21.   Investigators at the time said the killing appeared to be the work of a professional gunman.

22.   Investigators say the killing appeared to be the work of a professional hitman.

23.   Israeli security officials said the killing appeared to be political, but northern district police spokesman Boaz Goldberg said the motive was not clear.

24.   Israeli security officials said the killing appeared to be politically motivated.

25.   Mary de Haas of the University of Natal, in an open letter to Mandela distributed Monday, said house burnings, attacks and killings appeared to be increasing.

26.   Police said the killings appeared to be in revenge for an attack on the Siqikini settlement Friday night in which five homesteads were set on fire.

27.   Police said the local Timakin and Kaimbakin tribes have been at war for some time and the killing appeared to be retaliation by Timakin members, the report said.

28.   Police reported that the killings appeared to be related.

29.   Some killings appear to be related to drug traffickers, he said.

30.   Sikota said the killing appeared to be a political assassination.