31.   Armed clashes were reported throughout the district overnight, with army posts attacked by gangs who used automatic weapons as well as grenades.

32.   The rioting came after an armed gang attacked a road convoy on Sunday and killed five people, including three Belgians.

33.   Police said a man was shot dead and four women raped on Sunday when an armed gang attacked a house in KwaNdengezi, north of here.

34.   Santiago Melo Bermudez told Radio Quito that he had killed Arias Perez in self-defense when he and a friend were attacked by a gang of youths.

35.   Skinhead gangs violently attacked train passengers in Berlin at the weekend, leaving several people seriously injured.

36.   The gang attacked the Kanchela oilfield in northeastern Algeria and set fire to installations there, the spokesman said.

37.   The gang attacked the Kanchela oilfield in northeastern Algeria and set fire to installations there, the Italian spokesman said.