Sentence examples for firearms attack from inspiring English sources

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A mock terrorist firearms attack was staged in the capital to test the response to a Tunisian-style mass shooting.

Simon Chesterman, the National Police Chiefs' lead for firearms, said numbers of specialist officers across the UK have been modelled on risk assessments that included the threat of a "marauding terrorist firearms attack".

An Ohio man accused of plotting with an Indiana teenager on MySpace to carry out a firearms attack at the boy's high school was sentenced to 10 years in prison.

London went on high alert for what the British security services call an M.T.F.A. — a marauding-terrorist firearms attack — of the type carried out in Paris in November, 2015.

In June, when a 15-year-old boy armed with a rifle killed a student at a school in Oregon, injured a teacher and then apparently shot himself in a bathroom, it became the 31st firearms attack at an American school in 2014.

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Rowley added, "Now we worry about everything from fairly simple attacks with knives, or using vehicles, all the way through to the more complex firearms attacks".

"In July this year we did a massive exercise in London for exactly this type of scenario – a multiplicity of firearms attacks," he said.

A mob led by militiamen brandishing automatic rifles and homemade firearms attacked a United Nations refugee office in West Timor today, killing three staff members, including a person from Puerto Rico, and possibly another aid worker.

The raid occurred in the early hours of Tuesday morning, when a group of militants, using hand grenades and firearms, attacked the complex, which according to a statement by Kenya Red Cross, was occupied by quarry workers and local construction workers.

Authorities distributed a large quantity of instructional material, including warnings about bombs on public transport, firearm attacks in shopping centers, and reminders that the threat level to the UK from international terrorism is severe — meaning an attack is "highly likely".

The people you characterise as "stone-throwing" were, in fact, well-organised and well-financed thugs using explosives and firearms to attack predetermined civilian and military targets.

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