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- Title
Suicide Bombing in a Money Lending Shop – A Rare NonTerrorist Explosion Scene Report.
- Authors
Nataraja Moorthy, T.; M, Baskaran
- Abstract
Suicide is an intentional actof a person causing one’s own death. Suicide bombing is the choice of an individual or organization member to embrace death for achievement. Suicide bombers are mostly from terrorist organization. It is a crime scene report wherein a normal citizen, a lorry driver in India triggered suicidal bombing in a money lending shop. Suicidal death with explosive by normal citizens is rare. The author, then Government forensic crime scene investigator had investigated the suicidal bombing scene wherein a lorry driver aged about 42 years committed suicide bombing in a money lending shop. It was not a terrorist attack,from any terrorist organization. The author examined the blasting site and identified the type of explosive used in this act. After the bombing, the bomber survived for a while and subsequently collapsed within a shop, a rental house.The dead body found on the floor, within the shop with injuries on abdomen with exposed viscera. The body was intact, nor blown to pieces as appeared in terrorist suicide attack. An improvised devise found attached in abdomen region and the chemical substance used was low power explosives, never used by the terrorists for the suicide attack.The author concluded with a finding that the local lorry driver had committed suicide bombing under stress, because of his inability to pay the lorry loan instalments for many months. It was an act of psychological stress rather than terrorist attack since the moneylender was safe, even in his close range of the bomber.
- Subjects
INDIA; SUICIDE bombings; SUBSTANCE abuse; TERRORISM; TERRORIST organizations; SUICIDE bombers; PSYCHOLOGICAL stress; EXPLOSIVES detection
- Publication
Indian Journal of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, 2021, Vol 15, Issue 2, p1138
- ISSN
0973-9122
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.37506/ijfmt.v15i2.14474