31.   It appeared that flames shot down the river and torched wooden houses by its edge.

32.   Last month, scores of people died and houses were torched in the same area before authorities stepped in.

33.   Mobs torched a house belonging to parliamentary Speaker Harmoko in the city of Solo.

34.   More than a dozen houses have been torched in the past two weeks, said Alexander Ivanko, a spokesman for U.N. police monitors.

35.   Muslims fled, and their houses were torched or taken over by Serbs.

36.   Pradeep Dharmaratne, a correspondent for the state-run Dinamina newspaper, told government officials that his thatched-roof house was torched at midnight Wednesday.

37.   Policemen tossed a grenade through the door and machine-gunned those who had survived the blast before torching the house, villagers said.

38.   Residents said nine houses were torched by anti-independence militiamen Monday night.

39.   Prosecutors claim the youths torched the house with gasoline, but no traces of any accelerant were found.

40.   RAI state radio said the father is suspected of torching the house to destroy the bodies and to kill himself.