After what felt like two eternities, he stopped ransacking and headed towards the door with his loot.

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Mr Abbas, sitting in the West Bank, did not declare a state of emergency until Hamas militants were ransacking his Gaza home.

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There was at least one example of the Rome's residents ransacking the house of the wrong cardinal, during the 400-500 years the tradition was followed.

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The two Nigerians, aged 40 and 41, were caught unawares as the police barged into the house, breaking tiles, overturning couches and ransacking rooms to uncover the booty.

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The organization pointed to a video shot on April 10 in a store in the village of Nuwaidrat where police officers failed to stop a mob from ransacking the store.

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So he left, got home, everything was very quiet, phoned me at midnight to say that he had been attempted break-in ransacking by eight people, he'd fired a shot in the air and they had left.

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