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2005 Musayyib bombing
| 2005 Musayyib bombing | |
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| Location | Musayyib, Iraq |
| Target(s) | Market |
| Date | July 16, 2005 |
| Attack type | suicide bombing |
| Deaths | 100 |
| Injured | 150 |
| Perpetrator(s) | al-Qaeda in Iraq |
The 2005 Musayyib bombing was a suicide attack on a marketplace in Musayyib, Iraq, a town 35 miles south of Baghdad on July 16, 2005.
The attacker had detonated his explosive belt in a crowded marketplace, where hundreds of people had come to shop and mingle after the day's stifling heat subsided. The attack happened as a tanker containing cooking gas was passing, triggering an inferno that destroyed dozens of buildings, including a nearby Shiite mosque where worshipers were emerging from evening prayers.
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