Sentence examples for compound firing from inspiring English sources

Militiamen were in the UN car park next door to the compound, firing in the air, terrifying the refugees in an overflow camp outside and the 1,000 slightly luckier ones who were inside the walls.

The AU unit of about 100 troops fought off the first attack before falling back to trenches in the corner of their compound, firing through the night until their ammunition ran out.

The police then stormed the mosque compound, firing both live ammunition and rubber bullets at the group of Palestinians, killing four and wounding about 200.

But military officials said it is possible that, in the fog of war, the Afghans inside the compound fired without knowing who was there.

The day after I visited, in mid-November, a drone over Pakistan that sought to strike a terrorist compound fired three missiles that Pakistani officials claimed hit a madrassa and killed six people.

But the UN has always denied there were any militants in the compound or firing from the compound.

Soon it attacked, too, diving toward the compound and firing air-to-ground rockets in pairs.

As we left their compound, they fired a shot to deter a driver who got too close.

At the International Organization for Migration, an agency that has worked with the United Nations and another target this summer, six insurgents stormed the compound and fired rockets on it from neighboring rooftops, staging a six-hour battle in the heart of the city.

The militants killed two more police officers as they ran into the two-story compound and began firing from the top floor at a police base that housed a detachment of quick-reaction forces, said Mohammed Yaqoob Noorzia, the deputy provincial police chief.

It left Dortmund needing four in the final 20 minutes and Tevez compounded their misery, firing in from 18 yards.