But as the night shone like day and the horrific, deafening explosions continued, nothing on the ground suffered.

Bombs ravaged Baghdad in five horrific explosions aimed mainly at Shiite crowds on Wednesday, killing at least 171 people in the deadliest day in the capital since the American-led security plan for the city took effect two months ago.

"I heard a horrific explosion, and when I looked out the window, I saw fire and things flying through the air," said Cpl. Sigalit Dori, a soldier on the bus.

There was a horrific explosion and the entire fore section of the destroyer was bent in a downward direction, bringing a large amount of water into the ship.

In May 1988, a horrific explosion destroyed a key plant and triggered a plague of litigation that has hampered the company's efforts to grow.

Veltmann denied that there was a mutinous conspiracy, saying the men were in a state of shock stemming from the horrific explosion and the subsequent cleanup of human body parts belonging to their former battalion mates.

Mondral drew his phaser and aimed for the tree, as did half a dozen others, but little Teska dropped from the branch as their beams converged in a horrific explosion.

On June 6, 1904, there was a horrific explosion at the Independence Depot.

The famous finale, a theme and variations form, begins with a "horrific explosion," in the words of the program annotator, James M. Keller.

Within the space of only a few years there were horrific explosions at Cwmbach pit in 1846 when 28 miners were killed followed by the deaths, within three weeks of 4 others who had been seriously injured in the incident.