21.   The Israelis responded with tear gas and tried several times to storm the village, drawing a hail of large rocks each time.

22.   The policemen were returning from an investigation into complaints that the militants had stormed a village in the state of Arunachal Pradesh and looted food, money and cattle.

23.   Tribal separatist guerrillas stormed a village in northeastern India and sprayed bullets from machine guns, killing eight people, including two young girls, police said Tuesday.

24.   Twenty-seven died in clashes in Decani while six were killed when Serb police stormed a village elsewhere, they said.

25.   Gunmen of the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam stormed three villages as residents slept, Munasinghe said.

26.   A man was shot dead Wednesday as Lebanese troops and Syrian intelligence officers stormed a village in the eastern Bekaa Valley in search of drugs, army sources said.

27.   But his optimism seemed misplaced Saturday as Russian troops stormed the village after a night of heavy fighting, Echo Moscow radio reported.

28.   There had already been several attempts to storm the village which has been a pile of rubble and deserted by non-combatants for months.

29.   There have been three concerted attempts to storm the village, each of them beaten off, he said.

30.   Russian troops have made several attempts to storm the village but have been repulsed each time.