1.   In popular mythology poisonous snakes are always ready and waiting for the chance to strike out and kill their attackers.

2.   She had acted in self-defense when she killed her attacker.

3.   Although other reports indicated two attackers were killed in the gunfire, Mubarak insisted that three were killed.

4.   At least two attackers were killed.

5.   Egyptian authorities said all six attackers were killed.

6.   Five other attackers were killed during or after the attack on Mubarak in Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian capital.

7.   One becomes a victim of an attempted rape and, out of self-defense, her girlfriend accidentally kills her attacker.

8.   One attacker was killed, and he turned out to be the son of an East Timorese serving with the Indonesian army.

9.   Police killed the attackers.