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2007 Baghdad Mustansiriya University bombing
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| 2007 Baghdad Mustansiriya University bombing | |
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| Location | Baghdad, Iraq |
| Target(s) | Mustansiriya University |
| Date | January 16, 2007 (UTC+3) |
| Attack Type | Suicide car bomb |
| Fatalities | ca. 70 |
| Injuries | ca. 140 |
| Perpetrator(s) | Unknown |
| Bombings and terrorist attacks of the Iraq War |
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| Attacks with 80+ casualties in bold: Jordanian embassy – UN headquarters – Imam Ali Mosque – 1st Baghdad – Nasiriyah – Karbala – Irbil – Ashoura – Basra – Baqubah – Kufa – FOB Marez – 1st Al Hillah – Musayyib – 2nd Baghdad – 3rd Baghdad – Khanaqin – Al-Askari Mosque – Buratha Mosque – 1st Sadr City – 2nd Sadr City – 4th Baghdad – 5th Baghdad – 6th Baghdad – 7th Baghdad – 8th Baghdad – 2nd Al Hillah – Tal Afar |
The 2007 Baghdad Mustansiriya University bombing was a suicide car bomb attack at students and techers at that university on January 16, 2007. 70 people were killed and 140 were wounded.
In early December, the insurgent group Ansar al-Sunna distributed statements at mosques in western Baghdad, and on Web sites, calling on students and professors to cancel classes in preparation for a purge of Shiite militias from campuses. A Dec. 3 statement named Mustansiriya University as one of the schools that should be closed.