1.   The toll is expected to rise as emergency teams begin to shift from removing stranded survivors to recovering corpses buried under avalanches of mud.

2.   There, Giuliani served Christmas meals to rescue workers laboring around the clock recovering corpses and removing debris.

3.   With limited equipment, the military and rescue workers are having trouble recovering corpses, and the floods have wreaked havoc on sewer systems and have washed out latrines.

4.   In Kandahar the International Committee of the Red Cross began the grisly task of recovering corpses from the streets of the devastated former Taliban stronghold.