Suicide Bombing in a Money Lending Shop – A Rare NonTerrorist Explosion Scene Report

Abstract

Suicide is an intentional actof a person causing one’s own death. Suicide bombing is the choice of anindividual or organization member to embrace death for achievement. Suicide bombers are mostly fromterrorist organization. It is a crime scene report wherein a normal citizen, a lorry driver in India triggeredsuicidal bombing in a money lending shop. Suicidal death with explosive by normal citizens is rare. Theauthor, then Government forensic crime scene investigator had investigated the suicidal bombing scenewherein a lorry driver aged about 42 years committed suicide bombing in a money lending shop. It wasnot a terrorist attack,from any terrorist organization. The author examined the blasting site and identifiedthe type of explosive used in this act. After the bombing, the bomber survived for a while and subsequentlycollapsed within a shop, a rental house.The dead body found on the floor, within the shop with injuries onabdomen with exposed viscera. The body was intact, nor blown to pieces as appeared in terrorist suicideattack. An improvised devise found attached in abdomen region and the chemical substance used was lowpower explosives, never used by the terrorists for the suicide attack.The author concluded with a finding thatthe local lorry driver had committed suicide bombing under stress, because of his inability to pay the lorryloan instalments for many months. It was an act of psychological stress rather than terrorist attack since themoneylender was safe, even in his close range of the bomber