附近的居民们说，他们全天都可以听到爆炸声和机枪开火的声音，还看到滚滚黑烟在这个城市上空升起。

Residents of Basra said they could hear explosions and automatic weapons fire throughout the day, and columns of black smoke were seen rising above the city.

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在该城市的英国一家报纸记者告诉BBC，白天他听到了零星的爆炸声和自动武器的声音。

A British newspaper journalist in the city told the BBC he had heard sporadic explosions and automatic gunfire during the day.

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有时深夜或是清晨我起床时，还能听到附近公路上传来刹车声、爆炸声和鸣喇叭的声音。

Sometimes late at night or early in the morning when I get up I can still hear the screeching tires on the nearby road. I can still hear the explosion, the horn.

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