Bicycle bomb


A bicycle bomb is an improvised explosive device that is placed on a bicycle.

History

Afghanistan

  • In Kandahar in the main square at least 15 people were wounded by a bicycle bomb.
  • In February 2006 in the city of Kunduz as a result of a bicycle bomb two Afghans were killed and a German Bundeswehr soldier was injured.
  • In Kabul on 10 October 2006, a bicycle bomb exploded near a police bus, wounding 11 police officers and civilians.

Gaza

On 19 May 2003 a 19 year-old Hamas militant strapped explosives to the back of his bicycle in the Gaza Strip and rode it alongside an Israeli Army vehicle, detonating it, killing himself and injuring 3 Israeli soldiers.

Germany

India

  • In the Indian city of Jaipur a series of 13 [May 2008 Jaipur bombings|seven bomb blasts] took place within a span of twelve minutes on 13 May 2008, killing at least 90 people and injuring hundreds more.
  • In Ahmedabad, largest city of the state of Gujarat, 45 were killed in a series of 17 blasts which took place within 1 hour on the evening of July 28, 2008.
  • Twin bomb blasts at Dilsukhnagar on Feb 21st,2013, 18 Killed and 40 Injured.

Iraq

  • In the Iraqi city of Baqubah according to the police at least 25 people were killed in a bicycle bombing on 26 June 2006.
  • August 2009, a bicycle bomb explodes near a restaurant in Baghdad killing two people.

Pakistan

  • A bicycle bomb exploded in a suburb of Quetta on 24 May 2004, wounding 15 police and militiamen traveling in a police truck.

Russia

  • On August 21, 2009, in Grozny, Chechnya, alleged suicide bombers approached police checkpoints on bicycles before blowing themselves up, killing and wounding several people.

Spain

On 28 June 2001, a parcel bomb planted by the ETA on a bicycle exploded in Madrid, injuring at least 10 people.

Sri Lanka

  • On 30 August 2001 a time bomb tied to a bicycle exploded in the coastal town Kalmunai, killing two policemen and a bystander.

United Kingdom

  • The IRA used bicycle bombs twice in Northern Ireland and once at a British military facility in Germany.
  • * On 25 August 1939 an IRA bicycle bomb exploded in Coventry, killing five people. The bomb had been left in the basket of a bicycle.
  • * In 1979 a bomb exploded in package carried in a mailbag on a postman's bicycle in Streatley, Berkshire.
  • * 13 August 1994 Two bombs were planted in bags placed on bicycles in Brighton and Bognor Regis. The Bognor one detonated damaging shops but no casualties; the Brighton one was defused.
  • * No information is available on the bomb detonated at a British military installation in Germany.
  • On 8 August 1976, a member of the Parachute Regiment, Private Robert Borucki, was killed by the explosion of a bomb planted inside a basket of a bicycle at Crossmaglen. Borucki is buried in the cemetery in the village of Wales, near Rotherham. A year later, a sangar named after the soldier was built on the spot. The facility was removed in the early 2000s as part of the Belfast Agreement.

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