suicide bomber

noun

: a person who commits suicide by exploding a bomb in order to kill other people

a suicide bomber

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In March, five Chinese engineers in the northwest of the country were killed when a suicide bomber, who Pakistan alleged was an Afghan national, rammed a vehicle into their convoy. —Astha Rajvanshi, TIME, 5 July 2024

In 1881, the Russian anarchist group People’s Will assassinated Czar Alexander II when an assailant, thought by some to be history’s first suicide bomber, threw an explosive at the feet of the Russian emperor. —Steven Johnson, New York Times, 17 May 2024

In 2017, suicide bomber Salman Abedi detonated an explosive after an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, England, killing 22 people. —Lorenzino Estrada, The Arizona Republic, 22 May 2024

Hamas always identifies the dead by gender, as if to suggest that a 25-year-old woman firing a rocket or becoming a suicide bomber must be counted as a civilian. —Alan M. Dershowitz, New York Daily News, 1 Jan. 2024

In the same month as the prison break, a suicide bomber got inside police headquarters and killed the provincial commander. —Matthieu Aikins Victor J. Blue Peter Ganim Krish Seenivasan Steven Szczesniak, New York Times, 22 May 2024

Meanwhile, his son, twenty-one years old, was tapped by Claus von Stauffenberg to be the suicide bomber in the July 1944 plot to kill Hitler. —Thomas Meaney, Harper's Magazine, 26 Apr. 2024

After the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Mr. Khan joined Al Qaeda, agreed to become a suicide bomber and delivered $50,000 that would be used in a deadly hotel bombing in Indonesia. —Carol Rosenberg Natalie Keyssar, New York Times, 9 May 2024

But one of the last U.S. service members to die in Afghanistan — killed by a suicide bomber at Abbey Gate during the chaotic evacuation in 2021 — was a psyop soldier: Army Staff Sgt. —Lolita C. Baldor, Fortune, 3 May 2024