61.   Fighting occurred in a mountainous area of the Sirnak province, along the border with northern Iraq where rebels are said to have hideouts.

62.   Flash floods have drowned two people in the mountainous areas of southern Oman and left five others missing, a police official said Sunday.

63.   Four aircraft and other equipment were dispatched to southern Greece to fight another forest fire raging in a mountainous area near the port city of Patra.

64.   Four Georgian police officers and two drug dealers were killed in a clash in a remote mountainous area of western Georgia, an official said Tuesday.

65.   Four people were hospitalized after their car was hit by falling rocks in a mountainous area in Taoyuan County in northern Taiwan.

66.   Greek and Italian firefighting planes on Sunday apparently managed to extinguish the last remaining blaze in a mountainous forested area northeast of the capital.

67.   Greek and Italian firefighting planes on Sunday worked to extinguish the last remaining blaze in a mountainous forested area northeast of the capital.

68.   Haji Gulalai, the new intelligence chief in Kandahar, recently said he has informants with satellite telephones in the mountainous area.

69.   Government soldiers clashed with suspected Communist guerrillas in a remote mountainous area north of Manila, killing at least five rebels, police said Tuesday.

70.   He said the contact occurred in a mountainous area which contained caves and buildings believed to be used by terrorists.