March 2017 Damascus bombings
Three suicide bombings in the Syrian capital
2017 Damascus bombings | |
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Part of the Syrian Civil War | |
Location | Damascus, Syria |
Date | March 11, 2017 (first attack) March 15, 2017 (second and third attack) |
Deaths | 74 (first attack) 40 (second and third attack) Total: 114 |
Injured | 120 (first attack) 30+ (second and third attack) Total: 150+ |
Perpetrator | Tahrir al-Sham (first attack)[citation needed] Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (second and third attack)[citation needed] |
In March 2017, three attacks occurred in the city of Damascus, Syria. The first happened on the March 11, when a double bomb suicide attack in the Old City of Damascus on Saturday killed dozens of people - mostly Iraqi Shia pilgrims - and wounded more than 100. The second and the third happened on the March 15, when two suicide bombers detonated their explosive vests in the capital's main judicial building and in a restaurant.
Perpetrators
Tahrir al-Sham claimed responsibility for the first attack[citation needed] and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant claimed the second and the third.[citation needed]
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Categories:
- Terrorist incidents in Damascus during the Syrian civil war
- Islamic terrorist incidents in 2017
- Islamic terrorism in Syria
- Terrorist incidents in Syria in 2017
- Mass murder in 2017
- Mass murder in Syria
- March 2017 events in Syria
- March 2017 crimes in Asia
- 2017 crimes in Syria
- 2017 murders in Asia
- 2010s murders in Syria