gunman
Example Sentences
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It was announced a few days before Christmas that the security forces had rescued all the remaining pupils and staff who had been taken from St Mary's by gunmen on 21 November.
From BBC
The Mexican military also prepared a squad of light, turboprop Beechcraft Texan aircraft that are low-cost and effective for counterinsurgency operations of the kind that they expected to encounter with Oseguera’s gunmen.
Martin is the second gunman discovered by Secret Service agents at Mar-a-Lago in recent years.
From Salon
The officers were ordered not to stop the gunman because an armed response unit was being despatched from Inverness, 100 miles away.
From BBC
His group includes dozens of gunmen living in an Israeli-controlled part of Gaza.
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