11. As night fell on the second day of the manhunt, thousands of South Korean troops formed a cordon along suspected escape routes in the heavily forested mountains. 12. Japanese defense officials said an airplane which crashed into a forested mountain in northeastern Japan may have been a United States military aircraft, local media reported Thursday. 13. Jets made constant runs over the forested mountains Friday, dropping bombs every two or three minutes on the clear, autumn day. 14. Lyme disease, a debilitating tick-borne illness once unknown in China, is spreading rapidly, particularly in heavily forested mountains of the northeast, researchers say. 15. Military, state and civilian aircraft searched for traces of the plane in the Pacific Ocean and also in the forested mountains east of Khabarovsk. 16. Military, state and civilian aircraft searched for traces of the plane in the forested mountains east of Khabarovsk and in the sea. 17. Much of the forested mountain is already covered with clear-cut areas for commercial ski slopes. 18. News reports said five survivors, including Israeli businessman Zeev Shiv and Indian businessman Arif Mulfi, were rescued after an intensive search on the densely forested mountain slopes. 19. Suddenly, alarms blared in the cockpit to warn that the plane was too close to the forested mountain, shrouded by night. 20. The ADF operates from bases in the thickly forested Rwenzori mountains on the Uganda-Congo border. |