31.   The officials said in their report that the children worked under severely polluted conditions, used unsafe ladders and were usually covered in red mud.

32.   The students eventually used a ladder to climb out.

33.   The technicians were finally able to manually pull the tram to near the mountaintop station, and firefighters rescued the passengers using a ladder, Veiga said.

34.   Using ladders to reach the overturned cars, rescuers helped survivors out of the train and reached through shattered windows to get to those still trapped inside.

35.   Firemen used ladders to reach the cars.

36.   Firefighters and paramedics used ladders to help passengers from the wreckage of the buckled double-decker passenger train, two of the cars of which were derailed but upright.

37.   Firemen used ladders to bring the injured and dead from the overturned coach to an inflatable tent erected nearby which acted as an emergency medical centre and temporary mortuary.

38.   Young women broke out in loud wailing as firemen using turntable ladders brought two more bodies out of the third floor shortly after midday.

39.   Later, army reports said the two attackers had used a ladder to cross over the border fence from southern Lebanon.

40.   Other residents were rescued by firefighters using ladders.