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October 6, 2013 In the Shiite Turkomen village of Qabak, Iraq, 16 were killed and 90 injured A rare terrorist-style attack on a school that was actually carried out by terrorists, since a suicide bomb is a reliable sign of a terrorist attack
It is only one of two attacks on elementary schools officially classified as terrorism. The China incident was not classified as terrorism, but a suicide motorcycle bombing is almost certainly a terrorist attack of some sort.
May 8, 1970 | Avivim, Israel | Palestinian militants | 12 dead, 25 injured | 12 | 25 | Avivim school bus massacre. Palestinian terrorists belonging to the PFLP-GC attacked the community school bus of Avivim, killing nine children and three adults and wounding 25 other people, by firing two bazooka shells at the bus.[62] |
September 9, 2013 | Guilin, Guangxi province, China | Unknown | 2 dead, 44 injured | 2 dead | 44 injured | Two adults were killed outside Balijie Primary School, and 44 others were injured after a homemade explosive detonated. Most of the injured were schoolchildren. One of those killed is the bomber, who was riding his motorcycle during the explosion.[170][171][172] |
October 6, 2013 | Qabak, Iraq | Unknown | 16 dead, 90 injured | 16 dead | 90 injured | 12 children and the school principal were killed in a suicide bombing at an elementary school in the village of Qabak. Two police officers in an adjacent police station were also killed. 90 people were injured.[174] |
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Bombing at Elementary School Playground in Iraq Kills 13 Children
By DURAID ADNAN
BAGHDAD — A suicide bomber detonated a truck filled with explosives on the playground of an elementary school in northern Iraq on Sunday morning, killing 13 children and the headmaster, the police said.
As many as 80 other people, including students and teachers, were wounded in the blast, the first of three attacks that left at least 31 Iraqis dead.
Shortly after the attack on the school in the village of Qabak, Shortly afterward, another suicide truck bomb struck a police station in the same village, killing three officers.
The two attacks in Qabak, a Shiite Turkmen village just outside Tal Afar in Mosul Pprovince, another suicide bomber crashed a smaller pickup into the village’s police station and set off explosives, killing three officers and wounding 15.
In the afternoon, a third suicide bomber attacked a group of Shiite pilgrims in Baghdad, killing 14 and wounding 34, the police said.
At least 80 people were killed on Saturday in several attacks, including a bombing in Baghdad that killed 51 Shiite pilgrims. The wave of attacks was Iraq’s worst outburst of violence since 2008.
In Qabak, a Shiite Turkmen village, the mayor, Abdul al-Obaidilso left 95 people wounded, 80 of them at the school.
The attacks added to a wave of violence across the country, the deadliest outbreak in Iraq since 2008. A suicide bomber attacked a group of Shiite pilgrims in Baghdad on Sunday, the police said, killing 14 and wounding 34 and raising the total death toll from terrorist attacks on Sunday to at least 31.
Abdul al-Obaidi, the mayor of Qabak, called the attack on the school “a crime against humanity” as he surveyed books splattered with blood amid the devastation on the playground. “The terrorists are trying to stop us from living and sending our children to school, but they will not, as we have our unity,” he said.
Many of the children who survived the attack were seriously wounded and were sent to larger, better-equipped hospitals in the Iraqithe Kurdistan region of Iraq for treatment, medical officials said.
“I don’t remember what happened,” said a sobbing boy named Ali, who suffered wounds to his face and legs. “I just want to see my mother.”
In Baghdad, Shiite pilgrims visiting the shrines of revered imams were hit for the second time in less than 24 hours despite heightened security measures. The pilgrims had been visiting the shrines of revered imams this weekend.
One wounded pilgrim, speaking from a Baghdad hospital on Sunday, remained defiant. “They killed more than 50 of us yesterday, and they thought that we would stop,” the pilgrim, Abdul Amir, said. “They thought wrong. We will never stop visiting our imams. Our security forces just look at us and do nothing.”
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Oct 8, 2013 - International Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT) ..... On 21 October, Naida Asiyalova, a female suicide bomber, detonated her ..... explosives on the playground of an elementary school in the village of Qabak, killing 13.
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