It's then that the police open fire with a reported 46 shots in a five-second hail of bullets.

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Five years ago, he was on his way home from Jerusalem when his car came under a hail of bullets.

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The British innovation will not perish in a hail of bullets, but it may yet be done in by compromise and bureaucracy.

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Recalling the men who scaled the cliffs and crossed the beaches in a merciless hail of bullets, he asked, who were these men, these ordinary men doing extraordinary things?

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Because while most of us will never be asked to run straight into a hail of bullets, or chase down an armed suspect on foot, we also have responsibilities to meet.

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And he charged forward into a hail of bullets.

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On Sunday, the high command of Jamaica's police force said Imani was "mercilessly slaughtered in front of family members in a hail of bullets as gangsters sought to exact revenge on their rivals".

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The NYPD has come under fierce criticism in recent months after four officers were charged with the fatal shooting of Amadou Diallo, an unarmed African immigrant, who died in a hail of bullets outside his home in the Bronx in February.

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The future of these policing policies is now in doubt, after Amadou Diallo, an unarmed 22-year-old from Guinea, died in a hail of police bullets on February 4th.

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Charlene Ellis, 18, and her friend Letisha Shakespeare, 17, died in a hail of machine gun bullets as they stood outside a new year party in Aston, Birmingham, on 2 January 2003.

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