GUNMEN attacked Pakistan’s naval aviation base yesterday, starting fires, setting off explosions and fighting pitched gunbattles inside one of the country’s most heavily guarded military installations.

GUNMEN opened fire yesterday after they were stopped by gardaí in Dublin.

GUNMEN ambushed a bus full of Iraqis working for the US military, killing 17 civilians and wounding 13 in Tikrit yesterday, while a car bomb and a gun attack killed four members of the Iraqi security forces elsewhere in northern Iraq.

GUNMEN killed an American in the Saudi capital yesterday, as police launched a probe into the latest murder in the Islamic kingdom.

GUNMEN stormed a crowded Hindu temple and opened fire, killing at least 23 worshippers yesterday in a western Indian state where hundreds of people were killed in religious rioting this year.