71.   Women cried, and others beat their chests in anguish.

72.   Young men, agitated by screaming Shiite Muslim fundamentalist clerics, beat their chests with clenched fists in a traditional Shiite expression of grief.

73.   Groups of people reciting elegies for the martyrs beat their chest in expression of grief while many mourners use knife-fitted chains to flagellate themselves.

74.   Huddled in a dingy room, weeping women beat their chest for the diminutive lad who was brutally slain near here on Sunday.

75.   Women dressed in black with white veils carried the Moslem holy book the Koran, beating their chests, shouting and crying.

76.   Large crowds on Saturday gathered at the houses of the dead, where women relatives openly wept and pulled their hair and men beat their chests in traditional mourning.

77.   Men and young boys carrying chains beat their chests with their hands in a self-flagellation ritual.

78.   Spirals of smoke could be seen despite a heavy downpour, witnesses said, adding that women beat their chests on seeing the shells of their devastated houses.

79.   The protestors, dressed in traditional Tibetan dress, also wept openly and beat their chests while screaming anti-Chinese slogans outside the UN office, police and witnesses said.