21.   Witnesses said both sides sustained casualties, although in Lagos, the Nigerian army said it had no reports of deaths among its forces.

22.   Witnesses said both sides sustained casualties, although in Lagos, the Nigerian army said it had no reports of deaths among its troops.

23.   An opposition fighter was killed in exchanges with the Australians but the coalition sustained no casualties.

24.   Although the guerrillas have managed to hold on to their territory, they are believed to have sustained heavy casualties.

25.   Cambodian troops have broken off their attack on a key Khmer Rouge base in northwest Cambodia after sustaining heavy casualties, Thai border officials said Friday.

26.   Every country should be held responsibile, the former mediator added, recalling that most governments trembled at the prospect of sustaining casualties in Bosnia.

27.   Mullah Rabbani said Rabbani jets had bombed their positions around Mohammad Agha over the past two days but the Taliban had sustained no casualties.

28.   Other witnesses said that both fighters and hostages sustained heavy casualties during the breakout, as they were pinned down by Russian fire in open spaces.

29.   Santos said the Navy sustained no casualties and the vessel was not hit, though he said one of the two vessels tried to ram the gunboat.

30.   Security forces sustained no casualties.