31.   Many victims were stabbed, beaten or trapped in fires.

32.   Marques de Farias allegedly stabbed some victims and hit others with hammers, Guerra said.

33.   Most victims were stabbed repeatedly, and in one case a mother and her young daughter had their chests slashes and their hearts removed.

34.   One escaped, but the victim was stabbed twice in the stomach and died on the spot, the Czech news agency CTK said.

35.   One of the Sudanese escaped with only a minor injury, but the victim was stabbed twice in the stomach and died on the spot.

36.   Roskanedi asked the court in an earlier session to give Boang the heaviest sentence for stabbing the victim with a samurai sword.

37.   Some victims had been stabbed, and others had their throats slit, Flores said by telephone from the state capital, Sincelejo.

38.   Six gunmen sprayed the temple with automatic rifles and savagely stabbed some victims.

39.   The killer stabbed his victim nine times in the neck and back, probably with a screwdriver, security and judicial officials said.

40.   The suspect, offended and scared, picked up a pair of scissors and stabbed the victim five times in the chest, head and arm, Syahrir said.