31.   A prison van went out of control on an icy Interstate and crashed into a concrete abutment Friday, killing a guard and injuring four other people.

32.   A North Korean seeking political asylum broke into the Russian trade mission in Pyongyang on Wednesday and killed several guards in a shootout.

33.   A North Korean seeking political asylum broke into the Russian trade mission in Pyongyang on Wednesday, killing three guards and wounding one in a shootout.

34.   A police guard was killed and three other policemen were wounded Saturday when suspected Muslim extremists opened fire on a police station in southern Egypt, security officials said.

35.   A spokeswoman said they saw one of the attackers fall, and Bosnian Serb television reported a railway guard was killed by the troops.

36.   A prison guard was killed and the prisoners escaped, the authorities said.

37.   A suspected Muslim militant killed a guard who tried to search him in southern Egypt, police said Monday.

38.   A Russian border guard was killed and two were wounded Thursday when a remote-controlled bomb exploded under their vehicle in the Tajik capital, officials said.

39.   A Saudi border guard was killed by assailants from inside Iraq in a cross-border shooting, the official Saudi Press Agency reported Tuesday.

40.   About an hour before the church attack, two militants opened fire at the Samalout train station and killed police guard Mohammed Ibrahim, the sources said.