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Crews on another hulking piece of equipment, called a jumbo, used compressed-air drills to bore dozens of holes, which were packed with blasting power and detonated to pierce the rock.

Kirillov, head of the Radiation, Biological and Chemical Defence Forces, was outside a residential block when a device hidden in a scooter was detonated remotely, SK said.

He said a crowd had gathered to watch, adding that he was told a World War Two shell had been detonated.

I regularly did more research on what type of mascara to buy than I did any online probing about this man for whom I was about to detonate my life.

Some Wodehouse lines are like time bombs, detonating with a momentary delay.