Deadliest bombings in Iraq in 2016

28 February: Twin suicide bomb attacks hit market in Sadr City, killing 70

6 March: Truck bomb at checkpoint at entrance to Hilla kills 47

11 May: Car bombs in Baghdad kill 93 people, including 64 in market in Shia district of Sadr City

2 July: Truck bombing outside shopping centre in mainly Shia Karrada district of Baghdad kills more than 300 The so-called Islamic State, the ultra hardline Sunni militant group that considers all Shia to be apostates, claimed responsibility the attack in an online statement. The pilgrims were en route back to Iran from the Iraqi Shi’ite holy city of Kerbala, where they had commemorated Arbaeen, the 40th day of mourning for the killing of Imam Hussein, a grandson of the Prophet Mohammad, in the 7th century AD, the medical sources said. The gas station has a restaurant in its premises that is popular with travellers. Five pilgrim buses were torched by the force of the blast from the explosives-laden truck, a police official said.
At least 80 Shia pilgrims are killed in a truck bomb attack in Iraq. Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant claims responsibility.