1.   Seconds later an unidentified assailant pulled up beside him in a Mercedes, an Interior Ministry statement said.

2.   Union Texas Petroleum Holdings Inc. said five employees were shot and killed early Wednesday in Karachi, Pakistan, when unidentified assailants ambushed their car.

3.   Unidentified assailants shot from moving vehicles at two police stations in mountains in Guerrero state.

4.   Piseth Peaklica was shopping at a Phnom Penh marketplace last Tuesday when two unidentified assailants pulled pistols and shot her several times at close range.

5.   A Communist lawmaker was brutally beaten by unidentified assailants in his hometown on the Volga River, a news report said Thursday.

6.   A former Iranian chief prosecutor was shot dead Sunday by unidentified assailants, the Islamic Republic News Agency reported.

7.   A human rights activist who accused police of forming death squads in the northeastern state of Rio Grande do Norte was assassinated by unidentified assailants, authorities said Tuesday.

8.   A leading Turkish human rights activist was in critical condition Tuesday after unidentified assailants gunned him down in his office, officials said.

9.   A former Iranian chief prosecutor was shot to death Sunday by unidentified assailants, the Islamic Republic News Agency reported.

10.   A Colombian senator and two others were shot in the head and killed by unidentified assailants, authorities said Sunday.