41.   Authorities plan to airlift the injured to Bareilly, the nearest town, once the weather clears.

42.   Bijni is the nearest town from the two remote villages, that have no road links.

43.   During the five-month rainy season, the To River rises and cuts off passage to the nearest town, isolating villagers from medical care and markets.

44.   Electricity came to the village seven years ago, and the following year the dirt road that connects it to the nearest town, Bhuj, was paved.

45.   Her brother-in-law, Bassam, put her and her husband into a Volvo, and headed toward a hospital in Bethlehem, the nearest town.

46.   Herman said that Lachau Bazaar is the nearest town to their village.

47.   In retaliation, homes and tribal offices of the native group that used the weapons were burned and ransacked in the nearest town.

48.   It is the nearest town with a big hospital.

49.   Mapenduma, where the kidnappings took place, can be reached only by helicopter or a two-week hike through treacherous jungles from Wamena, the nearest town.

50.   Most families still rely on subsistence agriculture and many communities are several days walk from the nearest town and have little or no effective health care.