2005 Amman bombings

2005 Amman bombings
Part of the spillover of the Iraq War
The three bombed-out hotels
Location	Amman, Jordan
Date	9 November 2005 began 20:50 (UTC+2)
Target	Three hotels
Attack type	Suicide bombings
Weapon	RDX suicide vests
Deaths	60, plus 3 suicide bombers
Injured	115
Perpetrators	al-Qaeda[1]

The 2005 Amman bombings were a series of coordinated suicide bomb attacks on three hotel lobbies in Amman, Jordan, on 9 November 2005. The explosions at the Grand Hyatt Hotel, the Radisson SAS Hotel, and the Days Inn started at around 20:50 local time (18:50 UTC) at the Grand Hyatt.^[2][3] The three hotels are frequented by foreign diplomats. The bomb at the Radisson SAS exploded in the Philadelphia Ballroom, where a Palestinian wedding hosting hundreds of guests was taking place. The attacks killed 57 people and injured 115 others.

Al-Qaeda in Iraq was quick to claim the attack.^[1][4] The attack spurred a wave of new anti-terror measures by the Jordanian government.^{[5][failed verification]}