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"The distress and the pain in the voice, it was just horrific," the councillor said, adding it was the sort of phone call he would "never wish to hear again".

There were some parents who did want their children to embrace the “white” world in hopes that it would improve their lives, although certainly not in such horrific conditions.

Even tableaux of destruction compel the eye, less war as spectacle than some horrific inverse of the creative process.

"We must work together to better prevent these horrific crimes from happening, and hold those responsible to account."

The text exchange and horrific pun triggered a huge fight.