1.   Some wrecked houses remain at peculiar angles, just as the flood waters left them.

2.   Virtually no one could be positively identified, and by Monday night they had all been buried together in a grave alongside their wrecked house of worship.

3.   Journalists flying in Afghan army helicopters from Kabul could see clusters of villagers, standing before wrecked houses, waving frantically at the aircraft, motioning it to land.

4.   Many onlookers came Sunday to see the disaster scene, a sea of mud and wrecked houses, after the floodwaters.

5.   They helped to shatter the nerves of people living beside wrecked houses.

6.   Collapsed houses and wrecked house appliances made the place look like it was hit by an aerial bombardment, an AFP correspondent on the scene said.

7.   The bomb slightly damaged the offices of the newspaper, Al-Jumhuriya, but wrecked five houses and a large number of vehicles.