31.   Four Shiites died when masked gunmen ambushed their vehicles in northwestern Dera Ismail Khan on Sunday.

32.   A Brazilian man and his son escaped unharmed after unknown gunmen ambushed his vehicle in the southern Philippines island of Mindanao, police said Sunday.

33.   A Shiite sect leader, Zulfiqar Ali Naqvi, and four others were gunned down by unidentified assailants who ambushed their vehicle here Tuesday, police said.

34.   An incident on Wednesday left one person dead and two wounded on the Nigerian side when a patrol vehicle was ambushed by Cameroon forces, Nigerian officials said.

35.   An employee of the Somali Red Crescent Society was killed and three colleagues wounded when their vehicle was ambushed in the south of the divided capital, witnesses said.

36.   The radio also said that nine people, three of them soldiers, were killed on Monday when an army vehicle was ambushed in Buganda commune.

37.   Islamic fundamentalists at war with the secular authorities often use the practice of setting up roadblocks like those of the security forces to ambush vehicles and kill their passengers.

38.   Six people, including two priests and a nurse, were killed when their vehicle was ambushed in southern Rwanda, Radio Rwanda reported Tuesday.

39.   Suspected Muslim militants ambushed a vehicle carrying Indian security force personnel on Tuesday in Indian-administered Kashmir, seriously injuring five soldiers, police said.

40.   The city official, Alexander Neshitov, escaped with his life after his Mercedes car was targeted by Kalashnikov-wielding assailants who ambushed the vehicle in an Audi.