TIMELINE: The deadliest bomb attacks in Iraq

Tue Aug 14, 2007 6:27pm EDT
 
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(Reuters) - At least 175 people were killed when three suicide bombers driving fuel tankers attacked residential compounds home to the ancient minority Yazidi sect in northern Iraq on Tuesday, the Iraqi army said.

Here is a list of some of the deadliest bomb attacks in Iraq since the overthrow of Saddam Hussein in 2003:

August 19, 2003 - Truck bomb wrecks U.N. headquarters in Baghdad, killing 22, including U.N. envoy Sergio Vieira de Mello.

August 29 - A car bomb kills at least 83 people, including Shi'ite Muslim leader Ayatollah Mohammed Baqer al-Hakim, at the Imam Ali mosque in Najaf.

February 1, 2004 - 117 people are killed when two suicide bombers blow themselves up in Arbil at the offices of the two main Kurdish factions in northern Iraq.

March 2 - 171 killed in twin attacks in Baghdad and Kerbala.

February 28, 2005 - A suicide car bomb attack in Hilla, south of Baghdad, kills 125 people and wounds 130.

July 16 - A suicide bomber in a fuel truck near a Shi'ite mosque in the town of Mussayib, near Kerbala, kills 98.

September 14 - A suicide bomber kills 114 people and wounds 156 in a Shi'ite district of Baghdad.

September 29 - 98 people killed in three coordinated car bomb attacks in the mixed Shi'ite and Sunni town of Balad.

November 18 - At least 74 killed when suicide bombers blow themselves up inside two Shi'ite mosques in Khanaqin.

January 5, 2006 - Two suicide bombers kill over 120 people and wound more than 200 in Kerbala and Ramadi.

July 1 - A car bomb attack at a market in Sadr city, a Shi'ite district of eastern Baghdad, kills 62. The Supporters of the Sunni People, a previously unknown Iraqi Sunni Muslim group, claims responsibility.

November 23 - Six car bombs in different parts of the Sadr City neighborhood of Baghdad kill 202 people and wound 250.

December 12 - A suicide bomber kills 70 people and wounds at least 236 in Tayran Square, central Baghdad, after luring a crowd of laborers to his vehicle with promises of work.

January 16, 2007 - A car bomb and suicide bomber strike the Mustansiriya University in central Baghdad killing at least 70 people and wounding 180.  Continued...

 

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