41.   But the development has frequently caused controversy with the local population who have alleged that the mine owners and security forces have tortured and killed local residents.

42.   Fire swept through a retirement home over the weekend, killing one resident and injuring a dozen others, police said Sunday.

43.   One local resident was killed and four fire fighters were injured in the fires, she said, adding that police were investigating the possibility of arson.

44.   Posters had appeared overnight in some neighbourhoods warning that residents would be killed and calling on women to wear veils.

45.   Police in the eastern city of Hualien, where the tremor originated, said one resident was killed by falling rocks near a mountainside and another was injured.

46.   Seven residents were killed when they attacked police barracks in protest last August.