Queen Honors 8 for Bravery in Mass Killing
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LONDON — Queen Elizabeth today honored eight people for bravery during Britain’s worst mass murder, when a lone gunman killed 15 people at Hungerford in southern England last year.
The official London Gazette announced that the eight include a policeman who was among the dead. They are being be awarded the Queen’s Commendation for Brave Conduct.
Last August, Michael Ryan ran amok in the market town west of London with a Kalashnikov automatic rifle, an M-1 carbine and a pistol. He wounded 15 other people before killing himself after police cornered him in a school.
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