The 17 June 2008 Baghdad bombing was a suicide

car bomb A car bomb, bus bomb, lorry bomb, or truck bomb, also known as a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device (VBIED), is an improvised explosive device designed to be detonated in an automobile or other vehicles. Car bombs can be roughly divided ...

attack on a bus stop in northern

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, the capital city of

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, on 17 June 2008, killing 51 people and wounding 75. The attack happened in the Shia neighbourhood of Hurriya. The explosion struck during the early evening rush hour, when the bus stop was crowded with waiting passengers."Baghdad bus stop bomb 'kills 51'"

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(17 June 2008).

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