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(12/06)

KABUL (Reuters) - A remote-controlled bomb targeting an Afghan police convoy killed five policemen in the troubled southern province of Uruzgan on Friday, a provincial government official said.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The U.S. military reported the deaths of five more soldiers in Iraq on Friday as Defense Secretary Robert Gates ended a visit aimed at finding a new strategy to curb violence and allow U.S. troops to withdraw.

SAMAWA, Iraq (Reuters) - Clashes between Iraqi security forces and Shi'ite militiamen loyal to cleric Moqtada al-Sadr have left five people dead and wounded 17 others in the usually calm city of Samawa, police sources said on Saturday.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A car bomb exploded at the entrance to a wholesale vegetable market in southern Baghdad on Monday, killing five people and wounding 19, police said.

(11/06)

KOLKATA, India (Reuters) - At least five people were killed and 70 wounded when a powerful explosion believed to have been caused by a bomb ripped through a train in eastern India, police said.

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - A former southern rebel soldier killed five police on the edge of Khartoum on Friday in a shootout that further heightened tensions between northerners and southerners in the Sudanese capital.

MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan (Reuters) - Five Pakistani girls who mistook a mortar bomb for a toy were killed on Friday when the device exploded as they played with it, police said.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The California wildfire that killed four firefighters last week claimed a fifth victim who was critically burned in the tragedy, officials near Los Angeles said on Tuesday.

(10/06)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Five U.S. troops were killed in Iraq, the military said on Thursday, edging their death toll for October close to 100 as President George W. Bush faces pressure over the war 10 days before tight congressional elections.

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Five people were killed and 24 injured when a pedestrian bridge packed with sightseers collapsed on Wednesday in a scenic Indonesian tourist area on central Java island, police said.

CHITTAGONG, Bangladesh (Reuters) - A herd of wild elephants rampaged through a village in southern Bangladesh on Thursday, killing five members of a family, police and witnesses said.

NICKEL MINES, Penn. (Reuters) - Two girls died overnight after a school shooting in Pennsylvania, bringing to five the number of students killed when a gunman burst into their one-room schoolhouse, state police said on Tuesday.

MONTREAL (Reuters) - Canadian rescue workers found five people crushed to death early on Sunday after working through the night to reach two cars buried under the rubble of an overpass that collapsed onto an expressway near Montreal.

(9/06)

GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli soldiers shot dead five Palestinians in the Gaza Strip on Thursday on the bloodiest day in the coastal territory in weeks.

GAZA (Reuters) - Gunmen killed a top intelligence official loyal to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah and four of his bodyguards in a shooting on Friday near the Gaza home of Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas, residents said.

GAZA (Reuters) - At least one Palestinian was killed and two other people were wounded in an Israeli air strike in the southern Gaza Strip early on Wednesday, hours after Israeli missiles killed four militants, witnesses said.

BAIDOA (Reuters) - Gunmen loyal to Somalia's interim government battled local militias in its temporary capital of Baidoa on Monday, in clashes that killed at least five gunmen and wounded seven, officials and witnesses said.

KABUL (Reuters) - Suspected Taliban fighters assassinated a senior Afghan police officer, his three bodyguards and a female relative on Saturday, leaving only the woman's three-month-old baby alive.

(8/06)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Five U.S. soldiers were killed in separate roadside bomb attacks in Iraq on Sunday, the U.S. military said on Monday.

GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli forces killed two members of a Hamas-led security force, two presidential guards and a civilian in violence in the Gaza Strip on Monday, Palestinian security officials said.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A bomb planted inside a minibus killed five civilians and wounded 20 others in central Baghdad on Sunday, police and Interior Ministry sources said.

GUWAHATI, India (Reuters) - The death toll in a bomb explosion at a Hindu temple in India's northeastern state of Manipur rose to five, and at least 35 people including foreign devotees were wounded, police said on Thursday.

SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - Indian soldiers shot dead five suspected Muslim militants as they tried to cross into Indian Kashmir from Pakistan on Wednesday, an army spokesman said.

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Five Israeli soldiers declared missing after their helicopter was shot down by Hizbollah guerrillas in southern Lebanon on Saturday were feared to be dead, the Israeli army said on Sunday.

KABUL (Reuters) - A suicide car bomber killed a Canadian soldier in southern Afghanistan on Friday, and the U.S. military said U.S.-led and Afghan forces killed three suspected al Qaeda fighters and arrested three more in a raid.

GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli air strikes killed five Palestinians, including two militants, in southern Gaza on Saturday, as troops moved closer to a refugee camp as part of an offensive against militants, medics and witnesses said.

COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels killed five military personnel and wounded 18 with volleys of artillery shells and mortar bombs in the island's east on Wednesday.

MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine troops killed five suspected members of Abu Sayyaf, a home-grown Muslim terrorist group with links to al Qaeda, in fierce fighting on a southern island, a senior military official said on Wednesday.

(7/06)

GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli shells killed five people and wounded several others in the Gaza Strip on Monday, including two members of the same family who were riding a donkey cart when they were hit, Palestinian witnesses said.

GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli shelling against Gaza City killed five Palestinians including a Hamas militant on Friday, sources in the governing Islamic group and medics told Reuters.

ANKARA (Reuters) - Five Turkish soldiers were killed in a mine blast in eastern Turkey's Bitlis province and four other were wounded, the state Anatolian news agency said on Thursday.

GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - At least five people were fatally shot or slashed to death with machetes in Guatemala when peasant farmers tried to invade a large estate they had been evicted from, police said on Sunday.

KABUL (Reuters) - Taliban insurgents have carried out a series of attacks in Afghanistan, killing at least five Afghan troops and police, and wounding four U.S.-led coalition soldiers, officials said on Thursday.

(6/06)

COLOMBO (Reuters) - A Tamil Tiger flotilla attacked two small Sri Lankan vessels near a navy base north of Colombo on Wednesday, the military said, killing five sailors and injuring three others.

COLOMBO (Reuters) - Four Tamil Tiger rebels were killed in an attack by a rival faction in Sri Lanka early on Tuesday and a soldier was shot dead overnight, police said, as spiraling violence stoked fears of renewed civil war.

MANILA (Reuters) - A bomb killed five people at a crowded public market in the southern Philippines on Friday in an attack that police said was aimed at a powerful provincial governor allied with President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A suicide car bomber targeting an Iraqi army checkpoint killed four people and wounded 10 in Baghdad on Monday, police said.

NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - Five teenagers were shot to death early on Saturday morning in New Orleans in one of the worst mass killings in the history of the city, police said.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Taliban insurgents ambushed an Afghan police convoy on Sunday, killing five people, an official said, the latest attack in the bloodiest phase of violence since U.S.-led forces toppled the Islamist government.

COLOMBO (Reuters) - Suspected Tamil Tiger rebel attacks killed three policemen and left two soldiers missing on Sunday, the army said, and rebels said they were attacked by government forces as a recent upsurge of violence continued.

QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) - A bomb blast in the Pakistani town of Quetta killed five people and wounded 17 on Monday, and nationalist militants fighting for control of natural resources were the main suspects.

BEIT YEHOSHUA, Israel (Reuters) - An Israeli train carrying 200 passengers hit a stationary van in its path and derailed on Monday, killing at least five people and injuring dozens, rescue services said.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A car bomb ripped through a market in Baghdad's Shi'ite Sadr City district on Monday, killing five people and wounding 19, police said.

PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria (Reuters) - Militants attacked a Shell-operated oil facility in the Niger Delta in southern Nigeria on Wednesday, killing at least five soldiers and kidnapping five South Korean contractors.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A Taliban suicide car bomber killed at least four Afghans in the southern city of Kandahar on Sunday in an attack on the provincial governor as he traveled with a convoy of Canadian troops, officials said.

GAZA (Reuters) - Palestinian gunmen killed five bystanders in two separate shooting incidents in the Gaza Strip on Sunday as tension between rival factions in the impoverished territory deteriorated even further.

DAMASCUS (Reuters) - Four gunmen and a guard were killed when Syrian security forces foiled an attack on Friday near the premises of the state-run television in Damascus, the official SANA news agency reported.

BANNU, Pakistan (Reuters) - A suicide car bomber attacked a Pakistani army convoy near the North Waziristan region on the Afghan border on Friday, killing four soldiers, security officials said.

(5/06)

KABUL (Reuters) - U.S.-led troops in Afghanistan killed five Taliban fighters, including key leaders, in an attack on a training facility, the U.S. military said on Saturday.

GHAZNI, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Three Taliban militants and two policemen were killed in a clash in southwestern Afghanistan on Friday, a provincial official said.

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana (Reuters) - A man shot and killed four people in a Louisiana church on Sunday morning before kidnapping his three children and estranged wife and shooting her to death, police said.

LOUISVILLE, Kentucky (Reuters) - A coal-mine explosion in southeastern Kentucky early on Saturday killed five people, authorities said, making this the deadliest year for U.S. coal country since 2001.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Four U.S. soldiers and their Iraqi interpreter were killed on Thursday when their vehicle struck a roadside bomb northwest of Baghdad, the U.S. military said.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (Reuters) - Five people, of whom four may have been children, died in an early morning fire that ripped through a townhouse building in Vancouver on Monday, officials said.

BISHKEK/DUSHANBE (Reuters) - A gang of armed men from Kyrgyzstan killed five people on the Central Asian state's border with Tajikistan early on Friday, ransacked two border posts, hijacked a car and seized weapons, officials said.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A car bomb went off near a main courthouse in western Baghdad on Monday, killing at least five people and wounding 10, an Interior Ministry source said.

GAZA (Reuters) - An Israeli air strike killed five Palestinian militants on Friday at a training camp used by militants in the Gaza Strip further dampening peace prospects in the region.

(4/06)

COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka stopped bombing Tamil Tiger targets and reopened borders with rebel territory on Thursday but fragmentation mine blasts killed five, police said, as the island teetered on the brink of war.

LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A cargo plane transporting U.S. anti-narcotics agents crashed into houses in a southern Afghan town on Monday, killing five people, including two foreigners, officials said.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A mortar bomb killed five people near the Iraqi Defense Ministry in Baghdad on Sunday, police said.

SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - A series of grenade attacks by suspected Muslim militants killed five people, including two women, in Indian Kashmir's main city on Friday and wounded 40, police said.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A car bomb that exploded near a Baghdad restaurant frequented by police killed at least five people on Tuesday, including three policemen, Interior Ministry sources said.

GAZA (Reuters) - Five militants including a senior commander were killed in an explosion that hit a car and a militant base in the southern Gaza Strip on Friday, Palestinian witnesses said.

(3/06)

GENEVA (Reuters) - Bird flu has killed five young people in Azerbaijan, the World Health Organization said on Tuesday, adding it was investigating whether some of the victims could have been infected collecting feathers from dead swans.

GHAZNI, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Taliban gunmen killed a powerful former governor of an Afghan province and four of his guards on Saturday, and hours later tried to kill the province's current governor.

GAZA (Reuters) - An Israeli air strike killed two Islamic Jihad militants and three other people in the Gaza Strip on Monday, including an eight-year-old boy, Palestinian medics and witnesses said.

LAGOS (Reuters) - Nigerian militants killed four soldiers and one policeman in an unsuccessful attempt to capture a fuel tanker in the southern delta, military officials said on Thursday.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A roadside bomb killed an Afghan intelligence official, three bodyguards and one other man in southern Afghanistan on Saturday, officials said.

(2/06)

RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi forces on Monday killed five suspected militants believed to be linked to an al Qaeda attack on the world's biggest oil processing plant, the Interior Ministry said.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A bomb killed five people at a bus station south of Baghdad on Sunday, breaking a relative calm after Iraqi and U.S. leaders appealed for an end to days of sectarian bloodshed that have pitched Iraq toward civil war.

KABUL (Reuters) - Clashes broke out between members of Afghanistan's Shi'ite minority and Sunnis at a religious festival on Thursday and at least five people were killed and 27 wounded, a doctor said.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Rebel attacks killed four U.S. soldiers and a marine on Wednesday, the U.S. military said on Thursday.

(1/06)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Five U.S. Marines have been killed in western Iraq this weekend, the U.S. military said on Sunday.

BEIJING (Reuters) - Five people were killed and 22 injured after a man set off a bomb in a courtroom in far western China, the official Xinhua News Agency reported on Saturday.

BAIJI, Iraq (Reuters) - A U.S. air strike killed several members of a family in the oil refining town of Baiji in northern Iraq, Iraqi security forces said on Tuesday.

(12/05)

RIYADH (Reuters) - Five Saudi policemen were killed on Tuesday during a shooting spree by a gunman whom security sources said was a wanted militant and who was later arrested.

BAQUBA, Iraq (Reuters) - Five people were killed when their car was hit by a roadside bomb outside the local offices of one of Iraq's main Sunni Arab political parties on Saturday, police said.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - At least five people were killed and 23 wounded when two mortars hit a busy street in central Baghdad on Friday, officials said, the latest in a surge of attacks after a largely peaceful election this month.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Five people were shot to death on Sunday in an apparent murder-suicide at two homes in suburban Fairfax County, outside Washington, D.C., police said.

TOKYO (Reuters) - Heavy snowfall throughout Japan killed five people, disrupted holiday traffic and left thousands of residents without electricity.

BOGOTA, Colombia (Reuters) - Colombian Marxist rebels killed at least five police officers during a night-time attack on their station in an isolated jungle town in the country's north early on Saturday, police said.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Four U.S. soldiers died in a bomb attack and gunmen assassinated a high-profile Sunni Muslim politician on Tuesday, in a stark reminder of Iraq's insecurity two days before a watershed election.

GAZA (Reuters) - Five Palestinians, including a policeman, were killed and many were wounded, some seriously, on Saturday as members of two rival clans clashed in a fierce firefight in Gaza, local medics and witnesses said.

MIRANSHAH, Pakistan (Reuters) - Five militants, three of them Uzbeks, were killed in Pakistan's tribal belt on the Afghan border on Thursday when a blast destroyed the house they were staying in, a government official said.

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (Reuters) - Five bus passengers, among them a mother and her baby, were burned alive when gangsters torched the vehicle in Rio de Janeiro, police said on Thursday.

(11/05)

KARACHI (Reuters) - Hemorrhagic fever has killed at least five people, including a woman doctor, and infected around 45 people in Pakistan's biggest city of Karachi, health officials said on Saturday.

KAMPALA (Reuters) - Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels killed five people and wounded four others in an ambush on a civilian lorry in the remote north of the country, the military said on Sunday.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - At least one car bomb exploded in a market in east Baghdad on Saturday, starting fires in several shops and killing at least five people and wounding 12, police and witnesses said.

KABUL (Reuters) - Taliban fighters killed a German peacekeeper and two civilians in two suicide car bomb attacks in the Afghan capital on Monday, officials and witnesses said.

SRINAGAR (Reuters) - A suicide car bomber killed at least four people in an attack on a busy highway in Indian Kashmir on Wednesday hours before a new chief minister was due to be sworn in, police said.

(10/05)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Five U.S. soldiers were killed in Iraq on Saturday when their vehicle was hit by an improvised bomb in the western city of Ramadi, the U.S. military said on Sunday.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Four adults and an 11-year-old child were killed on Sunday when a bus carrying high school band members hit a tractor-trailer on an interstate highway in Wisconsin, police said.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A suicide car bomber attacked a U.S. military convoy north of Baghdad on Thursday, killing at least four Iraqi civilians and injuring 14, police said.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Taliban gunmen killed five Afghan employees of a relief agency in the southern province of Kandahar on Wednesday, a director of the agency said.

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Special forces stormed a house in a Russian region bordering Chechnya on Sunday, killing five militants, local news agencies reported.

(9/05)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Five U.S. soldiers were killed when a roadside bomb blew up next to their vehicle as they were involved in combat operations west of Baghdad, the U.S. military said on Thursday.

LIMA, Peru (Reuters) - A powerful 7.5 magnitude earthquake that shook Peru's northern jungle over the weekend has killed five people and made several thousand homeless, regional authorities said on Monday.

KABUL (Reuters) - A U.S. military helicopter crashed during an anti-militant operation in Afghanistan on Sunday killing all five American crew members, just days after President Hamid Karzai questioned the need for military operations.

LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) - Two bomb blasts within hours of each other on Thursday in Pakistan's eastern city of Lahore killed at least five people and wounded 26, police said.

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - An Israeli rights watchdog accused Israeli soldiers on Wednesday of killing five unarmed Palestinians in a recent raid, and said the assassination of West Bank Arabs had become routine.

DAMASCUS (Reuters) - Syrian security forces killed five members of an Islamist militant group during a gunbattle in the northwest of the country and discovered a cache of weapons, Syria's official SANA news agency said on Saturday.

BEIJING (Reuters) - Typhoon Talim killed five people as it swept across Taiwan and China's eastern coast and forced hundreds of thousands to flee their homes, but has since been downgraded to a tropical storm, state media said on Friday.

(8/05)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Mortar rounds killed five and wounded 36 people attending an important Shi'ite religious ceremony in Baghdad on Wednesday, police sources said.

TULKARM, West Bank (Reuters) - Israeli troops killed five Palestinians in a West Bank raid and Palestinian militants fired a rocket into Israel on Thursday, rattling a ceasefire and hopes raised by a removal of Jewish settlers from occupied land.

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (Reuters) - Police in Rio de Janeiro killed five suspected drug traffickers, including a 15-year-old, during a shootout in one of the crime-ridden city's slums, authorities said on Monday.

JAMMU, India (Reuters) - Islamist militants opened fire on a Hindu family in Indian Kashmir, killing five people and wounding nine others, police said on Saturday.

TIKRIT, Iraq (Reuters) - A suicide car bomber killed at least five people and wounded 15 in an attack on an Iraqi police headquarters in the northern town of Tikrit on Sunday, police sources said.

DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) - Kurdish guerrillas using rockets and long-range weapons killed five Turkish soldiers and injured six more in an attack on Friday on a police station in Turkey's troubled southeast, security officials said. The attack occurred at 1 a.m. (2200 GMT on Thursday) in the town of Semdinli, which is near the borders with Iraq and Iran. CNN Turk said a gun battle raged after the attack for about 15 minutes before the rebels escaped into nearby mountains.

(7/05)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Insurgents killed four Iraqi police in Baghdad on Friday and wounded another officer in an attack that killed his wife just a day after their wedding.

IZMIR, Turkey (Reuters) - A suspected female suicide bomber triggered a blast which ripped through a minibus in a western Turkish resort on Saturday, killing four people and injuring 14, officials and news reports said.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Reuters) - U.N. troops raided the base of an illegal armed group in the Port-au-Prince slum of Cite Soleil on Wednesday and at least five people were killed, witnesses and U.N. officials said.

LUCKNOW, India (Reuters) - Indian security forces killed five gunmen who attacked a religious site in northern India on Tuesday that is claimed by both Hindus and Muslims and is a flashpoint for bloody sectarian strife.

(6/05)

KABUL (Reuters) - Bombs killed a top policeman and four other people in Afghanistan on Tuesday and rockets struck near a U.N. election office, but the government said Taliban guerrillas would not derail parliamentary polls in September.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Suicide bombers killed a prominent Iraqi parliamentarian and two U.S. soldiers on Tuesday, but President Bush planned a keynote speech to tell Americans it was vital to fight on to stabilize Iraq.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi rebels killed five U.S. marines in a bomb attack in the city of Ramadi, the second time in a week an entire armored Humvee crew has died there in what U.S. officers said on Thursday could be a new insurgent tactic.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A roadside bomb blast in western Iraq killed five U.S. Marines on Thursday, the U.S. military said on Friday.

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - An Antonov passenger plane crashed as it was taking off in the Sudanese capital on Thursday, killing five people and injuring two others, a Sudanese civil aviation official said.

(5/05)

KARACHI, Pakistan (Reuters) - At least five people, including two assailants, were killed in a suicide bomb attack on Monday at Muslim mosque in southern Pakistan, the latest religious violence to rock the country, officials said.

DUBLIN (Reuters) - Five teenage girls were killed on Monday when their schoolbus overturned in a horrific crash on a narrow Irish country road, police said.

ALGIERS (Reuters) - Three Algerian soldiers and two militants have been killed during an air and ground offensive by government forces against Islamic rebels in the mountains east of the capital, a security source said on Thursday.

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Gunmen have killed five police officers from an elite unit in a pre-dawn attack in Indonesia's strife-torn Moluccas islands, police said on Monday.

BAQUBA, Iraq (Reuters) - Two suicide bombers attacked the convoy of the governor of Iraq's Diyala province in the town of Baquba on Sunday, killing three policemen and two civilians and wounding more than 20 people, police said.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A suicide car bomber blew himself up next to an Iraqi police patrol in central Baghdad on Saturday, killing at least four people, police sources said.

(4/05)

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Reuters) - At least five people were killed by gunfire during a political demonstration on Wednesday in Haiti, which is preparing for elections in the autumn to replace its interim government.

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran said on Tuesday at least five people had died during weekend ethnic unrest in the country's southwestern oil-producing heartland -- the Islamic state's bloodiest protests for several years.

ALGIERS (Reuters) - Algerian Islamic militants killed five people, including three security force members, and injured eight others in attacks ahead of an expected general amnesty, newspapers said on Thursday.

MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - A car bomb targeting a U.S. convoy killed at least five Iraqis and wounded three others in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul Tuesday, police and hospital officials said.

KABUL (Reuters) - U.S. military aircraft killed five suspected Taliban guerrillas in strikes in southeastern Afghanistan on Monday, officials said.

(3/05)

KABUL (Reuters) - U.S. forces killed five militants in southeastern Afghanistan after they fired rockets and small arms at U.S.-led troop positions, the U.S. military said on Wednesday.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - At least five people were killed and 32 wounded in a bomb blast in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar on Thursday which officials blamed on Taliban fighters.

MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine soldiers killed five Muslim rebels in fresh fighting on the remote southwestern island of Jolo on Thursday, a week after President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo rejected calls by religious and local leaders for a truce.

MADRID (Reuters) - Five officers of Spain's Civil Guard police were killed Tuesday when a truck driver fell asleep at the wheel and plowed into their highway checkpoint in the early hours of the morning, officials said.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Two car bombs exploded near Iraq's Interior Ministry in Baghdad on Thursday, killing at least five policemen and wounding several in relentless violence that is overshadowing efforts to form a new government.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (Reuters) - Low clouds and rain hampered the search on Tuesday for a plane, with five people on board, reported missing off British Columbia's Pacific Coast.

(2/05)

TEL AVIV (Reuters) - A Palestinian suicide bomber killed at least four people and wounded some 50 outside a Tel Aviv night club, shattering a de facto truce by militants that boosted hopes for Middle East peace.

TEHRAN (Reuters) - An earthquake measuring 6.4 on the Richter scale hit southeast Iran on Tuesday morning destroying some villages and killing at least five people, state television reported.

SUNGAI KOLOK, Thailand (Reuters) - A car bomb killed five people and injured 40 in a tourist town in southern Thailand on Thursday shortly after the Thai prime minister left the region following a visit to discuss security.

LIMA, Peru (Reuters) - Five inmates were killed and at least 25 were injured in gun battles at South America's biggest jail on Tuesday in what Peru's prisons chief said were gang turf wars.

(1/05)

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Four men and a woman were killed after Indian soldiers hurled them out of a compartment of a stationary train and into the path of a speeding train on an adjacent track, The Times of India reported on Monday.

GAZA (Reuters) - Palestinian militants staged an attack near an Israeli army base in the central Gaza Strip, witnesses and radios said, and Israeli rescue services said five people were killed and 10 wounded in the incident.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A suicide bomber detonated his car at a petrol station near an Iraqi police and army checkpoint south of Baghdad on Saturday, killing four civilians and wounding 19, police said. They said most of those killed had been queuing at the fuel pump in the village of Mahaweel, about 50 miles south of the capital, which was crowded amid chronic fuel shortages.

GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli soldiers shot dead five Palestinians in north Gaza on Tuesday after mortar fire from Palestinian militants wounded two people in a nearby Jewish settlement, medics on both sides said.

MADRID (Reuters) - Five passengers were killed and around 30 injured when their bus flipped over after tearing through the central reservation of a motorway in the northern Spanish province of Burgos, officials said on Sunday.

DUBAI (Reuters) - Militants from a group led by al Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi said they had killed five members of the Iraqi National Guard and warned those working with the U.S.-backed government they faced the same fate.

(12/04)

NAJAF, Iraq (Reuters) - A car bomb killed five people on Saturday between the Iraqi Shi'ite holy cities of Najaf and Kerbala, sites of twin suicide car bombings a week ago, the chief of police in Najaf said.

GAZA (Reuters) - Four Palestinians and an Israeli were shot dead in separate incidents of an upsurge of violence in Gaza and the West Bank on Wednesday, military sources and witnesses said.

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - An express train ran into a jeep in southern India Wednesday, killing five people, a day after two passenger trains collided head-on in the north of the country.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (Reuters) - A man charged on stage and opened fire at a heavy metal band and fans at a crowded bar, killing four people and wounding two others before being killed by police, officials said on Thursday.

GAZA (Reuters) - Four Palestinian militants and an Israeli soldier were killed Tuesday in the heaviest Gaza fighting since Yasser Arafat's death, raising the prospect that renewed violence could complicate a vote for his successor.

MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - Gunmen bombed two churches in the tense Iraqi city of Mosul Tuesday, fueling fears of ethnic and sectarian unrest ahead of an election next month. The insurgent war of attrition against U.S. forces and their Iraqi proteges claimed another American life in Baghdad, taking the U.S. combat death toll to 1,000 since last year's invasion. At least four Iraqi National Guard troopers were also killed in two incidents, one in the capital and another further south.

SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - Muslim guerrillas hurled grenades as they attacked a federal police camp on Friday in Indian Kashmir, gunning down two policemen at the gates and killing three more inside the base, authorities said.

(11/04)

MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) - A trespassing deer hunter in Wisconsin opened fire without warning on other hunters when they asked him to leave, killing five and wounding three, police said on Monday.

FALLUJA, Iraq (Reuters) - U.S. artillery shelled Falluja on Thursday after overnight air and tank attacks killed five people in Iraq's most rebellious city, braced for an all-out offensive now the U.S. presidential election is over.

(10/04)

GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli troops killed five Palestinian militants in gun battles Monday as Prime Minister Ariel Sharon sought to dampen rising pressure for a referendum on his plan to withdraw from occupied Gaza.

GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli air strikes killed five Palestinians in Gaza Thursday as the Palestinian death toll rose to 100 in a 16-day-old army offensive aimed at crushing militants behind rocket salvos into Israel.

TOKYO (Reuters) - Five people were dead and four still missing Sunday as Japan began a clean-up after the most powerful typhoon to hit the Tokyo region in a decade.

LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed four people as he shot his way into a Shi'ite Muslim mosque and blew himself up in the Pakistani city of Lahore Sunday, emergency workers said.

MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - Police have found five decapitated bodies of Iraqis in northern Iraqi cities, police and hospital officials said on Tuesday.

SAMARRA, Iraq (Reuters) - U.S. and Iraqi forces pushed on with their offensive against insurgents in the town of Samarra overnight, killing five people and wounding 20 in the fighting, a doctor at a local hospital said Saturday.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Suspected Taliban guerrillas killed five Afghan troops in an ambush on a district headquarters in a troubled southern province, officials said on Wednesday, 11 days before a landmark election.

(9/04)

DUBAI (Reuters) - At least five workers were killed and an unspecified number injured Monday when part of the ceiling of a building under construction at Dubai airport collapsed, officials said.

WANA, Pakistan (Reuters) - A roadside bomb killed five Pakistani troopers and wounded ten more traveling in an convoy in the troubled tribal region of South Waziristan.

JABALYA, Gaza Strip (Reuters) - Israeli forces thrust into Gaza's largest refugee camp on Thursday, killing five Palestinians including a 9-year-old boy, as the army tightened its grip on the northern part of the coastal strip.

MIAMI (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Gaston raced out to sea on Tuesday after swamping Virginia and killing five people, while powerful Hurricane Frances roared toward the Bahamas and the U.S. East Coast with 140-mph winds.

(8/04)

MIAMI (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Gaston raced out to sea on Tuesday after swamping Virginia and killing five people, while Hurricane Frances roared toward the Bahamas with 135-mph winds.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Insurgents tried to assassinate Iraq's environment and education ministers in separate bombings on Tuesday that killed five of their bodyguards and wounded more than a dozen people, officials said.

FALLUJA, Iraq (Reuters) - A U.S. bombing raid on the restive Iraqi town of Falluja, west of Baghdad, overnight killed five people and wounded six, a hospital doctor said on Friday.

GAZA (Reuters) - A senior Hamas leader survived an Israeli assassination attempt in the Gaza Strip Wednesday but at least five other Palestinians were killed in the explosion that tore through his home.

LONDON (Reuters) - The five people killed after a tour bus plunged down an embankment in the Austrian Alps were British, Austrian emergency services said on Wednesday.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A car bomb attack on a police station south of Baghdad on Thursday killed at least five people and wounded 21, a health ministry official said.

(7/04)

HERAT, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A bomb blast killed at least five people and wounded 34 in the western Afghan city of Herat on Sunday, raising fresh concern about security for landmark elections in October.

FALLUJA, Iraq (Reuters) - Five people were killed in an explosion at a house in the Iraqi city of Falluja on Monday, residents said.

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TOKYO (Reuters) - Powerful typhoon Dianmu tore through South Korea and western Japan on Monday, lashing a wide area with strong winds and heavy rains, killing at least five people.

BAQUBA, Iraq (Reuters) - U.S. forces clashed with insurgents south of the town of Baquba on Friday in a second day of fighting in which several Iraqis have been killed, residents and the U.S. military said.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Five U.S. soldiers were killed when their vehicle came under attack in eastern Baghdad Friday, bringing to 601 the number of Americans killed in action since the invasion, the U.S. military said.

KABUL (Reuters) - Three foreign and two local aid workers were killed on Wednesday when gunmen opened fire on their car in the northwestern Afghan province of Badghis, the worst attack on the aid community since the fall of the Taliban.

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VIENNA (Reuters) - Five people drowned on Monday when a boat carrying mainly elderly German and Belgian tourists capsized in icy waters in Europe's largest underground lake, trapping some people underneath the vessel.

NAJAF, Iraq (Reuters) - Five Iraqis were killed and 14 wounded in clashes between U.S. troops and Shi'ite militiamen in the holy city of Najaf and in nearby Kufa on Friday, hospital sources said.

NAIROBI, Kenya (Reuters) - Five people were killed and 88 wounded when a bomb exploded in a western town in the tiny Red Sea state of Eritrea, U.N. sources said Thursday.

BEIRUT, Lebanon (Reuters) - About five people were killed and many more wounded Thursday after soldiers opened fire in a poor Beirut suburb during protests against soaring fuel prices that brought Lebanon to a near standstill.

BOGOTA, Colombia (Reuters) - A bomb that ripped through a discotheque packed with soccer fans in northern Colombia killed five people, including a 6-year-old girl, in an attack authorities blamed on Marxist rebels Sunday.

PARIS (Reuters) - Five people were killed when a large part of the roof of a new terminal collapsed at Paris' Charles de Gaulle airport on Sunday, trapping passengers under rubble and raising doubts about the showcase building's safety.

DUBAI (Reuters) - Four suspected Saudi militants and a policeman were killed in a shootout the Saudi city of Buraida on Thursday, an interior ministry statement said.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A suicide car bomb in Baghdad killed at least five people on Saturday and wounded a senior Interior Ministry official, five days after the head of Iraq's Governing Council was assassinated in a similar bombing.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Five Afghan Taliban guerrillas were killed when they attacked a U.S. military convoy in the southern province of Kandahar, a senior militant commander said on Thursday.

GAZA, Gaza Strip (Reuters) - Israeli forces killed five Palestinians in Gaza City Wednesday as troops blasted their way into buildings in a search for the bodies of six comrades blown up in an ambush.

GAZA (Reuters) - Palestinian militants blew up an armored vehicle killing five Israeli soldiers in the southern Gaza Strip on Wednesday, witnesses said, in the second deadly ambush against the Middle East's strongest army in as many days.

MELITOPOL, Ukraine (Reuters) - Explosions at an arms dump in southern Ukraine showered the area with shrapnel for a second day on Friday, hurling debris 40 km (25 miles) -- two-thirds of the way to a nuclear power plant. Five people died, one from a shrapnel blow to the head and four during the evacuation of more than 7,000 people after the blasts, officials said.

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Palestinian gunmen killed a pregnant Jewish settler and her four daughters Sunday, dimming Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's chances of winning party backing for a Gaza pullout in a vote begun hours earlier.

YANBU, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) - Workers at a petrochemical site used their passes to access the complex and kill five Western engineers in a shooting spree in the Saudi oil city of Yanbu on Saturday, the Interior Ministry said.

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KABUL (Reuters) - At least five government soldiers were killed in clashes with the ousted Taliban militia in Afghanistan's volatile Kandahar province, scene of a growing Taliban insurgency, a provincial official said on Friday.

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A bomb placed on a car by a passing motorcyclist killed five people outside Moscow's city center on Monday in what police said was a gangland killing.

SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - At least four people died and 35, including two state ministers, were hurt in a blast in Indian Kashmir on Thursday hours after troops killed the chief of a rebel group blamed for a raid on India's parliament.

KARACHI, Pakistan (Reuters) - At least 10 gunmen stormed into a police station in the southern Pakistan city of Karachi on Sunday, killing five policemen and wounding one after demanding the officers recite Islamic verses, police said.

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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Five soldiers of the U.S.-led occupation force in Iraq were killed on Wednesday when their vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb west of Baghdad, a U.S. military spokesman said.

MUSSAYAB, Iraq (Reuters) - Gunmen shot and killed at least five Iraqi police trainees Tuesday as they headed to work in the town of Hilla, south of Baghdad, witnesses and hospital officials said.

ABASSAN AL-KABIRA, Gaza Strip (Reuters) - Israeli troops swept into a Gaza Strip village before dawn on Sunday to arrest a senior Hamas militant. By the time the raid ended, five Palestinians were dead, including the militant and his wife.

DAMASCUS (Reuters) - Five people, including three children, were killed and more than 100 injured on Friday after fighting erupted at a premier league football match in the northeast Syrian town of Kameshli, hospital officials said.

JENIN, West Bank (Reuters) - The Israeli army staged its deadliest West Bank raid in months Wednesday, killing five Palestinian gunmen in violence that overshadowed a new round of international diplomacy.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Reuters) - Suspected supporters of exiled Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide sprayed gunfire into a crowd of thousands of jubilant revelers outside the National Palace on Sunday, killing at least five people, including a Spanish journalist, and wounding 19.

BALTIMORE (Reuters) - As many as five people were feared drowned when a water-taxi filled with tourists capsized in Baltimore harbor in a brief but fierce storm on Saturday, rescue officials said. Two people were confirmed to have died and three were missing, presumed dead, after a freak wind flipped the 36-foot (11-meter) boat over during a "microburst" thunderstorm on Baltimore's scenic Inner Harbor, city officials said.

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KABUL (Reuters) - Suspected Islamic militants shot dead five Afghan aid workers near Kabul on the eve of a visit by the U.S. defense secretary, the worst such attack since the overthrow of the Taliban in 2001.

LIRA, Uganda (Reuters) - Five people were killed in a northern Ugandan town Wednesday when a peace march to protest the massacre of more than 200 people turned into a riot marred by ethnic lynchings and gunfire, witnesses said.

DUBAI (Reuters) - At least five expatriate workers were killed when a one-story building under construction collapsed in the United Arab Emirates Thursday, police said.

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TIKRIT, Iraq (Reuters) - Guerrillas killed three U.S. soldiers and two Iraqi officials on Saturday, taking the death toll of U.S. soldiers in Iraq to 500 since the war to oust Saddam Hussein began last March.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A car bomb exploded outside a police station in central Iraq Wednesday, killing five people and wounding nearly 30, while the U.S. military said it had captured one of Saddam Hussein's top lieutenants.

(AP) - A female Palestinian suicide bomber blew herself up Wednesday at the major crossing point between Israel and the Gaza Strip, killing at least four Israelis and wounding seven other people, Israeli rescue services and media said. The bomber set off the explosion in the area where thousands of Palestinian laborers and foreigners pass between Israel and the coastal strip, Israeli officials said. Four of the wounded were Palestinians, the army said.

ELKRIDGE, Md. - Authorities reopened the northbound lanes of Interstate 95 early Wednesday after a fiery explosion killed five, tied up traffic for hours and left debris from mangled vehicles scattered over a major East Coast highway.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - British troops and Iraqi police opened fire on stone-throwing protesters demanding jobs in the southeastern city of Amara on Saturday and at least five people were killed in the violence.

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KIRKUK, Iraq (Reuters) - At least five Iraqis were killed and more than 20 wounded Wednesday when gunfire erupted during a demonstration in Kirkuk, where Kurds are bidding for more control of the oil-rich northern city.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A car bomb devastated a Baghdad restaurant crowded with New Year revelers Wednesday, killing at least five Iraqis and wounding more than 20 people including Westerners, officials said.

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Fireworks exploded inside a flour mill in the Pakistani city of Rawalpindi on Saturday, killing at least five people, officials and rescue workers said.

NABLUS, West Bank (Reuters) - Israeli soldiers killed five armed Palestinian militants during gun battles in the West Bank city of Nablus early Thursday, Palestinian sources said.

FALLUJA, Iraq (Reuters) - U.S. forces killed five Iraqis in a spate of attacks during riots by supporters of Saddam Hussein in two restive towns west of Baghdad Monday, the U.S. military said Tuesday.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A bomb exploded in the middle of a busy Baghdad road on Friday, killing an American soldier and at least four Iraqis ahead of a visit by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.

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KABUL (Reuters) - A U.S. military helicopter crashed on Sunday near the American military headquarters in Afghanistan, killing five personnel and injuring seven, the U.S. Central Command said.

FALLUJA, Iraq (Reuters) - U.S. soldiers opened fire on a truck coming back from a chicken farm near the tense Iraqi town of Falluja, killing five people and wounding three, relatives and hospital officials said Wednesday.

MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Afghanistan (Reuters) - At least five soldiers have been killed in the latest outbreak of fighting between factions loyal to President Hamid Karzai in Afghanistan's restive north, a faction official said on Saturday.

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MANILA (Reuters) - Five hostages seized from a Malaysian beach resort this month are believed to have been killed by their captors in the southern Philippines, police said on Tuesday, citing a sixth hostage who escaped.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed himself and at least four others in Iraq Tuesday, as foreign aid workers agonized over whether to quit the country in the aftermath of Monday's 35-death bloodbath in Baghdad.

RAFAH, Gaza Strip (Reuters) - Israeli troops and Palestinian gunmen clashed in Gaza Strip's Rafah refugee camp on Friday and a military commander reported five Palestinian gunmen were killed in the fighting.

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Gunmen killed five people in an attack on a vehicle in the Pakistani capital Islamabad on Monday, police and a medical charity said.

PAKISTAN: Five Shiites were killed and seven were injured -- all employees of a defense research body called Space and Upper Atmospheric Research Organization (SUPARCO) -- in a drive-by shooting Oct. 3 in Karachi, Agence France-Presse reported.

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AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A maintenance worker died and four others were feared dead on Monday after they fell into a boiler at a Dutch power plant, officials said.

KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Five people were killed by suspected Maoist rebels in Nepal on Thursday as a strike called by the guerrillas shut down the Himalayan kingdom.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Five Afghan government soldiers were killed and two American soldiers wounded in a series of attacks in south and east Afghanistan, officials said Monday.

SKOPJE (Reuters) - Macedonia said Sunday several gunmen were killed in a clash with security forces seeking to root out ethnic Albanian militants in the country's mountainous north near U.N.-run Kosovo.

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Five people were killed and at least 11 hurt on Wednesday when an explosion ripped through an early morning commuter train near the southern region of Chechnya, the emergencies ministry said.

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BANGKOK (Reuters) - Unidentified gunmen attacked a bus in northern Laos, killing five passengers and wounding more than 10 others, state-owned radio reported on Tuesday.

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RIYADH (Reuters) - Four policemen and a Muslim militant were killed in clashes in Riyadh Tuesday after Saudi security forces raided a militant stronghold in the city, Saudi security sources said.

RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi security sources said four policemen and a Muslim militant were killed in fighting in Riyadh on Tuesday, the second major clash between police and fundamentalists in the capital in three days

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Four days after U.S. troops killed several passers-by in Baghdad during the hunt for Saddam Hussein, the U.S. commander in Iraq admitted Thursday that innocent people had died, but stopped short of accepting blame. U.S. soldiers and medical staff at a nearby hospital told Reuters five men, including a teen-ager, were killed.

NAZRAN, Russia (Reuters) - A bomb struck a Russian troop convoy near Chechnya, killing five soldiers, officials said on Wednesday, after Moscow announced a tactical change in its campaign to crush a decade of separatist insurrection.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. troops hunting Saddam Hussein carried out a bloody raid on a villa in central Baghdad on Sunday, killing five people, but there was no sign of the deposed former Iraqi dictator, witnesses said.

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BAGRAM, Afghanistan (Reuters) - U.S.-led forces killed five Afghans in a firefight on a stretch of road dubbed "ambush alley" in eastern Afghanistan, a U.S. military official said on Thursday.

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Gunmen shot down two Mexican government helicopters on Monday, killing all five people aboard, as they set out to spray illegal opium poppy crops in the southern state of Guerrero on Monday.

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli troops shot dead two Palestinian gunmen trying to infiltrate a Jewish settlement near the West Bank city of Hebron on Friday shortly after militants killed three Israelis in a neighboring settlement, military sources said.

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BOGOTA, Colombia (Reuters) - Rescue teams on Tuesday found the wreckage of a small plane that disappeared last week and said Colombia's welfare minister and four other people aboard the aircraft were feared dead.

SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - Indian security forces shot dead five suspected Muslim rebels as they tried to sneak into Indian Kashmir from Pakistan, police said Tuesday.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Five Afghan soldiers were killed and four wounded when their vehicle ran over a mine on Saturday in the southwestern province of Nimroz. Provincial spokesman Haji Mohammad Sarwar said the blast occurred near Charborjak district in the southern part of the province at about 1.30 p.m. He said the mine could have been an old one left over from Afghanistan's long years of war.

GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli forces killed five Palestinians in separate incidents on Wednesday, including the stepmother of a militant who was crushed to death when Israeli forces razed their Gaza home, Palestinian sources said.

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DENVER - Shards of airplane metal and house siding lay scattered across an eight-block area Saturday after two small planes crashed, killing all five people aboard and injuring six on the ground as debris rained down on homes and streets.

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - At least five people were killed in a powerful earthquake that rocked Mexico on Tuesday night, an Interior Ministry source said.

MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Five people were killed and four injured in separate clashes between rival Afghan factions and Afghan army troops and suspected Taliban militiamen, officials said on Thursday.

ZAMBOANGA, Philippines (Reuters) - At least five Muslim guerrillas were killed in a clash with government troops in the southern Philippines, military officials said on Saturday.

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MESA, Ariz. (Reuters) - Five members of a family, including a 3-year-old boy apparently found in his mother's arms, were killed on Tuesday in a shooting spree played out inside their suburban Phoenix home, authorities said.

KATHMANDU, Nepal (Reuters) - Five people were killed on Sunday and more than 30 were injured when Maoist rebels blew up a bus in east Nepal, police said.

DILI (Reuters) - As many as five protesters were shot dead in the East Timor capital of Dili Wednesday when hundreds of students clashed with police near parliament, a witness said.

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QUITO, Ecuador (Reuters) - An explosion ripped through a munitions storage site on Wednesday at an army barracks in Ecuador's Andean highlands, leaving five dead and more than 200 wounded, officials reported.

TULKARM, West Bank (Reuters) - Israeli troops backed by armor killed a Palestinian militant and four passers-by during a clash in the West Bank city of Tulkarm on Tuesday, Palestinian witnesses and hospital officials said.

KINGSTON, Jamaica (Reuters) - A group of gunmen opened fire on crowds of shoppers in three sections of Jamaica's capital, killing five, wounding 15 and spurring authorities to send more than 100 police and soldiers into the streets to prevent reprisals, police said on Sunday.

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A suspected Palestinian gunman killed at least five people in a kibbutz in northern Israel, hours after a double suicide bombing was foiled in the same area near the West Bank border, police sources said on Monday.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Reuters) - Severe storms and tornadoes ripped through Tennessee and Ohio on Sunday, killing at least five people and leaving behind a trail of damage and downed power lines, officials said.

JAKARTA (Reuters) - An Indonesian ferry packed with more than 200 passengers sank off the country's volatile eastern city of Ambon late on Sunday night, leaving five people dead and 73 missing, a government official said.

CHAMAN, Pakistan (Reuters) - Five soldiers have been killed and nine injured in renewed clashes between fighters of rival factions in western Afghanistan, one of the factions said.

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(AP) - At least five people were killed Friday in Hindu-Muslim rioting and police gunfire after riots broke out during a general strike to protest remarks by a U.S. religious leader calling the founder of Islam a terrorist.

BOMBAY (Reuters) - Five people were killed in a western Indian city Friday in clashes between Hindus and Muslims sparked off by protests against remarks by U.S. pastor Jerry Falwell criticizing the Prophet Mohammad, police said.

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NORFOLK, Neb. (Reuters) - Four bank employees and a customer were shot to death during an apparent robbery on Thursday, and police believe they have captured three suspects who fled the scene in Norfolk in a stolen car.

SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - Indian forces killed five suspected militants trying to cross into Indian Kashmir from Pakistan on Wednesday, police said, as tension between the nuclear-armed rivals was stoked by an attack on an Indian temple.

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Five people, including two women, were killed in clashes between two rival tribes over land in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, an Afghan news agency reported.

MOSCOW (Reuters) - The explosion of a World War II mine at the site of the Stalingrad battle killed five boys who apparently tried to dismantle it, Russian police said on Saturday.

NOGINSK, Russia (Reuters) - A Russian Ka-26 helicopter crashed outside Moscow Sunday, killing all five people on board, including a child, local officials said.

BANGOR, Mich. (Reuters) - Five people, including two young children, were killed on Sunday when the Michigan farmhouse they had moved into earlier this weekend was blown apart in a predawn explosion.

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GAZA (Reuters) - Fresh violence in the West Bank and Gaza Strip brought to at least five the number of deaths over the weekend, as U.S. and Palestinian officials held security talks in Washington which Yasser Arafat called "very positive."

DALLAS (Reuters) - Five people, including three children, were shot and killed in a Dallas home on Sunday in what police are calling a "horrific" case of domestic violence.

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(AP) - A suicide attack in Tel Aviv Wednesday night killed three bystanders and injured more than 40, police said. A witness said two suicide bombers blew themselves up a few seconds apart. Tel Aviv police commander Yossi Sedbon said the attack occurred on Neve Shaanan street in the southern part of the downtown area. Ambulances and police raced to the scene and closed off the area.

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COLOMBO (Reuters) - Five people were killed and dozens injured in clashes between ethnic minority Tamils and members of the Muslim community in eastern Sri Lanka, officials said on Friday.

DALLAS (Reuters) - Five people were killed and about 35 others injured, one critically, on Monday when a bus carrying students to a religious summer camp slammed head-on into a bridge pillar on a highway east of Dallas.

MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan/JAMMU, India (Reuters) - At least five people were killed as Pakistani and Indian troops traded heavy fire in disputed Kashmir on Friday, hours after Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld ended a peace mission to the region, Pakistani officials said.

TORONTO (Reuters) - Five people were killed on Friday when a commuter train slammed into a minivan at a railway crossing in southern Ontario, raising questions about whether the barriers had dropped as the train approached, Canadian police said.

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JAMMU, India (Reuters) - Indian security forces killed two suspected Muslim separatist militants on Thursday, ending a siege at a police camp in disputed Kashmir after the rebels shot dead three policemen, officials said.

BAGRAM AIR BASE (Reuters) - U.S. special forces killed five suspected al Qaeda or Taliban militants and detained 32 others in a raid on a compound in southern Afghanistan, military officials said Monday.

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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The Israeli army said an undercover unit shot dead five Palestinian policemen in a car near Hebron in the West Bank on Thursday, but Palestinian security officials put the toll at one dead and four wounded.

TUNIS (Reuters) - A truck exploded near a Jewish shrine in the southern Tunisian island of Djerba on Thursday, killing at least five people and wounding 20, witnesses said.

TOMS RIVER, N.J. (Reuters) - An off-duty police officer apparently went on a shooting rampage, killing five people in Toms River, New Jersey, late on Tuesday before escaping into the night, police said.

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MERCED, Calif. (Reuters) - A former California sheriff's deputy shot and killed his ex-wife's four children -- including his own 5-year-old daughter -- on Tuesday before killing himself in an apparent suicide, police said.

ROME (Reuters) - Five U.S. citizens, including three children and all of them members of one family, died in a collision between their car and a truck Monday.

GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli troops killed five Palestinians in fighting on Saturday as aides to Yasser Arafat said he would go to an Arab summit in Beirut after three months of confinement by Israel.

(Reuters) - At least five people were crushed to death when a building housing a school collapsed in a crowded Beirut commercial district on Saturday, showering chunks of concrete on the street below, witnesses and officials said.

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (Reuters) - A 54-year-old man went on a shooting rampage and killed four people on Friday at an Indiana aircraft parts plant where he worked, then took his own life during a violent police chase, officials said.

(AP) - Two attackers hurled grenades into a Protestant church filled with Sunday worshippers in a diplomatic enclave, killing five people including two Americans and wounding about 45, most of them foreigners.

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SELMA, Calif. (AP) -- At least five people were killed and 40 injured Tuesday morning in a 40-vehicle accident on fog-shrouded Highway 99 south of Fresno, fire officials said. The chain-reaction crash began at 7:14 a.m. when a car crossed the southbound lanes into oncoming traffic, said California Highway Patrol Officer Kirk Arnold.

(AP) - Five Palestinian gunmen were killed in the Gaza Strip on Monday in what Palestinian officials said was a targeted Israeli missile attack at their car. The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a radical PLO faction, said it would avenge the five members of its military wing.

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ARDMORE, Pa. (AP) -- A man shot his wife, her parents and his stepdaughter to death before killing himself at their home in this Philadelphia suburb, police said. A woman made a desperate phone call summoning police to the home Tuesday, but the line was disconnected as the rampage began, Lower Merion Township Police Superintendent Joseph Daly said.

FREETOWN (Reuters) - Five U.N. peacekeepers from Zambia were killed and 13 others wounded in Sierra Leone when a box of mortar shells they were moving accidentally blew up, U.N. officials said Sunday.

ATHENS (Reuters) - Freak winter storms paralyzed swathes of southeastern Europe on Saturday, claiming five lives and prompting Greece and Bulgaria to declare a state of emergency in some areas.

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SACRAMENTO -- Authorities have found the remains of a five-month-old infant who is now confirmed as the fifth victim in a fatal big-rig crash south of Sacramento. The fiery crash injured two others and shut down a busy highway for most of Wednesday. Investigators searched most of the day Thursday for the infant's remains after they received late word that a women who was killed in a passenger vehicle in the crash may have had the child with her.

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli troops killed four Palestinians in a West Bank raid and a Palestinian suicide bomber wounded at least eight people on Sunday, dealing more bloody blows to Middle East peacemaking.

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HAVANA (AP) -- Cuba -- its economy already battered by a drop in tourism -- began adding up the damages Tuesday from Hurricane Michelle, which killed at least five people, flooded crops, destroyed at least 2,000 homes and crippled the island's infrastructure.

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GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli warplanes soared over Palestinian territory to destroy three security buildings on Sunday and tanks and bulldozers roared across it to level others to retaliate for the deaths of three soldiers and two settlers.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- Sacramento County Sheriff Lou Blanas offered a $10,000 reward Tuesday as police continue their search for a Ukrainian immigrant suspected in the stabbing deaths of his pregnant wife and four other relatives.

BOGOTA, Colombia (Reuters) - Colombian troops on Friday launched an offensive against leftist guerrillas in reprisal over rebel attacks that killed five people and injured 39 others. The fighting followed the government's suspension of peace efforts with the country's second largest guerrilla force, the National Liberation Army (ELN).

DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) - Five Tanzanian policemen were feared dead after their boat capsized during an anti-smuggling patrol near the island of Pemba, police said on Saturday. The accident happened Friday night between Pemba, the smaller of the two main Zanzibar islands, and the mainland port of Tanga, Zanzibar's police commissioner Khalid Nuizan told Reuters.

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HOUSTON (Reuters) - A 36-year-old woman suffering a long bout of postpartum depression was charged with killing her five children in their Houston home Wednesday, a crime that could have her facing the death penalty.

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CHICAGO (AP) -- Five children age 5 and under who had apparently been left alone were killed in an apartment fire, police said. Antoine Lee, the father of some of the children and stepfather of the rest, was charged with five counts of child endangerment, police spokesman Kevin Haley said.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A U.S. Navy F/A-18 jet accidentally dropped a bomb on a group of military personnel at a bombing range in Kuwait on Monday, killing five people, including four Americans, Pentagon officials said.

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MELROSE PARK, Ill. (AP) -- Gunfire broke out at a Navistar engine plant Monday morning, and five people were killed, authorities said. Four others were injured, two of them critically, hospital officials said. No details were immediately available on those killed.

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Heavy clashes in Gaza Strip; five Palestinians killed overall KHAN YUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) -- Crouching behind sandbags at the entrance to a refugee camp, Palestinian gunmen waged an intense nine-hour firefight with Israeli troops on Wednesday, one of the heaviest gunbattles in weeks. Four Palestinian policemen were killed and dozens of civilians were injured.

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LINO LAKES, Minn. (AP) -- Police searched Friday for an ex-convict suspected of killing his sister, her husband and their three young children. The man had allegedly vowed to ``kill everyone before they kill me.''

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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Two brothers and a roomate accused of killing five people in a botched extortion plot spent weeks planning the crime and buying supplies, including a handgun, power saw, shackles, ski masks and gym bags, prosecutors alleged Wednesday.

LUCKNOW, India (Reuters) - At least five people were killed and 70 to 80 injured when a bomb ripped through the last carriage of a night train in northern India Monday, police and rail authorities said.

HYDERABAD, India (Reuters) - Five people died after they were beaten and set alight in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh by villagers who suspected them of witchcraft, police said Thursday.

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SOMERVILLE, Texas (AP) -- Three children wading in a lake stepped over the edge of a drop-off, and they and two adults who went to rescue them all drowned or were missing and presumed drowned.

SOFIA, July 7 (Reuters) - Record heat has killed five people in Bulgaria since Thursday and triggered fires across the country that damaged forests and crops, officials said on Friday.

MOJAVE, Calif. (AP) -- A wrong-way crash on a Mojave Desert highway Wednesday killed five people in two cars, which exploded in flame on impact, the California Highway Patrol said.

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TOKYO (AP) -- A Japanese military plane carrying five Air Self-Defense Force soldiers crashed into the sea Wednesday while on a test flight off Japan's western coast, officials said. The agency and the Coast Guard sent eight planes and 11 patrol vessels to the crash site in the Sea of Japan, but none of the C-1 transport plane's crew members have been found.

LAS VEGAS (AP) -- Five people were killed and five injured when a car slammed head-on into a sport utility vehicle on a deadly stretch of state Highway 160 near the scenic Red Rock Canyon Conservation area.

ACCRA, Ghana (AP) -- A Ghanaian military plane operating as a passenger airliner crashed today as it was landing in the capital of this West African country, killing at least five people, airport officials said.

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NEW YORK (AP) -- Two robbers walked into a Wendy's restaurant at closing time and bound, gagged and shot seven employees, killing five. Officers searching for the killers used bloodhounds as they fanned out through the neighborhood near Shea Stadium.

WALKERTON, Ontario (AP) -- E. coli bacteria in a southern Ontario town's water supply has killed four elderly adults and an infant and sickened hundreds more. Six people were in critical condition and dozens of other victims were hospitalized today and officials warned that more infections were likely in coming days.

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ROYAL OAK TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) -- An overnight house fire in suburban Detroit killed five children and injured four others, authorities said. Police said a woman, her eight children and a niece were inside the house when the fire broke out late Thursday.

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BAHIA DE LOS ANGELES, Mexico -- A boat full of college researchers studying spiders and scorpions capsized off the coast of Baja California, killing three and prompting an international search for two others.

IRVING, Texas (AP) -- Police today arrested a former car wash employee suspected of fatally shooting five former co-workers and critically wounding a sixth during an apparent robbery at the shop where he was fired three days earlier.

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WARRENSBURG, Mo. -- A woman and four of her six children were shot and killed Monday morning at their rural home, a crime that appalled friends and neighbors unfamiliar with such violence.

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RENA, Norway (AP) -- Searchers found five more bodies today in the twisted, charred wreckage of two passenger trains, and police gave up hope of finding any survivors amidst the debris.

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BOGOTA - At least five convicts were feared shot to death in a gang fight in Bogota's notoriously violent La Modelo prison Wednesday evening, police said. TV images showed prison guards armed with shotguns taking up positions around the prison perimeter as scores of heavily armed riot police and three light tanks cordoned off the area in a working-class district of central Bogota.

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A Learjet carrying golf champion Payne Stewart flew uncontrolled over the nation's heartland for hours today before crashing in South Dakota, killing everyone aboard. Government officials said the plane, believed to have five people on board, may have suffered a pressurization failure.

NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico (AP) -- An explosion in a candy store illegally selling fireworks killed at least five people in the border city of Nuevo Laredo, Mexico's second fatal fireworks accident in a month.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- Fire tore through a single-story wood-and-brick home, killing a mother, her three young children and a 7-year-old relative. A 19-year-old neighbor, Vincent Clark, said he heard a woman's screams around midnight Tuesday, looked out the window and saw smoke. He called his cousin, grabbed a baseball bat and went next door.

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BAYPORT, Minn. (AP) -- Divers pulled two more bodies from the murky St. Croix River, completing their search for five victims of a weekend pleasure boat collision. The victims found Monday two 26-year-old men. The three other victims, all men in their early 30s, were found on Saturday and Sunday.

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DILI, East Timor (Reuters) - The United Nations said Monday five East Timorese civilians were slaughtered by pro-Jakarta militiamen in ``a brutal attack'' as villagers prepared for a church service in the territory.

Five dead, up to 100 injured in Wichita, Haysville // WICHITA, Kan. (AP) -- The howling storm ripped the roof off the Karr home as the family huddled in terror and disbelief. ``I was freaked out at that point. I was scared for my life,'' said 13-year-old Courtney Karr, who cowered with her 15-year-old sister, Jessie, and their parents as a killer tornado ripped their house apart.

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KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) -- Demonstrators protesting a sharp increase in gasoline taxes looted stores and stoned motorists in the Jamaican capital, leaving at least five people dead from gunshot wounds and two dozen injured.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (Reuters) - Police Tuesday were searching for the resident of a house where the decomposing bodies of five men were found in a grisly scene that ranks as one of the city's worst mass murders.

OTTAWA (AP) -- A former employee of Ottawa's transport agency shot dead four people at the city's main bus garage Tuesday, then killed himself with his high-powered rifle, police said.

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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - NATO said Monday that five prominent Kosovo Albanians, including Fehmi Agani, a member of the delegation to peace talks in France, had been executed. NATO military spokesman Air Commodore David Wilby told a news conference that reliable sources reported that, apart from Agani, four other prominent Albanians had been put to death on Sunday, including Baton Haxhiu, editor in chief of the main Kosovo Albanian newspaper, Koha Ditore.

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NE USA (AP) -- Severe storms kill 5 people in Northeast -- Thousands of customers had no electricity today in parts of five states after thunderstorms raked the Northeast with wind up to 100 mph, killing five people.

MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Heavy rains swelled rivers in central Mexico and triggered mudslides in Mexico City which killed five people and injured four others Monday. A stream of mud roared down gullies and swept away three homes in a squatter community perched on the steep hillsides south of the capital.

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