Meanings of armed siege in English

A police officer shot during an armed siege in Kawerau last week remains in hospital.

Patterson died in the fire that consumed his house during an armed siege with the police.

Three schools have been forced to close because of an armed siege at a nearby house.

The Christchurch gunman had terrorised neighbours in an armed siege lasting several hours before the fatal shooting.

A man with a crossbow at the centre of an armed siege in Manchester has been arrested.

The armed siege at the Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi has focused attention on the al-Qaeda affiliate, al-Shabab.

The man arrested early this morning after an eight-hour armed siege in the Co Cavan town of Bailieborough has been hospitalised this evening.

Michael Malsbury (62) was killed by a police marksman following an armed siege at his house in Harrow, north west London.

A man being questioned about an armed siege during which some 40 shots were fired has served many prison sentences for violent crime.

The Police in Nelson are appealing to anyone who may have seen or heard anything during an armed siege of a Nelson motorcamp yesterday afternoon.