Nail bomb
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A nail bomb is an anti-personnel explosive device packed with nails to increase its destructive power. The nails act as shrapnel, leading almost certainly to greater loss of life and injury in inhabited areas than the explosives alone would.
Nail bombs are often used by terrorists, in particular by suicide bombers, since it causes large number of casualties when detonated in crowded places. However, nail bombs can be detected via electromagnetic sensors and standard metal detectors.
Nail-bombing incidents
A number of nail-bombings occurred in 1999 when the Neo-Nazi David Copeland planted several devices in London targeted against ethnic minorities and gays.
On 21 July 2005 there was an explosion in London on the top deck of a number 26 double decker bus near Shoreditch. Early reports indicated that this may have been a nail bomb.
