Plunderers have profited from the chaos, arriving in Apamea with heavy digging equipment and absconding with priceless Roman mosaics and column capitals.

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In the morning, excavation equipment was digging through rubble along with the help of rescue dogs searching for bodies believed to be under the 20 stories of collapsed concrete.

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Last summer someone in another West Virginia mine punched a hole in an embankment, apparently to keep black water from rising near a piece of equipment needed to continue digging.

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