31.   Bwanga said RCD troops dispersed the mob after it had killed two people and then fired on members of the mob, killing four.

32.   CHANGES dateline from Manila Strong earthquake rocks southern Philippines, killing four people,

33.   Direct flights to Cuba were halted in March after Cuban MiGs shot down two small planes belonging to a Miami-based exile group, killing four.

34.   Earlier this year, an arrested rebel told his interrogators that he had heard that the four had been killed.

35.   Earlier that day, demonstrators had swarmed his house, and his bodyguards shot and killed at least four of them.

36.   Elsewhere in the southern Philippines on Wednesday, the larger group, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, claimed responsibility for the explosions that killed at least four.

37.   Further north near the town of Kilinochchi, government soldiers attacked rebel positions, killing four, said Major Kumara Dewage, a military spokesman in Colombo.

38.   He admitted killing the four, but his motive and the time and location of the slayings were not immediately known, Ohashi said.

39.   He said the bomb exploded Wednesday evening, killing four.

40.   His bodyguards shot and killed at least four of them.