Sentence examples for blasts going off from inspiring English sources

My home country - Ivory Coast - was going through a civil war and so I would be being interviewed over Skype while there were bomb blasts going off in the background.

SANA, Syria's state news agency, reported two blasts going off in quick succession.

The blasts went off behind them, ripping the backs of their legs.

Throughout the day, speakers struggled to keep the crowd's attention as five separate bomb blasts went off.

Saturday night's blasts went off after the iftar meal that breaks the daily fast during Ramadan.

At least one of the attacks was a suicide bombing and the blasts went off over several hours.

The two blasts went off about 150 meters from each other near a crowded bus stand in the neighborhood of Dilsukh Nagar on Thursday evening.

As the gun battle raged, a series of four bomb blasts went off in quick succession, sending huge clouds of dust and debris into the air.

The tents were full of mourners when the blasts went off, said Hussein Abdul-Khaliq, a government employee who lives near the site.

According to officials, when the blasts went off, most people fled in panic, but these two did not and instead walked away slowly, almost casually.

The day before, a series of similar low-intensity blasts went off in Bangalore, killing a woman standing at a bus stop.