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Local journalist Yaya Tandina told Reuters that about 30 militants armed with Kalashnikovs and pick-axes destroyed three mausoleums of saints on Sunday.

He thinks those men must have been fighting by mistake, like miners in the nineteenth century, in California, which he's read about but never seen, burying pick-axes in one another's skulls for fool's gold.

The former pub landlord and amateur boxer was bludgeoned to death by six men with baseball bats and pick-axed handles in front of horrified drinkers.

Alexander Murray Anderson, 61, sounded the alarm when he found that their van had been boxed in and was attacked by raiders armed with pick-axes and sledge-hammers in Hartlepool.

He will ask offenders to look for fossils that have formed in the sand instead of using pick-axes. Mr Godman said: "The best and safest place to find fossils is on the beach."

They have working parties on the roads with pick-axes and shovels and they still have on their shackles - it's the way it is done in the USA.

We looked at pick-axes, helmets, knee pads, a monkey drill and a first aid kit Girls would also leave school at a young age but this would be to work as a maid or to help in their family's home.

Rescue workers used metal cutters, hydraulic lifters and pick-axes to clear the ruins of the Basmanny market and knelt down to shout into the holes in search of survivors.