They were working-class people: soldiers, construction workers, police officers.
Plumes of smoke rose as rescue workers, police officials and residents swarmed the blast site.
What about the sanitation workers, police officers, pothole fillers and other providers of city services?
Bailly watched construction workers, police, and people run toward the site.
A solitary firework exploded and rescue workers, police and firemen came on stage for their bows.
More than 500 rescue workers, police and family members are desperately combing through the rubble to look for loved ones.
Inside the factories, according to several workers, police and paramilitary officers walked through the workrooms, holding termination letters.
As Hussain rushed to help, he was caught in a second explosion that killed rescue workers, police officers and journalists.
Unionization has grown rapidly in the service sector among such government employees as teachers, sanitation workers, police, and firefighters.
Now the dining room was filled with volunteers chopping carrots and onions for rescue workers, police officers and firefighters.
"People were talking about the number of dead and there were emergency workers, police and the public prosecutor.
