1.   Police discovered and surrounded the hideout Sunday and opened fire, killing one gang member and wounding another.

2.   Police surrounded his hideout in a desert area northwest of Cairo and killed him when he opened fire as he tried to escape.

3.   A Muslim militant opened fire on a cordon of Israeli troops surrounding his hideout Thursday, seriously wounding an Israeli officer before he was killed by army gunfire.

4.   An Interior Ministry statement said that the militants in Minya opened fire when police arrived early Saturday and surrounded their hideout in an agricultural area.

5.   An Interior Ministry statement said the militants in Minya opened fire when police arrived early Saturday and surrounded their hideout.

6.   Hundreds of Palestinian police on Thursday surrounded the hideout of a fugitive Hamas leader, but failed to arrest him when his supporters opened fire.

7.   Libyan forces later pursued the fleeing prisoners to surrounding mountain hideouts.

8.   United News of India news agency said the police had surrounded the hideout on Sunday night.

9.   He was shot dead on Wednesday when police surrounded his hideout in sugar cane fields in Minya province.

10.   The security forces had surrounded the hideout following a tip-off by an informant, and were greeted by volleys of gunfire, the officials said.