1 July 2006 Sadr City bombing

Suicide bombing in Sadr City, Baghdad, Iraq May 2024 1 July 2006 Sadr City bombing Sadr City, Baghdad, Iraq the Iraqi civil War Market 1 July 2006 Suicide car bombing 77 96 Sunni people Anti-Shi'ism On 1 July 2006, at around 10:00 A.M, a suicide car bombing at a crowded market in Sadr City, a Shi'ite district of Baghdad, killed at least 77 people and wounded 96.https://www.start.umd.edu/gtd/search/IncidentSummary.aspx?gtdid=200607010005 Incident Summary for GTDID: 200607010005 11 May 2023 27 April 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20210427224414/https://www.start.umd.edu/gtd/search/IncidentSummary.aspx?gtdid=200607010005 live The car was a truck loaded with fruit, under which a "mix of explosives and artillery shells, with ball bearings nearly the size of marbles and scrap metal added for shrapnel [was hidden]" the Washington Post reports "The truck, with a suicide driver at the wheel, blew up on a street crowded on both sides with shops and market stalls, leaving a crater the size of a wading pool in the pavement." The bomb was powerful enough to propel some bodies onto the roofs of houses.http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Sadr-City-market-explosion-kills-66-First-2532141.php Sadr City market explosion kills 66 / First high-fatality bombing under new government SFGate 2016-12-18 23 January 2022 https://web.archive.org/web/20220123070208/https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Sadr-City-market-explosion-kills-66-First-2532141.php live The bomb destroyed 22 stalls and sent up a grey plume of smoke. Fire shot out of the windows of some cars (14 cars were destroyed).Chronology - The deadliest bomb attacks in Iraq - Iraq ReliefWeb https://reliefweb.int/report/iraq/chronology-deadliest-bomb-attacks-iraq-0 2023-05-11 reliefweb.int 3 February 2007 en 19 September 2012 https://web.archive.org/web/20120919235641/http://reliefweb.int/report/iraq/chronology-deadliest-bomb-attacks-iraq-0 live A group calling themselves The Supporters of the Sunni People claimed responsibility for the attack. The group accused Shi'ite's of "killing Sunnis and throwing their bodies in the streets after badly torturing them. It added that Sunni women under detention were being raped by Shiites." CBS news reports.http://www.cbsnews.com/news/baghdad-market-blast-kills-at-least-66/ Baghdad Market Blast Kills at Least 66 2016-12-18 3 September 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20200903042305/https://www.cbsnews.com/news/baghdad-market-blast-kills-at-least-66/ live The attack was the deadliest to come to Iraq since the death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/01/AR2006070100203_pf.html Car Bombing Kills Dozens in Baghdad Market washingtonpost.com 2016-12-18 6 April 2022 https://web.archive.org/web/20220406065101/https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/01/AR2006070100203_pf.html live After the attack, and while firefighters were putting out the fire, an angry mob gathered around the wreckage and shouted allegiance to radical Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr, while denouncing the Sunni people and the new prime minister Nuri al-Maliki and his government. See also Sadr City terrorist attacks Siege of Sadr City References External links Sadr City suicide bomber uses fruit truck to kill 66 on market day Iraq violence: Facts and figures Iraq Category:2006 murders in Iraq Category:2006 in Baghdad Category:Suicide car and truck bombings in Baghdad Category:July 2006 in Iraq Category:Marketplace attacks in Baghdad Category:2006 mass murders Category:Terrorist incidents in Iraq in 2006 Category:Terrorist incidents in Sadr City Category:Sadr City in the Iraq War Category:Terrorist incidents in Baghdad in the 2000s Category:Bombings in the Iraqi insurgency (2003–2011) Category:Suicide bombings in 2006 Category:Car and truck bombings in 2006 Category:21st-century mass murders in Baghdad