1.   News of the arrests comes on the day that another pensioner underwent emergency surgery following a separate vicious robbery.

2.   The Queens district attorney, Richard Brown, has decided to seek the death penalty for a man charged with killing two people in separate robberies last year.

3.   In a separate robbery attempt three days earlier, one suspect shot and killed three people during a botched bank holdup also north of Paris.

4.   Marino is serving a life sentence for a separate aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon conviction.

5.   Mimbantas said the two men were found guilty of killing three men in three separate robberies.

6.   The six had killed two Saudi Arabians and an Egyptian in separate robberies carried out by the group, the statement said.

7.   There he will face separate robbery charges before going to Los Angeles to face the murder charges, police said.

8.   They were being held in a separate robbery investigation.

9.   Police shot dead four suspected armed robbers in broad daylight Monday in two separate robbery incidents in the commercial centre of Lagos.