Thirty minutes later Thompson and Fosta were spotted by an armed patrol unit in the neighbouring St Werburgh's area and cornered in a blind alley.
Algeria's interior minister, Daho Ould Kabila, said security forces "have surrounded the area and cornered the terrorists, who are in one wing of the complex's living quarters".
Based on cases where the cause of death was established, according to the Yorkshire Red Kites project, the area roughly cornered by Leathley, Blubberhouses and Denton, including large parts of the Washburn Valley, is the Bermuda Triangle for red kites, with possibly the worst record of poisoning in England.
He's also from Derby, which lends the whole process a weird "cornered in Yates' smoking area" vibe.
Cornered in a shrinking area, the militants resorted to sending women suicide bombers among the thousands of civilians who are emerging from the battlefield wounded, malnourished and fearful, Iraqi army officers said.
"One time, the cops thought they had cornered him in a particular area of town.
When the piece containing the defect is determined, then subdivisions within that part may be performed and so forth until the bug is cornered in such a small area that it can no longer hide.
As the fighting has spread, more and more civilians have been displaced from their homes, cornered deeper into rebel-held areas and forced to sleep in temples and schools, and some only in makeshift lean-tos in paddies.
They're still pretty much cornered in some of those areas.
Respiratory diseases like asthma, croup and cancer have grown rapidly in our area and we feel cornered in by yet another assault on the sustainability of life.
