1.   As he reached the foot of the bleak stone steps, a single gunman opened fire from the parapet around the stairway.

2.   Nineteen students were injured after a gunman opened fire.

3.   Poole finally abandoned Cassidy when a gunman opened fire from the window of a nearby hotel.

4.   Two gunmen opened fire on a bus taking children to school.

5.   Two unidentified gunmen opened fire on the Consulate van.

6.   Masked gunmen opened fire on the bus.

7.   Two policemen were killed when gunmen opened fire on their patrol vehicle.

8.   Joyce Miller was walking past a bank when gunmen opened fire as security express guards were unloading money.

9.   She was killed last Wednesday south of Cairo when the tour bus she was travelling on was stopped and gunmen opened fire.