1.   Hours later, three short bursts of automatic gunfire sent police scurrying for cover Wednesday morning.

2.   As French troops pursued the gunmen who had apparently fired on them, automatic gunfire and grenade explosions rang out over the Bosnian quarter.

3.   At the end of the phone interview, bursts of renewed automatic gunfire could be heard in the background.

4.   Automatic gunfire echoed sporadically down the airstrip, stray bullets whizzing over the bunkers.

5.   A rattle of automatic gunfire sounded just below the house.

6.   Alexandre Graber died thousands of miles away in a hail of automatic gunfire.

7.   Bursts of automatic gunfire rang out in central Grozny on Wednesday, followed by an ear-splitting volley from a heavy machine gun.

8.   Bursts of automatic gunfire rattled out, and red tracer fire soared into the sky, as illegal weapons emerged from hiding places to mark the occasion.

9.   But for Conkie and other residents of rural Arizona the sounds of automatic gunfire and even an occasional explosion have become all too frequent.

10.   He said officers had been drawn to the site by the sound of automatic gunfire.