41.   The kidnappings occurred amid a high-profile campaign against crime by President Joseph Estrada.

42.   The most recent kidnapping occurred Tuesday night when Franck Janier-Dubry and his wife Carine Mane were taken by masked gunmen from their residence in the capital Dushanbe.

43.   The reported kidnapping occurs nearly eight months after a group believed to be former Nicaraguan guerrillas kidnapped two European tourists in the same region.

44.   The newspaper did not say precisely when or where the kidnapping occurred.

45.   There was heavy security at the trial in Zinjibar, the capital of the southern province of Abyan where the kidnapping occurred.

46.   There are no reliable figures on how many kidnappings occur every year, but they are estimated in the dozens, many of them blamed on corrupt officers.

47.   They earlier had denied that the kidnapping occurred.

48.   The second kidnapping occurred after an MILF unit clashed with an army unit near the project site, which Moslem residents claim as their property.

49.   The second kidnapping occurred in spite of the presence of tribal leaders who had acted as mediators.

50.   The police said they could not confirm a kidnapping occurred.