1.   Desperate for cash, the government is now seeking foreign investors to salvage the collapsing structures.

2.   Explosions and electrical fritzes abound, along with high-speed collisions and collapsing structures.

3.   Many of the victims had been asleep when they were hurled through the air or crushed by collapsing structures, state officials said.

4.   The roof of a small, blazing church crashed onto three firefighters Monday, burying and killing them in the flaming debris as others scrambled off the collapsing structure.

5.   A deserted fairground has been stripped of all its assets and people now grow vegetables under the collapsing structures.

6.   Analysts agree that a crisis was inevitable given massive corruption, a collapsing financial structure and an ineffective government.

7.   Six people drowned, three others were killed by collapsing structures and another person died of electrocution, the civil defense office said.

8.   The booms of collapsing structure rang out.

9.   The nine dead either drowned or were buried by collapsing structures in Santiago, the neighboring port city of Valparaiso and in southern Chile, Maturana said.