Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes said on Thursday that the suicide bomber who tried to get into the top court on Wednesday had intended to blow up the building, casting it as part of a growing wave of attacks on democracy.

A man killed himself with a bomb outside Brazil's Supreme Court after trying to enter the building, officials said. Local media said the suspect was from ex-President Bolsonaro's far-right party.

A failed bomb attack on Brazil's Supreme Court is being probed as a "terrorist act" with possible links to an insurrection last year against President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva,