21.   Its central stairwell keeled over in the quake, and the ruined building now tilts at angles amid mounds of debris.

22.   Its ruined buildings are abandoned, its streets empty of cars, taxis and buses.

23.   Khamidova, whose son is three years old and who is expecting another child, lives in the basement of a ruined building with her husband and their neighbors.

24.   Many more people were reported injured in demolished houses, and the death toll was expected to rise as volunteers and emergency workers searched ruined buildings, he said.

25.   Rescuers expected the nuber to rise as they reached the portion of the ruined building that held a day care center and large government office.

26.   Rescuers expected the number to rise as they reached the portion of the ruined building that held a day care center and large government office.

27.   Rescuers expected the toll to rise still more Saturday as they reached the portion of the ruined building that held a day care center and large government office.

28.   Rescue workers kept up the dark task of digging into the debris of ruined buildings, but they called the search for survivors increasingly futile.

29.   The block of ruined buildings around the new government seat, an oil institute left untouched by the fighting that wrecked Grozny, has been encircled with barbed wire.

30.   The Chechens had abandoned the ruined building hours before, along with the train station, another focal point of the battle.