2015 Baghdad market truck bombing

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2015 Baghdad market truck bombing
Part of Iraqi Civil War
Location	Sadr City, Baghdad, Iraq
Coordinates
Date	13 August 2015 (2015-08-13)
Target	Shiites
Attack type	Mass murder, truck bomb
Weapons	Truck bomb
Deaths	At least 76
Injured	At least 212
Perpetrators	Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL)

The 2015 Baghdad market truck bombing was a truck bomb attack on August 13, 2015, targeting a Baghdad food market in Sadr City, a predominantly Shi'ite neighborhood.

Attack

On 13 August 2015, shortly after 06:00 local time (03:00 UTC), a bomb-packed refrigeration truck was detonated in Sadr City. As of 13 August 2015, at least 76 people were confirmed to have been killed in the bombing, with at least 212 more injured. The market in the Shi'ite neighborhood is one of the biggest in Baghdad selling wholesale food items. This incident caused much resent against the government for the continued terror attacks in the city.

Responsibility

Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) claimed responsibility for the attack, stating that "God has enabled the soldiers of the Islamic State to detonate a parked, booby-trapped truck amid a gathering of apostates in one of their most important Shiite majority strongholds, in Sadr City." According to the group, the attack targeted members of Iraq's Popular Mobilization Forces, largely comprising Shi'ite militias allied with the Iraqi government. However, CNN reported the top United Nations official in Iraq, Gyorgy Busztin, as saying that the victims were "innocent civilians."

Aftermath

In response to the attack, local residents attacked police and security responders, blaming the government for continued attacks in Baghdad.

Shiite lawmaker Hakim al-Zamili, head of Iraq's parliamentary security committee, called for a review of security procedures, including the establishment of local patrols, as well as enhancing the country's intelligence capabilities.

See also

• List of Islamist terrorist attacks
• 2015 Khan Bani Saad bombing
• List of terrorist incidents, 2015
• List of terrorist incidents linked to ISIL
• Timeline of the Iraq War (2015)