21.   Basilan Gov. Wahad Akbar said the Abu Sayyaf rebels fled the town on Basilan island early Sunday, covering themselves with volleys of gunfire.

22.   Bosnian Serb troops captured the mining town last year and forced thousands of Muslims to flee the town.

23.   But they had to flee that town early Thursday.

24.   Civilians fled the town and shuttered shops Wednesday, when fighting erupted.

25.   Civilians fled the town more than a year ago.

26.   Civilians fled the town when fighting heightened two years ago.

27.   Civilians fled the town two years ago.

28.   Dozens of Sernovodsk residents have been hospitalized in Ingushetia, some of them wounded by mines as they fled the town, Interfax said.

29.   During his one and a half hours on the witness stand Ahmetovic told how a Serian Orthodox priest had tried and failed to help him flee the town.

30.   Families fled their towns on ox carts carrying battered furniture as well as dogs and chickens.