31.   Others who fled described armed gangs commandeering vehicles.

32.   Police track down and surround the heavily armed gang, which threatens to execute the captives.

33.   Police tracked down and surrounded the heavily armed gang, which threatened to execute the captives.

34.   A British aid worker was killed by an armed gang in central Kenya as he drove to Nairobi, police said Monday.

35.   A heavily armed anti-government gang seized four United Nations observers and six civilians in Georgia Thursday, threatening to execute the captives unless the government fulfills their demands.

36.   A suspected bank robber was killed Sunday in a shoot-out with police who tracked his armed gang to rugged snow-capped mountains in southern Greece, police said.

37.   A major international humanitarian organization shut down medical relief programs in two Afghan cities Thursday after armed gangs looted them of medicine, equipment and vehicles.

38.   A man was shot and killed in Vlora on Saturday morning when an armed gang attacked his bread delivery truck, police reported.

39.   A state security court arraigned a captured Kurdish rebel official on Friday on charges of forming an armed gang against the state, the Anatolia news agency said.

40.   Afghan officials believe troops are needed in the countryside to deal with regional warlords and armed gangs.