Reports were given of entire families being washed away while a few survivors clung to the tops of trees for hours, hoping to be saved.

Twenty-seven survivors were clinging to the small boats and pieces of floating wreckage.

But when the dawn came, survivors clung there, news helicopters circling them in the gray light like patient dragonflies.

The battalion had been ripped through hell and back, and its survivors now clung to each other.

IN their grief, survivors cling to those final sounds on the phone from voices lost.

The other survivors clung to that little wretch of a planet and most of them died there.

A few survivors clung to the wreckage, but not many.

The survivors clung together, every man aware that we were thousands of miles away from help or mercy.

The 120 survivors of the crew clung to three life rafts for 50 hours before being rescued.

Large cities are left as tombs and survivors cling together in rural pockets, fearing nightfall.