41.   The name of the Ferrari driver was not immediately released as police tried to contact relatives of the victims.

42.   The statement, which resembled previous communiques from the kidnappers, did not identify which hostage is ill or say how his relatives had been contacted.

43.   It said that pressures on the families of detainees and bans on them contacting their relatives were tantamount to torture.

44.   Residents crowded the local long-distance telephone office to try to contact relatives.

45.   Sri Lanka authorities and Hungarian police asked Gannoruwa to help identify the victims in Gyor and contact their relatives to arrange for their funeral in Sri Lanka.

46.   The British consulate in Perth said it had been advised of the rescue and was seeking to contact relatives of the man and his dead companion.

47.   The most visible sign of jitters were the crowds at the local long-distance telephone office as townspeople tried to contact relatives to find out what the situation was elsewhere.