Sentences with phrase «armed gunmen»

He told newsmen that the heavily armed gunmen stormed the village, going house to house shooting people.

The Grand - Bassam resort in Cote d' Ivoire was attacked heavily by armed gunmen who entered from Mali in a Niger - registered 4 × 4 and hid their weapons in the petrol tank where 19 people were killed and about 35 injured.

She talked down a heavily armed gunman who had gotten past the school's security system and undoubtedly saved many adult and children's lives.

In April 1980 armed gunmen stormed the Iranian Embassy in Princes Gate, London and took all inside hostage.

Buhari had on Wednesday in London told Archbishop Justin Welby that the farmers / herdsmen clashes were made worse by the influx of armed gunmen from the Sahel region in Nigeria and other parts of West African sub-region.

It has always been there, but now made worse by the influx of armed gunmen from the Sahel region into different parts of the West African sub-region.

On Friday, February 8, 2013, armed gunmen attacked a vaccine clinic in northern Nigeria.

According to Estes Church in Tennessee, which supported her ministry, Ms Roberts was driving to a petrol station when armed gunmen drove in front of her to stop her car, before opening her car door and shooting her dead.

Four armed gunmen shouting «Allahu akbar» storm the U.S. Embassy using grenades, automatic weapons, a car bomb and a truck bomb.

The chief worry was - and remains - how to close the gap between a heavily armed gunman opening fire in a crowded place and the moment that an adequate response force can arrive on the scene.

A source attached to the Marine Police Post in Warri said if not for police swift intervention three operatives of the NIS and a civilian speedboat pilot would have been abducted by the heavily armed gunmen numbering about 10.

An online newspaper, (not the Nigeria Politics Online) had claimed that heavily armed gunmen invaded the Governor's mother's residence and disarmed the octogenarian» spolice detail in an apparent attempt to abduct her.

Recall that Margaret was abducted by a group of heavily - armed gunmen late last Thursday, along the Benin - Agbor road.

According to Deadline, the film will be drawn from the events in April 1980 when six armed gunmen took over the Iranian Embassy in London and held more than two - dozen people hostage.

When Modern Warfare 3 came out a year later, armed gunmen robbed a delivery truck in France carrying copies of the game.

The visually stunning footage features the game's timeshifting protagonist Jack Joyce as he uses his powers over time to get the upper hand in a shootout against a squad of heavily - armed gunmen who are in hot pursuit of the one - time time - travel experiment turned hero.

Based entirely on real events, armed gunmen stormed the Iranian Embassy in Central London, demanding that several prisoners are released back in Iran, and if this is not met and the UK government fail to oblige, lives will be lost.

The heavily armed gunmen were said to have attacked Ko, Gereng and Ndikajam communities at about 3.30 am, shooting sporadically.

That means the training must be specifically tailored to respond to an armed gunman out to kill.

Some say the way to stop an armed gunman is by being armed and greater self control.

The police are still looking for the alleged suspects and have released a sketch of a man supposedly involved, as well as two surveillance videos that reveal two armed gunmen.

Armed gunmen have kidnapped six officials of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) from Manas national park in north - eastern India, officials say.

Uploading the video online, Fox wrote: «Armed gunman and 2 others stopped myself and took cellphone, car keys,...

The prolific director's «The 15:17 to Paris» comes just two and a half years after the real - life incident upon which it is based, when a handful of passengers on a Thalys train from Amsterdam to Paris subdued a heavily armed gunman.

Eastwood filmed aboard the same high - speed train line from Amsterdam to Paris on which the three were traveling when Stone spotted a heavily armed gunman and took action, his friends following.

By one cosmic yardstick, the three American tourists who foiled a terrorist attack on a 2015 Amsterdam - to - Paris train were in exactly the right place at the right time: They acted when they had to, wrestling an armed gunman to the floor and preventing untold carnage.

The classroom in Ghalanai, an area nestled amid the mountains of Pakistan's tribal belt, has the air of a military camp: a solitary tent pitched beside a bombed - out building, ringed by a high wall and protected by an armed gunman.