Mustansiriya University bombings

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16 January 2007 Baghdad Mustansiriya University bombing
Location	Baghdad, Iraq
Date	January 16, 2007 (UTC+3)
Attack type	suicide attack and car bomb(s)
Death(s)	ca. 70
Injured	169

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The 16 January 2007 Baghdad Mustansiriya University bombing 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]

In early December 2006, 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 December 3 statement named Mustansiriya University as one of the schools that should be closed.

[edit] References

1. ^ Deaths top 100 in Baghdad bombings, shootings, CNN

[edit] External links

• Double bombing at university kills 60 in Baghdad Reuters
• Bombings Kill 60 at University In Baghdad Washington Post
• Baghdad university bombing kills 65 as U.N. reports 34,000 Iraqi civilians killed in '06 USA Today
• 3 Bombs Kill at Least 70 at University in Baghdad The New York Times
• Iraq: after university bombing, UNESCO urges Government to defend right to education United Nations

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