1.   Police have been stymied in efforts to stop attacks on property and individuals attributed to rival underworld groups.

2.   A gunfight between two rival underworld crime groups in southwestern Bangladesh Saturday left six dead and four other injured, police said.

3.   Japanese underworld groups punish errant members by forcing them to cut off their little fingers, and members often have extensive tattoos.

4.   One of the five is Tameo Shimabukuro, president of the Shimabukuro Family underworld group, which employed the now imprisoned killer.

5.   Shootings in Japan in the recent past generally have been limited to disputes among underworld groups.

6.   The others believe emerging Kurdish underworld groups are involved.

7.   The patient, a leader of an underworld group, was not injured but nearby patients were badly shaken, doctors said.

8.   The underworld group is Muslim.

9.   Three months earlier, Hindu fundamentalists destroyed a famous mosque in the northern town of Ayodhya, and the underworld group targeted Bombay in revenge.