Word: gunman
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...Twelve hours into his ordeal the attack on the hideout began. The man is currently hard of hearing, thanks to a gunman he could never see because of the blindfold who opened fire next to his head with a PKC machine gun. Once the firing close to him stopped he could tell the special forces had breached the perimeter. "I'm the guy kidnapped, I'm the guy kidnapped," he hollered. He was urged to come out, and a soldier put his hand on his shoulder. "We've come to rescue you," he was told...
...been two years since the tumultuous climax to the last bitter presidential election in Taiwan?the infamous "March 19 incident," when a gunman fired shots at Chen and his vice presidential candidate, Annette Lu. To the DPP, the matter is over and done with?the case solved, the would-be assassin dead by his own hand. To the opposition Kuomintang (KMT) party, the affair still stands as a sham, a political stunt orchestrated by a desperate DPP to win the election (albeit a dangerous stunt?Chen was shot in the abdomen). Two years on, Taiwan's political landscape is still...
...iconic image of last week was in the Gaza Strip. It was of a Palestinian gunman astride the local office of the European Union. All the diplomatic staff had fled, tipped off ahead of time. The source of the militant's ire? A series of satirical cartoons originally published in Denmark. Yes, cartoons...
...sophomore at the University of Pennsylvania, Mari Oishi, was shot and injured on campus early on the morning of Jan. 15 after walking past what local police have called a failed armed robbery. A stray bullet hit Oishi in her left thigh as an unknown gunman struggled with two men over the keys to a Mercedes-Benz SL-Class Roadster. She was immediately transported to the Penn hospital and was released later that day, according to The Daily Pennsylvanian, the university’s student paper. Michael Barrett, 31, and Robert Keith, 24, were also shot in the incident. Both...
Late on the evening of December 28, a gunman walked into a hall of the Indian Institute of Science, a prestigious academic institution in Bangalore,and opened fire with a Chinese-made AK-56 rifle at the delegates attending a conference. A retired Mathematics professor was killed; four others were injured. The gunman scaled a wall and fled. (Four unexploded grenades were also discovered on the Institute's campus...