11.   Journalists who accompanied a doctor to the bamboo hut Monday said the hostages complained of food shortages, fevers and infections.

12.   One said she could not walk and wept in a bamboo hut where she and the others are being held by Muslim rebels.

13.   Residents of Sesapani, a Bodo village, were shaken from their bamboo huts by the blast shortly after dark and rushed to the site to help the injured.

14.   Several journalists who accompanied a doctor to the simple bamboo hut Monday were able to interview the hostages, who complained of food shortages, fevers and infections.

15.   The administration has provided villagers with collapsible bamboo huts and all are advised to sleep in the open.

16.   The explosive planted alongside the Mekong River went off Wednesday night, injuring workers inside a bamboo hut.

17.   The dwellings are tiny, bare bamboo huts with tin sheeting across the top and dirt for floors.

18.   Troops seized the bamboo hut where the hostages had been held, but found no one inside.

19.   Women and children are sleeping crowded together in bamboo huts while the men sleep out in the mountain cold without so much as a blanket.

20.   Inside the camp, made of bamboo huts on stilts with plastic sheeting, a UNHCR office was torched.