The soldier was playing with a group of children outside when the attacker came from behind and stabbed him in the neck with a large knife, Khan said, adding the young man had escaped to nearby Pakistan.

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The third man had earlier kicked open a secure door to a stock room and escaped through a fire door.

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The man who escaped is described as white, and he was wearing a black and white T-shirt and blue jeans.

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He escaped a death sentence partly by agreeing to testify at the trial of the second man charged with the killing.

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Firefighters rescued a man from the roof of the building in Romford Road, Forest Gate, and another man escaped before emergency services arrived.

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After the courier escaped unharmed, the man approached the car of Rabbi Chaskel Werzberger a Holocaust survivor and a leader of the Satmar Hasidic community shot him in the forehead, pulled him out of the vehicle and drove away in it.

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Unlike two incidents in New York City last month -- one in which a man was crushed by a train after a heated argument, and another in which a woman pushed a man onto the tracks, possibly because she believed he was Muslim or Hindu -- this victim escaped.

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Anything even a fraction short or wide was ruthlessly punished and so dominant was he that it almost escaped unnoticed that the man at the other end was Sehwag, himself no slouch.

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