11.   Sunday night, a Palestinian gunman tried to open fire on a bar mitzvah celebration in the Israeli city of Ashdod.

12.   The gunman had not tried to take cover.

13.   The police said they feared that the gunmen would try to escape by mingling with the trapped students.

14.   After killing the three officers, the gunmen tried to enter Turkmenistan at the Gazodzhak checkpoint.

15.   About a hundred Lebanese sought refuge in their embassy, but gunmen tried to break in there as well.

16.   Aman Ullah, a senior police official, said the gunmen had been trying to free the prisoners but fled after more police units arrived on the scene.

17.   An unidentified gunman tried to kill another Catholic worker at a north Belfast taxi firm early Tuesday, but his handgun repeatedly jammed.

18.   Congo is in a chaotic state now as rebel gunmen try to oust President Laurent Kabila.

19.   Fresh fighting erupted early Wednesday when the gunmen tried to shoot their way out of an army commando cordon.

20.   Gunmen tried to kill Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak Monday, opening fire on his motorcade as he arrived in Ethiopia for a summit of African heads of state.