Canal Hotel bombing
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canal-hotel-bombing-207-3958923
title:
Canal Hotel bombing
text:
The Canal Hotel bombing was a suicide truck bombing in Baghdad, Iraq, during the afternoon of 19 August 2003. It killed 23 people, including the United Nations' Special Representative in Iraq Sérgio Vieira de Mello, and wounded over 100, including human rights lawyer and political activist Amin Mekki Medani. The blast targeted the United Nations Assistance Mission in Iraq created just five days earlier. The 19 August bombing resulted in the withdrawal within weeks of most of the 600 UN staff mem
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2003 terror attack against the UN in Baghdad, Iraq
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canal_Hotel_bombing
date created:
2003-08-19T15:42:18Z
date modified:
2024-09-11T03:58:58Z
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