41.   A British diplomat, Graeme Gibson, was shot in the neck and paralysed from the waist down in November when highway robbers tried to hijack his car.

42.   After a shoot-out at the hospital, the gang hijacked a car which was later found abandoned near the German border.

43.   Cars were hijacked, overturned and burned in the streets.

44.   Cars were hijacked, police stations came under gunfire and a Church of Ireland meeting hall was burned, officials said.

45.   Diplomats in Nairobi are calling for increased protection for foreigners after a spate of attacks, many by gunmen trying to hijack luxury cars.

46.   They hijacked a car and fled after the shooting, the witnesses said.

47.   Just over an hour later, several armed men intercepted a French UN vehicle travelling in the same area, hijacking the car.