1.   There are fears that the casualty toll may be higher.

2.   However, later reports indicated that the casualty toll might have been much higher.

3.   But it was a Scud that produced the largest single American casualty toll when it fell on a barracks in Saudi Arabia during the war.

4.   But the rising casualty toll could become a nettlesome issue for the Kremlin.

5.   Many felt that they simply were lucky this time, and that with circumstances only slightly altered, the casualty toll could have been much worse.

6.   Meanwhile, the casualty toll mounted.

7.   The casualty toll in the missile strike remained unclear.

8.   The casualty toll was hard to determine, they said, because many victims were vaporized or covered by rubble.

9.   The casualty tolls tell the story.

10.   The casualty toll is expected to rise, according to other officials and to news reports from the site.