11.   According to Islamic tradition, many families bury bodies immediately without taking them to hospitals first.

12.   But Asem Bashiti said the family would not bury the body unless they could decide where.

13.   But witnesses said the death toll could be higher because many families buried their loved ones without notifying authorities.

14.   Families buried the dead hurriedly the next day, on a ridge in plowed fields, for fear of U.S. planes that again flew overhead.

15.   His family quickly buried the body in a Nablus cemetery without going to the mosque first, as Muslim custom requires.

16.   Instead, the family buried his guitar case in a casket.

17.   Near the village of Weijia, in the badly hit southern province of Jiangxi, a family buried an elderly woman who died in the floods.

18.   On Thursday, the families buried their dead, prosecutors opened an investigation, TV newscasts fed weary Mexicans scenes of the carnage and workers washed away the blood.

19.   On Friday, their families buried them.

20.   Some families buried their loved ones without notifying authorities, he said.