11.   Fighting escalated on election day when supporters of mayoral candidate Khan Tulawie barricaded themselves in the Talipao town hall and fired on marines bringing election materials.

12.   Five marines were wounded when gunmen ambushed them while they were delivering election materials to the Talipao town hall.

13.   Four hours after voting was scheduled to begin Sunday, Hamad had still not voted because election materials had not been delivered to polling stations in his home district.

14.   In neighboring Manipur, eight security force personnel were killed Sunday when armed men attacked government workers carrying election material.

15.   In the southern state of Chiapas, suspected supporters of the Zapatista rebels burned election materials at several voting stations and ransacked two others to protest the vote.

16.   Ke Kim Yan added that the government learned of the plot and delayed plans to deliver the election materials.

17.   Last weekend, the U.N. military mission in Haiti suspended deliveries of election materials to the provinces, according to a European diplomat who spoke on condition of anonymity.

18.   Later in the day, officials said youths stole election material and disrupted voting in some communities in the western state of Osun.

19.   Officials also said youths stole election material and disrupted voting in some communities in the western state of Osun.

20.   Suspected Zapatista rebel supporters burned election materials in at least nine voting stations and ransacked two others to protest the vote in the conflictive southern state of Chiapas.