41.   That collaboration is spreading to the local street gangs.

42.   The attack was apparently organized by a local criminal gang whose leader was killed during arrest last year.

43.   The governor of the Portuguese enclave of Macau said Monday he believed that local gangs were behind the slaying of a Portuguese prison guard in the Southeast Asian territory.

44.   The soldiers said they had been kidnapped from their unit in the republic of North Ossetia by a local gang and sold to Chechens.

45.   The Tutsis have come under attack from the Zairian military, Rwandan Hutu militants from the refugee camps and local Zairian gangs.

46.   Tutsis came under attack from the Zairian military, Rwandan Hutu militias, and local Zairian gangs.

47.   Five teenagers believed to belong to local gangs were killed this week around the Salvadoran capital, the National Civilian Police said Thursday.

48.   Gareth Parker, a Northern Irish tennis international, died in hospital here on Tuesday after being viciously attacked by a local gang.

49.   Alino said the suspects are all members of a local gang of highwaymen who terrorised the mountain roads linking the tourist destinations of Banaue, Bontoc and Sagada.

50.   The police were trying to arrest the leader of a local gang, Berty Loupatti, whom they believe was involved in attacks in the city in recent weeks.