1.   But lacking that, defenders faced the prospect of being overrun and killed by attackers or flinging themselves into the sea.

2.   During a wild gun battle, the attackers killed seven people before dying themselves.

3.   They said Palestinian witnesses reported that he had been killed by attackers in a passing car.

4.   Rebel attackers have killed at least seven people in southwestern Burundi, the official news agency ABP reported.

5.   Armed attackers killed two school children and wounded four others in northwestern Rwanda, the Rwanda News Agency reported Tuesday.

6.   Armed with meat cleavers, unknown attackers killed an opposition politician after pulling him from a car in northwestern Bangladesh, police said Sunday.

7.   Armed with meat cleavers, unidentified attackers killed an opposition politician after pulling him from a car in northwestern Bangladesh, police said Sunday.

8.   Attackers kill an opposition politician.

9.   Attackers killed five people at Ziguinghor in southern Senegal after a man accused one of them of making his penis shrink, newspapers reported Friday.

10.   Attackers killed nine civilians in western Algeria near the border with Morocco on Thursday, Algerian radio reported.