51.   Further tragedy was apparently only narrowly avoided, as the hoses of firefighters moving in to battle the blaze from the ground reached only the eighth floor.

52.   The three were arrested for breaking into an underground parking garage of a building where the sect-related office was located on the eighth floor.

53.   The two then went up to a room on the eighth floor for private talks expected to go on late into the night.

54.   They have not had physical contact with the deputies, who barricaded themselves behind a steel door on the eighth floor of the congress, eyewitnesses said.