January 2017 Baghdad bombings | |
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Part of War in Iraq | |
Location | Baghdad, Iraq |
Date | 2 January 2017 (2017-01-02) |
Target | Shiite civilians |
Attack type | car bombings, IEDs |
Weapons | Car bombs |
Deaths | At least 56 |
Injured | At least 120-122 [1] |
Perpetrators | ![]() |
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On January 2, 2017, at least three suicide car bombings took place in a Shia Muslim eastern district of Sadr City, as well as behind the Kindi and Imam Ali hospitals, killing 56 people and injuring more than 120 others. Haider al-Abadi, Iraq's prime minister, had informed in a news conference that the suicide bombing, in Sadr City's busy market, was operated by the suicide bomber who detonated a vehicle with explosives. The bomber had pretended to hire day labourers in the market; once labourers gathered near the vehicle, the vehicle was detonated by him. [1] The French President François Hollande was in the city during the attacks. [2] [3]
The jihadist group Islamic State claimed the responsibility of attacks, with a targeted attack on a "gathering of Shia". [4]