Sentence examples for set off explosives from inspiring English sources

On Tuesday, insurgent fighters set off explosives in a Damascus school that they claimed was used as a base for the military and for a feared government militia.

Early reports said the attacker today had set off explosives as he approached a group of Israeli border policemen.

Officials first claimed that the militants had set off explosives and set fire to mattresses inside Nakumatt supermarket.

In his guilty plea to conspiracy charges, Najibullah Zazi often referred to other unnamed people in their plan to set off explosives on the New York subway system.

He was escorted into Mr. Rabbani's heavily guarded home on Tuesday and then set off explosives hidden in his turban as he greeted Mr. Rabbani.

The video parodies popular police shows as the band members fight, slide, and needlessly set off explosives while wearing fake hairpieces.

Three suicide bombers set off explosive vests outside the stadium after being refused entry.

They believe Abdeslam drove three accomplices, suicide bombers who set off explosive vests outside the stadium after being refused entry.

The assailants fired a rocket-propelled grenade and an AK-47 assault rifle and set off explosive charges, hitting one of the vehicles, according to military officials.

In the 1970s the Angry Brigade flour-bombed the Miss World contest and set off explosive devices in Biba and elsewhere.

Still another possible explanation builds on the foam-tile theory to suggest that heat moving through the craft's weakened insulation somehow set off explosive charges in the wheel wells.