1.   Rats were running all over the slum districts.

2.   A run-down house in a slum district of the Punjab capital Lahore collapsed early Saturday killing four young girls and one woman, the authorities said.

3.   Mangueira, based in a slum district, is to carnival in Brazil what Pele is to soccer.

4.   Many of the victims in Adana were living in slums districts where houses were poorly built.

5.   With the money, she bought stocks for a small store by the doorstep of her home in the slum district of suburban Bicutan.

6.   Two other slum districts, Mangueira and Dende in north Rio, were sealed off by army tanks and barbed wire.

7.   Shooting and explosions were heard in the slum districts of Nyakabiga, Bwiza, and Jabe, but by early Sunday the capital was calm, the radio said.

8.   The casualties were labourers living in the slum district of the southern city.