Very late one night Wilson does not return; the police ambushed a group of students at a roadblock.

"The police ambushed the church," Mr. Osei-Acheampong said.

Two days later, the police ambushed the 200,000 workers on their way to La Chacarita Cemetery leading to the death of another 39 men.

Diplomats said they had seen no evidence so far to suggest that South Africa had provoked the confrontation, though it appeared that the police might have ambushed the guerrillas after being tipped off by local informers.

The Government contends that the peasants were armed and acted in a threatening way and that the police were far outnumbered, but the peasants say that the police ambushed and attacked them.

He's in prison, having partly blown himself up in March 2001, when Israeli special police ambushed him at a checkpoint in Wadi Ara as he was rushing back from Tel Aviv to Jenin with a defective bomb.

Jason informs his friends that the police ambushed them but he refuses to come forward and report the crime.

Although at the time Cleaver claimed that the police had ambushed them, Cleaver later admitted that he had led the Panther group on a deliberate ambush of the police officers, thus provoking the shoot-out.

Thus, Huang and Richard try to clear their debts by borrowing from a loan shark, but the police ambush them at the coffeeshop.

One came last year when the police in the state of Guerrero, acting on the orders of the Governor, Ruben Figueroa, a PRI member, ambushed a truckload of peasants traveling to protest Mr. Figueroa's policies, killing 17.