11.   Rescue teams were unable to cross the soft mud bank to search for the missing workers and were waiting for high tide for divers to move in.

12.   The women painstakingly brushed away dirt from the tiny, precise grooves that were carved into the soft mud.

13.   They talked of the long journeys they made to the hillside overlooking Shulgara where they carved small, dark cave-like houses into the soft mud.

14.   An unexploded bomb lay buried in the soft mud of the scorched kindergarten and a broken main filled the ruins of the orphanage with highly flammable gas.