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Iraq hangs 3 for Isis-claimed Baghdad bombing that killed hundreds in 2016
- The bombing in a Baghdad shopping district killed more than 320 people and was one of the world’s deadliest attacks after September 11
- Iraq did not name those executed or say when they were sentenced. It said the executions were carried out on Sunday night and Monday morning
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Iraq has hanged three people convicted for a 2016 bombing that killed more than 320 people in a Baghdad shopping district and was claimed by Islamic State (Isis), the prime minister’s office said on Monday.
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The bombing was one of the world’s deadliest after the September 11 attacks on the United States in 2001.
At least 323 people were killed in the car bombing that sparked raging fires in Baghdad’s Karrada shopping area early on July 3, 2016 as it teemed with people ahead of the Eid al-Fitr festival ending the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani, during a meeting with victims’ families, informed them “the rightful punishment of death sentence was carried out against three key criminals found guilty of their involvement in the terrorist bombing,” his office said in a statement.
It was one of the deadliest attacks to ever hit Iraq.
Police Major General Talib Khalil Rahi said at the time that the bomber’s minibus had been loaded with plastic explosives and ammonium nitrate.
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