Mohammad Ramazan walked out of the graveyard haunted by the image of his dead eight-year-old daughter's cut and damaged face.
In Balakot, there are hundreds of fathers like him, but most of them have still to bury or even find their children after Saturday's devastating earthquake virtually razed this town of 20,000 in Pakistan's North West Frontier province.
Some 850 schoolchildren remain unaccounted for after being caught in the classrooms of two schools when the quake struck.
Frantic parents dug with their hands, picks and shovels to find the children missing beneath mounds of debris.
Scores of children have been buried.
"It is God's will that my daughter has been taken, but my heart cannot accept the way she went," said the white-bearded Ramazan, who looked far older than his 45 years. "I can't get her wounded face out of my mind."
Surrounded by the flattened houses of his neighbours, neither Ramazan's voice nor his stony face betrayed the emotion his words contained.
Elsewhere in the town, 14-year-old Shagusta sat sobbing with a group of older women. She missed school on Saturday, otherwise she would in all likelihood have been crushed to death along with her classmates and younger brother.
"These funerals will go on for a long time," Shagusta said. "In this place there are so many bodies to be brought out from under the houses and schools."
Another father looking for his lost children said he had given up hope.
"My three children are still buried under that school. I've been searching for them since that morning.
"But only God can save them now. I've lost hope," said Farid, hanging his head.
Even when some succeeded in digging their loved ones out alive, many died subsequently for want of proper medical attention or even the basic requirements of food and water.
"We could have saved a lot more lives today," said Baboo Sharif, his anger exacerbated by the lack of black or white sheets with which to shroud the bodies.
"We don't even have food and water.
"Not even decent funeral cloth to give our dead a proper burial." - (Reuters)