31.   Salazar said officials believe the traffickers wanted to create confusion that would help them operate without interference, but he said investigators were still investigating the motive.

32.   The motive was being investigated, police said.

33.   The police said they were still investigating the motive for the suicide.

34.   There were no arrests and police were investigating a motive.

35.   He said the interim government had sent a team of Criminal Investigations Department officials to Merca to find the killers and investigate the motive for the murder.

36.   He said police were still investigating the motive for the raid although he said it might be related to a land conflict.

37.   A spokesman for the Marunouchi police station said police were investigating the motive of the suicide and any possible link with his job.

38.   Dowd said police were still investigating a motive and expected to make more arrests.

39.   The victims were believed to have been hacked to death with kitchen knives, police said, adding they were investigating possible motives.

40.   Israeli security forces were investigating the motives for what an officer with the border guards said could have been a suicide.