Sentences with phrase «by gunmen»

An earlier version of this article misstated the number of people killed by a gunman in Las Vegas last month.
Many communities in North Central Nigeria have been contending with recurring attacks by gunmen in recent times.
They are among the 17 people killed by a gunman at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., on Wednesday.
Six months earlier a team of prosecutors returning to Enugu after a court appearance in Owerri, Imo state was attacked by gunmen who opened fire on them.
Photos of the hotel suite used by the gunman who killed 58 people in Las Vegas on Sunday provide a glimpse of the arsenal of guns and ammunition that were in his possession.
The Justice Department and F.B.I. tried to force Apple to break its own software security in the case of an iPhone used by a gunman in last year's San Bernardino terrorist attacks, she said.
Samaha's 18 - year - old daughter, Reema, was one of 32 people killed by a gunman on April 16, 2007 on the campus of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Va..
BY DUNCAN OSBRNE What was billed as a vigil for the people murdered by a gunman in an Orlando nightclub quickly became a rally in support of gun control legislation as elected officials, the head of New Yorkers Against Gun Violence (NYAGV), and even a trauma surgeon called for tougher federal laws to control such weapons.
Berta Cáceres, an indigenous Lenca woman who won the 2015 Goldman Environmental Prize for her fearless work to defend the Gualcarque River, its surrounding environment and people from the Agua Zarca Dam, was killed by gunmen last night in her home in La Esperanza, Honduras.
It was the spot where many of the 17 students and faculty were murdered Wednesday by a gunman with an AR -15-style weapon.
Two students were injured after being shot by a gunman at Great Mills High School in southeast Maryland.
Kennedy Idirisu, spokesman of the Nasarawa state police command, who confirmed the abduction in Lafia on Wednesday, said Akwanga was kidnapped by gunmen at his farm on Wamba Road in Akwanga on Tuesday, August 22.
Their death according to findings came as a result of an attack by gunmen suspected to be militants.
Five staff members and three students of the school were kidnapped by gunmen from the school premises in Isheri area of Ogun State, southwest Nigeria.
They were among the 17 people killed by a gunman Wednesday at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.
The Valentine's Day shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School by a gunman armed with an AR - 15 style assault rifle has reignited national debate over gun laws and school safety, including proposals by President Donald Trump and others to designate more people — including trained teachers — to carry arms on school grounds.
They support a broad range of new restrictions on weapons, including banning semiautomatic weapons such as the AR - 15 rifle used by gunman Nikolas Cruz.
Workers of the Nigeria Petroleum Development Company (NPDC), who were abducted by gunmen along Benin - Akure expressway, near Oluku in Edo State have been set free by...
Two NYPD officers were shot at and wounded at a Bronx housing project last night by a gunman who then fled and took his own life, police said.
Meadow Pollack was a beautiful young woman on track to attend Lynn University in the fall until her life was taken by a gunman at Marjory Stoneman High School on Feb. 14.
The company also faced intense, unwanted attention in the aftermath of the 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook elementary school in Newtown, Conn. where 26 people, including children, were killed by a gunman armed with, among other weapons, a Remington Bushmaster assault rifle.
Two Gilchrist County sheriff's deputies were ambushed and killed Thursday by a gunman who may have taken his own life.
A Coptic Christian man has been shot dead by gunmen in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, security officials in the country have said.
Pope Francis has described 29 people killed by gunmen targeting a bus carrying Coptic Christians in Egypt on Friday as «martyrs».
There has been resurgence of attacks by gunmen along the waterways in Rivers state.
In 2004, Munch's iconic «Scream» was stolen by gunmen from a museum but was recovered a year later.
The Foreign Office had advised against all travel to Lebanon following the seizure of most of western Beirut by gunmen from the Shia militant group Hizbullah.
According to the anti-graft agency, the property, a farmhouse located in Karshi, a suburb of Abuja was attacked by gunmen by 10 pm on Tuesday.
The Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, Wednesday, frowned at the constant abduction of police officers by gunmen.
The Las Vegas Police Department reported that at least 50 people have died and more than 400 were injured by a gunman with a high - powered assault weapon during country singer Jason Aldean's performance at the Route 91 Harvest Music Festival near the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino on Sunday evening.
However, Canada's largest airline, Air Canada, confirmed via Twitter that it had no record of any passenger by the gunman's name — nor checked guns — on any of its flights to Fort Lauderdale.
Obamaalso showed a «get - tough» strategy in his determination to pursue gun control after last month's massacre of schoolchildren by a gunman in Newtown, Connecticut.
Just three days before a first round of voting on April 23, a policeman was shot dead in central Paris by a gunman in an attack claimed by Islamic state.
... There were a few hours where it was unclear what our fate would be because our car had been surrounded by gunmen, and so The New York Times had to call our parents and say, «Look, we're unsure what's happening.»
Last month, 17 students and teachers were slain at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., by a gunman wielding a semi-automatic assault rifle.
After 58 people were killed at a country music festival in Las Vegas last year by a gunman who used bump stocks, GOP senators said they would be open to Feinstein's legislation.
Doctors and medical professionals are rushing to save the lives of those wounded by the gunman and in the mad rush to escape, and local blood banks do not currently have enough blood on hand to meet the need.
Arming citizens will not make much difference because the damage will have already been done by the gunman / gunmen.
The Texas church where more than two dozen people were killed by a gunman during Sunday services will be demolished, the pastor said.
The preliminary investigation indicated that Nancy Davis, 59, and her husband were traveling on a Mexican highway near the city of San Fernando, Mexico, when they were confronted by gunmen in a black pickup, the Pharr Police Department in Texas said in a statement.
Turkish giants Fenerbahce have called for the Super Lig to suspend their upcoming fixtures after their team bus was attacked by gunmen which has left the bus driver hospitalised with suspected bullet wounds, the BBC report.
The Police Commissioner, Mr Abeh, had told Channels Television that the policemen were on a routine patrol in the area when they were ambushed by the gunmen who opened fire on them.
Image after image of the dead, men and boys, showed that those killed in the most violent day in the capital city Sana'a for 30 years had been systematically shot through the head and neck by gunmen positioned on city rooftops.
The party equally expressed shock over the murder of a Special Adviser to Bayelsa State Governor, Mr. Ebikimi Okoringa by gunmen, on Monday.
Media reports in India today linked British - born Pakistanis to the attacks, which saw several sites across the city raided by gunmen.
However, the Commissioner of Police in charge of election in Osun State, Mr. Valentine Ntomchukwu, confirmed the attack on the town by gunmen, adding that they were repelled by the police.
Students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida — where 17 students and faculty were shot to death by a gunman on Valentine's Day — made the Sunday talk show rounds, urging lawmakers to adopt stricter gun control laws in the wake of the nation's most recent mass shooting.
The statement was in reaction to the attack on the Wuse Zone 7 office of the EFCC by some gunmen on Wednesday.
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