21.   Six unidentified gunmen seized the crew from NTV independent television Saturday afternoon near the village of Samashki in western Chechnya, NTV reported.

22.   Tajik gunmen seized five members of a U.N. peacekeeping mission Tuesday to press their demand for free passage from Afghanistan into Tajikistan, a U.N. spokesman said.

23.   Tajik gunmen seized five U.N. military observers to press their demand for free passage for their comrades from Afghanistan into Tajikistan, a U.N. spokesman said Tuesday.

24.   The Abu Sayyaf gunmen seized the tourists from the Dos Palmas resort off Palawan Island, on the western edge of the Sulu Sea.

25.   The helicopter was being prepared for a training flight early Wednesday when the gunmen seized the craft, he said.

26.   The five men, who were not identified by name, were aboard the Ariana Airlines plane seized by gunmen during an internal flight in February.

27.   The gunman seized the plane Saturday night shortly after takeoff from Makhachkala, the capital of the southern Russian region of Dagestan in the Caucasus Mountains.

28.   The gunmen seized the Avrasya-Eurasia at the Turkish port of Trabzon late Tuesday.

29.   The helicopter was being prepared for a training flight early today when the gunmen seized the aircraft.

30.   The gunman seized the camera and fled on foot.