71.   Even when the full-blown storm was still several miles offshore, powerful winds flattened simple mud huts and uprooted trees.

72.   Geese wander among the mud huts while women cook bread over fires and the men discuss their problems.

73.   His mud hut trembled as boulders dislodged from the surrounding hills rolled down onto the village, killing a group of women washing clothes at a nearby stream.

74.   Hussein Sultani heard his daughter-in-law scream just as a devastating earthquake began to shake his mud hut in this village in northwestern Iran.

75.   In nearby Shoush-Dough, the wife of Jahn-Ali Yarmohammadi did not escape fast enough and was crushed when their mud hut collapsed.

76.   Kandahar residents were overwhelming surrounding villages, at times crowding four families into a single mud hut, Fairdous said.

77.   Loud explosions echoed down the valleys, shaking the walls of surrounding mud brick huts.

78.   Many of the evacuees lived in mud huts along the coast.

79.   Local residents watching from roofs of mud huts said the flights started in morning.

80.   Many of mud huts that dot the region collapsed in the quake or in scores of aftershocks.