Word: bombs
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...year ago, she recalls, a teacher in Narathiwat province was shot in his classroom, in front of his fourth-grade pupils; his killers were two youths in school uniforms. Even Ban Bukoh's annual sports day has been scrapped-such gatherings are simply too risky now, she says. A bomb exploded in a playground in Yala province last month, injuring two youth soccer teams. Prapa doesn't know who the militants are, but feels they're always watching. "We're in the spotlight," she says. "They're in the dark...
...blow to grieving families. In May a Buddhist fruit picker became the 29th victim to be decapitated; his head was left outside a Yala school to scare teachers and children. At another Yala village, insurgents shot dead and set alight a Buddhist health official, then detonated a 10-kg bomb buried beneath the road. The blast injured 12 people, including TIME photographer Philip Blenkinsop, four other journalists and three emergency workers...
...then there are the explosions, which go off around you in Iraq at varying distances from time to time wherever you go. After hearing all this, my friend asked: What does it feel like, physically, when a bomb goes...
...struggled to explain it then, but I've been thinking about it ever since off and on, especially in the aftermath of a car bomb a few days ago that killed an estimated 10 people a few blocks from where I live...
...long ago, I was in Diyala province, sitting in the back seat of a Humvee as it rolled down a dirt road on the outskirts of Baqubah. The roadside bomb we triggered went off directly under me. Luckily, it was relatively small, and the armor protected everyone inside from serious injury. But everyone was left in pain. The moment of the blast felt like ice picks plunging in both ears at once. A second later, thick whitish smoke filled the cab, and inhaling it instantly formed a throbbing headache comparable to my most vicious hangovers...