21.   Fellow journalists and some city residents surrounded the open red coffin, many on the verge of tears.

22.   Funeral processions snaked through the cemeteries of Minsk on Tuesday, with mourners carrying many of the victims in open coffins.

23.   Gorbachev, his daughter and two granddaughters walked behind the open coffin as it was carried out of the foundation to a black hearse for the journey to Novodevichy.

24.   On Tuesday, his open coffin was carried behind a black Mercedes bearing his picture.

25.   Protesters marched with two open wooden coffins bearing young sisters of Palestinian descent.

26.   They described swaddling their faces with cloths to try to block the smell, and their horror when earthmoving equipment occasionally broke open coffins and body bags.

27.   Women wailed and men dabbed away tears as they gazed at the open coffins.