1.   During a botched deal, a shootout takes place between federal agents and the gun runners.

2.   Officers at the station said they thought the shootout had taken place in a tunnel connecting the E and F lines to the Lexington Avenue line.

3.   The first report said a shootout had taken place, but the fate of the hostages was unknown.

4.   The shootout took place across the street from the Seneca Center, where an after-school program draws many children at that time of day.

5.   With the mid-morning commerce of the Van Nuys neighborhood in the background, the shootout took but a few seconds.

6.   It did not say when the shootouts took place.

7.   It was not clear when the second shootout took place, or why the men had been stopped by police in the first place.

8.   Johar said the four were believed to be on their way to commit a robbery in Petaling Jaya when the shootout took place.

9.   Police cordoned off several streets downtown where the shootout took place as pedestrians scrambled for cover.

10.   Sergei Bogdanov, a spokesman for the Moscow department of the FSB, confirmed that the shootout had taken place but would not discuss it in detail.