- 2005 Musayyib bombing
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Coordinates: 32°46′41″N 44°17′24″E / 32.778°N 44.29°E
2005 Musayyib bombing Location Musayyib, Iraq Date July 16, 2005 Target market Attack type suicide bombing Death(s) 100 Injured 150 Perpetrator(s) al-Qaeda in Iraq 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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