Sentence examples for fierce shelling from inspiring English sources

This city has been the site of sporadic fighting for 18 years, culminating in five days of fierce shelling the second week of August.

No one was sure how many chemical rockets fell, but fierce shelling with conventional explosives continued all night, killing more volunteers and sarin survivors, especially those who fled to higher floors seeking fresh air, escaping the heavier gas which lingers at ground level.

The hospital's upper floors were badly damaged during days of fierce shelling by the military, doctors said.

Activists reported fierce shelling near the Aleppo citadel, which dates from the 12th century, and said that about 20 shells fell on Al Sakur, a neighborhood, in a span of a few minutes.

For me, that aborted trip to the beach had been a relatively safe adventure, and despite a fierce prelude of shelling, there had been no actual battle.

On 6 June 2011, I returned home after a long working day just as fierce fighting and shelling overtook Kadugli, the capital of South Kordofan state.

The fighting around Damascus came as antigovernment activists reported a renewal of fierce army shelling of Homs, the central city that has long been a trouble spot for Mr. Assad.

Her family of 19 was driven from its home in the northern Gaza Strip by fierce Israeli shelling.

Witnesses inside Damascus described scenes of mayhem, with troops shelling residential areas and fierce house-to-house fighting.

So fierce was the bidding that some buyers shelled out over three times the bank's book value in the expectation of many years of rosy returns.

Rebels said government forces shelled Donetsk airport around 10am, where Ukrainian forces have retained a toehold despite fierce close-quarter combat between the two sides since the nominal ceasefire began on 5 September.