The lofty ruins of a fortress, its charred walls standing like gaunt fingers, rose in the distance.
They were assaulted by 30 minutes of gruesome footage showing crushed cyclists, pedestrians flung into the air like rag dolls, charred human remains and victims' families grieving hysterically.
For his aged corn whiskies he puts spirit he distills from local white corn into oak and cherry barrels that he has cut, milled and charred on the farm.
Later the car was found burned beside the Mississippi River levee, with a charred corpse inside.
A dirty young man searched through a pile of blackened onions, picking out those that were not inedibly charred.
Following the Nato air strike in Kunduz 10 days ago, bereaved civilians formed a line so that they might receive a charred corpse to call their own.
A gash extended from the base of the plane toward the Windows, its right wing appeared charred and the exterior of the destroyed right engine apparently had been peeled off.
Officials said many of the bodies had been charred beyond recognition.
He was the first reporter to enter the charred high-rise after the fire was put out, capturing some extraordinary pictures of destruction amid the intense heat and smoke.
"Must Berlin understand this?" asks an election poster depicting a charred vehicle.
Bone takes longer to burn, so by the end the skeleton is usually laid bare like a charred anatomical model, coated in the greasy residue of burned flesh.
We rushed to the scene and saw charred bodies, while wounded people were crying for help.
The BBC's Phil Mercer in Sydney said many charred bodies had been found in cars. It is thought they were trying to escape the fires but were overtaken by their "sheer speed and ferocity".
On Thursday, however, a fire erupted inside the rubble, probably a crushed gas canister, he said, and by the time rescuers found the couple, they were dead, their charred bodies in an embrace.
Remove all charred and burnt portions before eating.
On Thursday, experts examined the charred wreckage to determine why the flight to the Canary Islands had veered off a runway and burst into flames.
Within twenty minutes some of girls' charred bodies were lined up along the East Side of Greene Street.
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