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[Clive Barker's Books Of Blood - In The Hills, The Cities] How did the world react to the destruction of Podujevo and presumable destruction of Popolac?

For anyone who has not read the story, here's Wikipedia's quick summary:

*In an isolated rural area of Yugoslavia, two entire cities, Popolac and Podujevo, create massive communal creatures by binding together the bodies of their citizens. Almost 40,000 people walk as the body of a single giant as tall as a skyscraper. This ritual occurs every ten years, but this time things go wrong and the Podujevo giant collapses, horribly killing tens of thousands of citizens. In shock, the entire population of Popolac goes mad and becomes the giant they are strapped into. Popolac wanders the hills aimlessly. By nightfall, many of the people who make up the giant die from exhaustion, but the giant continues walking.*

*Mick and Judd, two gay men vacationing in the area, come upon the smashed bodies of the Podujevans in a ravine awash with blood. A local man tries to steal their car to catch up with Popolac and reason with it before it collapses and destroys the people who compose it. The man explains the truth of the situation to Mick and Judd, but they do not believe his story. They seek shelter at a remote farm, where Popolac blunders into the farmhouse, accidentally killing Judd. Mick and the elderly couple who own the farmhouse are driven mad with fear. Mick wants to join Popolac. He climbs up the tower of ropes and bodies, and is carried away as it walks into the hills.*

The events of the story wouldn't be secret for long. Popolac probably stumbled upon civilization eventually before it collapsed and the few citizens from both cities that were unable to join the giants presumably explained the situation to people who might investigate.

How did the world media react to such a bizarre story?
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Yet another tragic incident in a region already torn apart by war and violence; this time, the mass graves weren't even dug, the bodies merely left out in the open.

Survivors, reeling from shock, tell mad stories of giants roaming the countryside.