This means that, within a few days, two distinct groups showed themselves capable of making powerful suicide belts and carrying out attacks.

'Because I want to put on a suicide belt and not have the Israelis see it,' he said.

Nick Clegg's finger cannot have hovered long over his suicide belt at the weekend.

She cooperated with investigators, leading them to a cache of "suicide belts" buried outside Moscow.

The Associated Press reports the men were in possession of suicide belts when discovered.

They reported Yusupov himself was wearing a suicide belt when he was captured.

But the stampede appears to have started with unfounded rumors of a man wearing a suicide belt on the bridge.

Two months ago, a man wearing a suicide belt detonated himself at an army recruiting center in western Baghdad.

The army said it had found several suicide belts in Qalqilya.

Six years into the 21st century, fanatics are strapping on suicide belts and blowing themselves to smithereens in the name of God.