1.   A pall of dark smoke hung over the city, amid intermittent artillery and rocket fire.

2.   Helicopter gunships and intermittent artillery fire soon followed.

3.   By midday Saturday intermittent artillery fire could be heard coming from the combat zone.

4.   Meanwhile, firefights continued in several parts of Grozny, where there was intermittent artillery and sniper fire.

5.   Meanwhile intermittent artillery duels, between the rebels and government forces, raged in central Kigali after a lull earlier in the day, he said.