Word: shrapnel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...could unhitch the buffalo. But suddenly four planes of the F-4H type flew over and immediately released their bombs. The bombs destroyed my village. All six houses burnt and a bomb fell about fifteen meters from where my father was ploughing, causing the blown up earth and the shrapnel to kill my father and the buffalo instantly... My sister and I ran over to him, but I saw that my father was already dead. I wept and then I carried him out of the field...
Initially, at least, authorities could not even determine whether the two men died of gunshot wounds or shrapnel from tear-gas canisters. Some 200 lawmen, including state policemen and Sheriff Al Amiss' deputies, had set up a U-shaped cordon in front of the administration building that about 200 students had occupied. The officers were armed with both shotguns and tear-gas canisters; but television film suggested that it was the students who tossed the first tear-gas bombs. Both Amiss and the state police claim that their men fired no shots, only tear gas, while students insisted that...
Phillips noted that police labs are now trying to determine if shrapnel found in the bodies of the men could have exploded from such simulators...
Coroner Hypolyte Landry, of the Earl K. Long Hospital where the victims were taken, said yesterday that the slain men were killed either by buckshot or by shrapnel from exploding grenades or bombs...
...necessity, the country's doctors have been concentrating on improving the treatment of war injuries, particularly burns caused by white phosphorus from bombs. Most civilians are trained in basic first aid; Simon saw children of five or six with first-aid kits strapped to their belts. Minor shrapnel and burn cases are cared for at local clinics; serious ones are sent to the large hospitals...