51.   Daily search operations with airplanes and boats have turned up debris from the two planes and one body.

52.   Deputy Interior Minister Vakha Zakriyev said authorities in the breakaway republic have carried out four search operations in recent days.

53.   Earlier this week, the military commandos began an extensive search operation in the jungles to destroy the rebel hide-outs in the east.

54.   Elsewhere in the Mannar district, soldiers on a routine search operation shot and killed two rebels over the weekend, he said.

55.   Earlier Monday, officials said a major search operation at the crash site had been completed.

56.   Farkhutdinov also told reporters that search operations in Neftegorsk will end in about week after all the collapsed houses and buildings are cleared.

57.   Fading daylight and strong winds were hampering a search operation, said Omar Faruk, a local police officer.

58.   Five people were swept away Friday by an avalanche, prompting a massive search operation in the central Swiss Alps.

59.   Fitzgerald said the search operation would be called off Sunday and the teams would return here when the snow starts melting in the spring.

60.   Four suspected Islamic militants and one army soldier were killed in gunbattles in war-torn Kashmir during search operations conducted by the Indian army, police said Sunday.