February 2016 Sadr City bombings

On 28 February 2016, at least 70 people were killed and 60 wounded in Sadr City, a southern suburb of Baghdad, as two bombs went off at a crowded market.^{[1][2][3][4][5]} The explosions ripped through a market selling mobile phones in the mainly Shiite Muslim district.^[6][7] The assailants were suicide bombers riding motorcycles through the crowd.^{[8][9][10][11][12]}

Sadr City bombings
Part of War in Iraq (2013–2017)
Location	Baghdad, Iraq
Date	28 February 2016 (UTC+03:00)
Attack type	Suicide motorcycle bombings
Deaths	70
Injured	60-100
Perpetrator	ISIL

See also

• List of terrorist incidents, January–June 2016
• Terrorist incidents in Iraq in 2016

References

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