Sentence examples for close to the checkpoint from inspiring English sources

Witnesses said a car laden with explosives drove close to the checkpoint and a man jumped out and ran as it blew up.

The first bomber walked toward the entrance while firing his automatic assault rifle, they said in separate interviews, and he later blew himself up near an armored personnel carrier close to the checkpoint.

"But they didn't accomplish this, and they were unable to even get close to the checkpoint's gate, which led to them exploding them about 500 meters from the checkpoint".

In short, for the operations that occur sufficiently close to the checkpoint time, there is no guarantee that they get ordered identically at both the sides with respect to the checkpoint time.

To earn points, a team has to "capture the flag" by standing close to the checkpoint for a certain amount of time, and then holds it without letting the other team capture that point.

At that moment everything I had heard before seemed not right and I became more anxious with each meter I came closer to the checkpoint.

As the Jeep they're ferrying me around in draws closer to the checkpoint, the teens are visibly annoyed at having to step out of their shelter, but after peeking around the car for a while and speaking to someone at the other end of a crackling walkie-talkie, they wave us up along the road.

But what has raised concern here is the fact that he was able to get as close to the border checkpoint as he did.

Last month, a suicide attack on a police checkpoint close to the border with Ingushetia killed one police officer.

In the Pakistani garrison city of Rawalpindi a speeding suicide bomber on a motorbike killed 13 people, including five soldiers, after detonating his bomb at a checkpoint close to the headquarters of the country's powerful army.

A source with the North Ossetia police told the Interfax news agency that a man in his 20s set off a suicide belt when he was stopped by the police at a checkpoint close to the border with Ingushetia, a volatile majority-Muslim republic that has had uneasy relations with North Ossetia in the past.