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Example sentences for: assailants

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(The assailants were allegedly devotees of shock-rocker Marilyn Manson.
The assailants finally surrendered after a day, claiming that they had only meant to scare members of parliament and that shooting by government security guards had forced them to fire back.
It is believed that the assailants are militants of the Islamic Wahhabi sect seeking to unite Chechnya and Dagestan to form an independent Islamic state.
According to the Times , the assailants had "tied their captive to a post-and-rail fence and pistol-whipped him," then "stole his wallet and shoes and left him tied to the fence."
The motives of the assailants, who yelled that they were staging a coup and demanded to meet with the president, are unknown.