Mustansiriya University bombings | |
Partof: | the Iraqi civil war |
Location: | Baghdad, Iraq |
Target: | Students and staff at Mustansiriya University |
Date: | January 16, 2007 |
Timezone: | UTC+3 |
Type: | School bombings, suicide attack and car bombs |
Fatalities: | approx. 70 |
Injuries: | 169 |
Perps: | 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]