mud

Pulling it out of the mud was a difficult mission.

When discovered by a police officer with a metal detector on a cold November morning last year, the iPad was found caked in mud having been underwater for more than five years.

In the markets, men sit outside mud shops waiting for customers who rarely come.

"I climbed from underneath that house, in mud and slop, and said to myself: 'I'm going to do something in my life, I'm not a thief.'"

Foreman wallowed in the mud, hoping to throw off the scent of any dogs the police might be using in their pursuit, then lay still, thinking.