1995 Zakho bombing

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At 8:18am on 27 February 1995, a car bomb exploded in Zakho, a city which is 12 miles from the Turkish border in Dohuk Governorate, Kurdistan Region, Iraq.{{Cite web |url=https://nytimes.com/1995/02/28/world/car-bomb-kills-at-least-100-in-kurdish-iraq.html |title=Car bomb kills at least 100 in Kurdish Iraq |website=The New York Times |access-date=2021-05-21 |archive-date=2021-05-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210521075037/https://www.nytimes.com/1995/02/28/world/car-bomb-kills-at-least-100-in-kurdish-iraq.html |url-status=dead }} It happened during the Iraqi Kurdish Civil War, which began nine months earlier. The bomb was made from 330 pounds of dynamite and exploded whilst the car (a taxi) was outside a tea shop which was located in a busy marketplace. 100 people were killed and 150 injured.