11.   French police shot dead a man armed with a pump action shotgun who opened fire in this Paris suburb, police said.

12.   A hospital employee blasted two fellow workers with a pump action shotgun before turning the gun on himself in a triple slaying in northern Australia Thursday.

13.   Alid, whose personal weapon was a sawn-off pump action Winchester shotgun, said Russia would never be able to disarm Chechnya peacefully.