2016 Balad attack was attack on the shrine of seven Dujai in Balad, Iraq on Friday, July 8, 2016 in which 36 people were killed.
Background The attack came as the United Nations issued warnings of the possibility of renewed sectarian fighting after the invasion of Iraq in 2003.It followed two bombings in the vicinity of the shrine of Sayed Mohammad in the southern Saladin Governorate, north of Baghdad.
It was suspected that the ISIS terrorist organisation targeted the shrine with rocket-propelled mortars, followed by three suicide bombers, two of which detonated in a market near the shrine.As Baghdad Protests Mount, Attack on Shiite Shrine Kills 26
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