11.   Elsewhere, suspected militants opened fire on a police car in the Srinagar suburb of Soura, where the police were conducting a routine inspection of passing vehicles.

12.   Ethnic Albanian militants opened fire on Yugoslav army units just outside Kosovo province on Wednesday but caused no injuries, a Yugoslav government statement said.

13.   Four militants opened fire with automatic rifles, a police official said.

14.   He said the militants opened fire at government units at the northern villages of Slupcane and Opaje.

15.   It said the militants opened fire as police approached the hideout.

16.   It said the suspected militants opened fire when police approached the garage that served as their hideout in an east Cairo neighborhood.

17.   Militants opened fire from hilltops, injuring a soldier who died on the way to the hospital, police sources said, on condition of anonymity.

18.   Militants opened fire on a police post in the capital, Grozny, killing one police officer and wounding another, the official said on condition of anonymity.

19.   MENA said the militants opened fire on the security forces as they approached.

20.   Several soldiers were injured when the militants opened fire from thickly wooded mountain hideouts when ordered to surrender.