• Source: January 2017 Sadr City bombings

On January 2, 2017, at least three suicide car bombings took place in a Shia Muslim eastern district of Sadr City, as well as behind the Kindi and Imam Ali hospitals, killing 56 people and injuring more than 120 others. Haider al-Abadi, Iraq's prime minister, had informed in a news conference that the suicide bombing, in Sadr City's busy market, was operated by the suicide bomber who detonated a vehicle with explosives. The bomber had pretended to hire day labourers in the market; once labourers gathered near the vehicle, the vehicle was detonated by him. The French President François Hollande was in the city during the attacks.




Responsibility


The jihadist group Islamic State claimed the responsibility of attacks, with a targeted attack on a "gathering of Shia".




References

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Anti-Sunni
• January 2017 Sadr City bombings
• Sadr City
• Muqtada al-Sadr
• Siege of Sadr City
• Islamic State insurgency in Iraq (2017–present)
• February 2016 Sadr City bombings
• Baghdad bombing
• 11 May 2016 Baghdad bombings
• January 2012 Iraq attacks
• 2015 Sadr City market truck bombing