The hangings took place on Sunday evening and Monday morning. Three people sentenced to death in Iraq have been hanged for their involvement in an attack that killed 323 people in Baghdad in July 2016 and claimed by the Islamic State (IS) group, the office of Prime Minister Mohamed Shia al-Sudani announced on Monday. .
Receiving on Monday the families of the victims of the “Karrada tragedy”, named after the neighborhood targeted by the suicide attack on the minibus, the Iraqi Prime Minister announced “the execution of the death sentences” targeting “three of the main convicted criminals for their participation” in the attack, according to a press release from his services.
Zawbaï among the three executed
In October 2021, the Iraqi authorities announced the arrest, “outside the country”, of the “terrorist Ghazwan al-Zawbaï”, then presented as the person responsible for this attack of July 3, 2016. Zawbaï is one of the three people executed, said a government source told AFP on Monday.
The attack was carried out when Iraqis were shopping before Eid al-Fitr, the holiday marking the end of the fasting month of Ramadan.