61.   A rainstorm and early morning darkness allowed Childs to sneak away Saturday from the mud hut where he was being held captive.

62.   Armed with machine guns and machetes, they took positions around the densely populated clusters of mud huts.

63.   As the crouching priest calls on his gods, a shaft of sunlight streams into the mud hut and the bony jaws seem to come to life.

64.   Bi lives in a mud hut with her family.

65.   By midday Thursday, authorities had pulled the bodies of three children crushed when several mud huts collapsed.

66.   Early Saturday morning, Childs escaped in darkness and a rainstorm from a mud hut where he was being held.

67.   Esther Awete was found dead in her mud hut and since then her mother, three sisters and three other relatives have died.

68.   Esther Awete was found dead in her mud hut by her mother and sisters.

69.   Esther Awete was found dead six weeks ago in her round, gray mud hut by her mother and sisters five days after she fell ill with a fever.

70.   Few schools can be found in the mud huts and mounds of trash that dot the riverbank for miles.