eyewitness
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Abdullah, a local eyewitness, told Reuters news agency the strikes happened around midnight.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
Travis, the getaway driver, did, however; his eyewitness account was arguably the most damaging.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
Community groups on Facebook are filled with eyewitness reports of crimes taking place almost daily, fuelling anger and questions about why no-one seems to be able to put to a stop to it.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026
The system, though more reliable than the average eyewitness, isn’t perfect.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
“The state’s only eyewitness to this ‘crime’ is an old man seeing things in the dark.
From "Mississippi Trial, 1955" by Chris Crowe
Some survivors of the deadly floods on the Nepal-China border ran for their lives, others narrowly missed disaster, but all were eyewitnesses to a major calamity and its aftermath.
From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026
Tooson said there are no eyewitnesses to the shooting and Porter’s death was not captured on video.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
But ICE has provided no proof, and in Araujo’s case, eyewitnesses say the agency is lying about what happened.
From Slate ● Jul. 14, 2026
The defence highlighted perceived shortcomings in scene management, potential contamination of DNA evidence and that eyewitnesses failed to identify Mr Fox as being involved in the raid.
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026
But before the after-action accounts of the duel degenerated into a duel of its own, the only two eyewitnesses, Pendleton and Van Ness, published a “Joint Statement.”
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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