Sentences with phrase «by gunmen by»

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.

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Since August 1966, as the Washington Post outlines in a gut - stirring data visualization that truly every American should spend an hour with, there have been 150 mass shootings in which at least four people were murdered, nearly always by a lone gunman.

Western countries and human rights groups have denounced Duterte for an anti-drug campaign that has included more than 2,000 extrajudicial killings by masked gunmen on motorcycles and others.

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.

Under federal law, long guns like the semiautomatic AR -15-style assault rifle used by the Florida gunman can be bought from licensed dealers by people as young as 18, while the minimum age for handgun purchases is 21.

The 18 - year - old argued that it's too easy to purchase weapons like the AR - 15, which was used by the Florida gunman, 19 - year - old Nikolas Cruz.

The president's call for rejecting bigotry against gays and lesbians is complicated by the possibility that the gunman, Omar Mateen, may have been wrestling with his own sexuality.

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.

Andrew Pollack, the father of 18 - year - old Meadow Pollack who was killed after being shot nine times by the 19 - year - old gunman Nikolas Cruz, said he was «pissed» that little is being done to protect students.

MINGORA, Pakistan (Reuters)- Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai visited her hometown in Pakistan's Swat Valley on Saturday for the first time since she was shot by a Taliban gunman as a teenager, two security officials and a family friend said.

The Algerian army carried out a dramatic final assault to end a siege by Islamic militants at a desert gas plant on Saturday, killing 11 al Qaeda - linked gunmen after they took the lives of seven more foreign hostages.

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.

Alvear, 25, was identified by police on Monday as one of the 49 people killed by a gunman at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, in the worst mass shooting in U.S. history.

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.

ORLANDO, Fla. (Reuters)- Panicked callers to 911 during June's mass shooting in Orlando told police of buildings hit by stray bullets and wounded friends stuck inside the gay nightclub where a gunman pledging allegiance to Islamic State killed 49 people.

In 2012, Malala Yousafzai was shot by a Taliban gunman for advocating women's education, The Guardian reports.

Soto put her students in a closet and «by doing that put herself between the gunman and the children,» Soto's cousin told ABC News.

In 2015, a Danish - born Muslim gunman killed two people in an attack on a debating event and a Copenhagen synagogue before being shot dead by police.

Although the Orlando gunman, Omar Mateen, is believed to have had no help from extremist Islamist groups in targeting a gay nightclub, he had been investigated by U.S. authorities for possible links to terrorism and subsequently cleared.

Helos shot down by Sinaloa cartel gunmen.

The informant recalled how Zambada — a pistol holstered to his belt, flanked by a small army of cartel gunmen dressed in federal police uniforms — counted out the kilos.

Following the murder of 17 people at a high school in Parkland, Florida by a lone gunman carrying a high - powered assault rifle, the Trump administration has offered little comfort and few solutions for the country going forward.

They were among the 17 people killed by a gunman Wednesday at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.

From the remote mountain redoubt where he is believed to be hiding, surrounded at all times by a battery of gunmen, Chapo oversees a logistical network that is as sophisticated, in some ways, as that of Amazon or U.P.S. — doubly sophisticated, when you think about it, because traffickers must move both their product and their profits in secret, and constantly maneuver to avoid death or arrest.

Gunmen paid by the leaders of the Cali ring sometimes flew into New York or Miami to carry out a killing, law enforcement officials said.

But bump stocks, like those used by a gunman to kill 58 people and injure hundreds in Las Vegas in October, can modify a semiautomatic weapon into one able to fire shots more frequently.

The only reason more people weren't shot: Shaw reportedly rushed the gunman while he reloaded, «grabbed the gun's barrel, pulled it away and threw it over the Waffle House counter,» suffering a gunshot wound and second - degree burns on his right hand from the weapon's barrel while disarming the shooter, later identified by police as 29 - year - old Travis Reinking.

The heated battle between the United States government and Apple over breaking into the iPhone used by the San Bernardino gunman may have inadvertently catalyzed the underground market for Apple code flaws.

When the authorities reported that the gunman had used an AR -15-style rifle made by Remington, public anger focused on the manufacturer.

The company manufactured the AR -15-style weapon used by the gunman in the 2012 attack in Newtown, Conn., in which 26 people, including 20 first graders, were killed.

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.

NBC 6's Dan Krauth reports on the correspondence being received by the accused gunman in the Parkland shooting.

On the eve of the march, Colion Noir, a host on NRATV, an online video channel produced by the gun group, lashed out at the Parkland students, saying that «no one would know your names» if someone with a weapon had stopped the gunman at their school.

An earlier death toll of 50, released by officials, had included the gunman.

President Trump ran through a litany of topics in a series of tweets early Sunday, bouncing from an attack by a gunman in France to his plans for a border wall to his personal legal team.

The company said it had never sold bump stocks, like those used by the gunman in October's Las Vegas shooting, that allow semiautomatic weapons to fire more rapidly.

But here's what this data really means: Each year, nearly every student at an American public school is trained to cower under a desk or run for their lives to avoid being murdered by a gunman.

From his perch on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino, the gunman, who was identified by the police as Stephen Paddock, used rapid - fire weapons to shoot at concertgoers at a music festival.

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.

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.

Clinton noted Monday's attack by gunmen on Shiite pilgrims in Iraq, calling it a «hateful, senseless» act that had «no aim other than to undermine the fabric of peaceful society.»

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

Fr Tom Uzhannalil was kidnapped by gunmen in the Yemeni city of Aden earlier this month, after they stormed a care home run by nuns and murdered 16 of them.

She died after a gunman opened fire at a constituents event held by U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who was critically wounded in the shooting.

The Tennessee church that was attacked by a gunman in September is only 2 miles away from this Waffle House.

Meanwhile, Marilou Danley the girlfriend of Stephen Paddock - the gunman - has been quizzed by the FBI, when she insisted she had no idea he was planning mass murder.

From the pulpit, Hall delivered the liturgy with a strong message to his faithful to call for action by their legislators to institute stricter laws banning access to semi-automatic rifles, such as the one police said the gunman used in Friday's massacre.

In Cairo, nine people were killed during a shooting by two gunmen at Marmina Church in the city's Helwan district on Friday 29th December 2017 (pictured above).

A Coptic Christian man has been shot dead by gunmen in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, security officials in the country have said.

There are plenty to note in recent decades: Poland's Jerzy Popiełusko, beaten and drowned by thugs in his country's police force; his compatriot St John Paul, surviving an assassin's bullet in St Peter's Square and an attempted stabbing by a schismatic priest; Archbishop Oscar Romero, slaughtered while celebrating Mass, Pakistan's Shabaz Bhatti, Minister for Minorities in his country's government, killed by a gunman in Islamabad in 2011.