Debris and unexploded bombs from the Tu-22 rained over the position and injured no one.

Earlier eight people died when bombs rained on the city's crowded streets.

It did not require an army landing or a naval bombardment to be struck in one's own home; bombs could rain down from the air with fire and explosion almost anywhere.

Six American bombs rained on Kabul airport's runway during the United States-led bombing campaign in October, leaving yawning craters in the tarmac.

Within minutes of each other, transports Tulagi and Meigs took hits; and ships alongside the docks were heavily hit as bombs rained indiscriminately on the port area.

Other bombs rained about her, ahead and astern.

Explosion after explosion shook the earth as the bombs rained down with rarely more than ten minutes' interval between salvoes.

American bombs, including a 15,000-pound "daisy cutter," were raining from the sky and pulverizing a number of the Tora Bora caves.

Anyway, I never saw him again . . . 'But the bombs were still raining down, and I was shivering, miserable, shocked and vulnerable.

He worked as a surgeon in the besieged Leningrad throughout its epic 900-day siege by the Germans, "performing surgery - often without anaesthetic, electricity or water - as the bombs rained all around".