Sentence examples for shooting and burning from inspiring English sources

"The militants surrounded the village and began shooting and burning the houses," he told me.

He recalls how Serb soldiers and armed civilians went around the town at night, terrorising Albanians, shooting and burning.

Order took a slightly firmer hold on Baghdad today as American soldiers and a few Iraqi police officers patrolled the capital's devastated streets together for the first time, but looting, shooting and burning continued almost a week after Saddam Hussein's government fell.

In 1994, 48 members of the ​Order of the Solar Temple sect were found dead after suffocating, shooting, and burning themselves in a ritualistic slaying in a small Canadian town north of Montreal.

People have known about and protested against dancehall artists' homophobic lyrics since the early 1990s, when Buju Banton had a Jamaican hit with Boom Bye-Bye, a song advocating shooting and burning homosexuals.

Two locals said the Islamist insurgents began shooting indiscriminately and burning buildings on Tuesday evening in raids on the civilian population that carried on into Wednesday.

On that date, a hit team of secret police officers — white and black — murdered four anti-apartheid activists from Cradock, a pinprick settlement in the remote hinterland of the Eastern Cape, ambushing their car late at night before bludgeoning, shooting, stabbing and burning them to death.

Three of the soldiers, she says, then raped her sister-in-law before shooting her and burning the body.

That act of violence spiraled into a couple of days of rampaging in the streets, including looting, shooting and the burning of two restaurants.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an anti-Assad group based in Britain with a network of contacts inside Syria, said military forces had started the assault against Sanamayn on Wednesday, shelling and shooting randomly and burning or wrecking at least 20 houses.

BAGHDAD, Nov. 24 — Defying a government curfew, Shiite militiamen stormed Sunni mosques in Baghdad and a nearby city on Friday, shooting guards and burning down buildings in apparent retaliation for the devastating bombings that killed more than 200 people the day before in the capital's largest Shiite district, residents and police officials said.