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Another was an associate of one of the four would-be bombers who sought to perpetrate an atrocity on the London underground on 21 July 2005.

But little else in Lahouaiej-Bouhlel's past indicated he would commit an atrocity on the scale of Thursday's attack.

Now the siblings' mother is also dead – murdered in an atrocity on a bus – and a man standing on Lucy's doorstep says that he is Jason.

If an atrocity on the scale of 9/11 had been perpetrated in any number of other countries, people belonging to the religion of the perpetrators would have been hunted down and lynched by the score.

Younger Japanese said that while they were appalled by the museum's graphic depictions of individual suffering, they did not view Hiroshima as an atrocity on the same moral level as the Holocaust, because the Japanese were not solely victims.

Gold in white and black Up hill, down dale Happy Bloomsday Worldly gestures ReprintsSome rank the slave trade, "sugar's sickening by-product", as an atrocity on a par with the Holocaust or the Gulag.

He saw the assault as an atrocity committed on the holiest soil in Islam.

All right, if we aren't allowed poetry after such an atrocity, what on earth are we doing playing Angry Birds?

Brits myth: Abba's legacy is a cultural atrocity on a level with Teen Wolf Too and Hi-De-Di spin-off Oh, Doctor Beeching!

The central event of the novel is an extended atrocity on the Burma death railway as it is being constructed by hundreds of thousands of slaves, including 13,000 Australians.

The attack was reported as a rebel atrocity on Syrian TV before it had even happened, says Ms Esfandiary.The use of chlorine gas is hard to prove.