1.   Fire crews tackling the blaze were hampered by exploding gas canisters.

2.   A gas canister with a bulb-like attachment at the top was supposed to keep us warm, but it shed more light than heat.

3.   A cooking stove supplied by gas canisters and a television set powered by a car battery had been taken away, he said.

4.   A van driven by a Palestinian and packed with flammable liquids, gas canisters and nails caught fire at a major intersection, but did not explode.

5.   But shortly afterward, the Voice of Palestine began announcing that cooking gas canisters had exploded.

6.   Coleman, who was questioned by Secret Service agents, said that she had placed an organizer into her purse, which had set off the pepper gas canister.

7.   Drinking water was short, and the authorities warned that hundreds of leaking cooking gas canisters were buried in the mudflows.

8.   Gas canisters have been in short supply, they said.

9.   He could not say whether the gas canister contained markings that would make it easy to trace to its supplier.