Sentence examples for armed siege from inspiring English sources

"It was now a nightmare armed siege and I feared then that, if he was ever conscious of what he had done, he might turn the gun on himself".

Armed siege at French nursery ends Jump to media player French police have ended a hostage siege at a nursery school after a youth armed with two swords released the remaining children and their teacher in Besancon.

Jurors heard two key roles were given to the same officer during the five-hour armed siege on the night of 6 May 2008 at the Chelsea, west London, home of Saunders, a 32-year-old divorce lawyer, who was drunk and armed with a shotgun.

An armed siege in Oxford has ended "peacefully", according to Thames Valley police.

A 45-year-old man who was tasered by police at the end of a two-day armed siege has been charged with firearms offences, police have said.

The Israeli army insists that its armed siege of the church will not be lifted until these fugitives give themselves up.

The Jakarta assailants appeared outfitted for a running siege: armed with handguns, grenades and homemade bombs, police said.

By the following afternoon, with the jail still under siege, Matthew Clarkson and Jay, armed with their swords, marched toward the jail accompanied by some fifty militiamen.

Pope Francis has taken the biggest security risk of his papacy to visit a mosque under siege from armed Christian militias in Bangui, the capital of Central African Republic, delivering a message of peace and reconciliation in a show of solidarity.

The Union of Right Forces, a second liberal minority in Russia's lower house, called today for an inquiry into how heavily armed terrorists could mount a siege less than three miles from the Kremlin.

At least 147 students were killed, as terrorists freed Muslim students and took Christians hostage before the siege was broken by armed police.