1.   A shell exploded just in front of me, and just over a woman as she ran across the street.

2.   The mortar shell explodes before it is fired.

3.   Shells have exploded in the Bosnian capital Sarajevo near the building where the Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd was meeting the Bosnian president.

4.   An army spokesman said it had encountered victims with medical symptoms of the chemicals as well as witnesses who had seen the shells explode and emit clouds of vapor.

5.   And on the third day shells exploded on the forested slopes overlooking the city and gunfire crackled along a widening front line.

6.   As mortar shells exploded somewhere on the low mountain range across the valley, Berget provided improbable but encouraging information that his new comrades were impatient to hear.

7.   A handful of Taliban anti-aircraft guns fire at the planes, but their shells explode thousands of feet below.

8.   A shell had exploded where he was playing.

9.   But in the time it took an artillery shell to explode, the young soldier was severely crippled.

10.   He said that the damage was done when an Israeli tank shell exploded near him while he was fighting here.