They complained that they had been trapped inside the police station, but in fact most were seen escaping over the adjacent roofs to safety in nearby buildings.

他们抱怨说他们被困在警察局，但实际上大部分人被看见通过毗邻的屋顶逃往附近建筑物内的安全地带。

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The roofs had shingles missing.

屋顶的一些瓦板不见了。

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Trading was important, as so many raw materials, the semiprecious stones for the decoration of the temples, timbers for roofs, and all metals, had to be imported.

由于大量原材料，如用于装饰庙宇的半宝石石料、建造屋顶的木材和所有金属都需要进口，贸易变得至关重要。

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And,they live in a constant threat of eviction from whatever roofs they had, even if it is a squatter camp,"

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The institute said that vehicles that received good ratings for rollover protection had roofs more than twice as strong as required by the current federal standard, and estimated that such roofs reduced the risk of serious and fatal injury in single-vehicle rollovers by about 50 percent compared with roofs that met the minimum requirement.

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He described how the first phase of repairing the palace's cast iron roofs had been "more difficult than expected".

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Ms Massai said many people had climbed onto roofs and up trees to escape the rising water, then fallen or hurt themselves as they came down.

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