Incident Summary:
03/18/2008: A car bomb carried out by unknown persons outside an electronics store in Mosul, 225 miles northwest of Baghdad, killed four and wounded at least 40 and destroyed a four story building.
Overview
GTD ID:
200803180011
When:
2008-03-18
Country:
Iraq
Region:
Middle East & North Africa
Province/administrative
region/u.s. state:
Nineveh
City:
Mosul
What
Attack Information
Type of Attack () |
Bombing/Explosion |
Successful Attack? () |
Yes |
Target Information ()
Target Type: Business |
Name of Entity |
Iraqi Civilians outside an electronics store |
Specific Description |
|
Nationality of Target |
Iraq |
Additional Information
Hostages |
No |
Property Damage |
Yes |
Extent of Property Damage |
Unknown |
Value of Property Damage |
Unknown |
How
Weapon Information
Type |
Sub-type |
Explosives/Bombs/Dynamite |
Vehicle |
Additional Information
Suicide Attack? | No |
Part of Multiple Incident? | No |
Criterion 1 () |
Yes |
Criterion 2 () |
Yes |
Criterion 3 () |
Yes |
Doubt Terrorism Proper () |
No |
Who
Perpetrator Group Information
Group Name |
Claimed Responsibility |
Unknown |
No |
Perpetrator Statistics
Number of Perpetrators |
1 |
Number of Captured Perpetrators |
0 |
Casualty Information
Total Number of Casualties |
4 Fatalities / 40 Injured |
Total Number of Fatalities |
4 |
Number of U.S. Fatalities |
0 |
Number of Perpetrator Fatalities |
0 |
Total Number of Injured |
40 |
Number of U.S. Injured |
0 |
Number of Perpetrators Injured |
0 |
Sources
Sources
"Death toll rises to 50 in Iraq bombing,” Qatar News Agency, March 18, 2008." |
"ROUNDUP: Three killed, 40 injured in blast in northern Iraq,” Deutsche Presse-Agentur, March 18, 2008." |
Qassim Abdul-Zahra, “' Sunnis boycott as Iraqi prime minister opens national reconciliation conference,” The Associated Press March 18, 2008. |