1.   Armed men in ski masks crept up on the van and raked it with gunfire.

2.   Bands of armed men rove the countryside.

3.   Detectives believed the armed man must have run inside the hospital and holed himself up in the office.

4.   Gangs of heavily armed men stormed ships in the Hong Kong port to steal thousands of vehicles for their clients.

5.   He claimed later to have invented a method of transporting armed men across rivers using pontoons for shoes.

6.   He is guarded by armed men.

7.   In Ugaraspitiya, residents said armed men poured motor oil into ballot boxes.

8.   Intruder jets from the aircraft carrier Ranger, and Cobra attack helicopters scoured the area for armed men.

9.   It is now a museum of military history, but was once full of armed men and artillery.