The Abu Sayda bombing was a

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car bombing attack that occurred on 15 May 2007, in an open-air market in the Iraqi

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village of Abu Sayda. The attack killed up to 45 people and wounded 60 more in the

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village, the highest death toll of all

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. Iraqi and American military sources initially denied the use of chlorine.

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