If the costs of civilian shelters, chronic economic dislocation associated with the annual month of military reserve duty and military use of valuable land are included, the bill is roughly half again larger.

Tonight for the first time I was deeply worried after seeing the pictures of the attack on a civilian shelter.

At least two civilian shelters were destroyed by direct hits, and the university was destroyed.

The flak towers had also been designed with the idea of using the above-ground bunkers as a civilian shelter, with room for 10,000 civilians, and even a hospital ward, inside.

A large civilian shelter beneath the market suffered a direct hit by a 50 kg bomb on the night of Saturday, 7 September 1940, at the height of The Blitz.

Some stations, for example Landungsbrücken and Harburg Rathaus, are designed as civilian shelters.

In Japan, meanwhile, all the industry remained on the plains, but massive civilian shelters were being dug and populated throughout the country's many mountain ranges.

It is unlikely that any military enemy would intentionally target a civilian shelter, even if it were carpet bombing a city.

According to accounts given to Human Rights Watch, the Russian soldiers threw grenades into civilian shelters and summarily executed villagers.

Their latest crime was the ugly and dirty crime of the premeditated bombardment of a civilian shelter.