Sentence examples for machetes from inspiring English sources

Nine militants died in clashes against the locals, who were armed with clubs, machetes and bows and arrows.

The slaughter in the street of the Bangladeshi science writer Ananta Bijoy Das by assailants armed with machetes marks the third time this year that an atheist has been murdered in that country for his opinions.

Bangladeshi blogger Ananta Bijoy Das was hacked to death in an attack by four men wielding machetes yesterday (12 May).

He'd pile into vans with gangs of up to 30 people and spend nights slashing GM crops with machetes.

Hundreds of people have taken to the streets of Dhaka in protest at the murder of a prominent secular American blogger of Bangladeshi origin who was hacked to death with machetes after he allegedly received threats from Islamists.

Vigilante groups armed with sticks and machetes prowl the streets of Borno and Yobe, complicating efforts to flush out the insurgents.

However, in a rare setback, about 200 vigilantes and hunters armed with bows and arrows, clubs, spears, machetes and home-made guns helped the Nigerian military regain control of Mubi, which had been the biggest town under the extremists' control.

They were armed with machine guns and machetes and carried VHF radios.

With guns and machetes, they shot and chopped 160 defenceless refugees to death.

He stresses the culpability of the Rwandan politicians who, to crush a Tutsi-led insurrection, imported tens of thousands of machetes and orchestrated the mass murder of Tutsis.

Consignments of guns and machetes are said to have arrived in Nairobi slums.