Sentence examples for during crossfire from inspiring English sources

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Authorities said members of the Sinaloa cartel had "used her as a human shield" during crossfire with Mexican soldiers.

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A 29-year-old female bystander was shot in lower back during the crossfire and taken to hospital.

The year's most violent confrontation took place in October, when 16 people, nine Pakistanis and seven Indians, were killed during a crossfire that lasted several days.

A review of the available evidence regarding the deaths of Muammar and Mutassim Gaddafi calls into question the official account by the Libyan authorities, who claim that the two, as well as all others who perished at the scene, died during fierce crossfire.

Additionally, ENVV2 survival during transposon crossfire inside the ERV-V2 locus supports purifying selection of the ENVV2 gene.

The police said that the child was caught in the crossfire during a continuing gang dispute.

Toshima was caught in crossfire during a shootout between rival gangs in the posh neighborhood.

The largely nonstop action begins with a prequel set in Iraq, in which Anders and his girlfriend and fellow reporter, Miriam Heather Grahamm in a cameo), are suddenly caught in heavy crossfire during a television interview in a car, and Miriam dies.

On April 7 , 1945 Sergeant Okutsu's platoon in the Japanese-American 442nd Regimental Combat Team was halted by machine-gun crossfire during the fighting for Mount Belvedere, astride the road leading north to Bologna.

Earlier this week the Guardian visited a hospital in Ségou, in central Mali, where at least one civilian was recovering after being caught in crossfire during an exchange between Islamist and Malian army soldiers in Diabali.

Cpl Taylor, of 3rd Battalion The Mercian Regiment, used his body to shield the children - aged between three and seven - from the crossfire during the incident on 10 March 2011.

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