1.   Earlier in the month, a group of robbers armed with sub-machineguns shot dead seven employees in a bank in Harbin, the capital of Heilongjiang.

2.   Indian security forces shot dead seven Islamic militants in three separate overnight encounters in Indian-administered Kashmir, a police spokesman said Friday.

3.   Indian troops on Sunday shot dead seven Moslem civilians after a gunbattle with Moslem guerrillas in the troubled state of Kashmir, police sources said.

4.   Indian troops shot dead seven Moslem separatist guerrillas when they tried to enter the northern state of Kashmir from neighbouring Pakistan, an army spokesman said on Tuesday.

5.   Unidentified attackers shot dead seven men in the Sri Lankan capital Sunday signalling an escalation of fighting between rival underworld gangs, police said.

6.   Macedonian police Saturday shot dead seven gunmen who opened fire on a patrol north of the capital Skopje, a police statement said.

7.   Local GAM spokesman Ishak Daud said guerrillas shot dead seven soldiers in clashes in the Pidie and Peureulak areas.

8.   Moslem separatists Saturday shot dead seven Hindu villagers in one of the worst massacres in the strife-hit Indian state of Kashmir, police and witnesses said.

9.   The attack came a day after Tigers shot dead seven soldiers in the neighbouring district of Polonnaruwa.