2007 Amirli bombing

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Amirli bombing
Location Amirli, Iraq
DateJuly 7, 2007
Targetmarket
Attack type
suicide truck bomb
Deaths156
Injured255
Motive Anti-Shi'ism

The 2007 Amirli bombing was a suicide car bomb attack that occurred on July 7, 2007, in a market in the town of Amirli, Iraq, whose residents are mainly Shia Turkmens. The bombing killed 156 people with 255 injured. [1] [2] [3]

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