11.   The teachers were attacked by students in the southwestern Madaripur district and were hospitalised with serious injuries, the Bhorer Kagojdaily said.

12.   The reports said preliminary investigation showed that the blast in southwestern Minhang district was caused by residents renovating their homes and setting alight inflammable gas.

13.   The Ugandan government has appealed for international aid to help clean up corpses in the southwestern districts of Masaka, Rakai and Kalangala.

14.   They are accused of massacres in the southwestern Kibuye district.

15.   Twenty-five bodies were found in two isolated chalets in Grange-sur-Sulvan, in the southwestern Valais district, said Valais police chief Robert Steiner.

16.   Twenty-five bodies were found in two isolated chalets in Granges-sur-Salvan, in the southwestern Valais district, Valais police chief Robert Steiner said.

17.   Kigali remained extremely tense Saturday, particularly in the southwestern Nyamirambo district, bastion of the Hutu militia which has been partly beaten by the rebels.

18.   On Friday five rebels were shot dead by security forces in the southwestern Kapilbastu district, a defence ministry press release said Saturday.

19.   Tasmima Hossain, wife of Communications Minister Anwar Hossain, won a seat in southwestern Pirozpur district, vacated earlier by her husband.

20.   The heaviest toll was in the southwestern Bardiya district, where eight Maoists died.