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petrol bomb
noun
A Molotov cocktail
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A lorry driver died from a petrol bomb attack.
Within minutes a petrol bomb was sailing through its window.
Three people died when a petrol bomb was thrown into a nearby bank.
carried spears, swords, cleavers, bamboo staves, slingshots, crossbows and the occasional petrol bomb.
A petrol bomb attack followed, which destroyed the magazine's Paris offices.
He has effectively thrown a petrol bomb into the fireworks factory.
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The vehicle was rigged with a crude propane-and-petrol bomb.
Even in Evry, where the petrol-bomb store was uncovered, officials say that the teenagers involved were petty criminals, not radicalised fanatics.
In recent days a young man has been shot dead and seven policemen injured, three seriously, in a petrol-bomb attack on a checkpoint.
In a Jaffna suburb, a petrol-bomb was thrown at the offices of a small Tamil political party on Thursday.
One of the gravest incidents in the days after Woolwich was a petrol-bomb attack on a mosque in Grimsby, north-east Lincolnshire.
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