12 February 2007 Baghdad bombings

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12 February 2007 Baghdad bombings
Location	Baghdad, Iraq
Date	February 12, 2007 (UTC+3)
Attack type	Car bombing
Deaths	Approx. 76
Injured	Approx. 150

Major terrorist attacks of the Iraq War

Attacks with 100+ fatalities in bold:
1st Baghdad – 2nd Baghdad – Najaf – 3rd Baghdad – Nasiriyah – 1st Karbala – Irbil – Ashoura – Basra – Mosul – 4th Baghdad – Karbala-Najaf – Baqubah – Kufa – FOB Marez – 1st Al Hillah – Musayyib – 5th Baghdad – 6th Baghdad – 1st Balad – Khanaqin – Karbala-Ramadi – 1st Samarra – 7th Baghdad – 8th Baghdad – 9th Baghdad – 10th Baghdad – 11th Baghdad – 12th Baghdad – 13th Baghdad – 14th Baghdad – 2nd Al Hillah – Tal Afar – 15th Baghdad – 16th Baghdad – 2nd Karbala – 17th Baghdad – 3rd Karbala – Makhmour – Abu Sayda – 2nd Samarra – 18th Baghdad – Amirli – Kirkuk – 19th Baghdad – 20th Baghdad – Qahtaniya – 21st Baghdad – 2nd Balad – 4th Karbala

Two car bombs exploded in Baghdad, Iraq at 12:20 on February 12, 2007 in the Shorja market district, killing 76 people, and injuring 155-180.^[1]^[2]

The explosions set market stalls, shops, and an adjoining 7-storey building on fire, causing further casualties, and local fire-crews struggled for hours to extinguish the flames.^[3] The collapse of a building was also reported. The injured were taken to the nearby Al-Kindi hospital, which struggled to cope with the influx, and more casualties are expected from injuries.^[4]

[edit] Al-Askari anniversary

The bombings happened during 15 minutes of state endorsed silence, to mark the anniversary^[5] of the Al-Askari Mosque bombing in Samarra, which prompted heavy bloodshed. The Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki was participating in a televised ceremony remembering the victims of the attack, and was speaking when the blasts occurred, only two miles away.^[6] Al-Maliki had been calling for calm, unity and reconciliation,^[7] and had said that Iraq's security forces were regaining control of Iraq's security situation.