11.   In earlier elections in Bihar, hired gunmen have stuffed ballot boxes, fired weapons to scare away voters and clashed with political rivals.

12.   It was the latest in a series of fatal clashes between hired gunmen working for landowners and communist-backed militias supporting landless workers.

13.   Landless rural peasant groups have organized numerous raids on unoccupied land in rural areas of Brazil, prompting occasional clashes with landowners or with their hired gunmen.

14.   The hired gunmen later killed, extorted and smuggled drugs for their own personal gains.

15.   Witnesses said hired gunmen killed them.