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It comes after a blast at another quarry six miles away forced people to flee their homes as a torrent of water flooded them.

From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026

Floods and landslides triggered by monsoon rains have killed more than 100 people across India since July, official data showed Wednesday, with thousands forced to flee their inundated homes.

From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026

Hamedullah, who spoke to AFP in Paris, said he was forced to flee Afghanistan to neighbouring Pakistan with his family after the Taliban seized power in August 2021.

From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026

The first minister has promised a swift investigation and assured people "we have your back" after flooding forced them to flee their homes.

From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026

We were once one people, some choosing to hide, some choosing to flee.

From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar

After one brutal experience, he flees into the woods.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 17, 2026

Metals traders lose at least $144 million as ‘Hat’ flees China.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 2, 2026

When he stumbles upon the hut of a shepherd who flees at the sight of him, he “greedily devoured the remnants of the shepherd’s breakfast, which consisted of bread, cheese, milk and wine.”

From Salon ● Nov. 16, 2025

The train then pulls into a station, and the man disembarks and flees down the platform.

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2025

She knows her days of freedom are numbered, so she packs her bags and flees.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

Wallace fled the scene in a vehicle and was arrested on 25 September after police traced the car to south-east London.

From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026

The memoir is an account of escaping religious extremism and redefining herself apart from the mountains that raised her and the elite society to which she fled.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

Nineteen thousand people had fled or been rescued, he said, while the death toll stood at around 2,000 at the time -- a tally that leaves 9,000 people unaccounted for.

From Barron's ● Aug. 6, 2026

The activities of the party were banned soon after she fled the country and it was not allowed to contest the February general election.

From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026

The long grass of the pasture whipped her legs as she fled from the water.

From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack

Immigration has been a hot-button issue in Europe since 2015, when more than a million people, many fleeing war-torn Syria, entered the continent on foot.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

Born in Nazi-occupied Poland in the last months of World War Two, von Hagens grew up in communist East Germany before fleeing to the West in 1970.

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026

A haven for refugees fleeing a civil war in the late ’90s, Minnesota is home to some 80,000 people of Somali descent, most of whom are citizens.

From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026

"If you don't run from it and you try to face it, it devours you," Ecologio Cabrera, 86, told AFP after fleeing with nothing.

From Barron's ● Jul. 25, 2026

The tree was really the nymph, Lotis, who fleeing from a pursuer had taken refuge in this form.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton