21.   But police said they already had been monitoring the trend with concern for several months and had ordered stepped up patrols at stations.

22.   Committee chairman Datuk Ahmad Hamzah said he had directed enforcement officers to step up patrols at the island.

23.   Exhausted, cut and bruised, the workers were picked up by a military patrol at a prearranged rendezvous point yesterday, according to military sources.

24.   Exhausted, cut and bruised, the workers were picked up by a military patrol at a prearranged rendezvous point Thursday, according to military and oil industry sources.

25.   Following the shootings, police in Sweden, Norway and Finland increased patrols at ferry ports and airports.

26.   France has stepped up its patrols at the Italian border due to a wave of Kurdish refugees trying to enter Italy, police sources said Saturday.

27.   He also confirmed NATO forces had yet to increase patrols at Bosnian Serb military headquarters in Han Pihesak, where Mladic is based.

28.   Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed guerrilla group, claimed responsibility for an attack on a patrol at Baraachit, saying it caused several casualties.

29.   Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed guerrilla group, claimed responsibility for an attack on an armor patrol at Baraachit, saying it caused several casualties.

30.   In a guerrilla attack on a military patrol at dawn near Mullaittivu town, five soldiers were killed and eight wounded, said military spokesman Major Tilak Dunuwille.