Suicide Attack - Types

Types

See also: Suicide weapon
  • Suicide attack on foot: explosive belt, satchel charge
  • Attempted suicide attack with a plane as target: Richard Reid on American Airlines Flight 63
  • Explosives hidden inside the body: 2009 attack on Saudi Prince Muhammad bin Nayef
  • Suicide car bomb: 1983 Beirut barracks bombing, Sri Lankan Central Bank bombing, numerous incidents in Iraq since 2003
  • Suicide attack by a boat with explosives: USS Cole bombing attacks in Aden, Yemen by Al-Qaeda; SLNS Sagarawardena sinking in Sri Lanka by Tamil Tigers.
  • Suicide attack by a submarine with explosives (human-steered torpedo): Kaiten, used by Japan in World War II
  • Suicide attack by wearing an explosive belt: Assassination of Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi by Thenmuli Rajaratnam of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).
  • Suicide attack by a bicycle with explosives: Assassination of Sri Lankan President Ranasinghe Premadasa by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)
  • Suicide attack by a hijacked commercial jet airliner with fuel: September 11 attacks, possibly Air France Flight 8969 and attempted by Samuel Byck
  • Suicide attack by private plane: 2010 Austin plane crash
  • Suicide attack by diverting a bus to an abyss: Tel Aviv Jerusalem bus 405 attack
  • Suicide attack with guns: Insurgent attack on the Indian Parliament in December 2001, killing 15 people; Anuradhapura massacre which killed 146 people.
  • Suicide attack by a car by using a fast driving car to drive intentionally into a crowd of people or breaching a security barrier: 2009 attack on the Dutch royal family

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