the death toll was likely to rise significantly. The Iraqi Interior Ministry estimates that about 1,000 people have been killed throughout Iraq in the past week due to gunbattles, drive-by shootings and bomb attacks, a ministry official said Sunday.^[4] 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). ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Baghdad (Arabic ) is the capital of Iraq and of Baghdad Governorate. ... January 22 is the 22nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... December 2 is the 336th day (337th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ...

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Timing of the attacks

The attacker was driving a truck carrying food when he detonated his explosives, destroying stores and stalls that had been set up in the busy outdoor Sadriyah market, police said. Many people were looking to purchase food before a curfew scheduled for that evening; it is likely the suicide bombers planned this method in order to cause the most casualties.^[5]

External links

• BBC photo site

References

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See also

• Civil war in Iraq
• 22 January 2007 Baghdad bombings