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The beginning of winter also coincides with stubble burning season, a time when farmers intentionally set fire to crop debris to clear their fields, sending smoke billowing in the skies.
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Sophia Saifi, CNN, 4 Nov. 2024
Prosecutors allege Combs’ co-conspirators set fire to Individual-1’s vehicle about two weeks later, in which the co-conspirators allegedly cut open the top of the convertible and dropped a Molotov cocktail inside.
—Conor Murray, Forbes, 25 Sep. 2024
According to the letter, Combs and a coconspirator kidnapped someone at gunpoint in 2011, and later set fire to another person’s convertible using a Molotov cocktail.
—Jem Aswad, ARTnews.com, 17 Sep. 2024
The gang members set fire to dozens of homes and vehicles, local authorities said, in one of the deadliest attacks in recent years in the Caribbean nation that has seen many massacres and little justice for their victims.
—Reuters, NBC News, 5 Oct. 2024
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Sophia Saifi, CNN, 4 Nov. 2024
Prosecutors allege Combs’ co-conspirators set fire to Individual-1’s vehicle about two weeks later, in which the co-conspirators allegedly cut open the top of the convertible and dropped a Molotov cocktail inside.
—Conor Murray, Forbes, 25 Sep. 2024
According to the letter, Combs and a coconspirator kidnapped someone at gunpoint in 2011, and later set fire to another person’s convertible using a Molotov cocktail.
—Jem Aswad, ARTnews.com, 17 Sep. 2024
The gang members set fire to dozens of homes and vehicles, local authorities said, in one of the deadliest attacks in recent years in the Caribbean nation that has seen many massacres and little justice for their victims.
—Reuters, NBC News, 5 Oct. 2024
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“Set fire to.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/set%20fire%20to. Accessed 14 Nov. 2024.
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