A senior police official in Peshawar, Dost Mohammed, told the Associated Press that the first explosion on Sunday had been relatively small, and had drawn rescue workers, police and several journalists to the scene.
Most poignant of all was to see him in the Jewish museum in Prague, in front of a drawing rescued from an extermination camp, and realising that the child who drew it shared his date of birth.
Growth forecasts are down across the region, investors are slowing projects and governments are drawing up rescue plans.
During the stirring tenor aria "Cujus animam gementem" ("Though her weeping soul"), you would think that the vocal soloist is not just describing the grieving Mary, but readying himself to rush off, sword drawn, to rescue her.
Yet underscoring the political and diplomatic land mines that have routinely plagued attempts to solve Europe's crisis, he noted that the fund from which Spain is set to draw its rescue cash had not been fully ratified in Europe.
The first explosion was relatively small and drew police and rescue workers to the site, said Dost Mohammed, a senior local police official.
The families of the miners and more than 1,300 journalists gathered around plasma televisions set up at Camp Hope, the makeshift tent city that vibrated with a carnival-like atmosphere as the rescue drew near.
In a heart-thumping scene that drew nearly 100 rescue workers and scores of curious onlookers, the men were painstakingly extricated with help from a powerful vacuum, but largely by men like Neil Malone, a firefighter and paramedic who used his bare hands to keep dirt and rocks away from the face of one of the men.
The eight-episode series, in which two sets of contestants who mirrored the original "Gilligan's Island" characters competed to be rescued, drew an average of 3.05 million viewers, according to Nielsen's overnight numbers.
The first explosion was relatively small and drew police officers and rescue workers to the site, said Dost Mohammed, a senior local police official.
