2005 Musayyib bombing

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.[1]

2005 Musayyib bombing
LocationMusayyib, Iraq
DateJuly 16, 2005
TargetMarketplace
Attack type
Suicide bombing
Deaths100
Injured150
Perpetratorsal-Qaeda in Iraq

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 Shia mosque where worshipers were emerging from evening prayers.

References

  1. "Iraq suicide bombings kill 99". CNN. 18 July 2005. Retrieved 31 March 2017.
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