Major insurgent attacks Foreign interventions IS genocide of minorities IS war crimes Timeline On January 2, 2017, at least three suicide car bombings took place in a Shia Muslim eastern district of Sadr City, as well as behind the Kindi and Imam Ali hospitals, killing 56 people and injuring more than 120 others.

Haider al-Abadi, Iraq's prime minister, had informed in a news conference that the suicide bombing, in Sadr City's busy market, was operated by the suicide bomber who detonated a vehicle with explosives.

The bomber had pretended to hire day labourers in the market; once labourers gathered near the vehicle, the vehicle was detonated by him.

[1] The French President François Hollande was in the city during the attacks.

[2][3] The jihadist group Islamic State claimed the responsibility of attacks, with a targeted attack on a "gathering of Shia".