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Having banged on a closed door up front for some four minutes, eventually it was simply the sheer pace of Dyer that got them over.

Since then most people have been carrying out the protest inside their homes, with the sound of banged pots and pans echoing across Maputo at 21:00 every night.

A distressed Thomas banged on his grandmother's car window and she found Mr Bush on the patio outside.

After the attack, Carrillo’s “baton no longer retracted, even after he repeatedly banged the baton into the concrete pavement in an attempt to collapse it,” prosecutors wrote in the memo.

Buffalo’s a little more banged up than most.