1.   The situation is said to be critical and the army has been brought in to disperse the mob.

2.   No superior officers dispersed the mob.

3.   Police fired tear gas to disperse the mob.

4.   Police intervened and fired tear gas shells and swung batons to disperse the mob, residents said.

5.   Police dispersed the mob, which smashed traffic lights and tried to blockade streets.

6.   Police flew in food by helicopter but refused to disperse the mob, which fired guns at the factory.

7.   Police shot and killed three people while dispersing mobs that hurled rocks at each other and looted shops in Coimbatore, said police chief P. Rajendran.

8.   RCD troops dispersed the mob after it had killed two people and then fired on members of the mob, killing four civilians, according to local residents.

9.   Rebel soldiers fired rifles in the air to disperse mobs of Zairians clawing the ground and each other for boxes of crackers at a nearly empty warehouse in Goma.

10.   After two hours spent huddling behind riot shields, police charged and dispersed the mob.