suicide bomb

noun

: a bomb carried by someone who plans to be killed by it when it explodes

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At least 23 people have been killed and 71 injured after a suicide bomb attack near a railway station in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta on Sunday as a train was passing through. Sophie Tanno, CNN Money, 24 May 2026 The court sided with a soldier who was badly injured when a Taliban operative working at the Bagram Airfield detonated a suicide bomb. Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2026 Or who knows how many travelers a terrorist can kill with a suicide bomb attack among travelers waiting around for hours at an overcrowded airport? Peter Lucas, Boston Herald, 28 Mar. 2026 Shannon Kent, a Navy chief cryptologic technician, was killed January 16, 2019, in a suicide bomb attack in Manbij, Syria. Josh Meyer, USA Today, 17 Mar. 2026 The three American fatalities in today’s attack in Syria are the first combat deaths in that country since 2019 when four Americans were killed in a suicide bomb attack in Manbij, Syria. Benjamin Siu, ABC News, 13 Dec. 2025 During this period there were 138 Palestinian suicide bomb attacks, targeting civilians in bars, markets, and public places, sometimes as many as fifteen in one month. Tom Teicholz, Forbes.com, 10 Apr. 2025 Oran Almog lost five members of his family and his sight to a suicide bomb. Zeena Saifi, CNN, 4 Mar. 2025

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