1.   Escorting bank trucks is standard duty for Irish police officers and, sometimes, the army.

2.   It was with some difficulty that they were convinced to return and actually escort the trucks.

3.   The French military also escorted a truck of relief food delivered by CARE International.

4.   Palestinian police Col. Faisel Bishtawi said he escorted the truck out of the area but that shots were fired as they pulled away.

5.   Israel radio said the victims were Israeli security guards riding in a red Toyota escorting the truck.

6.   Maj. Gen. Yu Hsiun of the Quemoy Garrison Command said the injured soldiers were escorting the truck when the explosion occurred.

7.   Russian servicemen escorting the trucks fired on the policemen, wounding three of them, police official Musa Gazimagomadov said, according to Interfax.

8.   Soldiers escorted food trucks across the state line from Nagaland, where they had been halted for almost a week.

9.   Soldiers escorting the truck returned fire, killing the two assailants, the army said.

10.   The plainclothes officers were assigned to escort the truck, Palestinian police said.