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Miqdadiyah bombing

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Non-fatal injuries
  
58

Location
  
Miqdadiyah, Iraq

Attack type
  
Suicide attack

Date
  
29 February 2016

Total number of deaths
  
40

Perpetrator
  
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant

Locations
  
Diyala Governorate, Miqdadiyah

Similar
  
2015 Sana'a mosque b, 2016 Würzburg train attack, Curtis Culwell Center att, July 2016 Kabul bombing, 2016 Ansbach bombing

The death toll in a suicide bombing in Iraq's eastern province of Diyala rose to 50. A further 58 people were wounded in the attack at a funeral for a Shi'ite Muslim militia fighter in Muqdadiya, 80 km (50 miles) northeast of Baghdad.

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Miqdadiyah bombing Wikipedia