1.   We lugged our suitcases up the hotel steps.

2.   I sat in the hotel lobby and watched the mating rituals of uniformed U.S. soldiers and the quick-eyed girls who hovered round the hotel steps.

3.   Pools of blood could be seen on the hotel steps, along with sandwiches and water bottles that had been carried by the victims.

4.   Pools of blood could be seen on the hotel steps, along with sandwiches, water bottles and shoes left behind by the victims.

5.   Around a dozen protesters dumped a burning effigy of the former president near the hotel steps, and security staff put out the flames with fire extinguishers.

6.   Masses of photographers, many of whom had staked out their positions the day before, waited eagerly across the road from the hotel steps.

7.   Pools of blood could be seen on the hotel steps, along with sandwiches and water bottles carried by the victims.

8.   Pools of blood could be seen on the hotel steps, along with sandwiches and water bottles that the victims had been carrying.

9.   The hotel steps were covered with pools of blood, and the sandwiches and water bottles that the victims had been carrying.