In a situation like this, people can meet their end in any number of ways. A person could be killed by the blast itself—the lungs burst, the veins and nerves absorb the shock, and death follows. Victims could be burned to death from flames or crushed under giant pieces of concrete or buildings (unlike a bullet, which creates a personal wound that may prove fatal, bombs destroy the world around the victim, too). Many were asphyxiated by the carbon monoxide that blew into bomb shelters or were deprived of oxygen after the firestorm sucked the air from a room. (Photos of such scenes exist;
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