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Suicide Bombings Are Incredibly Hard to Pull Off, Thankfully

Published: Dec. 12, 2017, 4:31 p.m.

Monday morning, a man tried to explode what has been preliminarily described as a pipe bomb at the Port Authority Bus Terminal in New York City. The \u201clow-tech device,\u201d as Gov. Andrew Cuomo described it, may have gone off prematurely. A second device he was carrying failed to detonate. The would-be bomber, identified as a Bangladeshi man, was injured and taken to the hospital.