The 12 September 2008 Dujail bombing occurred around 1800 local time (1500 UTC), on 12 September 2008 in
Dujail
Dujail ( ar, الدجيل; alternate spelling: Ad Dujayl) is a town in Saladin Governorate, Iraq. It is situated about north of Baghdad, and has approximately 100,000 inhabitants, who are mostly Shia. It was the site of the 1982 Dujail Massacre ...
,
Salah ad Din Governorate
The Saladin or Salah Al-Din Governorate ( ar, محافظة صلاح الدين) is one of Iraq's 19 governorates, north of Baghdad. It has an area of , with an estimated population of 1,042,200 people in 2003. It is made up of 8 districts, with ...
, when a suicide bomber drove and detonated an explosive laden car into a police station killing 31 and injuring 60.
A nearby medical clinic was also damaged.
The attack occurred at around 6:20 pm local time.
The attack was blamed on
Al-Qaeda by US military, was the biggest attack in Iraq in months and came at a time when the violence had fallen to a 4-year low.
See also
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List of terrorist incidents, 2008
This is a timeline of incidents in 2008 that have been labelled as "terrorism" and are not believed to have been carried out by a government or its forces (see state terrorism and state-sponsored terrorism).
Guidelines
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References
2008 murders in Iraq
2008 bombing
Mass murder in 2008
Suicide car and truck bombings in Iraq
Terrorist incidents in Iraq in 2008
Violence against Shia Muslims in Iraq
September 2008 crimes
Attacks on police stations in the 2000s
Building bombings in Iraq
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