1.   In the initial clash the police allegedly shot dead five local people.

2.   Armed separatists in the Angolan enclave of Cabinda shot dead four people and wounded six others during an ambush on a civilian vehicle, news reports said Sunday.

3.   In another incident outside Srinagar, unidentified gunmen shot dead three people, one of them a six-month old infant, police said.

4.   Gunmen riding a motorcycle shot dead three people including a prominent Shiite leader and a Sunni professor in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore early Tuesday, police said.

5.   Groups of armed men torched at least six vehicles and set ablaze a bank while snipers shot dead three people in the eastern district of Liaqatabad, officials said.

6.   A businessman whose firm was about to be wound up, shot dead three people Thursday, two of whom had come to liquidate the company, police said.

7.   A police officer has been declared wanted by police in northern Nigeria after allegedly shooting dead four people at the gates to a medical centre, newspapers reported Sunday.

8.   A Yemeni bus driver who shot dead five people during a rampage at two private schools here Sunday was sentenced to death by a court on Monday.

9.   Another group of rebels raided a trading center in Kitgum district on the same day and shot dead two people and abducted several others.

10.   Unidentified gunmen shot dead six people, including a former provincial deputy, in the Punjab town of Jhang, police here said Monday.