Weapons Truck bomb Date 6 March 2016 | Non-fatal injuries 70 Total number of deaths 60 | |
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Perpetrators Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant Perpetrator Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant Attack types Mass murder, Suicide attack, Car bomb | ||
The 2016 Hillah suicide truck bombing was a suicide bombing on March 6, 2016, that killed at least 60 people and another 70 were injured after ramming his explosives-laden truck into a security checkpoint at one of entrances to the Iraqi city of Hillah, south of Baghdad. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL or ISIS) claims responsibility for the attack.
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