11.   These days, however, the national symbol might as well be the raw stump of an arm or a severed hand flopping to the red mud.

12.   Work continues on the park, which is beginning to take shape amid the mounds of red mud.

13.   Painted, the image of the girls swimming toward the camera becomes otherworldly, with rays of light streaming through the red chocolate Amazon mud.

14.   As the rains let up, hundreds of rescue workers with hoes and shovels looked for survivors in the thick red mud.

15.   Bright red mud slid off the side of a mountain from the heavy rains, burying houses completely and others partially.

16.   In nearby Sitio do Pai Joao, civil defense workers pulled two more bodies from the red mud that buried shacks.

17.   The red mud underfoot is crisscrossed with the tracks of cassowaries and wild pigs, quarry of Bahinemo bowmen.

18.   The officials said in their report that the children worked under severely polluted conditions, used unsafe ladders and were usually covered in red mud.