1.   Police searched in vain Friday for three foreigners kidnapped at gunpoint by car hijackers on their way into the city from the airport.

2.   A British diplomat who was shot and paralyzed while trying to escape a gang of car hijackers in Kenya died Friday, the Foreign Office said.

3.   The court said the two killers belonged to a group of four car hijackers who assaulted the two couples.

4.   It followed the cold-blooded murder of surgeon Stephen Ming Chi Pon by car hijackers earlier in the week.

5.   Alexandra, a densely populated area of shacks a low cost housing, is widely regarded as a haven for car hijackers.

6.   Alexandra, a densely populated shantytown and low cost housing district near the high-income suburb of Sandton, is widely regarded as a haven for car hijackers.

7.   The protest, held outside the Park Lane clinic in Johannesburg, followed the cold-blooded murder of surgeon Stephen Ming Chi Pon by car hijackers earlier in the week.

8.   Three foreign diplomats were abducted Thursday night by car hijackers on a major freeway here less than two hours after they arrived in South Africa, police said.

9.   President Nelson Mandela on Tuesday visited the family and friends of Stephen Pon, a Chinese doctor slain by car hijackers as he was leaving Johannesburg Hospital last October.