71.   The militants killed the six guards and seized their weapons and Mercedes four-wheel land vehicle before fleeing toward the Algerian town of Negrine, the newspapers reported.

72.   The men were from a group of fighters who had apparently broken out of the besieged city overnight and fled toward Mazar-e-Sharif.

73.   The man fled toward Bavaria from neighboring Thuringen state after shooting to death an acquaintance in an apparent domestic dispute, police said.

74.   The news agency gave no details of why the sources believed Hekmatyar had fled toward Afghanistan.

75.   The ones most reluctant to return appeared to be those with strong ties to the PUK, whose leaders fled toward the Iranian border.

76.   The rebels fled toward Congo, formerly Zaire, the agency said.

77.   The rebels later fled toward a nearby forest.

78.   The rebels took money, clothes, rice and dried fish from the mostly Christian villagers and fled toward a forested mountain.

79.   The ship fled toward China and eventually sank in the East China Sea just outside Chinese territorial waters.

80.   The robbers fled toward Paris in the BMW and a Mercedes, which was later found abandoned with body damage, officials said.