71.   Crack Egyptian security forces shot dead three Islamic militants during a raid on their hideout while another group of militants killed a police officer, authorities said.

72.   During the hijacking, the group killed a handicapped American Jew, Leon Klinghoffer, and threw his body overboard.

73.   The same group killed an ethnic Chinese trader they were holding hostage earlier this month after security forces closed in on their hideout, police said.

74.   The spokesman dismissed rumours that the previously-unknown separatist group had killed their four hostages.

75.   Last week the outlawed Jamaa Islamiyya group killed eight policemen and three civilians in a series of attacks in Minya.

76.   The CPJ said suspected Vietnamese right-wing exile groups killed them.

77.   The four-strong armed group killed three passengers before being stormed by French security forces.

78.   The group also killed seven other Israelis in a series of drive-by shootings last year, Israeli officials said.

79.   The group killed one hostage, a Norwegian, during the weekend.

80.   The group has already killed a fifth hostage from Norway.