2016 Iraq Gas Plant attack | |
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Part of the Iraqi Civil War (2014–2017) | |
Location | Taji, Iraq |
Date | 15 May 2016 |
Attack type | Car bombing, suicide bombing, shooting |
Deaths | 14+ (9 attackers also killed, maybe more) |
Injured | 47+ |
Perpetrators | ISIS |
Motive | Terror |
On 15 May 2016, a team of ISIL bombers assaulted a natural-gas plant north of Baghdad, Iraq, killing at least 14 people, eight suicide bombers, injuring 27 troops and burning 20 workers.[1][2]