31.   ANSA said the building appeared to be demolished.

32.   Deputy mayor David Dauphinee, who spent the night at the fire scene, said the building appeared lost.

33.   Durkin says the building did not appear to be on fire.

34.   ITAR-Tass said some hotel guests had been evacuated as a precaution, but the buildings appeared safe early Thursday, officials said.

35.   Police Department spokesman Joe Durkin said the building did not appear to be on fire.

36.   Some critics also worry that the executive building appears more imposing than the Reichstag parliament building nearby.

37.   The building appeared deserted.

38.   The building appeared sliced open across the back, exposing cables and crumbling concrete.

39.   The walls of the Military Industrialization Corporation, which oversees state-run factories, were still standing, but the building appeared to have been gutted by missiles.

40.   Pooled media reports from the airport said there was no damage to the mosque but the building appeared to have a lot of bullet holes from earlier battles here.