1.   His wife, Vera, was slightly hurt in the machinegun attack.

2.   A leading member of the Christian Liberal Party in the Ukrainian region of Crimea was badly wounded Tuesday in a machinegun attack by unidentified assailants, police said.

3.   Two Jewish settlers were killed Sunday in a machinegun attack near Hebron on the Israeli-occupied West Bank which was claimed by the Islamic Resistance Movement HAMAS.

4.   It claimed a machinegun attack overnight Wednesday from a passing car on a gendarmerie barracks at Saint-Florent, northern Corsica.