11.   Elite Interior Ministry troops manned checkpoints as soldiers dug trenches, settling in for what could be a long stay.

12.   For security, he said, he slept in the foxhole dug by soldiers.

13.   He said for security he slept in a foxhole dug by soldiers.

14.   He said soldiers had dug a network of tunnels beneath the compound during the four-month standoff, using martial music to disguise the sound of construction equipment.

15.   He said soldiers had dug a network of tunnels beneath the compound during the four-month standoff.

16.   In the quake-hit Kobe suburb of Nishinomiya, soldiers dug at a mock-up of a wrecked home, carried stretchers and set up a triage tent.

17.   Interior Ministry troops manned checkpoints as soldiers dug trenches, settling in for what could be a long stay.

18.   Soldiers dug holes through the concrete debris while construction diggers tore away piles of wreckage.

19.   Soldiers dug the body of a girl from the earthquake rubble and hoisted it onto a stretcher to be put with the other dead.

20.   Soldiers were digging into frozen ground to pitch tents, the official Xinhua News Agency reported.