Target market Perpetrators al-Qaeda in Iraq Location Musayyib, Iraq Attack type Suicide attack | Non-fatal injuries 150 Date 16 July 2005 Total number of deaths 100 Locations Iraq, Al-Musayab District | |
Perpetrator Tanzim Qaidat al-Jihad fi Bilad al-Rafidayn People also search for 26 July 2007 Baghdad market 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.
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.
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