Immediate aftermath of the bombing, with smoke spewing from inside the building
Location
Karrada, Baghdad, Iraq
Date
3 July 2016; 7 years ago (2016-07-03) 00:05 AST (UTC+03)
Target
Western-style shopping centre in a multicultural & multi-faith district of Baghdad.
Attack type
Truck bombing, suicide bombing
Deaths
347+[1][2]
Injured
250+
Perpetrator
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant[3]
Motive
Loss of Fallujah
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On 3 July 2016, ISIL militants carried out coordinated bomb attacks in Baghdad that killed 340 civilians and injured hundreds more.[4] A few minutes after midnight local time (2 July, 21:00 UTC), a suicide truck-bomb targeted the mainly Shia district of Karrada, busy with late night shoppers for Ramadan. A second roadside bomb was detonated in the suburb of Sha'ab, killing at least five.
ISIL issued a statement claiming responsibility for the attack, naming the suicide bomber as Abu Maha al-Iraqi. There were reports that the source of the blast was a refrigerator van packed with explosives. The explosion caused a huge fire on the main street. Several buildings, including the popular Hadi Center, were badly damaged.
On 18 October 2021, Prime Minister of Iraq Mustafa Al-Kadhimi announced that Ghazwan al-Zawbaee, the man behind the bombing was arrested by Iraqi security forces.[5][6]
^"Baghdad blast killed 292, many burned alive". AFP. 7 July 2016. Archived from the original on 19 April 2019. Retrieved 7 July 2016.
^"Baghdad bombing: Casualties in Karrada rise to 347". Iraqi News. 3 July 2016. Archived from the original on 31 July 2021. Retrieved 31 July 2021.
^Cite error: The named reference Guardian was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^Basu, Moni (12 January 2017). "In Iraq, thousands of terrorism's victims go unnamed". CNN. Archived from the original on 20 March 2023. Retrieved 29 May 2023.
^"بعد أكثر من 5 سنوات.. الكاظمي يعلن اعتقال المسؤول عن تفجير الكرادة الدامي". baghdadtoday.news (in Arabic). Archived from the original on 18 October 2021. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
^"Iraq captures mastermind of 2016 Islamic State terror attack that killed hundreds - Al-Monitor: The Pulse of the Middle East". www.al-monitor.com. 19 October 2021. Archived from the original on 7 December 2021. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
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