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shootout stories: 5 news summaries

 Gun Battle in Vienna 
 Temple Wounds 6 

Shooters stormed into temple with knives, gun

May 24, 09 9:13 AM CDT
(Newser) - A mid-afternoon shootout between members of two families at an Indian religious temple in Vienna left nine people seriously injured, Reuters reports. Authorities arrested six men who barged into the Sikh temple with knives and a gun. The men, who number among the wounded, apparently were extremists who opposed the... More »

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Austria • Vienna • Sikh • shooting • shootout • temple • gunfire

 German Gunman Was 
 Calm, Ruthless: Witnesses 

Witnesses describe student's rampage

Mar 11, 09 3:58 PM CDT
(Newser) - Tim Kretschmer was calm and silent as he gunned down his former classmates today in southern Germany, witnesses tell the Telegraph. Kretschmer, 17, moved between classrooms dispatching his victims—mainly girls—with a weapon he’d brought from home. The only words survivors heard him say were “Aren’t... More »

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Germany • murder • school shooting • massacre • shooting • automatic weapons • shootout • Tim Kretschmer

16 Killed in Dramatic Philippines Shootout

Officers tailed robbery suspects, who 'fired at everyone in sight'

Dec 6, 08 7:56 AM CST
(AP) - A suspected robbery gang armed with automatic weapons and grenades fired on Philippine police officers who were tailing them, leaving at least 16 people dead in a fierce shootout in a Manila suburb, officials said. Officers were following the suspects when the gunmen sensed the surveillance and opened fire, triggering... More »

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robbery • gangs • Philippines • Manila • shootout

 15 Dead in 
 Tijuana Shootout 

Mexico sends in thousands of troops to quell further fighting

Apr 26, 08 7:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - A gunfight between Tijuana drug cartel rivals left 15 dead and eight wounded near the US border today, Reuters reports. The worst violence in Mexico's 3-year drug war, it filled a city road with bodies and took the lives of two top hit men from the Arellano Felix cartel. "... More »

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War on Drugs • Mexico • Mexican border • drug trafficking • Mexican drug war • Tijuana • gun violence • shootout • Arellano Felix Organization

 German Boars
 Run Wild 

Savage beasts go shopping, try gardening, attend church

Mar 17, 08 4:25 PM CDT
(Newser) - Wild boars wreaked havoc in a German town this weekend, attempting to shop for hardware, go to church, and do some gardening, Der Spiegel reports. One of the beasts, acting like "an elephant in a porcelain store," was eventually cornered at the checkout of the home-improvement center, police... More »

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Germany • police • animal behavior • animal • property damage • shootout • North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany • boar

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