Sentences with phrase «gunman attacked»

PARKLAND, Fla. — A former student opened fire with a semi-automatic rifle at a Florida high school Wednesday, killing at least 17 people and sending hundreds of students fleeing into the streets in the nation's deadliest school shooting since a gunman attacked an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut.

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In October 2015, a Bedouin gunman attacked a bus station in Beersheba and was shot dead by security forces; they also fatally wounded an innocent Eritrean immigrant whom they mistook for an accomplice, and the dying man was kicked and beaten by people inside the station.

Seventeen people have been killed and 15 hospitalised after gunman attacked Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school

A South Florida high school is in the national spotlight after a gunman attacked Wednesday afternoon, in the deadliest school shooting since Sandy Hook.

When a gunman attacked the Bronx - Lebanon Hospital in June, the NYPD immediately tested new tactics for battling terrorists, including keeping heavily armed teams always ready.

Garba Umar, police commissioner of Anambra state, said a gunman attacked St Philip Catholic Church early on Sunday.

A former student opened fire with a semi-automatic rifle at a Florida high school Wednesday, killing at least 17 people and sending hundreds of students fleeing into the streets in the nation's deadliest school shooting since a gunman attacked an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut.

Nine Christian families living in Rafah near Egypt's border with Israel left their homes on Friday after Islamist militants made death threats and gunmen attacked a Coptic - owned shop.

Police say gunmen attacked a Catholic Mass on the campus, using small explosives to draw worshippers out before shooting those who fled.

At least 15 people including a priest have been killed and 100 injured after gunmen attacked a church in Central African Republic's (CAR) capital Bangui on Tuesday.

Gunmen attacked worshipers during prayer, killing six people, including the pastor, and setting the building on fire.

At least 60 people were killed when gunmen attacked hotels and the police station in the coastal town, and then went on to carry out further assaults in nearby villages.

Authorities in Nigeria say at least 11 people are dead and others were critically wounded when gunmen attacked a church in southeastern Nigeria.

A few days after the burial of the late legislator, gunmen attacked Takum LGA chairman and a lady was killed in the attack.

The victims, who were said to be members of an anti-vandals» team, were reportedly on a routine patrol when the gunmen attacked them.

The ex-international said they cheated death as the six (6) gunmen attacked them with cutlasses with no place to hide.

Coach Udi, while confirming the incident, said the unknown gunmen attacked the team bus with three (3) kilometres to Ondo - town and all their money and phones were carted away.

Three people have been killed after some unknown gunmen attacked Senator Dino Melaye in Lokoja, the state capital.

The Police Command in Niger, Thursday, said that a police Sergeant, Jibril Abubakar, was killed and his rifle taken away when gunmen attacked its Divisional Police...

Lance Corporal Kwaku Mensah, who was stationed at Anwiankwanta in the Bekwai Municipality, sustained several gunshot wounds when gunmen attacked a vehicle he was travelling on.

Malam Nasir el - Rufai, the Governor of Kaduna State, on Monday, visited communities in Birnin Gwari Local Government Area of the state, where gunmen attacked...

Managing Director of Daar Communication Mrs Tosin Dokpesi narrowly escaped being killed on Friday as unknown gunmen attacked her in the premises of a hospital in Abuja.

He said the gunmen attacked at about at about 5 am when members of the community were going for early morning prayers.

Many people are feared dead after suspected Boko Haram Islamist gunmen attacked a town in north - east Nigeria.

Sources from the village said the workers were fetching sand for an ongoing construction work when the gunmen attacked them.

Fighting erupted at the early hours of Monday, at about 2:45 am between suspected members of Boko Haram insurgents and troops when gunmen attacked NAF base, also known as 79 Composite Group and burnt down three military helicopters.

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

Gunmen attacked Mpeketoni Township, a farming community in Lamu County, later on Sunday, with 48 people believed to have been killed.

Not exact matches

Hours after a gunman killed more than 20 people in a Texas church, Sen. Chris Murphy issued a scathing statement blasting his colleagues in Congress for accepting money from gun lobbyists and what Murphy said was not doing enough to prevent the attack.

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.

You might not have heard about the gunman who killed three people in a hate - driven attack last week in Colorado.

In light of the weekend's tragic attack in Munich, much attention has been focused on how the gunman obtained his weapon.

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.

The security official assigned to the Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, was on campus through the entire event, armed and in uniform, but he remained outside the high school and failed to engage the gunman during the attack.

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.

He was referring to a group of coordinated terror attacks in Mumbai, India, in November 2008, when gunmen stormed two hotels, a railroad station, a restaurant, a hospital and a Jewish center; 160 people were killed.

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.»

Video taken following the attack appears to show one of the two gunmen injured.

The most recent rash of attacks began on October 31, when gunmen stormed the Sayidat al - Nejat (Our Lady of Salvation) church in Baghdad; in the ensuing violence at least 50 died and 75 were wounded.

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

Gunmen associated with Harkat - ul - Jihad al - Islami attack the U.S. Consulate.

Tragically, that wasn't the worse gun attack of 2017 with 58 country music fans being shot dead by a lone gunman in a Las Vegas hotel.

In one of those attacks, a church member named Jeanne Assam shot gunman Matthew Murray, who arrived at New Life Church with «a rifle, two handguns, and 1,000 rounds of ammunition,» CT reported at the time.

In an attack reminiscent of the 1963 Birmingham church bombing, a lone gunman killed nine people Wednesday night at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church, a historic congregation in downtown Charleston, South Carolina.

2011.09.06 (Narathiwat, Thailand)-- A 9 - year - old boy is among the victims of two attacks by Muslim gunmen, one at a teahouse.

Seventy - five others were wounded in the attack by armed gunmen Sunday, the officials said, adding that most of the casualties were women and children.

If Kelley's conviction had been passed to the FBI, as required by law, the gunman wouldn't have been able to legally purchase some of the weapons he used in the deadly attack.

President Muhammadu Buhari referred to the perpetrators of the Mbalom attack as «gunmen» and assured «the people of Benue, and all Nigerians» that the government would «ensure that the assailants are apprehended and brought to justice for this vile and sacrilegious act.»

At least one gunman has shot two policemen dead in an attack outside a church in a Cairo suburb, Egyptian security officials say.