11.   The Philippines also has been used as a transit area for cocaine and other drugs from several Asian countries to the United States, Australia, Europe and Japan.

12.   The smaller republic, Montenegro, is primarily a transit area for women and girls trafficked into Albania and Western Europe.

13.   The three Sudanese men had no entry visas when they arrived at the airport and were being kept in a transit area.

14.   Meanwhile, Ecuadoran Foreign Minister Heinz Moeller said authorities had located former Haitian police official Guy Phillipe in a transit area of the Quito airport.

15.   Philippe had earlier been detained in a transit area of the Quito airport after arriving on a flight from Panama.

16.   Refugees can only be held in transit areas for a period of up to two weeks.

17.   The blaze was caused by welding work in a transit area.

18.   The pretty hillside villages there are part of a major drug transit area from the Golden Triangle.