21.   Authorities blamed that incident on leftist guerrillas.

22.   Both incidents were blamed on an infectious disease.

23.   But Inkatha blamed the incident that five years ago may have led to violence on a bureaucratic mix-up.

24.   Cavaco Silva blamed the incident on exhaustion following the death of a family member.

25.   Chinese authorities expressed regret and blamed the incident on faulty communications and poor weather.

26.   Chinese officials have blamed the incident on Taiwanese police, accusing them of creating a climate of fear among Chinese fishermen through arbitrary boardings, beatings and boat seizures.

27.   Creixems blamed the incidents on drug use among inmates and on guards who help smuggle weapons into the jails.

28.   Dagestani authorities blamed the incident on Russian troops deployed in the region, which borders the breakaway republic of Chechnya.

29.   Four other Americans were killed, including Ann Louise Kerndt, whose sister, Patricia, says witnesses blamed the incident on military snipers.

30.   Government officials often blame violent incidents on the Khmer Rouge, but bandit gangs, often without any political allegiances, also roam much of the countryside.