Some had their eyes gouged out, others had flayed or badly bleeding skin.
Next day the 23-year-old visited the mortuary, where he identified a third murdered student whose body was found a few blocks away, his face skinned and his eyes gouged out.
The robbers seized pedestrians and motorists and beat them senseless, telling them they would be shot, have their throats slit, eyes gouged out or be burned alive if they did not comply with their assailants' demands.
As one of the stars of Utopia, the Channel 4 British conspiracy thriller written by Dennis Kelly, Akhtar had to cope with playing a character who has his eye gouged out and his father murdered within the first two episodes.
But around Jenin, for example, militiamen are hiding out in caves gouged out of the mountains, committed to renewed guerrilla war in the occupied territories and suicide attacks inside Israel.
On December 15th the imprint left by Neil Armstrong's boot on the moon in 1969 found its near-equivalent in the minds of China's media commentators: the "Chinese footprint" gouged in the lunar dust by Yutu, a Chinese rover, after its mother ship made the first soft landing on the moon by a spacecraft since 1976.
It was feared that the lake would pour over the top and burst down the valley but fortunately the river gouged out an escape route along the side of the landblock which acted as a safety valve and limited the damage.The need to reverse the denuding of forests has been proclaimed time and again by the government but to no effect.
Buffeted by winds and tides, the stranded ship, carrying 65,000 tonnes of coal from the Queensland port of Gladstone to China, is reported to have gouged a channel more than 3km (1.9 miles) long through coral in the reef, a world-heritage site already at risk from worsening water quality and rising sea temperatures.
ALONG the banks of the Mekong in Laos, the forest has been stripped and the mountainside gouged out.
Yet a couple of politicians were murdered this week, and one had an eye gouged out.Such is Mr Moi's aura that, despite the polls, Mr Kibaki's supporters cannot quite believe that he will win.
The kimchi wars Gouged Shooting the messengers Give me land, lots of land ReprintsThe government offered one new approach last month when it announced a deal with the Northern Territory's Labor government to shake up the communal management of aboriginal land by introducing market-driven incentives.
