Sentence examples for crossfire shot from inspiring English sources

"If they stay inside Mosul, they risk being killed by heavy weapons and used as human shields by Isis, or being caught in crossfire, shot by snipers or stepping on landmines if they try to flee.

They have been killed in crossfire, shot at in public demonstrations, blown up in grenade explosions or in shelling across the line of control and have been raped by the militants'". In a region where the majority of women have not reached education beyond the third grade level, advocacy, empowerment and legal knowledge are essential.

She had been caught in the crossfire — shot through the heart by a family member who was in a gang.

They would not reveal whether the two hostages killed were caught in crossfire or shot by the gunman.

Scipione wouldn't say whether the two hostages who were killed — a 34-year-old man and a 38-year-old woman — were caught in crossfire, or shot by their captor.

Ms Meehan described the main shooting event that evening as "crossfire" with shots coming from two directions, including from people lying on top of flats in Springmartin.

Nightclubbing teens kept running into my crossfire and getting shot.

We may also be shot by crossfire.

Rhys, who was walking across the car park after football practice, was caught in the crossfire and killed by a single shot to his neck, fired by Mercer, who was then 16.

They were caught in crossfire last October when a gunman shot education campaigner Malala after school.

And we were like, 'Damn, what we have now?'" He was a talented baseball player, good enough to consider a professional career, but at 17, he was caught in the crossfire of a barrio gun-battle and shot twice.