11.   Twenty-two Macedonian civilians were abducted by ethnic Albanian insurgents in villages around Tetovo, said Col. Blagoja Markovski, a military spokesman.

12.   Two soldiers were wounded and the rebels abducted three civilians, he said.

13.   U.N. sources told reporters in Monrovia Thursday that they had pulled out of Tubmanburg Thursday because armed rebels had abducted civilians at a food distribution center.

14.   Violence also erupted as two bomb blasts shook the suburbs of the capital Skopje overnight, injuring a woman, and three civilians were reportedly abducted by ethnic Albanians.

15.   A third civilian was abducted during the attack, ITAR-TASS quoted the officials sa saying.

16.   Moslem rebels abducted five civilians from the Safapora and Doda region in southern Kashmir and shot dead two of them on Thursday morning, they said.