Abu Sayda chlorine bombing | |
Location: | Abu Sayda, Diyala, Iraq |
Target: | Village market |
Date: | 15 May 2007 |
Timezone: | UTC+3 |
Type: | Iraqi chlorine bombing |
Fatalities: | 32–45 |
Injuries: | 60 |
The Abu Sayda bombing was a chlorine car bombing attack that occurred on 15 May 2007, in an open-air market in the Iraqi Diyala Governorate village of Abu Sayda.[1] The attack killed up to 45 people and wounded 60 more in the Shia village,[2] the highest death toll of all chlorine bombings in Iraq. Iraqi and American military sources initially denied the use of chlorine.[2]