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Petrol and car tyres had been placed there and set alight.
Nearby oil fields, which ISIS set alight last summer, were still burning.
The camera cuts to a pile of passports, which are set alight.
ATMs were smashed or set alight in Mong Kok and other areas.
As Newman landed and skidded along the tarmac his car set alight.
Ma set alight two plastic bags filled with gasoline on the bus after getting involved in a personal work dispute, the government said, without explaining the connection between the bus he chose to set alight and the dispute.
The police said they had found evidence that a mattress was set alight.
The vehicle was set alight and two Muslim-owned shops also attacked, they added.
Clouds of black smoke from tyres set alight by demonstrators rose in the air.
At one demo a police car was set alight with officers inside (they escaped).
At midnight, the effigies, embedded with fireworks, are set alight and explode in color.
On Saturday, three police cars were set alight by unknown perpetrators in the city.
The locals were hostile: the Italians' first church was set alight, reportedly with Bandini inside.
Even relatively late in Lear's career, he was set alight by memories of the Romantics.
Wells that have only been set alight can be turned off via a functioning valve.
Herrenbrueck said a mattress was probably spread with alcohol and then set alight with a lighter.
A video clip of Arabella singing a song of holiday greetings also set alight China's internet.
Eight carriages were set alight at the station on Monday night, the train operator Metrorail said.
Her body was set alight, and you can still see the scorched grass where she lay.
Later, other officials speculated that the convoy had been set alight by some manner of sabotage.
Each was set alight in the minutes before the show started on a drizzly Paris night.
The police fired tear gas against protesters who erected street barricades that they then set alight.
The Iranian consulate and offices of powerful Iranian-backed Shia paramilitary groups were also set alight.
In Uttar Pradesh, protesters and police violently clashed in Lucknow, with buildings and vehicles set alight.
Dozens have been killed in sectarian violence that has seen homes and churches set alight and bombed.
South African media reported that cars were set alight and shops looted over two days of unrest.
On Saturday, Kenya set alight 105 metric tons of ivory — its stockpile of confiscated and recovered tusks.
See photo: This Rakhine man with homemade weapons walks near houses set alight during the fighting reut.
Made from hundreds of matchsticks, these were set alight during the performance, creating a visually striking piece.
The crowd surrounding Mr. Khan was baying for him to be doused in gas and set alight.
Those sites included around 11,000 hectares of peat, which, when set alight, can smolder for months underground.
Mulligan says that since the Weinstein pyre was set alight, she has seen concrete change in her industry.
Neighbors - Hindu and Muslim - turned on one another with machetes and set alight homes and places of worship.
A number of churches became scenes of mass killings during the genocide, set alight with hundreds locked inside.
A mattress had been placed underneath the bus in the early hours of Thursday and set alight, it said.
They set alight a pipeline that delivers gas from Israel, torched a conveyor belt and damaged a fuel pipe.
Known as stubble burning, millions of tons of crop residue are set alight and it usually coincides with Diwali.
"It burns well," Seselj said, holding up an European Union flag which had been set alight by a supporter.
On the Israeli side of the fence, a field was set alight, apparently by one of the Palestinian kites.
There were also reports of a police station and highway toll booths set alight in other parts of Honduras.
Below, an oil well burned Friday in Qaiyara, near Mosul, after being set alight by retreating Islamic State fighters.
They saw their parents being killed, babies thrown into fires, their homes set alight and young girls gang-raped.
But when the Quonset hut is finally set alight—in slow motion, of course—viewers will be all conflagrated out.
Pieces of paper representing various concepts ("CHILD", "HOME", "SPOUSE") are set alight by the group and discussed as they burn.
And said trailer has about the restraint of a steam engine that's been commandeered, set alight, thrown over a ravine.
"We heard reports of entire families who perished after they were locked inside their homes, while they were set alight."
Police said she was abducted, raped and asphyxiated and her body was then set alight on the outskirts of Hyderabad.
On Thursday, a rape victim was set alight by a gang of men as she made her way to court.
It's only been a few weeks since Ubisoft announced Far Cry 5, and it has already set alight many flame wars.
Plastic waste collected by pickers is piled into the hole and then set alight with diesel to form a molten mass.
But a protest in Paris turned violent when shop windows were smashed on the Champs-Elysées, and barricades were set alight.
Castaner said roadblocks had been set alight, projectiles hurled at motorists and houses robbed in the area around the two schools.
At least one storage tank at Ras Lanuf terminal was set alight following the early morning attack, an engineer told Reuters.
There it met the kerosene-rich exhaust coming out of the turbines, and the mixture was set alight all over again.
After tires were set alight, the police rounded up dozens of the protesters and began demolishing the camp with a tractor.
Inside the hydroelectric station, rows of charred circuit boxes set alight by the jihadists sit below ceilings stained black from smoke.
In a region where the flags of liberal democracies are routinely set alight, Kurdistan has chosen to embrace liberal democratic values.
Social media carried posts showing black smoke and reports that it came from houses and cars set alight by the militants.
Bafflingly, the couple's windows had been removed from the outside prior to the murders and the living room had been set alight.
South Sudan, the world's newest country, is like a jigsaw puzzle that has been broken apart, soaked in petrol and set alight.
They can be set alight to frighten your enemy's cavalry, or slathered into the seams between the planks of your ship's hull.
A small fire burned on the pavement and a sheet hanging from a first-floor window was set alight by squatters inside.
More than half his body was set alight when a gas hob exploded in his house, but he is given no morphine.
There he saw how waste plastics were put into potholes and set alight until they melted into the craters, sealing the potholes.
The dark filth coating the landscape and choking residents' lungs comes from oil wells sabotaged and set alight by ISIS in August.
Known as stubble burning, millions of tons of crop residue are set alight releasing untold amounts of particulate matter into the environment.
Photos showed the crocodiles had been placed in a large pit in the ground, along with wood for kindling, and set alight.
Most potent of all was the 151-proof rum, which my father used to set alight crêpes Suzette on New Year's Eve.
A Tshwane Metro police spokesman, Console Tleane, said vehicles were set alight and a newly-built school was vandalised by gangs of rioters.
On April 7th dozens of protests took place across the Sudanese capital, with car tyres set alight, and some roads and bridges blocked.
In the company's heyday, over 218,22017 shops nationwide offered Quanjian's signature "fire therapy" (patients are draped in alcohol-soaked towels and set alight).
Known as stubble burning, millions of tons of crop residue are set alight at a time of year that typically coincides with Diwali.
Stylistically, what Hernandez captures is actually a city set alight by color, rage, and the belief that economic repression can no longer stand.
Protesters have set alight ruling party buildings and have called on President Omar al-Bashir, who took power in 1989, to step down.
Catholic churches are no longer being set alight by nativists, but synagogues and mosques are being vandalized by people on the same tip.
The fire brigade earlier said around 100 firefighters were dealing with the blaze, which had set alight six floors of a residential block.
Police in riot gear were also targeted in east Belfast and vehicles were hijacked and set alight when Protestant youths lit a massive bonfire.
Brutal killing Zeenat Rafique, 18, was strangled and set alight by her mother and brother in June 2016 after she eloped against their wishes.
A pile of sulphur set alight by IS south of Mosul spewed as much sulphur dioxide into the atmosphere as a small volcanic eruption.
Hundreds rallied on both Tuesday and Wednesday night, throwing stones and firecrackers at police as smoke billowed from cars that had been set alight.
On Thursday, a third storage tank was set alight sending thick black smoke over Ras Lanuf before the fire was extinguished, a firefighter said.
But it made up for that with sophisticated simplicity, reminiscent of the modernism of Brazil's mid-20th-century architecture—set alight with jazzy pyrotechnics.
Rogers' bravery was made even more remarkable as he was meters away from a vehicle containing gas cylinders that Shire Ali had set alight.
Firefighters were also called to the San Sebastian University in the nearby Bellavista district, which was significantly vandalized and set alight during the protest.
It set alight readily and burned furiously with a deep blue flame, proving it was a closer approximation to rubbing alcohol than a palatable liquor.
Several protesters contesting the August poll result were killed by security forces during a rare outbreak of violence which also saw Gabon's parliament set alight.
Not content with the bonfire of journalistic credibility that Buzzfeed set alight on Friday, much of the mainstream media have now made matters even worse.
If a man dead for centuries Can tell a story that will please You watching on this living night, My candle's tale I set alight.
Known as stubble burning, the practice means millions of tons of crop residue are set alight, releasing untold amounts of particulate matter into the environment.
Protests have erupted all over India and the country has been literally set alight, following the recent passing of the new Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA).
In the hours that followed, armed militants targeted the U.S. diplomatic mission, buildings were set alight, and mortar rounds were launched at a nearby CIA annex.
The famous pair of lions that guard its city center headquarters were daubed with graffiti and briefly set alight after being doused in a flammable liquid.
In January, Memorial's office car in Dagestan was torched and employees received phone threats saying the office there would be set alight with them inside it.
The 'Trump carrying Clinton's head effigy' will be set alight on Saturday evening, and the Edenbridge Bonfire Society will live stream it on their Facebook page.
But voting was beset by violence in pockets of the country, and there were some reports of ballot boxes being snatched and voting papers set alight.
The famous pair of lions that guard its city center headquarters were daubed with graffiti and briefly set alight after being doused in a flammable liquid.
Two storage tanks had been set alight over the past week as forces loyal to eastern-based commander Khalifa Haftar and rival factions clashed, causing extensive damage.
Iraq's second city has been rocked by five days of demonstrations, in which government buildings have been ransacked and set alight by protesters angry over political corruption.
A spokesman for Baghdad Operations Command said three of the facility's gas storages were set alight before security forces were able to bring the situation under control.
Police said residents in Vuwani district and nearby areas set alight a post office and other government buildings on Monday and Tuesday nights leaving smoldering structures behind.
Video footage showed the black-clad gang calmly transferring up to 10 large bags of cash into their getaway vehicles, which they later abandoned and set alight.
The woman was raped, asphyxiated and her dead body then set alight on Nov 27 on the outskirts of the southern city of Hyderabad, according to police.
The suspects were accused of the gang rape and murder of a woman whose body was dumped and set alight on the outskirts of Hyderabad last month.
During Operation Desert Storm, burning oil fields set alight by Saddam Hussein's army sent out plumes of noxious smoke that disrupted air operations and obscured troops' vision.
Close to the Place Vendome, Christmas trees decorating the streets were upended, piled in the middle of an avenue and set alight, prompting chanting from scores of protesters.
In the sprawling working-class neighborhood of Ettadhamen in the capital, a bank and an electronics store were looted and a vehicle was set alight on Thursday night.
The government said former members of the "Ninja" militia that fought Sassou Nguesso in a 1997 civil war raided and set alight military, police and local government offices.
In mid-September, Moria was set alight after protests by asylum seekers who were stuck in the camp and feared they were about to be deported to Turkey.
Initial reports said that Ambreen was burned alive, but police now believe she was drugged and suffocated before her body was placed in a van and set alight.
The Aachen police said that protesters had built barricades, some of which they set alight, and emptied the contents of their toilets from the treehouses onto officers below.
Behind us, the sky was obscured by an eerie miasma: black smoke gushing from oil fields that ISIS had set alight when it quit the area, in August.
Up to 2,500 people, mostly Muslims, were killed during riots sparked after 59 Hindu pilgrims were burned to death when their train was set alight by suspected Muslims.
On Christmas, the cake is set alight and then topped with a sauce of brandy butter or rum butter, cream, lemon cream, ice cream, custard, or sweetened béchamel.
Iraq's second city has been rocked by demonstrations in which government offices, including the main provincial council building, have been ransacked and set alight by protesters angry about corruption.
Khalil, his wife and five children live but a minute's walk from a blazing oil well, one of more than a dozen ISIS has set alight in recent months.
Poor blacks might have no guns but they had stones, matches, and old tyres to fill with petrol, jam over a collaborator's head and set alight, necklaces of fire.
We meet opposition leaders under house arrest, attend a protest where the government headquarters is set alight, and speak with impoverished people on both sides of the ethnic divide.
I first saw a car set alight on a freeway in Chacao, and then armed officers firing tear gas and chasing scattered groups of demonstrators down a shopping street.
In the most extreme example, a hairdryer purchased on Wish&aposs site set alight when non-profit Electrical Safety First tested what would happen if it restricted its airflow.
South African media reported that a bus was set alight, vehicles stoned and roads blockaded by protesters calling for Mahumapelo to quit because of a failure to adequately deliver services.
Iraq's second biggest city has been rocked by five days of deadly demonstrations, in which government buildings have been ransacked and set alight by protesters angry over perceived political corruption.
The vehicles were set alight in the wealthy Sandton district near the Gautrain station, a popular pick-up point for taxis where previous attacks on Uber vehicles have taken place.
Extraordinary footage shows ranch-hands and volunteers fighting to rescue hundreds of racehorses from eight barns which set alight at the San Luis Rey Downs training center in Bonsall, California.
On Saturday evening, riot police stormed onto subway trains, hitting and arresting passengers and protesters with batons, a large barricade was set alight by protesters in a busy shopping district.
A bit later, after a literally explosive bacchanal during which bales of cash and a sailboat are set alight, he declares the evening "a blast," inserting an expletive for emphasis.
Thousands of tires have been readied to set alight on the Gaza side of the border in order to create curtains of black smoke and obscure the sights of Israeli snipers.
One Uber vehicle and two other taxis were torched last week in the upmarket Sandton district and on Wednesday three Taxify vehicles were set alight in the Pretoria suburb of Sunnyside.
Mayweather was more amused about reports that one of his cars, branded with his 'The Money Team' insignia, had been broken into and set alight during a visit to Birmingham last Saturday.
Protesters in Basra ransacked and torched Iraqi government buildings this month and the Iranian consulate was set alight by demonstrators shouting condemnation of what many see as Iran's sway over Iraq's affairs.
Protesters in Basra ransacked and torched Iraqi government buildings this month and the Iranian consulate was set alight by demonstrators shouting condemnation of what many see as Iran's sway over Iraq's affairs.
Its fighters have rigged the city with explosives, mined and booby-trapped roads, filled trenches with oil they can set alight as the Iraqis advance and dug a network of tunnels deep underground.
While the parliamentary committee was sitting, another train was set alight at Cape Town central station, where all train lines lead to the central business district and a site of several recent attacks.
Later in the evening, a flag was set alight in front of the Georgia Capitol, as protesters referenced Mr. Trump's campaign slogan, chanting "America was never great," while accompanied by a steady drumbeat.
On August 13, masked men set alight up to 80 cars in Gothenburg and other towns on Sweden's west coast, in what the police said appeared to be a series of coordinated attacks.
The sentences set off weeks of protests in the northeastern region, at times erupting in violent clashes that saw projectiles fired, cars torched and barricades set alight in the regional capital of Barcelona.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Crucifixion and flagellation, bodies pierced with arrows and set alight on pyres, tongues torn out, and breasts sliced off — Western art history is rife with images of suffering.
The event, which took place on Sunday as part of the London's Burning festival, involved a 20163-meter (22016-foot)-long sculpture being set alight and floated down the Thames on an enormous barge.
Nearly 190 fires were put out and six buildings were set alight, the interior ministry said, as protesters ransacked some of the capital's ritziest areas, including the Champs-Elysees, the Louvre, and Place Vendome.
The video, which appeared on social media, showed a cardboard model of the tower with cut outs of residents in the windows being set alight on a bonfire while those watching laughed and made jokes.
Projectiles were fired, at least six people were hospitalized with injuries, and barricades were set alight after officers charged ranks of demonstrators - many young and masking their faces - who had amassed outside Spanish police headquarters.
A canopy has been set up, and a dozen of them are standing around, smoking, drinking, staring at the fire: Thick plumes of dense, dark smoke rise from piles of rubber and tires set alight.
Iraqi oil workers have capped a number of burning wells set alight by Islamic State militants as they retreated from Qayyara towards Mosul, where U.S.-backed Iraqi forces are pressing an offensive against the group.
Former members of the "Ninja" militia that fought Sassou Nguesso in a 1997 civil war raided and set alight military, police and local government offices but the attacks have been contained, government spokesman Thierry Moungalla said.
KINSHASA (Reuters) - Former members of a militia that fought Congo President Denis Sassou Nguesso in a 1997 civil war attacked and set alight military, police and local government offices on Monday, government spokesman Thierry Moungalla said.
During the evening, as protesters gathered, the nearby Alameda Art Center, whose lobby has been used as a triage center by volunteer medics during the protests, was set alight and almost totally destroyed, Santiago firefighters said.
Basra, Iraq's second biggest city located in the country's Shi'ite heartland, has been roiled by five days of deadly demonstrations, in which government buildings have been ransacked and set alight by protesters angry over political corruption.
All this at the risk of being set alight, but then, from where Lucy stood, Safi ye looked as if she was formed of fire herself, particles of flame dancing the flesh of her arm into existence.
The refugees said they were assaulted by locals and fellow refugees outside the U.N. refugee agency (UNHCR) office while protesting about rising homophobic attacks in recent months where LGBT+ members were beaten and their shelters set alight.
The bloody standoff between security forces and activists at Polytechnic University entered its second day after a night of mayhem in which a police van was set alight and a police officer was shot with an arrow.
Last month, a dormitory building at the International Women's Meditation Center in Rayong, a coastal town just south of the capital, Bangkok, was set alight by arsonists who the two resident bhikkhunis say oppose their presence there.
A 223-year-old girl is in critical condition with burns on 220 percent of her body after she was raped, beaten, and set alight on the rooftop terrace of her family's home, not far from New Delhi.
A 15-year-old girl is in critical condition with burns on 95 percent of her body after she was raped, beaten, and set alight on the rooftop terrace of her family's home, not far from New Delhi.
The men had been arrested in connection with the gang-rape and murder of a 27-year-old veterinarian who was strangled and her body set alight in the southern city of Hyderabad, in Telangana state last week.
By the end of Friday night's confrontation, a man had been beaten to death and rows of shops and homes set alight, a worrying taste of how quickly ethnic violence can erupt in the Kenyan capital's volatile slums.
Several buildings were set alight as the military tried to flush out about 100 fighters to meet a deadline set by Defence Secretary Delfin Lorenzana to re-take the city of 200,000 people by the end of the day.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Six South African miners were burnt to death when the bus taking them to work was set alight by a petrol bomb thrown by unknown attackers, police and the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) said on Tuesday.
After five days of deadly demonstrations in Basra in which government buildings have been ransacked and set alight, protesters broke in and damaged the consulate's offices, shouting condemnation of what many perceive as Iran's sway over Iraq's political affairs.
We were visiting for Electric Castle, a four-year old event that takes place on the estate of Banffy Castle – a building which, prior to hosting Deadmau5, was set alight by Nazis, and near-dismantled during the Communist era.
NEW YORK(Reuters) - In August, a dozen inventors gathered around a fire pit outside the headquarters of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in Alexandria, Virginia, and set alight patents they said had been rendered worthless by an overreaching federal government.
She said a warehouse owned by tax agency ZIMRA and used to hold illicit goods seized from people crossing the border, had been set alight by the protesters, and that the border post was still closed as at 9 p.m.
Buses evacuated ill and wounded residents, as well as orphaned children, from the besieged Syrian towns of al-Foua and Kefraya on Sunday after experiencing a setback in the morning when some vehicles came under attack and were set alight.
On Saturday afternoon, images went viral of burning humanitarian aid trucks full of food on the Venezuelan border — set alight by informal, pro-government militias called colectivos that are loyal to Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro, the authoritarian leader clinging to power.
As I write from my home in Chicago, I have been watching the images on Al Jazeera and other Arabic-language networks: thick black smoke from the oil wells that the Islamic State has set alight clouding the sky over Mosul.
Carlos Nieto, head of Una Ventana a la Libertad (A Window on Freedom), an association that monitors conditions in Venezuela's jails, said that a mattress was set alight in an attempted jailbreak, after a police officer had been shot in the leg.
While McCartney's trip to India saw him witness waste plastic being crammed into potholes, doused in petrol and set alight, MacRebur's approach to using plastic in new and existing road composition has a little more strategy and environmentally conscious thought behind it.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York police investigating an attack in which a Muslim woman's clothing was set alight are no longer probing the case as a hate crime after linking the suspects to similar assaults on non-Muslims, authorities said on Wednesday.
A man who had been set alight on Saturday by protesters in Caracas appeared on state television from his hospital bed and said that he had been attacked for being a government supporter, echoing Maduro's version of the incident over the weekend.
We make samples and send it out to the laboratory for them to set alight and find out how it burns and it needs to burn slow enough so that a person can get out of the airplane if there's a fire.
Tensions had been building on both sides of the Gaza-Israel border ahead of what some Palestinians alternately dubbed "Friday of Fire" or "Friday of Tires" -- a reference to the tires set alight in an attempt to obscure the sights of Israeli snipers.
The five bodies brought the death toll from protest-related violence to at least seven, after Interior Minister Andres Chadwick revealed that two women burned to death after a store owned by Walmart was set alight in the early hours of Sunday.
SANTIAGO, Oct 20 (Reuters) - At least three people died after a supermarket in the Chilean capital Santiago was set alight by demonstrators, while many flights into the city's airport were suspended as crew were unable to get to work, the city's governor said on Sunday.
Muhammad tells me it's not clear from the air how many wells have been set alight because of the thick smoke, and the police engineers are only clearing the roads of mines left by ISIS when they need to move to the next one.
I remember marching in a gay pride parade in Jerusalem in 2008 — though it was more a show of solidarity than a pride parade — and smelling the literal shit emanating from the trash barrels that the Haredim had stuffed with dirty diapers and set alight.
The blurry video, reminiscent of something a fan might put on YouTube in tribute to SK. It's all beautiful, and it all makes me feel like maybe, actually, things might be alright if music can still make me feel like something's been set alight in my chest.
Most activists do not believe that Putin or the Kremlin have a hand in the attacks, which have included caustic liquid being thrown in a victim's eyes, a car being set alight, and, in one case, an activist being bashed over the head with an iron bar.
Over the weekend, seven company buses were set alight by workers in the latest stage of protests by thousands of workers in Mecca and the coastal resort of Jiddah, with some saying that they had not been paid for six months, according to reports by the Associated Press.
The marchers had converged on the town of Tuen Mun, in the west of the New Territories, where some set fire to a Chinese flag as others tore down wooden and metal fences and traffic bollards to build road blocks, at least one of which was set alight.
A mix of green Chartreuse, Grand Marnier, dark rum, and yellow Chartreuse—with a shot of Blue Curaçao poured in as the whole thing is set alight and slurped recklessly through a straw—it reached a sort of cult status in the 90s thanks to a group of city traders.
"When we started digging, we discovered that while the destruction of the fort in the 10th century may not have been good news for the Picts, the fact that so much of it was set alight is a real bonus for archaeologists," said Dr. Gordon Noble head of archaeology at the University of Aberdeen, in a statement .
A "people swap" is underway in Aleppo, even after evacuation buses were torched A "people swap" is underway in Aleppo, even after evacuation buses were torched Buses evacuated ill and wounded residents, as well as orphaned children, from the besieged Syrian towns of al-Foua and Kefraya on Sunday after experiencing a setback in the morning when some vehicles came under attack and were set alight.
A number of men there are detained and separated from their families while they are screened by officials to determine whether they have links to IS. In the town of Qayyarah, two young boys stand on the roof of their house, situated right next to an oil well set alight by IS. The fire has been raging for weeks, and their health has been severely affected.
For instance, here's Trump two hours ago insulting reporters while demanding something asinine from them:Now here's that tweet being set alight by a snarky robot:Here's the tweet prior to that one, where this utter numbskull celebrated the signing of an executive order that he hopes will bring back coal-based energy (it won't):And here, for our catharsis and entertainment, is a video of that tweet burning, directed at a man whose ability to make deals rivals his ability to take criticism:BurnedYourTweet appears to be performing this great service to our nation automatically, so for your own sanity, unfollow the president—his ravings are better enjoyed in this format instead.[Reddit]

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