31.   Also, suspected rightist paramilitary gunmen executed at least four villagers Saturday amid a rash of attacks blamed on the outlaw group, police said.

32.   Earlier this month, paramilitary gunmen killed at least five people in another southern town.

33.   Eight federal investigators have been reported missing after right-wing paramilitary gunmen ambushed a government convoy heading to an exhumation, authorities said.

34.   El Bagre lies in the Magdalena Medio, a violent region where leftist guerrillas and anti-rebel paramilitary gunmen are active.

35.   He was shot two times by suspected paramilitary gunmen, Cesar state police said.

36.   In northern Bolivar State, paramilitary gunmen killed six police officers as they tried to free their captured commander.

37.   Investigators headed toward a remote area in southwestern Colombia on Saturday where at least six people were killed by suspected paramilitary gunmen.

38.   In their latest attack on suspected rebel sympathizers, paramilitary gunmen assassinated eight people Sunday in western Antioquia State, state police told the Associated Press.

39.   Last Tuesday, another Arauca congressman, Octavio Sarmiento, was shot and killed by suspected right-wing paramilitary gunmen near his farm in Arauca.

40.   Palestinians furiously dismissed that, saying the Israelis had blasted away with firepower disproportionate to the threat posed by stone-throwing crowds and paramilitary gunmen.