Children's bodies, and anxious relatives, were also arriving.

Amid occasional small talk, the adults sat fidgeting or paced the room like anxious relatives awaiting the birth of a first child.

Foreign aid agencies provide services ranging from toys for children to satellite phones with which refugees tell anxious relatives they have survived.

Dozens of people are still missing, and newspapers are filled with advertisements placed by anxious relatives seeking their whereabouts.

Among other anxious relatives affected by the attack, the "Missing" ritual spread swiftly.

Aid workers carried out a door-to-door survey of the missing, as anxious relatives feared the worst.

Knots of anxious relatives gathered by operating rooms, waiting for news.

At the medical examiner's office and the Miami Beach police headquarters, anxious relatives awaited word on whether their fears were correct.

Grant knew too much about the tactics of kidnappers, the means they used to force anxious relatives into paying the required ransom.

The names of many of those feared dead have been provided by anxious relatives and truck companies.