Planned Hospital Attack – level 1

31-03-2020 07:00

US officials kill a man. The man is 36 years old. The officials believe that the man is very dangerous. The man plans to attack a hospital in Kansas City, Missouri. He wants to make an explosion at the hospital. He plans to kill a lot of people.

The officials investigate the man for many months. They think that he has very extreme ideas. The man does not agree with the US government. He is a racist. He does not like people who have different religions.

The man thinks of different targets. However, he decides to attack a hospital. It is an important place with many people.

Difficult words: extreme (very bad), racist (when somebody does not like people who look different than he does), target (a person or a place that somebody chooses to attack).

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