21.   The sickly sweet smell of decaying bodies hangs in the air.

22.   The smell of decaying bodies hung over the town and the road to Uvira.

23.   The threat of disease spread by decaying bodies still trapped under rubble was rising.

24.   Thousands of decaying bodies are believed to still be buried.

25.   U.N. war crimes specialists sifted through fields suspected of containing mass graves near this Bosnian Serb town Wednesday, using probes to detect gases exuded by decaying bodies.

26.   Villages lay in ruins, some with the stench of decaying bodies of civilians believed to have been caught in the crossfire.

27.   Lightning and wind-whipped rain Saturday hampered rescue efforts at a bombed-out federal building here amid fears that decaying bodies could produce a health hazard.

28.   Local officials were also increasingly concerned that decaying bodies left in the ruins might cause a health hazard and had special suits brought in to protect workers from risks.