The most common violent events were bomb blasts and shootings.
Ear injury is the most common organ affected after bomb explosions (19).
"Perfect delivery methods are also difficult to enact," Lamrani told me, "given that the most common means of delivery artillery, rockets, bombs, missiles often destroy a significant percentage of the chemical agent".
Impact fuzes, historically the most common type, are set in the bomb's nose and detonate upon impact, setting off the main charge.
One likely explanation is that the bomb blasts, the most common cause of brain injuries during the wars, are psychologically traumatizing as well.
Installing 5,500 gas cylinders ahead of your front line isn't exactly a piece of cake, either: "Perfect delivery methods are also difficult to enact," Lamrani told me, "given that the most common means of delivery – artillery, rockets, bombs, missiles – often destroy a significant percentage of the chemical agent".
On that day, some of the most common words used were "sad," "sick," "injured," "died," "bomb," "tragedy," "blood," "killed," "hate," "terrible" and a series of curse words.
See related commentary Massacres resulting from bombing are historically among the most common forms of terrorist violence and present with a unique epidemiology [ 1].
When fully operational the complex is capable of producing one atomic bomb's worth of plutonium – the most common fuel in nuclear weapons – a year.
Drowning (8.0%) was the most common cause of death, followed by weapon, fire-gun, bomb-explosion, or firework injury (2.6%), and transportation (2.4%).
The most common types of violence and intimidation that clinics have reported include stalking, bomb threats, death threats and people blocking access to clinics.
