Just as tensions began to ease, a huge blast erupted on the southern bank of the Tigris, the great waterway that flows through Baghdad to the Persian Gulf.
As the blast erupts upward, it drives sand, dirt, pebbles, bone fragments and barnyard filth deep into vulnerable soft tissue.
The blast erupted shortly before 11 30 a.m. in a basement where chemicals were stored and used under the 11-story building at 111-121 West 19th Street, between the Avenue of the Americas and Seventh Avenue, city officials said.
Investigators believe that Mr. Rahami drove a car registered to his father into New York City shortly before the Chelsea blast erupted at 8 30 p.m.
The blast erupted shortly before 11 30 a.m. in front of an electronics store at 641 Avenue of the Americas, an eight-story building between 19th and 20th Streets in Chelsea.
The salesman was walking in the garage beneath the towers when the blast erupted.
Michael Horodniceanu, president of the authority's capital construction division, said that workers had been blasting to clear space for an escalator from the street to the subway, but that "we do not know why" the blast erupted up onto the street.
The blast, erupting from the church's east side, sprayed mortar and bricks, caving in the building's walls.
"The essential nature of the event eluded most of us in the national media," when the blast erupted April 20, he writes.
The next morning, the fatal blast erupted as Odeh opened the door to the ADC offices on the second-floor of a three-story stucco building on East 17th Street.
Her depiction of the Central Library fire on April 29 , 1986 is so rich with specifics that it's like a blast of heat erupting from the page.
