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bomb belt
noun
- a belt carrying explosives which is worn around the waist by a suicide bomber
Example Sentences
Salah Abdeslam threw away his bomb belt and fled to Belgium.
“I think they had no choice. They were stuck with a situation where there was a credible threat of a bomb belt around his body and it’s an awful situation for any police officer, any public servant to be put in,†Corbyn said.
He said: "He was making some noises and moving slightly. I put the cuffs straight on. I looked down and could see a bomb belt around his waist."
In one high-profile incident last summer, a suicide bomber detonated his bomb belt in a Kabul education centre, killing 48 people and wounding 67 more.
Tunisian radio station Mosaique FM said the attacker was wearing a homemade bomb belt with a small quantity of explosives.
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