1.   The police believe the killers may be just petty criminals, who are now terrified, after a simple job stealing scrap metal, went horribly wrong.

2.   Security guard Ron Letts was crushed by a getaway van when he surprised a gang stealing scrap metal.

3.   A MAN stole scrap metal from his employer and sold it to a dealer, magistrates heard yesterday.

4.   A Ukrainian man was killed by falling rocks after sneaking into a coal mine to steal scrap metal to sell, the Emergency Situations Ministry said Wednesday.

5.   In Odessa alone, thieves in recent days desecrated two monuments to Soviet World War II and Afghan war soldiers to steal metal, Interfax reported.

6.   Paulsen was charged with stealing corrugated metal before he was hospitalized, but the charges were later dropped, police said.

7.   Two Ukrainian workers died when an electrical pole collapsed on them after it has been partially dismantled by thieves who stole the metal, a newspaper reported Wednesday.

8.   The workers are alleged to have stolen the metal in December last year and last March with assistance from the security guards at the two factories in northeast Kazakhstan.