Sentence examples for setting off blasts from inspiring English sources

Then again, other bombers have succeeded in setting off blasts in the Somali capital, Mogadishu.

Both are extremely experienced at their work; they know, for example, the locations of all the nearby quartz mines that set off blasts that look like earthquakes but aren't.

Then, a blood-curdling scream sets off blasts of machine warfare, and a child's voice cries out repeatedly.

By mid-week, there was no more talk about business rivals setting off the blasts.

Bulent Tanik, the mayor of Cankaya, the Ankara district where the explosions occurred, told Turkish television that witnesses saw a burning gasoline can being thrown out of a window of a nearby building and landing on a car, setting off the blasts.

The local Afghan commander blamed a rocket attack for setting off the blast.

Yemeni officials accused the rebels of setting off the blast.

In Tikrit, a suicide car bomber drove his vehicle into a police checkpoint, setting off a blast that killed six policemen and two civilians, and wounded 24 people.

Thursday an Afghan soldier accidentally discharged a grenade launcher, setting off a blast not far from the mosque whose forecourt had been converted into the only polling station in this part of southern Afghanistan.

Most victims appeared to be young people who had been trapped inside the Sari and Paddy's discos near midnight on Saturday when a car bomb appeared to ignite gas cylinders, setting off a blast that shattered windows for hundreds of yards.

It crashed into the barricade, hitting one of the unexploded car bombs and setting off a blast which devastated several Peshmerga vehicles.