Sentence examples for a devastating explosion from inspiring English sources

A DEVASTATING explosion flattened dozens of buildings in Lac-Mégantic Lac-Méganticn in Quebec, on July 6th.

A devastating explosion at the Upper Big Branch mine in West Virginia took 29 lives, the highest toll since a 1970 mining disaster killed 38 in Kentucky.

On April 5, a devastating explosion caused the deaths of 29 miners in West Virginia, the nation's worst coal-mining disaster in 40 years.

The assault followed a devastating explosion and resulting inferno in central Baghdad a week ago, which Iraqi officials say killed more than 290 people.

Turkey announced a major offensive against Isis after a devastating explosion killed 54 people at a wedding in the southern Turkish city of Gaziantep.

KARACHI, Pakistan — A devastating explosion ripped through a crowded market in the western city of Quetta on Saturday, killing at least 63 people and wounding at least 180, the police said.

More than 100 investigators are working to figure out what caused the devastating explosion at a petrochemical plant in Toulouse last month, but have not yet answered the basic question, whether it was an industrial accident or a deliberate act.

On a lower floor the accident theme is addressed more literally in movies, videos and photographs evoking hurricanes, volcanic eruptions, deadly train derailings, plane crashes, the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger and the devastating explosion of a chemical factory in Toulouse, France, last year.

After the devastating explosion of a fertilizer plant in West, Texas, that killed 15 and injured about 200, most people assumed as did the two Texas Senators that there would be a full investigation of the incident.

The ambitious show involved 65 actors and a 300-strong crew portraying the aftermath of a devastating gas explosion and tram crash.

This was followed by a devastating magazine explosion that destroyed the aft part of the ship.