1. They even went down to the basement bomb shelter and shook pillows. 2. Gone are the endless holidays from school spent in basement bomb shelters, the ever-present fear of snipers. 3. He started with what he called his Shoeshine Hotel, a basement shelter in a war-damaged abandoned school. 4. My phone rang, and it was the reception desk inviting me down into the basement shelter. 5. Other fighters and civilians in the area ran for basement shelters, and two of the buildings at the traffic circle were burning. 6. Others wait in basement shelters when the barrages begin. 7. The plan to quarantine and evacuate Grozny was a surprise to shellshocked residents who only recently left their basement shelters to try to rebuild their lives. 8. There are even people, but they risk their lives each time they emerge from their basement shelters for a sip of muddy water. 9. There were no injuries, they said, because people still sleep in basement shelters. 10. Topa Elimbayev spent the last Chechen war in a basement bomb shelter in Grozny. |