1.   In subsequent days, mobs armed with iron rods, bicycle chains and axes broke into makeshift churches and prayer halls.

2.   Mobs armed with machetes, spears and crowbars were enraged by reports that mosques and churches had been set on fire.

3.   Mobs armed with sickles and swords on Monday battled each other and hurled gasoline bombs at houses and shops in an Indonesian provincial town.

4.   On both visits, a mob armed with sticks and stones surrounded the homes and forced the family and U.N. representatives to flee.

5.   On Thursday, mobs armed with machetes, spears and crowbars were enraged by reports that mosques and churches had been set on fire.

6.   On Sunday, a Bosnian Serb mob armed with rocks and clubs battered a busload of Muslim women wanting to visit their ransacked former village.

7.   Witnesses told The Associated Press by phone that the mob armed with stones and sticks came out of a mosque after the morning prayer and went on the rampage.

8.   Police seized one of the thieves but a mob armed with knives, sticks and stones snatched him away and killed him.