1.   Latest reports say that mud slides buried entire villages.

2.   Although this small village is buried in backlands many miles from the nearest telephone, people here are keenly aware that they are locked in a sophisticated conflict.

3.   A volcano called Paricutin erupted from the ground in a matter of days, burying a village in lava and terrifying farmers.

4.   Across Honduras, landslides and avalanches buried whole villages and destroyed dozens of poor neighborhoods in major cities.

5.   Once abandoned, the village became buried in sand.

6.   When he returned four days later, Isok and Satar helped bury the village, washing the bodies and tying their toes and covering each in a shroud.

7.   A powerful earthquake rocked a mountainous region in northern Afghanistan, triggering landslides and burying entire villages in debris and rubble.

8.   Debris washed off the mountain by rains has buried entire villages in recent years.

9.   El Nino has battered this Andean nation harder than almost any other country, generating torrential rains that flood cities and avalanches of mud and rock that bury villages.

10.   Floods and landslides swept through stormy northern Italy on Sunday after burying a village in the southern Swiss Alps one day earlier.