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TIMELINE: The deadliest bomb attacks in Iraq
(Reuters) - A car bomb killed at least 75 people and wounded 130 near the Shi'ite Khilani mosque in Baghdad on Tuesday.
Here is a list of some of the deadliest bomb attacks in Iraq this year:
January 16, 2007 - A car bomb and suicide bomber strike the Mustansiriya University in central Baghdad killing at least 70 people and wounding 180.
January 22, 2007 - A double car bombing at a second-hand goods market in Bab al-Sharji, a busy commercial area in central Baghdad, kills 88 people and wounds 160.
February 1, 2007 - Two suicide bombers strike at a market in the Shi'ite town of Hilla, killing 61 people and wounding 150.
February 3, 2007 - Truck bomb kills 135 people and wounds 305 at a market in the Sadriya quarter of central Baghdad.
February 12, 2007 - Multiple car bombs explode in the Shorja wholesale market, killing at least 71 people and wounding 165. At least nine others are killed at the Bab al-Sharji market, also in central Baghdad.
March 6 - Two suicide bombers strike in Hilla, south of Baghdad, killing 105 pilgrims. Insurgents also launch attacks against Shi'ite pilgrims in a total of 12 attacks. In all 137 pilgrims died and 310 were wounded.
March 27 - Two truck bombs explode in Tal Afar, close to the Syrian border and the regional capital of Mosul. The final death toll reached 152, making it the deadliest single insurgent attack in Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003.
April 14 - A suicide car bomber kills 40 people and wounds more than 70 at a crowded bus station in the Iraqi holy city of Kerbala.
April 18 - Multiple car bombings kill 191 people around Baghdad. Near a popular market in the central Sadriya neighborhood, one car bomb killed 140 people and wounded 150, police said, making it the worst single insurgent bomb attack in Baghdad since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003.
April 28 - A suicide car bomber kills 60 people and wounds 170 at a checkpoint in Kerbala.
May 13 - Suicide truck bombing in northern town of Makhmour kills 50, with 70 people wounded.
June 19 - Car bomb attack near a Shi'ite mosque in central Baghdad kills at least 75 people and wounds 130.
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