2016 Karrada Bombing
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Target | multicultural |
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Perpetrator | Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant |
Deaths | 341+ total:: 323+ civilians and one bomber in Karrada bombing; 17+ civilians in other attacks; |
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ID | 1398614 |
About 2016 Karrada Bombing
On 3 July 2016, ISIL militants carried out coordinated bomb attacks in Baghdad that killed 340 civilians and injured hundreds more. A few minutes after midnight local time, a suicide truck-bomb targeted the mainly Shia district of Karrada, busy with late night shoppers for Ramadan.