31.   In two other attacks in remote rural areas in Assam, militants shot policemen on patrol at close range.

32.   In South Korea, television footage showed helmeted security forces on patrol at Incheon international airport.

33.   Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee made the proposal for joint patrols at a news conference for Indian journalists before leaving a regional conference in Almaty, Uzbekistan.

34.   It had been designed to ambush a passing army or police patrol at a crossroads outside Armagh City.

35.   Police stepped up patrols at airports, ferry docks and gang hangouts after the shootings.

36.   Scores of submarines have been decommissioned and no more than three are thought to be on patrol at any one time now.

37.   SNCF said Saturday it had asked the French government for extra police patrols at the terminal near Calais.

38.   Soweto police commissioner Ephraim Beetha said police would step up patrols at the Avalon Cemetery, where mourners routinely fire guns into the air at burials.

39.   The attackers blasted the mechanized patrol at close range with Sagger missiles, shoulder-fired rocket-propelled grenades and machine guns.

40.   The Interior Ministry has boosted police patrols at night and stepped up efforts to confiscate illegal weapons.