21.   A lull that started after daylight was periodically shattered by the dull thud of explosions and the roll of machinegun fire along the front near Yandi.

22.   A Palestinian man was killed Friday by heavy Israeli machinegun fire in the West Bank town of Beit Sahur, near Bethlehem, Palestinian medical sources told AFP.

23.   A residential neighbourhood on the outskirts of Serzhen Yurt was twice rocketed and strafed with heavy machinegun fire.

24.   A prominent Bosnian Croat opposition politician and his wife were wounded when their house in Mostar came under machinegun fire, the EU said Tuesday.

25.   A road outside Vedeno was hit by bombs and then strafed with machinegun fire.

26.   Above all, Arkady remembers the Russian helicopter gunships circling over the village, pouring in rockets and machinegun fire.

27.   An AFP correspondent reported three strong explosions and heavy machinegun fire late Monday near the besieged compound.

28.   At sunrise, two tanks could be seen positioned in a street of the old town as heavy machinegun fire erupted all over Bethlehem.

29.   Assailants fired mortar rounds at a US base in Kandahar, Afghanistan Wednesday prompting US troops to return fire with machinegun fire, a military spokesman said.

30.   Between mortar salvos, the two sides exchanged bursts of heavy machinegun fire, said another UN spokeswoman, Myriam Sochacki.