1.   But he said the shelling had not started by then.

2.   It was early on Tuesday evening, and Aijaz Abdulaha had returned from a day in his fields in this valley surrounded by towering mountains when the shelling started.

3.   Although residents flee to outlying villages when the shelling starts, only a few have left the town altogether.

4.   On the other side of town, nine women crouched beneath a grassy overhang on a riverbank when the shelling started.

5.   Protesters claimed some of their band might still be at large after the shelling started.

6.   Shortly after the shelling started.

7.   The shelling started hours after Pakistani and Indian troops opened fire on one another at a border outpost on Sunday.

8.   Heavy shelling started before dawn, residents said.

9.   Israeli papers said the shelling had started on the orders of a sergeant in charge of a tank.

10.   New Vision quoted a military spokesman as saying that the shelling started mid-morning on Tuesday and lasted until late afternoon.