61.   They then shot him once in the stomach and once in the chest, piercing his lung, before fleeing without the phone, he said.

62.   Three suspected Islamic militants attacked a police checkpoint in southern Egypt and fled without inflicting any casualties, officials said Wednesday.

63.   When they failed to douse the flames with water, the men reportedly fled without warning others.

64.   Witnesses said the three men fled without taking a cash after firing several shots.

65.   In a lightning strike the Taliban captured the Nangarhar provincial capital Jalalabad Wednesday after the local ruling council, or shoora, largely fled without resistance.

66.   A gunman stormed into the bedroom of a senior Moslem cleric in northern Lebanon on Wednesday, opened fire and fled without harming Sheikh Taha Sabonji, police said.

67.   Authorities did not identify which rebel group was involved in the prison breakout and said the guerrillas and prisoners fled without being intercepted by security forces.

68.   Earlier a general at the Pentagon said a missile had been fired at the helicopter, but Gardner said the man had fled without opening fire.

69.   They stayed for a while to check that she was dying and then fled without taking anything.

70.   There have been cases when Tajik troops fled without firing a single shot, leaving their commanding officer to hold off a rebel attack on the border.