Sentence examples for massacre attempt from inspiring English sources

"If this massacre attempt achieves its goal it will end the process (with Turkey)," PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan said in a statement released by a pro-Kurdish party delegation which visited him on Wednesday in his island prison near Istanbul.

Across the table, three chairs to my right, sat the actor Giancarlo Esposito, whose two-faced meth kingpin known as Gus Fring was characteristically invisible and orchestral in that daytime massacre attempt.

Isis has embraced a rule by terror since its militants took control of swaths of Iraq and Syria, committing and publicising massacres, attempted genocide of religious minorities and dissidents, widespread sexual enslavement, torture and child abuse.

Germany's Chancellor, Angela Merkel, called the massacre "an attempt at intimidation and an attempt to spread fear".

He is at his most active after each massacre in attempting to shift debate away from guns by blaming other factors such as the failure of mental health services.

Paris was put on lockdown on Thursday as police set up roadblocks on each of the city's main access roads, after a range of unverified and somewhat confused reports suggesting that two of the gunmen behind the Charlie Hebdo magazine massacre were attempting to head back to the capital.

Later Gordon Brown, the prime minister, said in the same vein that the massacre was "an attempt to strike a blow at the very heart of the peace process".

An excavation of mass graves began on Friday in search of the 1,200 victims of a Libyan prison massacre, in an attempt to close the most infamous chapter of Muammar Gaddafi's bloody four-decade rule.

Mohamed Youssef is the latest Egyptian to be censored for wearing the yellow Rabaa sign – a four-fingered salute that honours the hundreds of Islamists killed during August's Rabaa al-Adawiya massacre – as authorities attempt to stamp out opposition Islamist movements.

She had spoken to Molefi the Sunday before the massacre, but further attempts to contact him during that week had been fruitless.

His account of "the Great Hanoi Rat Massacre" tells of attempts by French colonial rulers to control rat populations in the Vietnamese city.