Five Dead in Peru Police Siege Shootout
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LIMA, Peru  - Five Peruvian police officers died  in a shootout on Sunday with an armed group who took 10  hostages in the siege of a police station in southern Peru on  New Year's Day, RPP radio reported.
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ANDAHUAYLAS, Peru -- The leader of a paramilitary nationalist group that seized a police station, took 10 officers hostage and allegedly killed four more surrendered late last night as security forces launched an offensive against his followers, an Interior Ministry official said.
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An armed group led by a radical former soldier stormed a police station in a southern town on Saturday and took 10 officers hostage to demand the resignation of Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo.
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LIMA -- Peru declared a state of emergency in the southern Andean town of Andahuaylas yesterday where an armed group led by a radical former soldier stormed a police station and was holding 10 officers hostage. Seven people were injured, two seriously, in a gunfight in the early hours of New Year's Day after former army Major Antauro Humala and ...
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LIMA, Peru  - Peruvian authorities were trying on  Tuesday to negotiate the surrender of an armed group holding  hostages in a police station, hours after arresting their  leader who had demanded the president's resignation.
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KANO, Nigeria  - Five policemen working for Nigeria's anti-drug enforcement agency were among seven people killed by a mob that mistook them for armed robbers in a remote northern village, a senior official said Friday.
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By Marco Aquino and Jude Webber LIMA, Peru  - Peruvian police and troops on Mondaylaunched an offensive to retake a police station in a southernAndean town and end a three-day siege by ex-soldiers demandingthe resignation of unpopular President Alejandro Toledo.
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Gunmen belonging to a nationalist group that seized a police station in remote southern Peru ambushed a police vehicle on Sunday, killing four officers and wounding several more, hospital officials said. One gunman was gravely wounded.
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A Los Angeles police officer is shot dead in an ongoing siege involving a gunman who claims to have killed three relatives.
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Police shot to death an armed man holding five hostages in a small-town post office west of Paris after a robbery attempt, and the captives were freed unharmed after a three-hour ordeal, the interior minister said.
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LIMA, Peru  - The leader of a 200-strong armed  group that seized a police station and part of a southern  Peruvian town to demand the resignation of President Alejandro  Toledo said it would hand in its weapons on Monday.
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Peru's interior minister said Wednesday that police acted in self-defense when they killed three coca farmers who were part of a group that hurled rocks and tried to burn a police lieutenant alive to protest U.S.-backed eradication of their cocaine producing crop.
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LIMA, Peru  - An armed group led by a radical  former soldier stormed a police station in a poor southern town  and took 10 officers hostage on Saturday to demand the  resignation of Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo.
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Gunmen in a car opened fire Friday on a vehicle filled with Palestinian security officers in Gaza City, killing five of the officers, Palestinian rescue officials said.
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Gunmen shot and killed 11 people, including five children, early on Saturday in a village in Guyana, a small South American country where gang violence is on the rise.
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Brazilian police killed 13 suspected gangsters during five hours of gunbattles in a Rio de Janeiro slum on Wednesday in a show of force before next month's Pan American Games, a security official said.
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ANDAHUAYLAS, Peru -- Soldiers carrying automatic weapons were closing in on a police station seized by paramilitary nationalists over the weekend in this remote Andean town, and the Interior Ministry said yesterday that it was preparing to storm the building