in reprisal

Police believe the killings were in reprisal for the murder of a prominent gang member the previous day.

In reprisal, German troops rounded up and shot hundreds of ordinary civilians, including women and children, and burned villages to the ground.

On Saturday, Hezbollah forces in southern Lebanon fired a barrage of rocket attacks on northern Israel in reprisal for what appeared to be an Israeli-planned bomb attack that killed a key Hamas leader in Beirut.

Israel had earlier made only brief sorties into Gaza during three weeks of bombardment in reprisal for attacks and abductions by Hamas gunmen in southern Israel on Oct.

Thousands of Ukrainians also died in reprisal killings.