11.   When a break in the action comes on the Santiago thoroughfare, the motorcycles jump into the steady stream of cars and the current sweeps them uptown.

12.   A woman drowned in Quezon province, and a boy drowned when he was swept away by strong currents in Isabel in central Leyte province.

13.   Alfredo Chang, a spokesman for Chiapas civil authorities, said the current swept both men away, drowning Alvares almost instantly.

14.   Coast guard officials in southern Japan rescued seven scuba divers Saturday after strong currents swept them away from their boat.

15.   Recovery workers searching for clues in the crash of a Peruvian jetliner also had to search for the plane since strong ocean currents swept away the wreckage.

16.   Sugiyo, head of the local search and rescue team, said currents swept five men away from the beach.

17.   Thirteen students swimming in a river drowned when they were swept by rapid currents over a waterfall, a newspaper reported Monday.

18.   They said that the current might have swept the missing bodies away from the site.

19.   Ambassador Kim Ki Chan and third secretary Paika Pong Hwang drowned Tuesday after the current swept them out into the Atlantic ocean at a notoriously dangerous spot for bathers.