81.   With its offensive, the government has regained control of major roads and pushed rebel fighters from many areas.

82.   Outraged by the killings Tuesday, residents of Mubingi commune outside Bujumbura captured one rebel fighter and clubbed him to death, Cmdr. Celestin Ntahomvukiye said.

83.   Outraged by the killings, residents of a commune outside the capital, Bujumbura, clubbed one rebel fighter to death, the spokesman said.

84.   Police Director Paul Mulbah said a number of suspected rebel fighters had also been arrested in the capital since Thursday, but declined to specify the number.

85.   Police said the dead were rebel fighters.

86.   RCD spokesman Lambert Mende said Ugandan troops provoked the incident by first ordering rebel fighters to abandon their positions around a hotel and then firing on them.

87.   Rebel fighter Aindi Beksultanov said they had no plans to try and retake the building.

88.   Rebel fighter Aindi Beksultanov said they had no plans to try to retake the palace.

89.   Rebel fighters and refugees reported hearing artillery fire overnight south of the capital, Grozny, where fighting has been concentrated all week.

90.   Rebel fighters are flowing into the Chechen capital and Russian officials were bracing for attacks on the eve of the elections, Interfax said.