The firemen were able to force their way into the building, followed by the rest of the mob armed with firearms and clubs, and began destroying the draft office.

It had been like a mob armed with clubs charging a man with a pulser.

The main crime is blasphemy, often punished by mobs armed with stones.

Besides the killings, the violence drove 35,000 people, also predominantly Muslims, into refugee camps, when mobs armed with guns, spears, swords and kerosene bottles attacked and set fire to their homes.

A crowd gathered outside the carpenter's shop, an angry mob armed with clubs and stones.

On October 24, 2000, a mob of a few hundred villagers armed with knives, rods and torches stormed the detention center.

Dr Hastings Banda was stirring up passions at rallies, and on 18 February there was an attack on Fort Hill by a mob armed with pangas.

A screaming mob armed with clubs and torches hurtled straight at him.

A 500 strong Islamist mob, armed with knives and home made bombs attacked a Hindu village in the outskirts of Chittagong.

When the pyramid schemes collapsed, images of Albanian mobs armed with automatic rifles stolen from state armories were seen around the world.