Coordinates: 32°46′41″N 44°17′24″E / 32.778°N 44.29°E
2005 Musayyib bombing | |
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Location | Musayyib, Iraq |
Date | July 16, 2005 |
Target | market |
Attack type | suicide bombing |
Deaths | 100 |
Non-fatal injuries | 150 |
Perpetrators |
The 2005 Musayyib bombing was a suicide attack on a marketplace in Musayyib, Iraq, a town 35 miles south of Baghdad on July 16, 2005.
The attacker had detonated his explosive belt in a crowded marketplace, where hundreds of people had come to shop and mingle after the day's stifling heat subsided. The attack happened as a tanker containing cooking gas was passing, triggering an inferno that destroyed dozens of buildings, including a nearby Shiite mosque where worshipers were emerging from evening prayers.
External links[]
- THE MUSAYYB BLAST
- Death Toll Rises to 100 in Suicide Blast in Iraq Washington Post
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