Suicide attack
A suicide attack is an attack where the attacker (either one person or a group of people) plans on killing people and/or destroying property while also dying in the process. In a suicide attack, the attacker dies as a result of the attack, for example in an explosion or a crash.
Nowadays, suicide attacks are often done with a vehicle or an explosive material such as a bomb (a suicide bombing), or sometimes both (i.e. a car filled with explosives). If everything goes according to plan, the attacker is killed as soon as their attack is complete (when their vehicle crashes or their bomb detonates).
Suicide attacks are often done in a crowded place so that as many people as possible are killed. They are common in the Middle East and South Asia. Most attacks on Israel, carried out by Hamas or other Palestinian militant groups are suicide bombings. The kamikaze were suicide attacks by Japanese pilots during World War II.
Suicide Attack Media
Al-Qaeda's September 11 attacks in 2001, in New York.
Kamikaze was a reference to the two typhoons that sank or dispersed Kublai Khan's invading Mongol fleets.
Plaque marking the location of the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, written in Urdu. Translation: Place of Martyrdom, Ms. Benazir Bhutto martyred. Benazir Bhutto was killed by a suicide terrorist in 2007.[a]
Chinese suicide bomber putting on a 24 hand grenade-explosive vest prior to attack on Japanese tanks at the Battle of Taierzhuang.
The number of suicide attacks grew enormously after 2000. Number of suicide attacks and deaths from attacks 1982–2014.
The U.S. Embassy in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, in the aftermath of 7 August 1998, Al-Qaeda suicide bombing.
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