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

2.   The violence capped a volatile week, kicked off by Israeli troops who shot dead five Palestinian officers in what officials later said was a mistake.

3.   A Palestinian shot dead five Israeli teen-agers in an attack on dormitories and a Bible study hall in a Jewish settlement.

4.   Rebels shot dead five villagers Wednesday as they returned from the fields to Doseme, a village in this southeastern province.

5.   Gunmen, some of them wearing army uniforms, had broken into two houses on Tuesday in the northern district of Baramulla and shot dead five villagers.

6.   Indonesian troops on Sunday shot dead five separatist rebels in the restive province of Aceh, a military spokesman said.

7.   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.

8.   An undercover Israeli army unit shot dead five Palestinian policemen in a car near the southern West Bank city of Hebron on Thursday, an army spokesman said.

9.   Israeli troops shot dead five Palestinian militants in a foiled bomb attack near the Jewish settlement of Netzarim in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian security sources said Wednesday.

10.   Last week its members allegedly shot dead five civilians in the northern Baramulla district.