91.   Interfax news agency quoted him as saying Russian troops surrounded two villages called Arshty and Datykh, and opened fire.

92.   A Tangi-Chu elder for example said Sunday the village was still surrounded by Russian control posts.

93.   An AFP correspondent Tuesday reported Chechen forces in control of a hill overlooking Bamut and surrounding villages, and that these positions were attacked by Russian helicopters and artillery.

94.   But the army surrounded the village, spreading panic with sporadic mortar fire, and provoking retaliatory fire from the Kamajor.

95.   But some former hostages told AFP that a group of guerrillas had broken out through the Russian lines surrounding the village and taken captives with them.

96.   Eleven families have so far escaped from Zakho and surrounding villages to reach the Atrush camps, he said.

97.   Faced with the threat of imminent destruction when dozens of Russian tanks and armoured vehicles surround a village, Chechen elders are inclined to sign on the dotted line.

98.   The Russians believe the villagers are holding the prisoners in their houses as a shield from the barrage of raids by Russian airplanes bombing Grozny and surrounding villages.

99.   The search for bodies switched to flooded fields surrounding the village where locals were amazed to find alive a baby boy floating like Moses on straw bedding.

100.   The village has been surrounded by the security forces, who have been attempting to negotiate with the kidnappers.