11.   However the spokesman said the final toll could be higher than the one announced by the ministry.

12.   However, final tolls, yet to be released, are expected to be much higher.

13.   However he predicted that the final toll would be much lower.

14.   A final toll would not be available before daybreak on Thursday due to communications problems caused by continuing cloudbursts late at night over the Biescas region, officials said.

15.   Communications Minister Germain Nkeshimana, contacted by telehpone, said this figure was not the final toll in the trouble that broke out Tuesday in the central market area.

16.   The radio said the final toll could be much higher.

17.   Thirteen people were injured in the explosion, one seriously, according to a final toll given by police.

18.   Whatever the final toll, the horror of the experience scarred faces across Lagos.

19.   Local authorities on Saturday issued a final toll after a Vnukovo Airlines flight crashed Thursday on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen, north of the Arctic Circle.

20.   Local, Russian-installed Chechen officials were compiling a final toll, the statement said.