The
3 February 2007 Baghdad market bombing was the detonation of a large
truck bomb in a busy market in the
Iraqi capital of
Baghdad on 3 February 2007. The
suicide attack killed at least 135 people and injured 339 others. The bomb, estimated to be about one ton in weight, brought down at least 10 buildings and coffee shops and obliterated market stalls in a largely
Shi‘ite enclave less than a half mile from the
Tigris River.