1.   A FRAIL old woman was battered and then left in agony for half an hour while a gang ransacked her luxury house.

2.   As gangs ransacked and burned houses near Sambas, Chinese shopkeepers drove up in a van and distributed boxes of water and dried noodles.

3.   One gang ransacked the offices of the local newspaper, Suara Timor Timur.

4.   The gang ransacked the station and fired several shots, but no one was wounded and the would-be robbers fled without the voting papers.

5.   The gang ransacked the station and fired several shots, witnesses said.