21.   A control committee is coordinating efforts with tribespeople to kill the rats using mousetraps and poison.

22.   He said the arrival of the rainy season has made the use of chemicals to kill the rats ineffective.

23.   The department teaches volunteers how to use traps and poison to kill rats.

24.   The craze was started after Panthers wing Scott Melanby killed a rat with his stick in the bowls of Miami Arena last October as the season was beginning.

25.   The Health Ministry, meanwhile, dispatched workers to fumigate areas to prevent outbreaks of malaria and to kill rats.

26.   The floods killed rats whose disease was then transmitted through the floodwaters, they said.

27.   The Health Ministry dispatched workers to fumigate the hardest-hit areas to prevent outbreaks of malaria and to kill rats in debris-strewn sites.

28.   The newspaper Youth reported that the rats were killed through early March in massive efforts including digging catch holes, enlisting hunting dogs and putting out traps.

29.   The report did not say how the rats would be killed, but it noted that local governments had to spend considerable amounts on the campaign.

30.   ITAR-TASS said the local authorites are trying to catch and kill the rats but have found the cost prohibitive.