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====Collar==== {{Redirect|Collar bomb|the 2021 Indian film|Collar Bomb (film)}} IEDs strapped to the necks of farmers have been used on at least three occasions by guerrillas in Colombia, as a way of extortion.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3036664.stm |title=Experts defuse necklace bomb |work=BBC News |date=1 July 2003 |access-date=18 October 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/751237.stm |title='Necklace' bomb halts Colombia talks |work=BBC News |date=16 May 2000 |access-date=18 October 2009}}</ref> American [[pizza delivery]] man [[Brian Douglas Wells]] was killed in 2003 by an explosive fastened to his neck, purportedly under duress from the maker of the bomb.<ref>{{cite journal | first =John | last =Caniglia | date =11 July 2007 | title ="Brian Wells" Erie bombing 'victim' was in on bank robbery | journal =The Plain Dealer | url = http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2007/07/man_forced_to_rob_bank_with_a.html|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20230113210233/https://www.cleveland.com/metro/2007/07/man_forced_to_rob_bank_with_a.html|archive-date=January 13, 2023 }}</ref> In 2011 a schoolgirl in Sydney, Australia had a [[Mosman bomb hoax|suspected collar bomb attached to her]] by an attacker in her home. The device was removed by police after a ten-hour operation and proved to be a [[hoax]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/bomb-device-attached-to-mosman-schoolgirl-was-a-very-very-elaborate-hoax-20110804-1icbe.html|title='Bomb' device attached to Mosman schoolgirl was a 'very, very elaborate hoax'|work=smh.com.au|access-date=4 August 2011|date=4 August 2011|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20230204111629/https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/bomb-device-attached-to-mosman-schoolgirl-was-a-very-very-elaborate-hoax-20110804-1icbe.html|archive-date=February 4, 2023}}</ref>
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