51.   Prosecutors said her motive in killing the boys was to eliminate them as an obstacle.

52.   Police spokesman Rafi Yaffe said investigators believed the boys were killed by Palestinians in what may have been a chance encounter.

53.   Rankins said he held Morse by his waist near the open window and then watched the boy fall but said he had no intention of killing the boy.

54.   A boy was also reported to have drowned in Camarines Sur province near Albay and another boy was killed in suburban Makati after being hit by falling debris.

55.   A baby was reported killed Sunday by a mortar round that struck a house, and a boy was killed by a stray bullet on the street Monday.

56.   A Circuit Court jury deadlocked last month over whether she killed the boy.

57.   A grenade killed a boy and seriously wounded his playmate as they toyed with it on Friday.

58.   A bomb exploded in a local school last month, killing a boy who was playing with it and seriously wounding three others, a government newspaper reported Thursday.

59.   A land mine exploded Sunday in a Chechen village and killed five boys, a Chechen government official said.

60.   A six-year-old boy was killed when he was hit by flying debris in a freak accident at the Claremont speedway circuit, police said Saturday.