11.   The ceremony planned by the Hindus involved throwing offerings of flowers, wheat, butter and twigs into a fire while chanting Hindu hymns.

12.   The inmates could be heard chanting hymns late into the night, it said.

13.   The priest chanted hymns.

14.   The rest were piled on logs of wood and cremated in a mass funeral as priests chanted hymns.

15.   Murmuring prayers and softly chanting devotional hymns, wave upon wave of pilgrims clambered down the slippery river banks to wash away their sins.