21.   A nearby village reports that its tree and lights have been stolen.

22.   According to van Loon, there are dozens of suspected war criminals in the Serbian quarter and in a nearby Serbian village, Velika Hoca.

23.   After the explosion, helicopters airlifted the most critically injured to local hospitals, while ambulances from several nearby villages struggled to navigate the rugged terrain.

24.   All around him were mutilated bodies, and several men from a nearby village were piling up corpses for burial.

25.   But a rebel leader who gave his name only as Benjamin said most of the demonstrators came from a nearby village that is a Zapatista stronghold.

26.   But the women and old men who streamed into this nearby village painted a very different picture, describing a harrowing escape under fire.

27.   But they did not stop there, according to Ruth Tobler, who lives in a nearby village and belongs to the nonprofit conservation group Pro Natura.

28.   But two days after he arrived in Plava, paramilitary forces began shelling a nearby village.

29.   Children from a nearby village gather to gape as the British pilots deflate the balloons and pop bottles of champagne for the passengers.

30.   Family members insisted that Habashi left town in late August for one of his occasional trips to preach Islam in nearby villages.