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A suicide bombing is an explosive attack which the perpetrator does not expect to survive. The tactic is one generally associated with religiously-motivated terrorism and has played little role in the campaigns of those groups with secular or purely political aims. Suicide bombs are readily concealed, especially in regions where women are required or choose to wear shape-concealing clothing, and no complex trigger system is required. This means that high-density targets can be attacked with greater ease than by using pre-positioned devices and infiltration of the weapon into the desired attack location is relatively straightforward [1]. Teams perpetrating such attacks can be kept very small, as there is no requirement for escape or evasion by the perpetrator after the incident. For these reasons, it is particularly difficult to establish effective security measures against suicide bombs.
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Page, P., Breeze, J. (2017). Suicide Bombs. In: Breeze, J., Penn-Barwell, J., Keene, D., O'Reilly, D., Jeyanathan, J., Mahoney, P. (eds) Ballistic Trauma. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61364-2_4
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