11.   Many of the dead were found in toilets or luggage compartments where they had fled to escape smoke.

12.   Others may have made it to shore and fled to escape arrest, officials said.

13.   The mother and son fled to escape further reprisals, he said.

14.   The radio also said fighting was spreading north as thousands of refugees and some fighters fled to escape the war.

15.   Thousands were killed, and many others perished in the desert, where they fled to escape the killings.

16.   However, the area, usally buzzing with tourists remained quiet, visitors having long fled to escape the flooding.

17.   Craxi, who fled to Tunisia to escape corruption convictions, underwent surgery in Tunisia in February for gangrene in one foot resulting from diabetes.

18.   Most of the refugees in eastern Zaire are Hutus from Burundi and Rwanda who fled to escape ethnic violence in their own countries.

19.   Police said they had come from Zaire, where tens of thousands of Burundian Hutus fled to escape ethnic unrest.