1.   Authorities blamed the blasts on Chechen rebels, though to this day no one has been convicted of setting off the explosions.

2.   Officials here have blamed those blasts on Chechen separatist rebels.

3.   The blasts were blamed on an illegal fireworks warehouse.

4.   The government has blamed that blast on a deranged suicide bomber, though local residents say that children were assembling fireworks in the school at the time.

5.   Palestinian police blamed one blast on Israeli soldiers.

6.   Palestinian police said the militants blew themselves up accidentally but Hamas blamed the blast on Israel and the PLO.

7.   Presidential candidate Vladimir Zhirinovsky blamed the blast on secret service agents looking for an excuse to cancel the elections.

8.   Abkhazian separatist leaders blamed the blasts on Georgian saboteurs, the Interfax news agency said.

9.   Abkhazian separatist leaders blamed the blast on Georgian saboteurs, the Interfax news agency said.

10.   An Interior Ministry spokeswoman, speaking on customary anonymity, blamed the blast on a bomb.