Word: woundedness
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Sitting inside his sports-goods store on Dhaka's centrally located Bangabandhu Avenue, Rahim Ali could clearly hear the voice of Sheikh Hasina, the leader of his country's opposition, as she addressed a mammoth rally just outside his shop. Soon after Hasina's speech ended, Ali's windowpanes started...
Not everyone was so lucky: 20 people, including a bodyguard who had shielded Hasina, and a senior party leader, were killed, and more than 200 were wounded. When street vendor Miah went to retrieve his merchandise, he found the avenue strewn with the dead and wounded. "I was too stunned...
Meanwhile, the sense of disorder across the country is mounting. On May 21, the British High Commissioner to Bangladesh, Anwar Choudhury, was wounded in Sylhet by a bomb that killed three people and wounded more than 50. Although no arrests have been made, the city's mayor has said he...
The booby-trapped artillery shell detonated shortly before midnight. In the roar and smoke, bodies ripped apart. Suddenly the nine-man foot patrol from Task Force 1/9, composed of infantrymen and cavalry troopers, was down to five, alone, in a darkened Baghdad alley and cut off from help. One soldier...
The midnight fire fight on May 19, which killed one member of Task Force 1/9 and wounded three, was a foreshadowing of even more bold insurgent attacks. On the morning of July 7, a 100-person company of Iraqi National Guardsmen ventured onto Haifa Street to set up checkpoints. Almost...