Iraq hangs 3 for 2016 Islamic State-claimed blast that killed hundreds

Illustrative: Iraqis react at the site of a suicide car bombing claimed by the Islamic State group on July 3, 2016 in Baghdad's central Karrada district. (AFP/Sabah Arar)
Illustrative: Iraqis react at the site of a suicide car bombing claimed by the Islamic State group on July 3, 2016 in Baghdad's central Karrada district. (AFP/Sabah Arar)

Iraq has hanged three people convicted for a 2016 bombing that killed more than 320 people in a Baghdad shopping district and was claimed by the Islamic State group, the prime minister’s office says.

The bombing was one of the world’s deadliest after the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States.

At least 323 people were killed in the car bombing that sparked raging fires in Baghdad’s Karrada shopping area early on July 3, 2016, as it teemed with people ahead of the Eid al-Fitr festival ending the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani, during a meeting with victims’ families, informed them “the rightful punishment of death sentence was carried out against three key criminals found guilty of their involvement in the terrorist bombing,” his office says in a statement.

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