71.   Security forces ambushed a group of Tamil Tiger guerrillas in northern Sri Lanka and killed at least five, the defence ministry said here Tuesday.

72.   Sri Lankan security forces ambushed a group of suspected Tamil Tiger guerrillas, killing at least five of them, the defence ministry here said Wednesday.

73.   The five were killed when police opened fire to break up a demonstration organised by communist-backed unions in the north Kerala district of Kannur.

74.   The five were killed by gunshot wounds, Interior Minister Temirbek Akmataliyev said.

75.   The five were killed during a training session for operations in south Lebanon when a missile apparently misfired.

76.   The five were killed while holding a meeting in an apartment in central Algiers, the newspaper reported.

77.   The five were killed and three injured in Tetrinot village in the Hajira sector of southern Poonch district, the deputy Poonch commissioner, Liaquat Hussain said.

78.   The organisation has alleged that the five were killed in cold blood by Indian troops.