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Derrick Tin1, Jordan Galehan2, Vesna Markovic3

  • 1Senior Fellow, BIDMC Disaster Medicine Fellowship; Department of Emergency Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MassachusettsUSA.

Prehospital and Disaster Medicine
|October 22, 2021
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Suicide bombing attacks (SBA) cause significantly higher fatal and non-fatal injuries than non-suicide bombing attacks (NSBA). Counter-Terrorism Medicine specialists must understand SBA injury patterns for risk mitigation.

Area of Science:

  • Epidemiology
  • Public Health
  • Counter-Terrorism Medicine

Background:

  • Suicide bombings (SBA) surged post-War on Terror, raising health care concerns.
  • Epidemiological examination of terrorism-related bombings from 1970-2019.
  • Comparison of injury rates between suicide and non-suicide bombing attacks (NSBA).

Purpose of the Study:

  • To compare fatal and non-fatal injury rates between SBA and NSBA.
  • To analyze trends in bombing attacks and their health implications.
  • To inform Counter-Terrorism Medicine (CTM) specialists.

Main Methods:

  • Retrospective database search of the Global Terrorism Database (GTD) from 1970-2019.
  • Analysis of bombing/explosion events using explosives.
Keywords:
counter-terrorism medicinedisaster medicinesuicide bombingterrorism

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  • Sub-classification of attacks into suicide and non-suicide categories.

    • Main Results:

    • 82,217 bombing attacks documented, resulting in 135,807 fatalities and 352,500 non-fatal injuries (NFI).
    • 5,416 (6.59%) were SBA, causing 52,317 fatalities (38.52%) and 107,062 NFI (30.37%).
    • Mean SBA fatal injuries (FI) were 9.66 per event vs. 1.09 for NSBA; mean SBA NFI were 19.77 vs. 3.20 for NSBA.

    Conclusions:

    • SBA inflict significantly higher death and injury tolls than NSBA.
    • SBA are an increasing threat, causing widespread psychological damage.
    • CTM specialists require awareness of unique SBA injury patterns and risk mitigation strategies.