1 August 2007 Baghdad bombings

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1 August 2007 Baghdad bombings
1 August 2007 Baghdad bombings
Location of Baghdad in Iraq
Location Baghdad, Iraq
Date August 1, 2007 (UTC+3)
Attack type Suicide bomb and car bombs
Deaths 74
Injured 60+
Perpetrator(s) Unknown: legal proceedings have not yet taken place.
 
Major terrorist attacks of the Iraq War
Attacks with 100+ fatalities in bold:
1st Baghdad – 2nd Baghdad – Najaf – 3rd Baghdad – Nasiriyah – 1st Karbala – Irbil – Ashoura – Basra – Mosul – 4th Baghdad – Karbala-Najaf – Baqubah – Kufa – FOB Marez – 1st Al Hillah – Musayyib – 5th Baghdad – 6th Baghdad – 1st Balad – Khanaqin – Karbala-Ramadi – 1st Samarra – 7th Baghdad – 8th Baghdad – 9th Baghdad – 10th Baghdad – 11th Baghdad – 12th Baghdad – 13th Baghdad – 14th Baghdad – 2nd Al Hillah – Tal Afar – 15th Baghdad – 16th Baghdad – 2nd Karbala – 17th Baghdad – 3rd Karbala – Makhmour – Abu Sayda – 2nd Samarra – 18th Baghdad – Amirli – Kirkuk – 19th Baghdad – 20th Baghdad – Qahtaniya – 21st Baghdad – 2nd Balad – 4th Karbala

The 1 August 2007 Baghdad bombings occurred on August 1, 2007, when several suicide bombings and car bombings occurred in Baghdad, capital of Iraq.

The bombings included:

  • A fuel tanker truck rigged with explosives killed at least 50 people when a suicide bomber detonated it near a gas station in Baghdad's western Mansour district. Around 60 more were injured by the blast, police said. Police believe the bomber lured motorists queueing for petrol to his fuel tanker, and then detonated the explosives.
  • A roadside car bomb went off in the al-Harithiya area, killing one person.
  • A suicide bomber killed three in southern Doura district.
  • At least 20 people were left dead when a parked car bomb exploded at Hurriya Square in the busy central district of Karrada.[1]

[edit] References

  1. ^ "Scores killed in Baghdad blasts", Al Jazeera English, 2007-08-01. Retrieved on 2007-09-08.