Word: manhunts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...left at least 285 dead in six days. The carnage began over the weekend when Tamil rebels ambushed holiday travelers on a jungle road in Trincomalee district, gunning down 127 and injuring scores of others, including women and children. Almost all were Sinhalese. Three days later, Tamils fleeing a manhunt for the Trincomalee killers burst into homes in nearby Wanela, tied up 15 inhabitants and shot them dead...
...down two Idaho game wardens who tried to arrest him for poaching in 1981, Claude Dallas Jr. was a surprisingly easy catch last week. Unarmed and toting a bag of groceries, Dallas, 37, was surrounded by FBI agents outside a convenience store in Riverside, Calif., ending a manhunt that began when he escaped from an Idaho prison last Easter...
Many admirers saw Dallas as a modern-day version of the rugged individual of the Old West. He was the subject of a CBS-TV movie last year, "Manhunt: Search for Claude Dallas," which many critics said romanticized the killer...
...around in a U-turn, and speed out of the circle of fire and back to El Melocoton. All but one carload of bodyguards stayed behind to shoot it out with the guerrillas. When the battle was over, five security men were dead and eleven wounded. Despite a widespread manhunt by army units and the paramilitary carabineros, all the attackers, whose number was estimated at between twelve and 40, slipped away...
...smoke and confusion that followed, Turkish officials initially believed two or three other terrorists escaped. Police immediately launched a manhunt around the city for them. Authorities tightened security at the city's gates, and Arab students were detained for questioning in Istanbul and Ankara, the capital. Turkish Prime Minister Turgut Ozal convened an emergency Cabinet meeting in Ankara to review the situation and then dispatched Interior Minister Yildirim Akbulut to oversee the investigation in Istanbul. But after extensive searches, police said they believed only two terrorists were involved, and both had died in the attack...