Abu Sayda chlorine bombing

{{Short description|2007 chlorine car bombing attack on a Shia village in Iraq}}

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{{Infobox terrorist attack

|title=Abu Sayda chlorine bombing

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|location=Abu Sayda, Diyala, Iraq

|target=Village market

|date=15 May 2007

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|timezone=UTC+3

|type=Iraqi chlorine bombing

|fatalities=32–45

|injuries=60

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{{Campaignbox Iraq War bombings}}

The Abu Sayda bombing was a chlorine car bombing attack that occurred on 15 May 2007, in an open-air market in the Iraqi Diyala Governorate village of Abu Sayda.{{cite news |title='Chlorine bomb' hits Iraq village |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/6660585.stm |publisher=BBC News |date=16 May 2007 |access-date=23 January 2008 }} The attack killed up to 45 people and wounded 60 more in the Shia village,{{cite news |title=Chlorine bomb blamed for up to 45 deaths in Iraqi Shia town |url=https://www.theguardian.com/Iraq/Story/0,,2081413,00.html |work=The Guardian |date=17 May 2007 |access-date=23 January 2008 | location=London | first=Ian | last=Black}} the highest death toll of all chlorine bombings in Iraq. Iraqi and American military sources initially denied the use of chlorine.