31.   The women were abducted from a hotel in the rugged mountains of northern Vosta Rica by a group called the Viviana Gallardo Comando.

32.   Two Chinese-Filipino women were abducted by heavily armed men in the suburb of Makati near the Philippine capital, newspaper reports said Friday.

33.   The woman was abducted by three men near Strasbourg late Friday.

34.   One soldier and two policemen died in the incident as soldiers tried to take revenge for the arrest of a colleague, detained for abducting a woman.

35.   The German foreign ministry in Bonn said the two men and two women were abducted by unknown persons as they were travelling between Marib city and the Yemeni capital.