21.   Hundreds of men stayed behind to guard abandoned villages.

22.   In Indian villages along the frontier, the carcasses of animals lay in the summer heat in abandoned villages, their stench mixing with the smell of used ammunition.

23.   In Indian villages along the frontier, the carcasses of animals lay in the summer heat in abandoned villages, their stench mixing with the smell of spent ammunition.

24.   In many caves they found white powder everywhere, and jars of it in an abandoned village nearby.

25.   Moscow News said Dudayev spoke after a meeting of his government in an abandoned village east of Grozny.

26.   On Sunday, tanks, troops and artillery moved through abandoned villages to take up positions at posts dug years ago on high bluffs.

27.   Returning from Burambi on Wednesday, a truck carrying journalists was fired on by rebels in an abandoned village.

28.   The carcasses of animals lay in the summer heat in abandoned villages, their stench mixing with the smell of used ammunition.

29.   The man trudges along a dusty track through an abandoned village in southern Iraq.

30.   The victims succumbed to drowning, snake bites and murder by pirates looting abandoned villages.