Back تفجيرات الكرادة 2016 Arabic Bağdadda terror (2016) Azerbaijani Двайны тэракт у Багдадзе (2016) Byelorussian Bombenattentat in Bagdad am 3. Juli 2016 German Atentados de Bagdad del 3 de julio de 2016 Spanish بمبگذاری ژوئیه ۲۰۱۶ بغداد Persian Bagdadin pommi-isku heinäkuussa 2016 Finnish Attentat du 3 juillet 2016 à Bagdad French הפיגוע בכראדה (2016) HE जुलाई २०१६ बगदाद आतंकी हमला Hindi
| July 2016 Karrada bombing | |
|---|---|
| Part of the War in Iraq and Persecution of Shias by the Islamic State | |
.jpg) Immediate aftermath of the bombing, with smoke spewing from inside the building | |
| Location | Karrada, Baghdad, Iraq |
| Date | 3 July 2016 00:05 AST (UTC+03) |
| Target | Western-style shopping centre in a multicultural & multi-faith district of Baghdad. |
Attack type | Truck bombing, suicide bombing |
| Deaths | 347+[1][2] 1,000~ (per Juma Inad, Iraqi Minister of Defence) [3] |
| Injured | 250+ |
| Perpetrator |  Islamic State[4] |
| Motive | Loss of Fallujah |
On 3 July 2016, IS militants carried out coordinated bomb attacks in Baghdad that killed up to 1,000 civilians and injured hundreds more. [5] A few minutes after midnight local time (2 July, 21:00 UTC), a suicide truck-bomb targeted the mainly Shia district of Karrada, busy with late night shoppers for Ramadan. A second roadside bomb was detonated in the suburb of Sha'ab, killing at least five.
IS issued a statement claiming responsibility for the attack, naming the suicide bomber as Abu Maha al-Iraqi. There were reports that the source of the blast was a refrigerator van packed with explosives. The explosion caused a huge fire on the main street. Several buildings, including the popular Hadi Center, were badly damaged.
On 18 October 2021, Prime Minister of Iraq Mustafa Al-Kadhimi announced that Ghazwan al-Zawbaee, the man behind the bombing was arrested by Iraqi security forces.[6][7]
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- ^ "Baghdad bombing: Casualties in Karrada rise to 347". Iraqi News. 3 July 2016. Archived from the original on 31 July 2021. Retrieved 31 July 2021.
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- ^ "بعد أكثر من 5 سنوات.. الكاظمي يعلن اعتقال المسؤول عن تفجير الكرادة الدامي". baghdadtoday.news (in Arabic). Archived from the original on 18 October 2021. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
- ^ "Iraq captures mastermind of 2016 Islamic State terror attack that killed hundreds - Al-Monitor: The Pulse of the Middle East". www.al-monitor.com. 19 October 2021. Archived from the original on 7 December 2021. Retrieved 12 January 2022.