Mustansiriya University bombings | |
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Part of the Iraqi civil war | |
Location | Baghdad, Iraq |
Date | January 16, 2007 (UTC+3) |
Target | Students and staff at Mustansiriya University |
Attack type | School bombings, suicide attack and car bombs |
Deaths | approx. 70 |
Injured | 169 |
Perpetrators | Unknown |
Motive | Anti-Shi'ism |
The Mustansiriya University bombings was a series of bombing attacks at students and teachers at the largely Shiite Mustansiriya University in Baghdad, Iraq, on January 16, 2007. Some 70 people were killed and 169 were wounded.[1]