The phrase "a lethal attack on" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing violence, warfare, or metaphorical attacks on ideas or concepts.
Example: "The report detailed a lethal attack on the enemy's stronghold, resulting in significant casualties."
Alternatives: "a deadly assault on" or "a fatal strike against".
They were "aiming to carry out a lethal attack" on a nearby Israeli community, the IDF said.
KABUL, Afghanistan — The United Nations mission in Afghanistan announced plans on Thursday to relocate hundreds of foreign staff members, sending some out of the country, in the wake of a lethal attack on its workers at a guesthouse last week.
As the maverick Tory and former business executive David Davis explains in a lethal attack on "crony capitalism" in Prospect magazine (was he Cameron's real target?) the coalition is still too close to big business and not sufficiently concerned for small enterprise, despite its rhetoric.
After the death of the two Americans last week, a group of American soldiers gathered around a computer to view photographs of a recent lethal attack on an American tank.
The bombings, claimed by the al-Qaida-affiliate, followed a lethal attack in the capital, Mogadishu, on Friday.
BEIRUT, Lebanon — The Syrian government and Syrian rebels traded accusations about a lethal attack in the northern province of Aleppo on Tuesday, in which each side in the country's two-year-old conflict said the other had used chemical weapons.
Clinton authorized a lethal attack.
The precipitating event is a beloved Rottweiler's lethal attack on a neighbor's poodle, and the resulting moral dilemmas faced by the owners.
Those dynamics were spelled out explicitly by Baha Allyan, 22, one of two young men involved in the lethal attack on a number 78 bus of the Egged company, on Tuesday in Armon Hanetziv, which claimed the lives of two Israelis, before he was killed.
Stephen Paddock's lethal attack on a Las Vegas country music festival Sunday night was distinguished from most mass shootings by two features: the size of the arsenal he smuggled into the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino and the great height from which he shot.
Susan Rice, an early favourite for the job, withdrew from consideration after Republicans criticised her response to September's lethal attack on an American consulate in Libya.
