1.   The toll could have been even worse had Israeli bomb squads not defused two other devices discovered in open-air markets in the towns of Netanya and Petah Tikvah.

2.   Police said their bomb squad defused the device without incident.

3.   A bomb squad defused the device.

4.   A bomb squad Tuesday defused a homemade bomb that had been placed near an apartment building in downtown Chisinau.

5.   A bomb squad defused the devices, he said.

6.   A British army bomb squad defused the device late Sunday using a remote-controlled robot.

7.   A state police bomb squad defused and removed the bombs.

8.   An army bomb squad on Tuesday defused an explosive device mailed to the Dublin Tourism office.

9.   Bomb squads defused the bombs by putting them in a secure area, surrounding them with sand bags and turning a water hose on them.

10.   Earlier, a British army bomb-disposal squad defused an incendiary bomb left near a hardware store in south Belfast.