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bomb placed in a vehicle and wired to explode when the ignition is started, by remote control, or by a timing device; vehicle containing explosives detonated by remote control or a timing device

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  • Corporation claimed there was a car-bomb outside the
  • The four died in a 1989 car-bomb blast at Motherwell.
  • Nine people died when a car-bomb exploded in Bree Street,
  • Sachs lost an arm in a car-bomb blast in Maputo in the early
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