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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The US military on Tuesday reported the deaths of six soldiers in three separate roadside bomb attacks in Iraq.
LONDON (Reuters) - Rescue workers recovered six bodies after a helicopter carrying gas rig workers went down off the northwest English coast on Wednesday, police said.
MUAR, Malaysia (Reuters) - Relentless floods in southern Malaysia have now killed six people and forced around 75,000 from their homes, national media said on Friday.
GAZA (Reuters) - Gun battles between Hamas forces and those loyal to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah raged on Tuesday in the Gaza Strip, where six fighters were killed before both sides issued new pledges to hold their fire.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Pacific Northwest was on Saturday recovering from a violent windstorm as about 500,000 remained without power, officials said. Harper said the storm's death toll in Washington may rise from the four deaths reported on Friday. Local media reports said two more deaths were linked to the storm but Harper said the state's official count remained at four.
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NUKU'ALOFA (Reuters) - At least six bodies were found in the riot-torn Tongan capital on Friday as rescue workers searched buildings and shops torched and looted during violence in the South Pacific island kingdom the previous day.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Six U.S. soldiers were killed on Tuesday in operations in Iraq's volatile western Anbar province and the Iraqi capital, the U.S. military said on Wednesday.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A car bomb in central Baghdad killed six people and wounded 28 more on Thursday, an interior ministry source said.
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COLOMBO (Reuters) - The Sri Lankan navy destroyed two Tamil Tiger boats on Saturday off an island in the country's restive north, killing six rebels, a naval spokesman said, the second military engagement at sea in less than 24 hours.
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - Six people were killed and 31 wounded when a bomb hit a crowded shopping area in Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar on Friday, the sixth such explosion in the city in a month, police said.
LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Several Afghans were killed when a suicide bomber threw himself at a NATO patrol in southern Afghanistan on Thursday.
HILLA, Iraq (Reuters) - A bomb planted inside a police station in the Iraqi city of Hilla on Friday killed six people, including the commander of a local special police force, police said.
GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli forces killed six Palestinian gunmen in clashes in the northern Gaza Strip on Saturday, Palestinian security sources said.
KABUL (Reuters) - At least six people, including a member of the provincial assembly, were killed in separate attacks in Afghanistan on Sunday, officials said.
MANILA (Reuters) - At least six people were killed and more than 40 were wounded in two separate bomb blasts in the southern Philippines on Tuesday, officials said, pointing to the possible involvement of Muslim militants.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - At least six people were killed when a bus carrying an ice hockey team crashed and caught fire in a tunnel in eastern Switzerland on Saturday, police said.
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Six children were killed early Sunday morning, and their mother and three siblings seriously injured, when a fire believed to be started by a candle tore through an apartment with no electricity or smoke detectors, authorities said.
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GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli troops killed six Palestinians and wounded more than a dozen in attacks on militants in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank on Tuesday, medics and witnesses said.
JAFFNA, Sri Lanka (Reuters) - The Red Cross evacuated foreigners from Sri Lanka's northern Jaffna peninsula and troops delivered aid on Saturday after a two-week siege, but the army said a bomb left by withdrawing rebels killed six soldiers.
MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine troops killed at least 6 Muslim guerrillas after a dawn swoop on their camp on the remote southwestern island of Jolo, a senior military official said on Thursday.
VILLADA, Spain (Reuters) - An inter-city train plowed off the tracks in northwest Spain and crashed on Monday, killing six people and injuring 36, officials said.
HERAT, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Taliban guerrillas killed six Afghan policemen in an ambush on Tuesday, officials said, in the latest incident in the bloodiest phase of Afghan violence since the Taliban were overthrown.
JERICHO, West Bank (Reuters) - Palestinian gunmen dressed in police uniforms broke into a prison in the West Bank city of Jericho on Friday and shot dead six Palestinian inmates, security sources said.
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GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli forces targeting gunmen killed five civilians in Gaza on Thursday, Palestinian medical workers said, while police at a checkpoint in south Jerusalem killed a Palestinian who shot at them.
GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli forces killed five Palestinian militants and a civilian in a series of strikes in Gaza on Sunday, pressing an offensive designed to stop armed groups from firing rockets into Israel.
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - At least six people were killed on Friday in the town of Baidoa in fighting between local militiamen and bodyguards of Somalia's interim president, local journalists said.
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CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) - At least six Venezuelan inmates were killed and 11 were wounded when criminal gangs fought each other for internal control of a prison, authorities said on Tuesday.
ONITSHA, Nigeria (Reuters) - At least six people were killed in the southeast Nigerian city of Onitsha when a feud between a separatist group and a transport union degenerated into street battles, residents said on Saturday.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A roadside bomb targeting a bus taking workers to Iraq's industry ministry killed six people and wounded 12 others on Monday, official sources said.
BOGOTA, Colombia (Reuters) - Six members of the same family, including one child, were murdered by having their throats slit in northern Colombia on Tuesday, a crime that authorities said may have been carried out by a satanic cult.
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MOGADISHU (Reuters) - A new outbreak of fighting between rival militias in the Somali capital Mogadishu killed at least six people including two civilians early on Wednesday, residents said.
QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani police detained close to 30 suspects in overnight raids following a series of land mine blasts that killed six fellow officers in the country's troubled southwest, officials said on Friday.
QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) - At least six policemen were killed and 13 wounded on Thursday in five blasts at a police training school in Pakistan's troubled southwest, police and hospital sources said.
AHMEDABAD, India (Reuters) - A Hindu mob burned to death a Muslim man in his car in new violence in a western Indian city early on Wednesday, raising the toll in clashes sparked by demolition of a Sufi shrine to six, police said.
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KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Nepali troops killed six civilians on Wednesday, after opening fire on a crowd in the east of the country demonstrating about the alleged killing of a woman by soldiers, army officers said.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African police launched a hunt on Wednesday for a gang of men who stormed moving commuter trains, randomly attacked passengers and tossed six to their deaths.
KATHMANDU (Reuters) - At least five Maoist rebels and a Nepali soldier were killed when hundreds of rebels stormed an eastern town overnight, the army said on Monday, as a fresh curfew was clamped on the capital to thwart anti-king protests.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi police found the bodies of six young men, bound and with bullet holes in their heads, on Sunday in Baghdad's violent Sunni district of Adhamiya, where sectarian tensions sparked fierce gun battles last week.
KABUL (Reuters) - U.S. and Afghan government troops killed six insurgents on Wednesday in a fresh offensive to clear militants from a violence-plagued eastern province, the U.S. military said.
MUSAYIB, Iraq (Reuters) - A car bomb killed at least six Shi'ite pilgrims south of Baghdad on Saturday, the latest in a wave of attacks that had prompted a fresh warning against civil war in Iraq.
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LAGOS (Reuters) - Six members of a Nigerian separatist group were killed in a clash with police in southeastern Anambra state after they tried to stop people from being counted in a census, police said on Wednesday.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A roadside bomb killed six people and wounded eight on Thursday in Baghdad's western Amriya district, a Sunni insurgent stronghold, police and hospital officials said.
LA PAZ, Bolivia (Reuters) - Six Argentine military officials were killed on Thursday when their plane crashed as it was taking off from El Alto airport near La Paz, a Bolivian air force official told local radio.
KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Hundreds of Maoist rebels raided a town in eastern Nepal, bombing government buildings and freeing dozens of prisoners from a local jail, officials said on Monday. At least six people -- three Maoists, one civilian, a police officer and a soldier -- were killed in the overnight attack in Ilam, a tea-growing area bordering India, about 600 km (375 miles) east of Kathmandu, they said.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi President Jalal Talabani said on Monday he would convene parliament in six days, but political wrangling and violence means there is little chance of forming a government of national unity any time soon. As Talabani met a constitutional requirement to summon parliament after elections in December, a car bomb north of Baghdad killed six people, including two children.
KINSHASA (Reuters) - U.N. troops killed several militia fighters during heavy clashes in eastern Congo after a joint operation with the government army was aborted by a mutiny among its soldiers, the world body said on Monday.
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Six people were killed and 38 wounded in a mortar attack on a southern Baghdad neighborhood on Sunday, police and hospital sources said.
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (Reuters) - A gang turf war broke out when 40 armed men invaded Rio de Janeiro's largest slum, killing at least six people as the city prepares for a Rolling Stones concert and Carnival, police said on Thursday.
BOGOTA, Colombia (Reuters) - Left-wing Colombian rebels massacred a family of six in the northern province of Antioquia, including an 80-year-old woman, authorities said on Sunday.
GAZA (Reuters) - Israel killed the top bombmaker for Islamic Jihad and another gunman in an air raid in Gaza City on Sunday, security sources said, hours after an Israeli and three other militants died in a fresh surge of Middle East violence.
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A roadside bomb killed six Afghan policemen and wounded five on Sunday in the southern province of Kandahar, a provincial official said.
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BRASILIA, Brazil (Reuters) - At least six people died in a prison riot in northwestern Brazil and inmates took the penitentiary's director and head of security hostage as they were trying to negotiate, police said on Tuesday.
NAIROBI (Reuters) - A building under construction collapsed in Nairobi on Monday, killing six people, injuring at least 70 and trapping scores more under mounds of heavy debris.
ACAPULCO, Mexico (Reuters) - Drug gangs mowed down three people in a drive-by shooting in Acapulco on Friday, a day after members of a drug cartel in the northern border town of Nuevo Laredo murdered 3 others and set their bodies on fire.
BOGOTA, Colombia (Reuters) - Colombian soldiers killed at least six Marxist rebels in combat on Friday even as the leaders of the guerrilla group prepared for a second round of preliminary peace talks next month, the army said.
CAIRO (Reuters) - Six Australians were killed and 25 injured when a tourist bus overturned 46 kilometres outside of Cairo, Egyptian security sources said on Wednesday.
BAQUBA, Iraq (Reuters) - A suicide bomber rammed his car into a bus full of policemen north of Baghdad on Monday, killing at least five and seriously injuring another 13, a hospital source said.
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - At least six inmates died in a prison riot on Saturday in the notorious northern Mexican city of Ciudad Juarez, the Reforma daily said on its Web site.
NETANYA, Israel (Reuters) - A Palestinian suicide bomber killed five people outside an Israeli shopping mall on Monday, and Israel ordered its army to hit militant leaders behind the attack.
COLOMBO (Reuters) - Six soldiers were killed in a claymore fragmentation mine attack by suspected Tamil Tiger rebels in Sri Lanka's war-torn north on Sunday, the military said -- the deadliest in a spate of attacks since a 2002 ceasefire.
ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria has apologized to the families of six people who were shot dead by police and offered them 3 million naira ($22,600) each, setting a precedent in a country where police brutality is a fact of daily life.
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KARACHI (Reuters) - A car bomb killed at least six people on Tuesday in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi, according to an ambulance crew at the scene.
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - An explosion tore through a convoy of cars carrying Somalia's Prime Minister Mohamed Ali Gedi in Mogadishu on Sunday killing six but leaving him unhurt, hospital sources and residents said.
BUHRIZ, Iraq (Reuters) - Guerrilla fighters in Iraq mounted a massed dawn assault on a fortified police checkpoint north of Baghdad on Friday, killing six officers and wounding 10, police officials said.
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HADERA, Israel (Reuters) - A Palestinian suicide bomber killed five people in a crowded market in an Israeli coastal city on Wednesday in the first such attack since Israel's pullout from Gaza last month.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Six U.S. soldiers were killed in two bomb attacks around Baghdad on Monday and in the far west there were angry accusations of civilian deaths in a U.S. air strike that targeted al Qaeda fighters coming in from Syria.
KABUL (Reuters) - Guerrillas in Afghanistan ambushed a U.S. military convoy with rocket-propelled grenades and six people traveling in a car nearby were killed, a government spokesman said on Tuesday.
CANCUN, Mexico (Reuters) - Hurricane Wilma blasted through Mexico's Caribbean resorts on Saturday, smashing homes and killing at least six people in a slow-moving rampage that put it on course to hit Florida next.
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Suspected Muslim militants killed a Buddhist monk and five other people in Thailand's restive Muslim south, police said on Sunday, in separatist violence that has claimed more than 900 lives.
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A Pakistan army helicopter crashed in Pakistani Kashmir during a relief operation for the earthquake-shattered region, killing all six soldiers on board, a military spokesman said on Sunday.
KABUL (Reuters) - U.S. troops killed four Afghan policemen and wounded another after mistaking them for militants during an operation in southern Afghanistan in which two Afghan soldiers died, officials said on Friday.
RABAT/MELILLA (Reuters) - Moroccan troops, attempting to prevent immigrants scaling a razor-wire border fence into Spain's African enclave of Melilla, killed six Africans on Wednesday night, a local government official said on Thursday.
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NAJAF, Iraq (Reuters) - A bomb exploded outside the house of a bodyguard of Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr in the southern Iraqi city of Najaf on Wednesday, killing at least six people, an aide to Sadr said.
GUWAHATI, India (Reuters) - Indian police shot dead six student protesters on Friday when a demonstration over college facilities turned violent in the northeastern state of Meghalaya, officials and police said.
BEIJING (Reuters) - China and Vietnam scrambled on Monday to evacuate nearly half a million people from the path of a typhoon which killed six people as it swept across the southern Chinese resort island of Hainan.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Chechen militants have killed six pro-Moscow police and wounded another nine, local media reported on Saturday in a major blow to Russian forces in the turbulent region.
KABUL (Reuters) - A Briton kidnapped in Afghanistan was found dead on Saturday and Taliban rebels said they killed him, while in a separate incident, the Taliban said they killed an election candidate and four government officials.
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KABUL (Reuters) - U.S. and Afghan government soldiers killed six suspected Taliban militants and seized bombs in a raid on a rebel storehouse, a provincial official said on Wednesday.
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A 13-year-old Boy Scout left brain-dead by a California lightning strike that killed his troop leader was taken off a ventilator and pronounced dead -- the sixth fatality for the Boy Scouts of America this week.
KABUL (Reuters) - U.S. and Afghan troops killed six suspected militants in the latest spate of growing violence by Taliban insurgents ahead of parliamentary polls, the U.S. military said on Friday.
KABUL (Reuters) - U.S. and Afghan troops killed six suspected militants in the latest spate of growing violence by Taliban insurgents ahead of parliamentary polls, the U.S. military said on Friday.
BAQUBA, Iraq (Reuters) - Six Iraqi soldiers were killed in clashes with insurgents in two towns north of Baghdad on Thursday, security sources said.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A suicide bomber blew himself up at the entrance to a Baghdad hospital on Wednesday, killing at least five people and wounding 10, police sources said.
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Six people died and 15 were wounded after a car bomb exploded near a school in Indian Kashmir's summer capital Srinagar on Wednesday, television channels said.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Bombs on two Iraqi military patrols in different parts of Baghdad killed six people and wounded 23 within minutes of each other, a police source said.
GAZA (Reuters) - Israel killed six Hamas gunmen on Friday in response to a deadly Palestinian rocket barrage and resumed its assassination policy against militants as a five-month-old truce appeared to be unraveling.
KABUL (Reuters) - U.S. and Afghan forces searched mountains in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday for an American unit missing for several days, while six Afghan troops died in an attack on a convoy including U.N. and peacekeeping vehicles.
TUNCELI, Turkey (Reuters) - Six security guards were killed and 15 people were wounded on Saturday when a bomb planted by Kurdish guerrillas exploded on a train in eastern Turkey, military officials said.
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A car bomb exploded next to an Iraqi police commando convoy in western Baghdad on Thursday, killing six police and wounding 25 others, police said.
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Six people, including one child, were killed in an explosion on Thursday at a fireworks warehouse in Istanbul, officials said.
TIKRIT, Iraq (Reuters) - A suicide bomber blew up his vehicle at the entrance to a U.S. base in Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit, killing five Iraq soldiers and wounding seven, a police source said on Saturday.
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CINCINNATI, Ohio (Reuters) - A high school honors student shot dead his grandparents, mother and two friends and then killed himself in an Ohio town, authorities said on Monday.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The governor of Iraq's biggest province, who was kidnapped earlier this month, has been found dead along with his militant captors after a clash with U.S. forces, a government spokesman said on Tuesday.
MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - A suicide car bomber killed at least five people and wounded 30 at a customs checkpoint near Iraq's border with Syria on Monday, an Iraqi official said.
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) - Two Kurdish rebels were killed in a failed attack on a governor's house in southeast Turkey and four soldiers died in a land mine blast amid rising tension in the region, officials said on Tuesday.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Six people, three of them children, were found dead with gunshot wounds to their heads on Tuesday in what appeared to be a tragic murder-suicide in a sprawling ranch home in southern California.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - Islamic militant group Army of Ansar al-Sunna said it shot dead six abducted Sudanese drivers working for U.S. forces in Iraq, according to a video posted on the Internet Thursday.
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Two Afghan policemen and four Taliban guerrillas were killed in a rebel attack on a district headquarters in the southern province of Kandahar, police said Monday.
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MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - Insurgents opened fire on a U.S. military patrol in Mosul on Wednesday and six people were killed in a subsequent exchange of gunfire, including a woman and child, Iraqi police said.
KABUL (Reuters) - U.S.-led troops killed three Taliban militants in a firefight in which two children and a woman also died in southeast Afghanistan, the U.S. military said.
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BOGOTA, Colombia (Reuters) - Long dormant Marxist rebels killed six Colombian soldiers in two separate bomb attacks, detonating a mine field and a house packed with explosives, the army said on Sunday.
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KAMPALA (Reuters) - A fire killed at least six people and destroyed more than 500 huts in Uganda on Friday when it swept through a camp for people uprooted by a civil war, a Ugandan radio station reported.
MATAMOROS, Mexico (Reuters) - Six guards were found murdered outside a high-security prison on Mexico's border with Texas on Thursday, in the latest bloody episode in weeks of prison violence being blamed on powerful drug gangs.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Gunmen attacked a hotel in Baghdad on Thursday, kidnapping a Turk who was staying there and killing six Iraqis, local witnesses said.
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Six men have been found murdered in Mexico in two incidents that appear to reflect a recent surge in violence between rival drug gangs.
Signaling no let-up in attacks as the new year dawned, insurgents assassinated two local government officials for Diyala province, northeast of Baghdad, and an Iraqi police major outside his home in the southwest part of the capital. Iraqi police also found two beheaded bodies in western Baghdad along with a note that said they were truck drivers killed because they were working with the U.S. military. Three roadside bombs exploded in the capital early on Saturday, with one blast killing an Iraqi trucker hauling loads for foreign contractors.
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LECCO, Italy (Reuters) - A nurse has killed six patients in a provincial hospital in northern Italy because she wanted to "feel more important," prosecutors said on Wednesday.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - At least six crewmen were killed on Saturday after a South Korean freighter, buffeted by strong winds and high waves, crashed into a breakwater in northern Japan, officials said.
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Six more people have been killed in Muslim-majority southern Thailand in the last 24 hours, police said on Thursday, amid outrage over the death last week of 85 Muslims, most of them in military custody.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A car bomb brought fresh carnage to the heart of Baghdad Tuesday, killing six people and wounding eight near the Education Ministry, officials said.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Rebels bracing for a U.S.-led assault on their Falluja and Ramadi strongholds showed their muscle on Tuesday with a bloody car bombing in Baghdad, strikes on oil pipelines and several attacks on Iraqi security forces. A morning car bomb blast at the Education Ministry brought fresh carnage to the busy streets of Baghdad, killing six people and wounding eight, an Interior Ministry spokesman said.
KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Hundreds of Maoist rebels stormed a remote town in Nepal and set government buildings on fire, an army officer said on Monday, in the first major attack after a short truce ended four days ago. The army sustained no casualties but soldiers recovered the body of a rebel killed in the fighting, an army statement said. Rebels have not commented so far. In a separate incident, soldiers shot dead five Maoist guerrillas.
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SAMARRA, Iraq (Reuters) - At least six civilians were killed and 11 U.S. soldiers wounded in clashes in Samarra Wednesday, a northern Iraqi town the U.S. military said it had pacified following an offensive earlier this month.
FALLUJA, Iraq (Reuters) - U.S. warplanes killed a family of six in raids against rebels led by al Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, while a top international aid agency suspended Iraq operations on Wednesday after its manager was kidnapped.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (Reuters) - A Chinese engineer held hostage by al Qaeda-linked militants in Pakistan was killed on Thursday but his colleague rescued in a commando assault that killed their five kidnappers, officials said.
SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - A suicide bomber rammed a car packed with explosives into an army convoy in Indian Kashmir on Saturday, killing four soldiers and a civilian and wounding 30 more, police said.
GUWAHATI, India (Reuters) - Suspected separatist rebels stormed a village in India's troubled northeast on Monday and shot dead six people, police said, taking to 62 the toll in the region's worst violence in years.
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GAZA (Reuters) - Three Palestinian gunmen breached defenses around an Israeli settlement in Gaza and killed three soldiers before being shot dead Thursday, exacting the worst toll on Israel's forces in occupied territory in four months.
CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) - At least six inmates were killed and 35 wounded in a Venezuelan prison on Wednesday when rival gangs battled with guns, knives and machetes, authorities said.
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KUNAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A U.S. bombing raid killed at least six civilians and wounded nine in the eastern Afghan province of Kunar early on Tuesday after assailants attacked government positions, an Afghan official said.
TOKYO (Reuters) - Powerful Typhoon Chaba was racing toward the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido on Tuesday after leaving a trail of at least six dead and four missing following torrential rains that forced thousands into shelters.
TBILISI (Reuters) - Overnight clashes killed six Georgian servicemen in the rebel South Ossetia region, which Tbilisi is trying to bring back under government control, Deputy Security Minister Gigi Ugulava said on Thursday.
BAQUBA, Iraq (Reuters) - At least six Iraqis were killed and 10 wounded when a bomb exploded in a market north of Baghdad on Wednesday, hospital sources said.
TASHKENT (Reuters) - The number of victims from Friday's suicide bombings in the Uzbek capital Tashkent rose to four on Tuesday after a policeman died from his wounds, police said.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A suicide car bomber blew up his vehicle outside a police station in the northern Iraq city of Mosul Sunday, killing at least five people and wounding 53, in the second deadly bombing in the city in a week.
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KABUL (Reuters) - Six people, including two U.N. election workers, were killed on Wednesday in an explosion in a mosque where the United Nations was registering people for elections that Islamic militants have vowed to disrupt.
TULKARM, West Bank (Reuters) - Israeli forces shot and killed six Palestinian militants, including two local militant leaders, on Sunday in a raid in the West Bank town of Tulkarm, Palestinian security sources said.
KABUL (Reuters) - Taliban fighters attacked Afghan government and U.S. forces in the south of the country and six people were killed, including four of the attackers, a provincial official said on Wednesday.
COLOMBO (Reuters) - Five people were killed and 11 wounded when a suspected Tamil Tiger suicide bomber blew herself up in a police station in the Sri Lankan capital on Wednesday, shattering more than two years of relative peace.
KHALIS, Iraq (Reuters) - A suicide car bombing in the middle of a funeral gathering in an Iraqi town north of Baghdad killed six people and wounded 35.
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Afghan soldiers beheaded four Taliban fighters after guerrillas cut off the heads of an Afghan interpreter for U.S.-led forces and an Afghan soldier, a government commander said on Tuesday.
WARSAW (Reuters) - Six soldiers from eastern Europe were killed while disposing of ammunition from an Iraqi depot in the Polish-run occupation zone on Tuesday, a Polish military spokesman said.
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - U.S.-led troops killed six members of Afghanistan's ousted Taliban regime in a raid on Tuesday in the southern province of Zabul, a provincial military official said.
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LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) - Six members of a Shi'ite Muslim family, including two women and two children, were found shot dead in their house in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore on Friday in a suspected sectarian attack.
KABUL (Reuters) - Six loyalists of an Afghan faction were killed in an ambush in the northern province of Balkh, a spokesman for the faction said on Friday.
GAZA (Reuters) - Palestinian militants blew up six Israeli soldiers riding in an explosives-packed troop carrier during a raid in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday in the deadliest ambush against Israeli forces in 18 months.
KABUL (Reuters) - At least six people were killed and several wounded at the weekend in a restive southern Afghan province where remnants of the ousted Taliban have stepped up their attacks in recent weeks, officials said Monday.
CAMP FALLUJA, Iraq (Reuters) - A mortar attack killed six U.S. servicemen in western Iraq Sunday, Marine Major T.V. Johnson said.
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LAGOS (Reuters) - Heavily armed militants killed two U.S. oil workers and at least four Nigerians in a botched robbery attempt on their speedboat in Nigeria's southern delta, authorities said on Saturday.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - At least two U.S. soldiers and a civilian truck driver were killed by guerrillas in Iraq on Friday and three more Marines were killed west of Baghdad the previous day, the U.S. military said in a statement.
LIMA, Peru (Reuters) - Heavy rains and mudslides near Peru's Machu Picchu Inca ruins killed 6 people and stranded 1,500 tourists on Saturday, authorities said.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The U.S. military said it had suffered six more combat deaths in Iraq on Wednesday and Thursday, bringing to 449 the number of U.S. soldiers killed in action since the start of the war to oust Saddam Hussein.
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Three Afghan security men and three Taliban guerrillas were killed in clashes in a southern province in which a U.S. soldier was also wounded, security officials said on Thursday.
MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine soldiers killed six members of the Abu Sayyaf Islamic militant group in a gun battle on Thursday, among them one wanted by the United States, the military said.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A car bomb killed six Iraqis and wounded five in an attack on Wednesday near the Iraqi town of Ramadi the U.S. army said on Thursday.
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - At least six Afghan civilians were killed and seven wounded in a U.S. airstrike in Afghanistan's central province of Uruzgan, officials said on Saturday.
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan's army bombed a town in the western Darfur region, killing six civilians and injuring 25, eyewitnesses said on Saturday, weeks after the government said major military operations were over in the area.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Reuters) - Exiled Haitian leader Jean-Bertrand Aristide appealed to his supporters to peacefully resist an "occupation" of Haiti on Monday, a day after blazing gunfire killed at least six people in a huge demonstration in Port-au-Prince celebrating his ouster.
EREZ BORDER CROSSING, Gaza Strip (Reuters) - Six Palestinians were killed on Saturday during a failed assault on a Gaza border post in speeding jeeps disguised as Israeli military vehicles.
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - A small earthquake shook the southeastern Turkish province of Adiyaman early Tuesday, killing six people when one house collapsed, Turkish television channels said.
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RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi security forces captured a wanted militant and a number of other suspects on Thursday after a firefight in Riyadh in which five policemen were killed. An Interior Ministry statement said the wanted militant's father was also killed and two policemen were injured in the clash in the east of the Saudi capital a day before the start of the annual haj pilgrimage.
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (Reuters) - Six people were killed, more than 60 injured and 400 arrested in street clashes in the Dominican Republic during a two-day strike to protest a slumping economy, local media and unions said on Thursday.
TBILISI (Reuters) - Six people were killed early on Tuesday when an armed gang attacked a Georgian village near the border with the breakaway region of Abkhazia, a senior police officer said.
MIAMI (Reuters) - At least six people, including a baby, died on Sunday when a fire swept through a Comfort Inn motel in South Carolina, a fire department official said.
SAMARRA, Iraq (Reuters) - A bomb exploded under a car on Saturday in the heart of the volatile Iraqi town of Samarra, killing four Iraqis and wounding dozens, while a separate bomb attack on a U.S. convoy killed two soldiers.
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand denied Saturday it had tried to cover-up an outbreak of Asia's deadly bird flu, saying it had had suspicions for weeks but had only known for certain when lab tests confirmed the disease. Health experts fear the avian virus, which has killed six people in neighboring Vietnam after the latest death was confirmed Saturday, could set off an epidemic worse than SARS.
BAQUBA, Iraq (Reuters) - At least six people were killed and dozens injured by a bomb blast after Friday prayers at a Shi'ite mosque in the central Iraqi town of Baquba, police sources said.
JAMMU, India (Reuters) - Two suspected Muslim rebels attacked a crowded railway station in Indian Kashmir Friday, killing four security men and wounding at least 12 people before being killed themselves, police said.
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KABUL (Reuters) - Five Afghan security officials were killed in the capital Kabul on Sunday when a "terrorist" they had detained blew himself up, a Defense Ministry spokesman said.
KERBALA, Iraq (Reuters) - At least six foreign soldiers were killed and 27 injured in a string of attacks on U.S.-allied forces and Iraqi targets in the southern city of Kerbala on Saturday, military officials said.
PETAH TIKVA, Israel/GAZA (Reuters) - A Palestinian suicide bomber killed four people at a bus stop near Tel Aviv on Thursday minutes after Israeli helicopters killed a top Islamic militant and at least four people in Gaza.
LUANDA (Reuters) - Six CARE International workers were killed when a land mine exploded on an Angolan road declared safe by the United Nations, the development and relief organization said on Thursday.
RAFAH, Gaza Strip (Reuters) - Israeli soldiers killed six Palestinians on Thursday during gun battles that erupted after an armored push into Rafah refugee camp in the Gaza Strip to detain an Islamic Jihad militant, witnesses said.
JALALABAD, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Six Afghan fighters died in an exchange of fire at a maternity hospital as U.S. soldiers tried to arrest a local military commander in the Afghan city of Jalalabad, witnesses said.
HYDERABAD, India (Reuters) - Six people died in India's southern city of Hyderabad after clashes between jubilant Hindu hard-liners and protesting Muslims on the eleventh anniversary of the razing of a mosque, police said.
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KINSHASA (Reuters) - Six people were killed on Wednesday, including a young girl, when rival Congolese militia clashed in the volatile northeast of the vast country, a U.N. military spokesman said.
GUWAHATI, India (Reuters) - A mob killed six members of a family and set ablaze their home in India's troubled northeastern state of Assam on Wednesday, in escalating clashes between locals and settlers from the eastern state of Bihar.
KABUL (Reuters) - Six Afghan civilians were killed in an aerial bombardment by U.S.-led forces hunting Islamic militants in the eastern province of Paktika, provincial governor Mohammad Ali Jalali said on Monday.
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (Reuters) - Six people were killed and at least 20 wounded in the Dominican Republic on Tuesday when violence erupted during a one-day strike to protest against government economic policy.
TIKRIT, Iraq (Reuters) - A U.S. Black Hawk helicopter crashed in Iraq on Friday, killing all six people on board, and U.S. soldiers said it had probably been shot down by a rocket-propelled grenade.
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PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria (Reuters) - Fuel thieves sparked a blaze that killed at least six people at a main products depot near Nigeria's southeastern oil city of Port Harcourt on Saturday, witnesses said.
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Six Christians have been killed, and more are feared dead, in attacks by unidentified armed men on three villages in Indonesia's Central Sulawesi province, police said on Sunday.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A two-car suicide bomb attack aimed at a hotel used by U.S. officials on central Baghdad's main street killed six Iraqis and injured dozens on Sunday.
BOGOTA, Colombia (Reuters) - At least six people, including two police officers, were killed and 12 civilians injured when a car bomb exploded on Wednesday in a grimy commercial district known for selling smuggled goods in Colombia's capital.
KARACHI (Reuters) - Gunmen attacked a bus carrying Shi'ite Muslim worshippers in the Pakistani port city of Karachi on Friday, killing six people and wounding eight, police said.
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A Mexican air force transport plane has crashed in central Mexico killing all six crew members, authorities said on Saturday.
SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - Suspected Muslim rebels executed a family of five in Indian Kashmir overnight, cut the main highway and raided a military base in the latest of a string of attacks that threatens peace moves between India and Pakistan. Hours later, just before dawn, a guerrilla was killed in an attack on Border Security Force camp in the summer capital, Srinagar, a BSF officer said.
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BOGOTA, Colombia (Reuters) - At least six people were killed, including a six-year-old boy, and 28 more wounded on Sunday when two bombs ripped through a crowded river boat in central Colombia, the army said.
LECHSEND, Germany (Reuters) - Six Germans were killed Saturday when two small aircraft collided in clear skies over the southern German state of Bavaria, police said.
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Two Afghan soldiers and four Taliban guerrillas were killed in a clash in the central province of Uruzgan on Friday, the latest incursion blamed on the ousted Islamic militia.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Six Iraqis were killed and 59 wounded in a mortar bomb attack on the U.S.-guarded Abu Ghraib prison on the western outskirts of Baghdad on Saturday, the U.S. military said on Sunday.
KABUL (Reuters) - At least six Afghan soldiers were killed in a clash near the Pakistani frontier this weekend in the latest cross-border insurgency blamed on the Taliban and al Qaeda, officials said on Sunday.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A fresh wave of sabotage and violence took its toll on Iraq on Sunday as a second blaze hit a crucial oil export pipeline, a water pipeline was blown up and six Iraqis were killed in a mortar attack on a Baghdad prison.
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NAZRAN, Russia (Reuters) - Russian troops and armed police combed woodland near Chechnya on Friday after rebels killed six Russian soldiers and wounded seven others in a suspected cross-border raid, local officials said.
MIAMI (Reuters) - A cargo ship and a ferry boat collided off the Bahamian island of Eleuthera on Saturday, killing six people and injuring at least 16 others, the U.S. Coast Guard said.
ZABUL PROVINCE, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Six Afghan policemen were killed in an ambush by suspected Taliban and al Qaeda guerrillas in the southern province of Helmand at the weekend, a provincial official said on Monday.
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GAZA (Reuters) - At least six Palestinian militants from Hamas were killed on Sunday in a blast near Gaza City which the Islamic group blamed on Israel and vowed to avenge.
HOUSTON (Reuters) - Police officers entered a house on Saturday after an eight-hour standoff to find six people, including three children, dead, all apparently shot by a man who then turned the gun on himself, authorities said.
GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - A former military officer convicted in the 1998 assassination of Guatemalan rights crusader Bishop Juan Gerardi was decapitated on Wednesday with five other inmates during a prison riot in Guatemala City, officials said.
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DILI (Reuters) - A cargo plane crashed into mountains while approaching an airfield in East Timor on Friday, killing all six Russian crew, officials said.
WARSAW (Reuters) - Six missing Polish teenagers were feared dead after an avalanche hit a high school party climbing on the country's highest mountain, rescuers said Wednesday.
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OTNIEL, West Bank (Reuters) - Two Palestinian gunman opened fire in a cafeteria for religious students at a Jewish settlement on Friday, killing four settlers before Israeli soldiers shot and killed the gunmen, Israeli sources said.
Drunken elephants have trampled at least six people to death in the northeast Indian state of Assam, local officials say. The herd of wild elephants stumbled across the supplies of homemade rice beer after they destroyed granaries in search of food.
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SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - Two guerrillas dressed in police uniforms fought their way into a security camp in the heart of Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian Kashmir, on Friday and killed six soldiers, police said.
LONDON (Reuters) - Striking firefighters and the government were locked in a battle for the hearts and minds of Britons on Friday, both unyielding in a dispute which has given Prime Minister Tony Blair the worst union crisis of his rule. Six deaths have been reported since the strike began -- three in house fires and three in motor accidents -- although it is unclear if any were directly linked to the strike.
BORDEAUX, France (Reuters) - Six people died and 33 were injured on Tuesday in a motorway pile-up in western France involving dozens cars and trucks, including one carrying liquid nitrogen that burst into flames.
SANAA/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A missile fired by an unmanned U.S. aircraft has killed six alleged members of Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network in Yemen, including a key suspect in an attack on a U.S. warship two years ago, a U.S. official said on Monday.
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - West Bank bloodshed which claimed three Israeli soldiers and three Palestinians resonated all the way to Jerusalem as a rift widened in Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's government over funding for Jewish settlements. A Palestinian suicide bomber struck at the Jewish settlement of Ariel on Sunday, killing three soldiers who tried to overpower him. Israeli forces shot dead two militants in Nablus city, and another Palestinian in nearby Jenin.
BOWIE, Md. (Reuters) - A teenager was shot and critically wounded on Monday at a suburban Washington school, the latest victim of an elusive sniper accused of killing six people at random in and around the U.S. capital, police said.
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TEL AVIV (Reuters) - A Palestinian blew himself up on a crowded Israeli bus in the heart of Tel Aviv on Thursday, killing five people and wounding about 50 in the second suicide attack in two days.
RUTLEDGE, Ala. (AP) -- Six family members were found shot to death at their rural homestead, and a baby and her 16-year-old mother were missing. Authorities Wednesday were searching for them, a motive and two people they said were potential witnesses.
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GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli forces killed at least six Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip Wednesday, but both sides drew closer to agreement on an Israeli plan to ease a military clampdown in occupied areas.
JHIKA GALI, Pakistan (Reuters) - Six Pakistanis were killed and at least three people wounded Monday when masked gunmen burst into the compound of a school for children of foreign missionaries near the town of Murree.
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KIEV (Reuters) - A methane gas blast ripped through a colliery in Ukraine Sunday, killing six miners hundreds of feet below ground and injuring 14 in the ex-Soviet state's second such tragedy in two weeks.
EMMANUEL, West Bank (Reuters) - An explosion presumed to be the work of Palestinian militants rocked a street in Tel Aviv Wednesday night, killing at least six people, Israeli police said.
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EL CAJON, Calif. (Reuters) - Six people were killed and two were critically injured on Tuesday after a van crowded with illegal immigrants veered into oncoming traffic with its headlights turned off in an effort to avoid a border checkpoint near San Diego, authorities said.
GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli forces killed six Palestinians in a helicopter missile strike on a car carrying Islamic militants in the Gaza Strip on Monday and surrounded Yasser Arafat in his headquarters in the West Bank.
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Palestinian gunmen killed six Israelis, including a mother and three of her children, in a raid on a settlement in the West Bank on Thursday, hours after Yasser Arafat demanded an end to attacks on Israeli civilians.
MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan/JAMMU, India (Reuters) - Six Pakistanis were killed and several injured on Thursday when Indian and Pakistani troops traded artillery fire along their tense frontier, Pakistani officials said.
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Masked gunmen armed with M-16 automatic rifles opened fire on a Thai school bus near the border with Myanmar on Tuesday, killing six teenagers and badly wounding at least 11 others, officials said.
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POTTERS BAR, England (Reuters) - Six people were killed Friday when a passenger train derailed and hurtled into a suburban station in the latest disaster to hit Britain's rail network.
MOR, Hungary (Reuters) - Gunmen shot and killed six people during a bank robbery in western Hungary on Thursday in an attack of unprecedented savagery for this small central European nation.
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AHMEDABAD, India (Reuters) - Six people were killed in fresh Hindu-Muslim clashes and police firing in the Indian city of Ahmedabad, which has borne the brunt of religious violence since a train carrying Hindus was torched in February.
JENIN, West Bank (Reuters) - The Israeli army withdrew from Jenin and its shattered refugee camp Friday as violence flared in the Gaza Strip, where six Palestinians, including a suicide bomber, were reported killed.
JENIN, West Bank (Reuters) - An Israeli strike killed six Palestinian militants on Friday, including a man Israel said masterminded a suicide bombing that killed 26 people, Palestinian and Israeli sources said.
AHMEDABAD, India (Reuters) - Five Muslims were burned to death and a sixth person was shot by police as fresh Hindu-Muslim violence flared in India's riot-racked Gujarat state, police said on Wednesday.
PRAGUE (Reuters) - Five Polish residents were killed and another one was feared dead when a four-story section of a Czech hotel collapsed Monday, police said.
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LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) - At least six people died in Pakistan Monday, most of them from self-inflicted wounds as millions of Shi'ite Muslims marched in a traditional day of mourning.
SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - Six people were killed and 11 wounded on Saturday in separate incidents in divided Kashmir, a Himalayan region at the heart of a military stand-off between nuclear-armed rivals India and Pakistan.
AHMEDABAD, India (Reuters) - Six people were killed in fresh outbreaks of religious violence in western India, police said on Friday.
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Reuters) - Rain-swollen rivers and bulging creeks swept away homes and swamped roads in lowland areas of eastern Kentucky and Tennessee on Tuesday, as authorities blamed six deaths on days of flooding.
McMINNVILLE, Ore. (Reuters) - A man killed his wife and four children before turning a gun on himself at their home in Oregon's wine country southwest of Portland, authorities said on Friday.
Hours after tanks occupied Ramallah, trapping Arafat in his office, two gunmen disguised as Israeli soldiers killed six Israelis at mid-day near the Lebanese border as tit-for-tat violence reached a new level of ferocity.
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VIENNA (Reuters) - Austrian police Wednesday put the death toll from a train crash near Vienna Tuesday at six, revising original reports that seven people had been killed in the country's worst rail crash for 30 years.
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(AP) - In a surge of violence that followed days of relative calm, Israeli troops killed six Palestinians in two separate confrontations Sunday evening near the border with the Gaza Strip, the military said. The shootings came only hours after senior Israeli security officials said that attacks by Palestinian militants had dropped significantly since Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's speech two weeks ago calling for a cessation of violence.
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MANCHESTER, Tenn. (AP) -- A Greyhound bus crashed Wednesday, killing six of the 38 people aboard and prompting Greyhound to halt all service nationwide as a precaution, authorities said. The bus crashed after a passenger slit the driver's throat, a woman on board told a Nashville television station. Authorities said they couldn't confirm that.
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SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) - A mother and five children were found dead in their home late Thursday in what police say is one of the worst homicides in the city's history.
GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli tanks thrust into Palestinian-ruled Gaza early on Sunday, killing a policeman, after a morning attack that killed three Israeli soldiers and the night-time slaying of two Israeli settlers.
LAS VEGAS -- Federal investigators said Sunday there were no emergency calls from a helicopter before it crashed near the Grand Canyon, killing five tourists and the pilot. National Transportation Safety Board officials also said there was no recording device on board when the helicopter went down Friday, giving them no clues about the cause of the accident.
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NABLUS, West Bank (Reuters) - Israeli tank fire killed six Palestinians on Israel's most-wanted list in an attack in the West Bank on Monday, Palestinian officials said. The Israeli army had no immediate comment on the incident, described by an official from Palestinian President Yasser Arafat's Fatah faction, to which the six belonged, as an assassination.
CARTERVILLE, Mo. (AP) -- A private plane crashed into a garage early Friday, killing all six people aboard. The two men inside the home escaped injury. The twin-engine plane had left Lake Charles, La., and was heading for Joplin Regional Airport when it crashed shortly before 1 a.m., Jasper County Sheriff's Capt. Tony Coleman said.
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(AP) - Attackers in Congo shot and hacked to death six workers of the International Committee of the Red Cross in the deadliest attack on the aid group in five years, international aid officials said Friday. The dead in Thursday's assault included a Swiss nurse, a Colombian relief worker and four Congolese.
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (Reuters) - Inmates ended a four-day prison rebellion in western Brazil on Sunday morning when they killed six leaders of the uprising who had wanted to extend the standoff in order to appear on television, police said.
PACHUCA, Mexico (AP) -- An explosion at a solvent factory north of Mexico City killed six workers and injured 20 others Wednesday. The blast apparently started when highly combustible raw materials stored at the plant mixed, setting off a chemical reaction. Officials blamed the accident on human error, but gave no other details.
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KIEV (Reuters) - Floods in western Ukraine have killed six people and forced thousands from their homes, prompting authorities to declare the region a disaster area, officials said on Saturday.
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TOKYO (AP) -- Boulevards became muddy rivers and hundreds of thousands of people were ordered to evacuate Tuesday as torrential rain soaked central Japan, killing at least six people, stranding commuters and forcing the nation's biggest carmaker to stop production.
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BUJUMBURA, Burundi (AP) -- Rebels ambushed three cars outside Burundi's capital, separated the Hutu and Tutsi passengers, then shot and killed six of the Tutsis, authorities and survivors said Monday.
BUJUMBURA, Burundi (Reuters) - Hymn-singing rebels killed six people and wounded five others in an attack on a bus station on the outskirts of the Burundi capital, witnesses said Monday.
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq blamed Iran Wednesday for a mortar attack in a residential district of Baghdad in which six people died. Three Palestinians and three Iraqis were killed in the attack Tuesday night, the Palestinian ambassador to Baghdad said. The attack followed rising tension between Iraq and Iran, who were at war between 1980 and 1988.
DHAKA, March 3 (Reuters) - A school attendant in Bangladesh was stabbed to death for trying to stop students cheating and five people were killed in a stampede on the first day of nationwide school examinations on Friday, officials said.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- The burned-out wreckage of a small commuter plane and the bodies of six people were found Wednesday on the tundra of southwestern Alaska. The pilot and five passengers were killed either in the crash or the fire that followed, according to Alaska State Troopers.
DETROIT (AP) -- A house fire today killed six people spanning four generations of a family -- three children and their mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. The house, in a working-class neighborhood of well-maintained homes, had a working smoke detector, Fire Department Capt. Mike Markowski said.
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COMPTON -- Investigators Sunday tried to piece together events leading to a fiery collision between a commuter train and a taxicab that left six people dead -- the worst accident in the commuter line's nine-year history.
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) -- A 40-foot pyramid of logs being assembled for Texas A&M's annual bonfire collapsed early today while dozens of students were climbing on it. At least six students were killed and 28 injured.
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COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) -- Six college students getting out of their cars or walking along a highway on their way to a fraternity party were killed early Sunday by a pickup truck whose driver who had fallen asleep, police said.
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PRISTINA (Reuters) - Four children were killed when a cluster bomb left over from NATO's bombardment of Yugoslavia exploded in a field in eastern Kosovo, international peacekeepers said Tuesday. The NATO-led KFOR peacekeeping force said two more children were wounded by the explosion near the town of Mogila Monday afternoon.
DUNDALK, Md. (AP) -- A couple and their four children were found dead in a house fire early today in this Baltimore suburb. The fire broke out about 4:30 a.m. and was extinguished in about an hour.
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BORON, Calif. (AP) -- A semi-truck hauling concrete piles collided with a van today, killing six people, a California Highway Patrol dispatcher said. The big-rig was traveling westbound on Highway 58 when the crash occurred about 1 a.m., said CHP communications supervisor Phyllis Rusciolelli in Barstow.
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Heat exposure is being blamed for the deaths of two children who climbed into cars as they played with siblings over the Fourth of July holiday. Two adults died Monday of heat-related causes in Philadelphia and the deaths of a mother and daughter in Newport, Pa., were believed to be due to the weather.
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BEDFORD, Pa. (AP) -- Two sets of Amish sisters were among six people killed when their van swerved through a highway divider and plowed into an oncoming truck. A seventh occupant of the van survived and was hospitalized. The truck driver was not seriously injured.
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BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (AP) -- NATO missiles caused ``great'' damage and the deaths of six people in Serbia today, state media reported. Russia's special envoy to the Balkans called on both NATO and the Yugoslav army to stop the hostilities.
HAUULA, Hawaii (AP) -- A landslide sent tons of boulders crashing down a steep cliff onto hikers sunning themselves beneath one of Hawaii's most scenic waterfalls, killing at least six people.
CELINA, Ohio (AP) -- A small plane that crashed into a field, killing the pilot and all five sky divers aboard, had taken off 10 times that day, the operator of the skydiving club said today.
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JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) -- Soldiers fired on Christian and Muslim rioters who fought each other Wednesday with homemade bombs, knives and bows and arrows in eastern Indonesia, killing at least six people, a local news service reported.
HAGATNA, Guam (AP) -- Two empty bulk carrier ships collided 600 miles southwest of Guam in the Pacific Ocean, killing at least six people. The crew members aboard the Halo Cygnus died Sunday when the 708-foot vessel hit the Las Sierras, Coast Guard Lt. Thomas Robinson said today. There was no information on the condition of the Las Sierras crew.
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KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 19 (Reuters) - Six people drowned and nine were missing after a boat carrying hotel workers from a Malaysian resort island off central Malacca state capsized after being swamped by strong waves.
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) -- A 24-year-old Hmong immigrant woman was charged today with murder in the strangulation deaths of her six children. // Police say Khoua Her called 911 Thursday night, talking of suicide, and admitted to killing her three sons and three daughters, age 5 through 11. // When authorities arrived, they found Her lying inside the doorway of her public housing apartment, a body of a child behind her. The five others were found throughout the apartment.
AURORA, Colo. (AP) -- Two young gunmen killed four teens and a woman in a shooting rampage at two homes in this Denver suburb. One teen-age suspect was later found dead in a field and a second was taken into custody today.
BOGOTA (Reuters) - Marxist rebels killed at least six policemen and destroyed the police station in a raid on a town in northeast Colombia, the National Police said Wednesday.
TOKYO, Sept 25 (Reuters) - At least six people were killed during two days of torrential rains in the western Japanese prefecture of Kochi, police said on Friday. The Meteorology Agency said that rainfall in Kochi, about 500 miles (800 km) southwest of Tokyo, reached a record 872 mm between 8 p.m. Wednesday, when the rains started falling, and Friday evening.