satchel bomb

English

Noun

satchel bomb (plural satchel bombs)

1. An explosive device contained within a bag or satchel.

   Synonym: satchel charge

   • 2019 August 8, Lindsey Norward, “The day Philadelphia bombed its own people”, in Vox‎^[1]:

     On the evening of May 13, 1985, longstanding tensions between MOVE, a black liberation group, and the Philadelphia Police Department erupted horrifically. That night, the city of Philadelphia dropped a satchel bomb, a demolition device typically used in combat, laced with Tovex and C-4 explosives on the MOVE organization, who were living in a West Philadelphia rowhome known to be occupied by men, women, and children. It went up in unextinguished flames.