51.   Firefighters and civil defense officials were battling the flames, and civil defense helicopters were trying to help island residents fleeing from their homes.

52.   Two island residents who were earlier taken hostage by the MNLF had been freed, he added.

53.   On Monday one island resident who witnessed the incident said he was fishing on the rocks near the lighthouse when the Saint Malo was hit.

54.   Powerful Hurricane Edouard churned across the Atlantic Sunday, US weather forecasters said, as Caribbean island residents were put on alert for the unpredictable storm.

55.   The bloodshed has left much resentment among island residents, who are inheritors to a proud history.