1.   Balaclava clad gunmen killed five people, four of them children, and wounded another three in what policemen described Friday as an execution-type assault.

2.   Balaclava clad gunmen killed eight people, four of them children, and wounded another two in what policemen described Friday as an execution-type assault.

3.   Suspected paramilitary gunmen dragged people off a bus and from their homes in northern Colombia before forcing them to lie face down and spraying them with bullets.

4.   The Alawites took to the streets last March after an attack by radical Islamic gunmen killed three people in an Alawite neighborhood of Istanbul.