But I was miles away and had to watch the awful tragedy unfold.

He also criticized the police response as the tragedy was unfolding.

He gasped and held out his arms, unable to do anything but watch the tragedy unfold.

"A terrible tragedy has unfolded in the past year," the cardinal said.

His letters make terrible reading as the tragedy unfolds.

Somewhere, at any time, a crime is being committed, a tragedy is unfolding.

Yet the international community, with certain exceptions, seems to have been taken by surprise by the way in which this tragedy has unfolded.

Sabena is, of course, a spectacular case, but social tragedies are also unfolding in other airline companies.

In a new interview, Jennings said that while watching tragedy unfold on television is now commonplace, it was a rare experience 30 years ago.

It is terrible to watch the tragedy unfold.