Builders had been erecting a white shroud which has reached little more than halfway up the 24-storey tower.

Villagers later took the body, in a white shroud, to a hospital by pick-up truck.

A massive cloud of snow rolled across the city and blotted it out under a white shroud.

In the past the dead were traditionally buried in a white shroud.

Ghosts are said to be the spirits of the dead who, for various reasons, are unable to rest or enter heaven, and so walk the earth in their white shrouds.