31.   He said the rebels ambushed troop reinforcements moving toward the camp after the attack and used gunfire to force back helicopters trying to evacuate wounded soldiers.

32.   Hutu rebels ambushed of a convoy of minibuses, killing at least eight people and wounding three others in northwestern Rwanda, witnesses said Monday.

33.   Hutu rebels ambushed a convoy of minibuses, killing at least eight people and wounding three others in northwestern Rwanda, witnesses said Monday.

34.   In a major escalation of tension in Kosovo, ethnic Albanian rebels ambushed a Serb police convoy Sunday, killing a station commander and wounding four other officers.

35.   In another attack Sunday, the rebels ambushed and killed two police undercover agents riding on a motorcycle on a Bulanza highway.

36.   In a separate incident, three soldiers died when rebels ambushed their patrol in the jungles of the eastern Polonnaruwa district, the officials said.

37.   In other action, five soldiers were killed when Kurdish rebels ambushed a military patrol vehicle in eastern Elazig province Tuesday night, the Anatolia news agency said.

38.   In the fighting Tuesday, army spokesman Col. Blagoja Markovski said one government soldier was killed and another critically wounded when rebels ambushed a patrol near Tanusevac.

39.   In the past week, rebels have ambushed military convoys, burned electrical towers, blocked road and river travel, and enforced strikes.

40.   It said the rebels ambushed a Russian convoy.