Sentence examples for was deliberately killed from inspiring English sources

Then Mr Jamal's daughter, Rana al-Jamal, alleged to Reuters that her father was "deliberately killed".

A Roman Catholic cardinal asserted that his predecessor was deliberately killed eight years ago, not caught in a crossfire between rival drug traffickers.

The prosecution says the 29-year-old model and law graduate was deliberately killed after the couple had an argument.

There has been a widespread belief that Colvin was deliberately killed.

The father had been deliberately killed in a strike two weeks earlier.

It said that if Gaddafi were deliberately killed, this would be a war crime.

[It] must reaffirm the principle that no civilian should ever be deliberately killed or abused.

In December 1987, four residents of Gaza's Jabaliya refugee camp were killed in a traffic accident, and word got around that they had been deliberately killed by Israelis.

Distraught zookeepers discovered one of their favourite sea lions beaten to death and are investigating claims the animal may have been deliberately killed by an intruder.

What is beyond dispute, however, is that Christians are being deliberately killed in large numbers on account of their faith in the region where it first flourished.

Only one American, the radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, who had joined the Al Qaeda affiliate in Yemen, has been deliberately killed in a drone strike, in September 2011.