1.   The rescue had been hampered by weather, with a low cloud ceiling that made it difficult to dispatch helicopters to the mountain.

2.   A mountain guide on the team managed to alert rescuers by radio, but bad weather hampered the rescue, mountain police said.

3.   BUILDING owners may be asked to remove certain structures, including podiums, that could hamper fire rescue, Director of Buildings Choi Yu-leuk said.

4.   But rough North Atlantic seas hampered rescues for a second day Saturday.

5.   The fire gutted the house, and the English-language Gulf Daily News reported the locked metal doors of the house hampered the rescue.

6.   The rescue was hampered by rain, thick mud and patchy snow on the backroads south of the park.

7.   The U.S. Coast Guard hoped to begin picking up survivors by Friday evening, but the storm was hampering the rescue.

8.   Firemen said the blaze was exacerbated by a lack of fire-fighting equipment and locked doors which hampered the rescue.

9.   They said although the fog hampered rescue operations, the proximity of the port enabled many boats to quickly rush to the scene to recover the passengers.

10.   Police wielded batons to disperse a huge crowd that gathered at the site as the bystanders were hampering the rescue operations, witnesses added.