1.   An intruder gained access to a palace basement, but managed to escape, despite triggering several alarms and being caught on closed-circuit camera, it said.

2.   But when the river swelled during frequent floods, its waters poured into palace basements through the drainage pipes.

3.   In Grozny, only one hospital is believed to be working -- the one in the palace basement -- after attacks on two others.

4.   Maskhaev said the Chechens pulled out after a penetration bomb, designed for use against bunkers, smashed through to the palace basement.

5.   Russian dead are being left in the building, and the Chechens claim to be holding Russian prisoners in the palace basement.

6.   Several captured Russian soldiers, some of them wounded, were being held in the palace basement.

7.   The whereabouts of Chechen President Dzhokhar Dudayev, who had been holed up in the palace basement, remained unclear.

8.   The whereabouts of Chechen President Dzhokhar Dudayev, who had been holed up in the palace basement, were unclear.

9.   The whereabouts of Dudayev, who had been holed up in the palace basement, were unclear.