A suicide vest may cover the entire stomach and usually has shoulder straps.

One of the men, the Americans said, detonated a suicide vest after he was shot but injured no one.

Waiting there is a man who has tailored an explosive suicide vest for Brody.

The fear, the officials are quoted as saying, is that she might have been wearing a suicide vest.

One gunman's suicide vest exploded when he was shot dead; the other four gunmen were also killed.

Two further unexploded suicide vests were found near the canteen.

The coalition forces believed al-Masri to be wearing a suicide vest and proceeded cautiously.

She strikes me as the kind of woman who would wear one of those suicide vests.

Later in the day, a second attacker, this one wearing two suicide vests, was shot and killed before he could detonate them, the official said.

And senior military officials said two suicide vests were found in a garbage bin about two weeks ago.