<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halabja_massacre" id="mwAQ4" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Halabja massacre">Halabja chemical attack</a>: The <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurd" id="mwAQ8" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Kurd">Kurdish</a> town of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halabja" id="mwARA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Halabja">Halabja</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq" id="mwARE" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Iraq">Iraq</a> is attacked with a mix of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highly_toxic_gases" id="mwARI" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="List of highly toxic gases">poison gas</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nerve_agent" id="mwARM" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Nerve agent">nerve agents</a> on the orders of Saddam Hussein, killing 5,000 people and injuring about 10,000 people.<sup about="#mwt134" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-25"}}' id="cite_ref-25" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./March_16#cite_note-25" id="mwARQ" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 25;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwARU">[25]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-25"><cite about="#mwt131" class="citation news cs1" id="mwCtQ"><a class="external text" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/16/newsid_4304000/4304853.stm" id="mwCtU" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">"1988: Thousands die in Halabja gas attack"</a>. <i id="mwCtY"><a href="./BBC_News" id="mwCtc" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="BBC News">BBC News</a></i>. 16 March 1988<span class="reference-accessdate" id="mwCtg">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap" id="mwCtk">17 September</span> 2021</span>.</cite><span about="#mwt131" class="Z3988" id="mwCto" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.jtitle=BBC+News&amp;rft.atitle=1988%3A+Thousands+die+in+Halabja+gas+attack&amp;rft.date=1988-03-16&amp;rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.bbc.co.uk%2Fonthisday%2Fhi%2Fdates%2Fstories%2Fmarch%2F16%2Fnewsid_4304000%2F4304853.stm&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMarch+16"></span></span>