51.   Some families elected not to take part in the mass burial, choosing private services instead.

52.   Such mass burials are common after searchers have found and stored a number of war dead from remote battle sites.

53.   Some parents had complained about the mass burial, but proponents said because the remains were charred beyound recognition, it would be impossible to distribute them to parents.

54.   That Zairians had consented to a mass burial was proof that a public education campaign to stop the spread of the virus through better sanitation was finally working.

55.   Survivors have said hundreds of Muslims were executed at the dam site, then their bodies driven away for mass burial at another location nearby.

56.   Tanzanian government authorities attended the mass burial Saturday of the recovered bodies, according to Kenyan television station KTN.

57.   The caskets were then transported by ICRC trucks to Beirut for a mass burial according to Shiite religious traditions.

58.   The caskets were to be taken to Beirut later by the Red Cross for a mass burial according to Shiite religious traditions.

59.   The coffins were taken to a Beirut suburb, where they were laid in a mosque in preparation for a mass burial Tuesday.

60.   The city was effectively closed to journalists and aid agencies during most of the fighting, so the allegations of massacres and mass burials could not be independently confirmed.