1.   Only by firing warning shots into the air did security forces prevent the mob from burning down the newly opened Matahari store.

2.   Palestinian police later guarded the tomb, preventing the mob from reaching several dozen soldiers trapped inside until the demonstrators were dispersed.

3.   Palestinian police, arriving after the men had been killed, intervened and prevented the mob from displaying the body in Manger Square.

4.   Police have fired tear gas and warning shots to try to prevent mobs from attacking several Golkar branch offices across East Java in recent days.

5.   Authorities imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew in Colombo on Saturday to prevent mobs of Sinhalese from looting shops and houses of Tamils.

6.   In one incident in Chitungwiza, troops prevented a mob from marching on a gas station they aimed to trash, witnesses said.

7.   On Friday, hundreds of police and soldiers were unable to prevent the mob rampaging until late in the evening, The Jakarta Post reported.

8.   Police prevented a mob of several thousand demonstrators from surging into a police station in the center of Kragujevac.

9.   Several sections of toll roads in and outside Jakarta were closed in a bid to help prevent mobs from entering the chaotic city.

10.   To prevent a mob of penniless refugees from disrupting Belgrade, authorities dispersed them to a string of gymnasiums and other public buildings in the provinces.