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gunman

noun as in shooter of gun

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Malala has a personal history with the Taliban across the border in Pakistan, after a gunman from the hardline Islamist group shot her as she sat on a school bus.

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Thomas Waring, then 20, was in the dock alongside gunman Connor Chapman and was convicted of assisting an offender and possession of a firearm in July 2023.

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The murder of Samuel Paty, 47, shocked France and came five years after militant Islamist gunmen murdered 12 people at the Paris offices of Charlie Hebdo which published the original cartoons.

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The group was responsible for the 7 October 2023 attacks, which saw hundreds of gunmen enter southern Israel.

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On Saturday, 10 people were killed and 13 wounded when a gunman opened fire at a bar in Queretaro state.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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