Bicycle bomb
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A bicycle bomb (or bike bomb) is an improvised explosive device that is placed on a bicycle.
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[edit] Use
[edit] History
The first two wheel bomb would be the horse-drawn vehicle used for the Wall Street bombing in 1920 in New York City. This idea developed into the bicycle bomb and car bomb.
[edit] United Kingdom
On the 25 August 1939 an IRA bicycle bomb exploded in Coventry, killing five people. In 1979 a bomb exploded in a mailbag on a postman's bicycle in Streatley, Berkshire. The IRA used the bicycle bomb twice in Northern Ireland and once at a British military installation in Germany.[1]
[edit] 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.
[edit] Pakistan
A bicycle bomb exploded in a suburb of Quetta on 24 May 2004, wounding 15 police and militiamen traveling in a police truck.
[edit] Afghanistan
In Kandahar in the main square at least 15 people were wounded by a bicycle bomb.[2] In February 2006 in the city of Kunduz as a result of a bicycle bomb two Afghans were killed and a German Bundeswehr soldier (from ISAF) was injured.[3] In Kabul on 10 October 2006, a bicycle bomb exploded near a police bus, wounding 11 police officers and civilians [4].
[edit] 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.
[edit] India
In the Indian city of Jaipur a series of seven bomb blasts took place within a span of twelve minutes on 13 May 2008, killing at least 90 people and injuring hundreds more.
[edit] Bicycle bombs in the arts
The novel The Quiet American by Graham Greene describes the use of bicycle bombs in Saigon.
