41.   When Chechen gunmen seized a hospital full of hostages last summer, Boris Yeltsin expressed concern and then left for a planned overseas visit.

42.   Four Westerners -- Hasert, Britons Paul Wells and Keith Mangan and American Donald Hutchings -- were seized by gunmen while trekking in the Himalayas of Kashmir.

43.   Gunmen have seized four buses in the Caucasus in southern Russia since December.

44.   A German tourist was seized by gunmen in the area Saturday, shortly after one of the Americans, John Childs, escaped from his captors.

45.   Three gunmen seized Khalid Bashir Mintoo late Wednesday from his home in the southern district of Doda, they said.

46.   When his executive jet landed in Fiji his party got word that the capital Suva was on fire and gunmen had just seized parliament in a coup.

47.   Unidentified gunmen seized Malik from his room at a Sringar hospital but were forced to flee when bystanders came to the assistance of the struggling JKLF leader.

48.   Lawyer Donna Hall was on Saturday walking with her nieces and the adopted daughter, Kahurautete, when the gunman seized the baby.

49.   Masked gunmen seized several hostages Tuesday during a botched bank robbery in Berlin, authorities said.

50.   Meanwhile, the military said unidentified gunmen Monday seized a Filipino engineer working for a British construction firm in the province of Lanao del Sur.