A large number of armed villagers from Surif and other communities gathered to block the way.

About 60 soldiers got into trucks and drove away after fighting with armed villagers, according to a Greek television reporter.

That sound used to call up mobs of armed villagers in the old days.

When challenged, troops here say, this hard core can call on armed villagers, their units expanding and contracting as they move through the countryside.

Both were captured by armed villagers soon after landing.

An older man pushed his way through the armed villagers.

A gang leader said anyone who tried to pass would be met by armed villagers a mile up the road.

They were attacked by fifty armed villagers,and they immediately returned unharmed to the mine.

An armed villager, gun aimed, stood in it.

According to that report, more than 300 armed villagers in the southern town of Dongzhou "assaulted the police."