By the time they reached the first native village, its inhabitants had seen them coming and fled.
The Germans won the battle; the inhabitants fled the area.
As we arrived, the inhabitants fled into the thick forest.
The inhabitants fled, but not before burning their own village down.
About 20,000 of the area's original inhabitants fled early in the war.
When the troops entered the town on 9 December they found that the inhabitants had all fled.
The place was full of soldiers and half the inhabitants had fled.
Every year, some 3 000 inhabitants of Tibet flee their country.
The 40 inhabitants fled to the garrison, with only a child lost.
The inhabitants fled so fast that many had not time to take with them the photos of their own children.
