41. In an outpouring of raw emotion, young men beat their chests with clenched fists in a traditional Shiite expression of grief. 42. In the village of Villadareh, among the hardest hit, residents beat their chests in grief as volunteers pulled the bodies of four children from mounds of rubble. 43. Many of them beat their chests with clenched fists in a traditional Islamic expression of grief. 44. Loudspeakers blared laments, as the loud thumps of hands beating chests kept the rhythm of the songs. 45. Men slowly beat their chests in a ritual that sounded like a ceremonial drum from a distance. 46. Men draped themselves over the coffin, and women sat near the wall beating their chests. 47. Mourners beat their chest and vowed to revenge the death of their activists. 48. Mourners beat their chest, wailed and cried. 49. On Monday, their supporters took to the streets to protest the arrests, wailing and beating their chests and accusing the government of targeting religious activists. 50. Relatives of the dead wailed and beat their chests as rescue workers recovered bodies, eyewitnesses said. |