The 27 October 2003 Baghdad bombings were a series of suicide car bombings targeting the

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headquarters and four Iraqi

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s in

Baghdad Baghdad (; ar, بَغْدَاد , ) is the capital of Iraq and the second-largest city in the Arab world after Cairo. It is located on the Tigris near the ruins of the ancient city of Babylon and the Sassanid Persian capital of Ctesiphon. I ...

. The attacks killed 34 people and injured another 224. The bombings began at approximately 8:30 am. All occurred within about 45 minutes of each other, and were also set to occur on the first day of Ramadan. Four suicide bombers died but the fifth and sixth, both Syrians, attempted to blow up a fourth police station, but had their plan foiled after their car apparently failed to

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. One was killed and the other was wounded by the

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and arrested. A grenade was set off by the Syrians, wounding one of themselves along with an officer.

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