71.   The policemen died when guerrillas assaulted their bunker near Manar in northwestern Sri Lanka with gunshots and grenades shortly after midnight.

72.   The three policemen died instantly and another was wounded.

73.   Three policemen have died in the violence since December and scores of people have been arrested.

74.   Three Serb policemen died Friday after suspected ethnic Albanian rebels fired a rocket-propelled grenade at their car south of here.

75.   Three Palestinian policemen died in the gunfight and each side blames the other for initiating the confrontation.

76.   Three policemen died Friday after an attack by Muslim militants on a police dormitory in southern Egypt.

77.   Two more policemen died when Israeli troops fired on a police installation in the West Bank town of Qalqiliya, the Palestinians said.

78.   Two policemen also died, it said.

79.   Two policemen died on the spot, Shevchuk said.

80.   Two policemen died in an ambush and another was badly wounded in the restive Garm district of Tajikistan, the ITAR-Tass news agency reported Tuesday.