Qahtaniyah bombings
The Qahtaniyah bombings occurred on August 14, 2007, when four coordinated suicide car bomb attacks detonated in the Yazidi towns of Til Ezer (al-Qahtaniyah) and Siba Sheikh Khidir (al-Jazirah), in northern Iraq.
| 2007 Qahtaniyah bombings | |
|---|---|
| Part of The Iraq War | |
Aftermath of one of the bombings in Tel Ezer | |
| Location | Til Ezer and Siba Sheikh Khidir, Nineveh Governorate, Iraq |
| Date | August 14, 2007 (UTC+3) |
| Target | Yazidis |
Attack type | Suicide truck bombs |
| Deaths | 796 |
| Injured | 1,562+ |
| Perpetrators | Unknown |
796 people were killed and at least 1,500 others were wounded, making it the Iraq War's deadliest car bomb attack. It is also the third deadliest act of terrorism in world history, after the September 11 attacks in the United States, and the Camp Speicher massacre, also in Iraq. No group claimed responsibility for the attacks.
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