Sentence examples for was first detonated from inspiring English sources

A vehicle painted to resemble a police car and packed with explosives, was first detonated at the side entrance of the police station before two gunmen dressed as police, wearing explosive belts, tried to fight their way into the building.

The entire mission was relayed on to six widescreen televisions back at the command centre, yet Norgrove's death was first attributed to an insurgent detonating a suicide vest – an account that was reported around the world.

The fragility of the cease-fires was first tested Tuesday, when Palestinian militants detonated a bomb that killed an Israeli soldier patrolling the border.

The first to be detonated was the Gadget, in the Trinity nuclear test, less than a month earlier on 16 July at the Alamogordo Bombing and Gunnery Range in New Mexico.

A fourth was detonated on the top deck of a No 30 bus at Tavistock Square almost an hour later.

The third was safely detonated by a bomb disposal team.

Twin Bomb TWO BOMBS KILLED 38 PEOPLE AND INJURED MORE THAN 160 IN TURKEY The first was a car bomb, the second detonated by a suicide bomber.

The first bomb was detonated at 1 05 p.m. in one of the city's trademark yellow-and-black taxis, which was parked at an intersection in the Mumba Devi neighborhood.

A few minutes before the first bomb was detonated, the Metropolitan police commissioner, Sir Ian Blair, told a radio interviewer that Scotland Yard's counter-terrorism unit was "the envy of the policing world".

The first explosion was detonated by a suicide bomber at 9.20pm in the area surrounding the Stade de France stadium north of Paris, where the French football team was playing a friendly with Germany attended by 80,000 spectators.

The first bomb was detonated in the car park of the Babylon, frequently used for government meetings and news conferences, shortly before midnight (10pm BST).