MEXICO CITY, March 19: Gunmen killed at least 13 Mexican police in an ambush a short distance outside the capital on Thursday, local authorities said, in one of the worst mass slayings of security forces to rock the country in recent years.

KABUL, Nov 26: An Afghan official says that at least 20 policemen were killed when the Taliban ambushed a police convoy in western Farah province.

DENVER, Jan 1: A man fired more than 100 rounds at sheriff’s deputies in Colorado early Sunday, killing one and injuring four others, before being fatally shot himself in what authorities called an ambush. Two civilians were also injured.

UDAYAPUR, Nov 30: The District Police Office, Udayapur has today arrested the mastermind behind the ambushing of the vehicle carrying the House of Representatives election candidate Narayan Bahadur Karki of the Nepali Congress at Danuwarbensi, Udayapurgadhi rural municipality-6 on Wednesday.

ROLPA, Nov 11: Former minister and CPN (Maoist Center) leader Barshaman Pun was ambushed during his election campaign in Bhittabang, Madi Rural Municipality-1 of Rolpa on Saturday. His vehicle was ambushed at around 10:30 am while en route to Ghartigaun from Sukhaodar. The vehicle sustained minor damage but nobody got injured.

KAMPALA, Uganda, July 31:  Uganda's military says 12 of its soldiers were killed in an ambush Sunday by al-Shabab Islamic extremists in southern Somalia.

CAIRO, May 27: Masked gunmen ambushed a bus carrying Coptic Christians to a monastery south of Cairo on Friday, killing at least 28 people, and Egypt responded by launching airstrikes against what it said were militant training bases in Libya.

JERUSALEM, Nov 27: Israeli aircraft struck a machine gun-mounted vehicle inside Syria Sunday, killing four Islamic State-affiliated militants inside after they had opened fire on a military patrol on the Israeli side of the Golan Heights, the Israeli military said.