Example sentences of "[be] killed when a " in BNC.
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| 1 | At least 19 people were killed when a bus skidded off the road into a ditch in India 's northeastern Assam state yesterday , the Press Trust of India reported . |
| 2 | Five people were killed when a bomb exploded close to the hotel where New Zealand 's cricketers were staying — and the shocked Kiwis promptly called off their tour . |
| 3 | In 1972 at Buffalo Creek , West Virginia , 125 people were killed when a carelessly maintained dam burst ( Stern 1976 : 3 ) and at Willow Island , West Virginia , fifty-one people died when a cooling tower collapsed as a result of safety violations ( Kennedy 1978 ) . |
| 4 | At the Bradford football stadium disaster on 11 May 1985 , 56 fans were killed when a stand burnt down . |
| 5 | On 8 January 1989 , at Kegworth , 47 people were killed when a British Midland 737 crashed while attempting an emergency landing . |
| 6 | Four people were killed when a train plunged into a flooded Welsh river on 19 October 1987 , at Glanrhyd . |
| 7 | At King 's Cross on 18 November 1988 , 31 people were killed when a fire rapidly spread through the Underground ticket hall . |
| 8 | SIX members of the Parachute Regiment face charges in connection with the death of two teenagers who were killed when a stolen car was fired on , on Upper Glen Road , Belfast , on September 30 , 1990 . |
| 9 | Damien , of Vicinage Park , and 18-year-old Michael Paul Largey , of Andersonstown Park West , were killed when a stolen Fiesta car struck a tree on the Falls Road in the early hours of Wednesday morning . |
| 10 | On May 28 four people were killed when a demonstration in Freetown by students in support of teachers ' demands was broken up by police after a police station had been stoned ; earlier a meeting attempting to establish an independent teachers ' union was also broken up by the authorities . |
| 11 | A week of national mourning was announced after more than 150 people were killed when a passenger train collided with a goods train near Dolisie on Sept. 6 . |
| 12 | Two workmen were killed when a maintenance gantry fixed to the bridge collapsed two years ago . |
| 13 | UN officials in Peking said today 257 people were killed when a dam burst in China last week and not 1,257 as reported by the world body in Geneva yesterday . |
| 14 | Seven people , including a mother and child , were killed when a lorry and van crashed and then ploughed into a Post Office today . |
| 15 | Initial reports indicated hundreds had been killed when a military unit had been stoned by a hungry and unruly mob . |
| 16 | On 14 September 1982 Gemayel planned to meet with a group of Mossad officers , but was killed when a bomb planted by Syrian intelligence exploded in the local Phalangist party offices where he was speaking . |
| 17 | A parttime member of the UDR who was the son of a representative on the UUAC was killed when a bomb exploded at a petrol filling station where he and his wife were making a purchase and , in a further incident , a bus driver was shot dead at the wheel of his vehicle . |
| 18 | A SCHOOLBOY was killed when a wall collapsed on him at the weekend . |
| 19 | The plaintiff was killed when a lift fell to the bottom of its shaft . |
| 20 | A motorway workman was killed when a wheel flew off a lorry and hit him . |
| 21 | Sharon Griffiths , who was fifteen , was killed when a car driven by her sister Sandra was hit by a stolen Vauxhall Cavalier on the Newton Longville Road near Bletchley in Buckinghamshire . |
| 22 | The father of an eight year-old-girl who was killed when a DIY store trolley fell on top of her has welcomed new safety guidelines for their use . |
| 23 | And a man was killed when a Sierra collided with a lorry on the Hereford to Worcester road at Shucknell . |
| 24 | Mrs Wells was killed when a Nissan Sunny , in which she was a passenger , was in collision with a Ford Transit van on Marshlands Road . |
| 25 | A STEEL erector was killed when a two-ton steel pipe he was working on became dislodged and dropped , trapping him underneath . |