Four coordinated suicide attacks targeted the United States on September 11, 2001 (commonly known as 9/11)

Kamikaze pilots, aged 17, with a puppy

A suicide attack is an attack where the attacker (either one person or a group of people) plans on killing people and/or destroying property while also dying in the process. In a suicide attack, the attacker dies as a result of the attack, for example in an explosion or a crash.