Other major locations of suicide attack are Afghanistan ( 1059 attacks as of mid-2015 ) and Pakistan ( 490 attacks ) . In the first eight months of 2008 , Pakistan overtook Iraq and Afghanistan in suicide bombings , with 28 bombings killing 471 people . Suicide bombings have become a tactic in Chechnya , first being used in the conflict in 2000 in Alkhan Kala , and spreading to Russia , notably with the Moscow theater hostage crisis in 2002 to the Beslan school hostage crisis in 2004
Moscow theater hostage crisis
Moscow theater hostage crisis
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