1.   The force of the blast blew the roof off the white taxi van and shattered the windscreens of passing vehicles.

2.   A taxi van exploded in northern Israel on Thursday after the police stopped it at a roadblock during a search for a terror suspect.

3.   Police fired tear gas into homes and stopped taxi vans ferrying commuters from the Kuwadzana township into the center of Harare, said Robert Manase, a market vendor.

4.   A passenger in the other taxi van was killed and its driver injured by the shooting, while a person in the escort vehicle also was injured.

5.   A suspected Palestinian militant on Thursday set off explosives in a taxi van at a road junction in northern Israel after being pursued by police for miles.

6.   A suspected Palestinian militant set off explosives Thursday in a taxi van, killing one person and injuring nine after being pursued by police for miles.

7.   A taxi van bombing Thursday in northern Israel killed an Israeli man and wounded nine others, including the bomber.

8.   A taxi van in which the victims were riding passed a car Thursday and crashed head-on into an oncoming pickup truck, police told the South African Press Association.

9.   Although identity passes are needed to enter the fenced campus, the prostitutes were probably smuggled in by athletes returning in cars and taxi vans, Kasese said.

10.   Anyega blamed many of the problems created by the disorderly taxi vans on police harassment.