41.   Thousands of terrified people fled in cars, jeeps and on foot, carrying their belongings.

42.   Visitors had to trek the last few miles to the festival grounds, carrying their belongings with them.

43.   AFP correspondents saw some families leaving the town Sunday, carrying their belongings in cloth sacks.

44.   As they carried their belongings from the building, some made faces at reporters.

45.   Civilians were leaving the neighbourhood carrying their belongings in their hands.

46.   William Barloon and David Daliberti arrived at the US interests section in Baghdad, travelling in official Iraqi cars and carrying their belongings, they said.

47.   Villagers carrying their belongings on their heads rushed here from the bushes upon hearing the sound of vehicles, thinking that food and medicine had finally reached them.

48.   On Friday afternoon, on the long road leading from the border, scattered groups of women trudged along, carrying their belongings on their backs.

49.   People carrying meagre belongings in suitcases and bags walked to bus stops and railway stations, witnesses said.