41.   Thousands more people attended similar prayer ceremonies in other towns, the state-run Petra News Agency reported.

42.   This includes enforcing requirements that during the five daily prayers, shops are closed and Muslim men attend prayers.

43.   Thousands of them have flooded the beaches this summer urging people to attend daily prayer at mosques.

44.   Vice Governor of Bengkulu Iskandar Ramis also attended the prayers, while similar services were held in other mosques and schools.

45.   Gilbert, a young taxi driver with five children, rises every morning at six to attend prayers.

46.   He said that at the time of the attack, the mosque had been filled with people attending nightly prayers during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

47.   However, Muslim devotees were allowed to attend Friday prayers, officials said.

48.   However, Muslim devotees were being allowed to attend Friday prayers, officials said.

49.   A tense calm prevailed in the Palestinian territories and Jerusalem where thousands of worshippers peacefully attended prayers at the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in the Old City.

50.   Arafat himself attended Friday prayers at the main mosque in the Palestinian-controlled West Bank city of Nablus.