Non-fatal injuries 100 Location Baghdad, Iraq | Date 28 February 2016 Total number of deaths 70 | |
Attack type Suicide motorcycle bombings Motive Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant Similar 2015 Sana'a mosque b, Curtis Culwell Center att, 2016 Würzburg train attack, July 2016 Kabul bombing, 2016 Ansbach bombing | ||
At least 70 people were killed and 60 wounded in Sadr City, a southern suburb of Baghdad, as two bombs went off at a crowded market. The explosions ripped through a market selling mobile phones in the mainly Shiite Muslim district. The assailants were suicide bombers riding motorcycles through the crowd.
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