Cemetery workers said later that the only surveillance was provided by the police.

A couple of the cemetery workers crossed themselves and bowed their heads low.

Around one in the morning, the container of the casket was finally uncovered by the cemetery workers.

Instead, the morgue apparently sent the body to a site far across the capital city for burial by cemetery workers.

Particularly touching are the items many leave at the grave, which cemetery workers do not remove until they become dilapidated.

Another sticking point in the negotiations was the status of five cemetery workers who were dismissed while on the picket line.

The cemetery workers had headed back to their nearby truck probably to get their shovels.

Four cemetery workers were digging in the bright light cast from the patrol-car headlamps.

According to residents, the tempest unearthed the baby's coffin, which was discovered by a cemetery worker.

A cemetery worker operating a small earth-mover scooped fresh dirt into the hole.

Cemetery workers took the event in stride.

And the cemetery workers helped, too.

The cemetery workers hope for something of a windfall once the borders are reopened for bodies.

Many grave markers were believed to be missing until a team of cemetery workers began using metal rods to probe the greens.

A gravedigger is a cemetery worker responsible for digging a grave prior to a funeral service.

Given that bodies arrive from throughout Iraq, the cemetery workers have an ear firmly stuck to the country's robust grapevine.

The cemetery worker operating the hydraulics under the casket stepped away to give the family a few moments of privacy.

Cemetery workers began charging people a few pesos to enter the building where bones and mummies were stored.

The cemetery workers cite Cypress Hills' claims to fame.

Prior to the museum, the mummies long laid in storage and only talked about locally and among cemetery workers.

Last month Federal officials charged that cemetery workers had, since 1984, dumped up to 250,000 dead animals in the woods instead of cremating them, as promised.

He noted that the Aramaic writing on the wall and the ossuaries was the language used by working-class people of the time, cemetery workers, for example.

He had had a fight a short time earlier with his girlfriend's father, a cemetery worker, and had fired a shot at him, investigators said.

Mr. Bilello and other cemetery workers say they have become familiar with the wishes of people from other cultures.

It was used by agents posing as cemetery workers so they could record who came to visit the graves of people considered enemies of the state.