31.   She then offered to release them in three groups, apparently to avoid a mass funeral while peace talks between Serbs and ethnic Albanians are underway.

32.   The fear of disease prompted the government to cremate unclaimed corpses in a mass funeral.

33.   The government postponed the mass funeral from Saturday to Sunday to give relatives more time to identify their loved ones.

34.   The mass funeral had originally been scheduled for Saturday.

35.   The Sri Lankan army held a mass funeral service in Colombo on Friday for soldiers missing in action or whose bodies had already cremated at the war front.

36.   The rest were piled on logs of wood and cremated in a mass funeral as priests chanted hymns.

37.   Thirteen other victims were buried Sunday in ceremonies separate from the mass funeral.

38.   Thirty-one families, unable to find bodies, held mass funeral services with unidentified remains in one large urn.

39.   Thirty-one families, unable to find bodies, recently held mass funeral services with unidentified remains put in one large urn.

40.   Those killed came from several scattered villages, and no mass funeral was planned.