VILLAGERS OF A SMALL INDIAN TOWN OF ANJAR COVER THEIR FACES WITH A HANDKERCHIEFS WHILE WATCHING RESCUE OPERATION.


Villagers cover their faces with handkerchieves while watching rescue operation in the small Indian town of Anjar on January 29, 2001. Survivors of Friday's disaster, which has killed up to 20,000 people and has made thousands more homeless, wavered between fear and numb resignation as the full impact of the tragedy unfolded in the ancient coastal town of Bhuj and elsewhere.