21.   Reporters at the scene counted four dead from the clash.

22.   Rescue workers said it was difficult to count the dead because virtually all of them had been blown to bits.

23.   The defense minister said Suriname should investigate the decade-long jungle war between military troops and rebels to count the dead and set the record straight for history.

24.   The government has said bodies may be removed at a later date, when all the dead are counted and the sanitation risk from decomposing bodies has passed.

25.   We are now counting the dead in Turkey by the month.

26.   When Israelis count their own dead, they do not distinguish between those killed inside Israel proper and those killed in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.

27.   An official from IRNA told AFP that the authorities had difficulties counting the dead because the bodies of victims had been torn into pieces.

28.   Egypt is counting its dead after an inferno in the southern village of Dronka and torrential floods sweeping Egypt killed hundreds of people and left thousands more homeless.

29.   The UN mission has been roundly accused in recent weeks of letting security in the Bosnian capital collapse and failing to do more than count the dead and wounded.

30.   The bodies were so badly mutilated it was difficult to count the dead, he said.