11.   Communist insurgents ambushed a bus and killed an army captain in the northern Philippines as the military observed a unilateral Christmas ceasefire, an official said Thursday.

12.   Earlier last month, a Syrian bus was ambushed north of Beirut and the driver shot dead.

13.   Earlier last month, a Syrian bus was ambushed north of Beirut and the driver shot dead, sparking a massive campaign of arrests in Lebanon.

14.   The radio also reported that three people were killed and many wounded when two men wearing military uniforms ambushed a bus in the capital during the morning.

15.   Lieutentant-Colonel Isaie Nibizi said the rebels ambushed a bus transporting soldiers in the central Gitega province on Thursday.

16.   Moslem militants in the Indian state of Kashmir ambushed a bus Thursday, gunning down four passengers near the apple-growing town of Sopore, police said here.

17.   Nine people were seriously wounded in southern Angola when their bus was ambushed by UNITA rebels, the LUSA news agency reported here Saturday.

18.   On Wednesday morning a public transport bus was ambushed by armed men in the Cibotoke district, in northern Bujumbura, leaving eight people dead and several injured.

19.   Some witnesses said the attackers fired from a passing car, but others said the bus was ambushed.